Tiger Island Refurbishment - Dreamworld 2016

[themagician]

But the enterance may be from Tiger Island side. Or maybe the front of Kevin hill will be another enterance to Tiger Island.

[Brad2912]

As great as some of the great work DW has done of late, the train ride this afternoon served as a great illustration of closed attractions. The 'presenter' over the speakers spent all their time talking about what was closed.

3:30ish boarded at Central Station

Stop 1: 'Billabong'

"this stop is where you'll find our newly refurbished restaurant, which is currently closed for the day, but is open 11:30-2 daily'. This is also home ABC4Kids world which is great for the kids to run around, but has closed for today, as had Motorcoaster. These rides close at 3:30 mon-fri. Hopefully you can come back another day and take advantage of these attractions."

 

Stop 2: 'Corroboree' 

"Australian & indigenous animals speil. This is also the best stop for our Vintage Cars attraction, which is currently closed due to off peak season. The ride only operates on Weekends

 

Stop 3: 'Rocky Hollow'

"this is the stop for one of DW's original attractions, the RHLR. The ride is currently closed for scheduled maintenance."

 

on the last stretch, she announced "just a friendly reminder of our current attractions closures" then listed Wipeout, Big Red Car, Vintage Cars & RHLR, ABC4Kids & MDMC again, and then repeated them, again. "Sorry for the inconvenience caused". 

Wow.

Edited February 17, 2016 by Brad2912

[Bailz]

That one awesome staff member

Edited February 17, 2016 by Bailz

[New display name]

 

Brad2912 do you think isn’t a bit strange the Wipeout is down for maintenance?  Ever since I can remember it always went down in November.  I am almost positive it whet down 4 month ago for annually maintenance.

Edited February 17, 2016 by skeetafly

[Brad2912]

7 minutes ago, skeetafly said:

 

Brad2912 do you think isn’t a bit strange the Wipeout is down for maintenance.  Ever since I can remember it always went down in November.  I am almost positive it when down 4 month ago for annually maintenance.

I couldn't tell you when it was last down from memory, but I agree it doesn't seem it was very long ago, just prior to Xmas i believe. 

[New display name]

I'm sure it was down in November.  I just looked it up and it will not be open to March.  It's also the standard 4 weeks that it always goes down for so I don't think something has broken on it.  I'm putting this in my memory bank and be interesting if it goes down in November again.  Maybe DW will be to busy building a new ride in November to work on the Wipeout. LOL

[bladex]

1 hour ago, The_Ninja_59 said:

can't really say that anymore Bladex, it's part of the new Motorsport Experience 

 

in ocean themed area

Edited February 17, 2016 by bladex

[Santa07]

1 hour ago, Brad2912 said:

on the last stretch, she announced "just a friendly reminder of our current attractions closures" then listed Wipeout, Big Red Car, Vintage Cars & RHLR, ABC4Kids & MDMC again, and then repeated them, again. "Sorry for the inconvenience caused". 

Wow.

I can really feel your pain here Brad, I also find it very rude and disrespectful that she only listed Wipeout twice, while she definitely listed all the others three times. That is sitting on the edge of being racist towards surfing-themed flat-rides.

[pin142]

Wonder if it is where they will be displaying their new white tiger cubs that recently arrived. Seems the most logical reason for the placement and why the quarantine signs.

[Brad2912]

14 minutes ago, pin142 said:

Wonder if it is where they will be displaying their new white tiger cubs that recently arrived. Seems the most logical reason for the placement and why the quarantine signs.

yep - exactly what I posted on the previous page

[Whombex]

39 minutes ago, pin142 said:

Wonder if it is where they will be displaying their new white tiger cubs that recently arrived. Seems the most logical reason for the placement and why the quarantine signs.

They're Imported from Japan. They can't be integrated with the other Tigers yet in case they've carrying an infection. A month long Quarantine.

[T-bone]

Good news re the White Tiger cubs. Its nice to see some new white genes enter the gene pool at the park. 

Back on topic for 2016, the half year results have been released from Ardent > http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20160217/pdf/4353909jytq3vz.pdf

The biggest of note is that Tiger Island closes for the big refurb in March, but also Payment Plans and Tiered passes are mentioned in the report.

[Zanstabar]

A payment plan would be great for me, but the tiered passes intrigue me. Could it just be a free entry to Screamworld, or something a bit more substantial? 

[Brad2912]

Might be looking at higher tier passes giving a larger food & bev/retail discount, cheaper fast pass access etc 

[grrofunger]

[bladex]

good more competition = more new rides

[Santa07]

If DW sells to Wanda, I wouldn't be sure whether that's a good or a bad thing. On the plus side, we'd get more attractions, maybe one or two world class ones. On the down side, Ardent have been doing really well making DW look fantastic the past few years and I'd be worried that Wanda wouldn't continue that.

But I doubt that'll actually happen and Wanda will probably just build a completely new theme park.

[Ashley]

21 hours ago, bladex said:

 

in ocean themed area

So many worlds in one.

[lifeofsamage]

On 17 February 2016 at 2:12 PM, Brad2912 said:

Photos just taken 

Ok i think is kinda gives evidence to the "tiger island expansion" If you saw earlier in the week they release 2 white tiger cubs the footage from the media looked like it was shot inside a demountable building (judging the floor and walls. Maybe this was set up foe the media call or something similar. Idk just my 2 cents worth 

[Brad2912]

I don't think the planned usage of this space was up for any form of debate or conjecture, it's pretty well established that this is the new tiger nursery 

[Jay Jay The Jet Plane]

credit to TTSPN for the pictures 

the temporary Tiger Island Nursery is now open  

 

Tiger Cub Kindy construction:

Edited February 19, 2016 by The_Ninja_59

[Ashley]

Rocky Hollow Log Ride is down for over a month maintenance 15/02 till 23/03 odd for a water ride. Would you think the log ride would anything fixed up on in the way of TLC.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

6 hours ago, The_Ninja_59 said:

the temporary Tiger Island Nursery is now open  

Ok - I realise it is temporary and all, but did we seriously need to use quick shades that have seen about 10 years of summer sun? Faded, patched, torn... could it have hurt them to go and buy a couple new ones from Extreme Marquees? They could have ordered any colour they wanted and pretty well got them off the shelf, or even had a custom white tiger print, or logo print, or any other bloody design they wanted with a few weeks lead time.

Seriously - it looks like they've decided on the 'junkyard' theme... those marquees have no place 'onstage'

[Brad2912]

Now now, they are saving money for the Motorcoaster relocation...

[ThemeTendo]

9 hours ago, AlexB said:

Ok - I realise it is temporary and all, but did we seriously need to use quick shades that have seen about 10 years of summer sun? Faded, patched, torn... could it have hurt them to go and buy a couple new ones from Extreme Marquees? They could have ordered any colour they wanted and pretty well got them off the shelf, or even had a custom white tiger print, or logo print, or any other bloody design they wanted with a few weeks lead time.

Seriously - it looks like they've decided on the 'junkyard' theme... those marquees have no place 'onstage'

Why should they have to, it's only going to be there for a month (or so). Yes, they have the money to get new ones, or to add a custom print or whatever else, but why should they? no one cares. If you're going over to that area, you're going to see the white tigers, not to look at the marquee they are using to provide shade... "Wow! The park has these new white tigers... oh wait, that marquee isn't a darker shade of blue! I'm going to complain about it!"

TL/DR Don't complain because they are providing shade.