Adventure World 2015 - 'Mi2' Kraken Tornado slide

[iwerks]

The type of people who normally ride Rampage. I think they are trying to theme up the area around Abyss, so they're not just an amusement park. Now if they could only tackle the Free Fall.

[iwerks]

Pretty quiet news cycle for Adventure World considering that they're opening this week. They have their annual physics day on Friday.

There's an interview with their new F&B manager. It should be interesting to see what they improve there (perhaps they'll get rid of the donuts?).

http://www.ausleisure.com.au/news/new-manager-to-shake-up-the-fb-offerings-at-adventure-world/

Apparently you can hire the park for your company. It states that the park had an 8000 person capacity for the previous season. That would be crowded.

http://adventureworld.net.au/#/group-functions/exclusive-park-hire/

The new character, Yarlotte, has arrived, making her older brother look a little bit faded.

http://adventureworld.net.au/#/news-events/look-who-has-arrived!/

Apparently Fright Nights will only be run over two nights this year. The limited early bird tickets sale ends this week. It sounds like they might be policing the bands a little better than they did last year.

[iwerks]

Interesting - not quite what I expected. The cabanas appear to be on the cafe side of the pool, with only one facing the pool.

From AW's Facebook page:

A luxury cabana includes:
- Two cushioned sun loungers and two cushioned chairs
- A small bar fridge with 5 complimentary bottles of water
- A private safe to lock away your valuables
- A wall mounted fan
- Premium food service to your door

It would be good for special occasions. It's great that it has a safe. I wonder where the fifth person is supposed to sit?

[iwerks]

Even though they opened on Thursday, today Adventure World was closed. It was pretty wet and windy in the morning, but the sun came out in the afternoon. AW is turning into a bit of a Cadbury's park. Unless you want the wrath of angry soccer mums advertise your closures or stay open.

[iwerks]

My pictures of the front of the park from earlier today. The last three are from Adventure World's website on the opening day - when they had good weather.

http://adventureworld.net.au/#/news-events/opening-day-at-adventure-world-2014/

[iwerks]

They just had live crosses to Adventure World and the Royal Show on the local 9 news breakfast show.

[iwerks]

Had a great day in the park. A lot of attention has been paid to the little details. The re-themed rides look great. The cabanas already appear to be making money for them. Abyss wasn't up for the first hour, but quickly came online after that. It was pretty much walk on up to a ten minute wait for all of the rides in the park. The much troubled Freefall was looking faded and was unsurprisingly not functional. A small team of maintenance workers were scaling the tower all day. The castle is all gone, but for the base. I think it will be difficult to build another attraction on this small parcel of land, unless its a family coaster that starts from the 'main land'. Nearby, trees have been cleared between The Shotgun slides and the Grand Prix Raceway (the possible site of a new ride sometime in the future?).

I didn't notice too much change with the menu and the food at the cafe. I couldn't locate storybook corner, but I did notice tiny little homes nestled at the base of trees at the back corner of the park.

[KingdaKa]

How can a ride as amazing as Abyss have such short waiting queues Do Perth people hate Amusement Parks?

[Reanimated35]

Why'd you take a picture of some dude getting dressed?

[iwerks]

It's a pretty high capacity ride for such a small park. There would have been only a couple of hundred people there today. In January, the queue does get up to 1 to 2 hours.

Reanimated - where? This is a waterpark, people usually wear boardshorts or bathers.

[Reanimated35]

Ah wasn't aware it was a water park given none of the other photos seem to show slides. Just seems like a random photo of a guy changing thrown in there

[iwerks]

I presume you mean the photo of the tree with the new bench and astroturf? The only picture I took of the slides yesterday was of the timer at the aqua 6 super racers. It was weird on Monday as some people were wearing jeans and a jumper - which is unheard of there.

[Cooper Olsen]

Hmm Dinosaur Island, sounds original Adventure World!

[iwerks]

Not all of us got across to Sea World when it was there. I wonder where it has been in the interim.

[Brad2912]

Was at the royal Easter show in Sydney in April

[iwerks]

There was an article about Adventure World on the WAToday website overnight. It confirms what we already know and supplies dates for:

Story Corner October 18th

Dinosaur Island November 27th

The New Menu October 18th

They talk about the castle and say that if it did come back it would have to be bigger and better. It's hinted that something will appear on that site within three years.

The big bombshell is saved for the end. That they are signing contracts for a new attraction that would be the biggest in the world if it goes ahead. I wonder if this means the biggest size of a ride or if they are going for a 'world record'?

[XxMrYoshixX]

Thanks for the updates, Black Widow and Rampage is looking great!

It will be exciting to find out the castles replacement in the future- obviously not a drop tower if it is the biggest in the world? Star Flyer perhaps? That's just my prediction.

[iwerks]

Probably a really long water slide. They have cleared a couple of trees around the back of where the castle used to be. It's the kind of thing they could afford to do well (Reckless Loony also mentioned that they had vague plans for a water ride that starts at the top of the hill). As much as I would like them to make another dry ride to compliment Abyss, the result of the poll at the start of the year was for another wet ride.

[Gazza]

They bought Pilgrims Plunge from Holiday World 2nd hand lol?

[iwerks]

Yeah, I hope not. There's always a worry when they go for the biggest in the world that it's a bit of a one trick pony.

Here's the link to that article. They also mention that they will have fireworks at their fright nights - just not by the same company as last year - I wonder why?

http://www.watoday.com.au/entertainment/about-town/kids-put-adventure-worlds-new-food-and-rides-to-the-test-20141009-113cf3.html

[iwerks]

From AW's Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/AdventureWorldOfficialPage

'STARTING TOMORROW: You can catch the musical stage performance of "The Story of Dragon's Kingdom" at 3pm each weekend on the new Fairy Treehouse stage at Adventure World! Starring Flossy the Fairy, Yarli the Lovable Dragon and his cheeky little sister Yarlotte!'

Wait.. this is going to be a musical?! Things just got interesting.

[iwerks]

Abyss received a silver medal in the WA Tourism Awards' New Development Category. Adventure World's Fright Nights are on this Friday and Saturday.

[XxMrYoshixX]

I'm going in December. What's Abyss' expected line? I heard its 45 minutes. I haven't been since 2011. Is Freefall having any trouble?

Edited October 28, 2014 by XxMrYoshixX

[Tim Dasco]

Last season it sometimes was over 1 hour. (Busy hot day in the mid 40's) If it is busy when you are at the park you can by a fast pass. $25 for unlimited cue jumping on Abyss, Rampage, black widow, Tunnel of terror, Grand prix raceway, bounty's revenge, Free fall. Or you can buy unlimited pass for just one ride of that list. Or you can buy a one shot Abyss pass.

Hope that helped!

[joz]

Out of interest, what were the queues like last year compared to previous years?