Tiger Island Refurbishment - Dreamworld 2016

[MaxxTheMonster]

QLD school holidays have finished but NSW still have this week...

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

NSW doesn't go back until next monday, and it is apparently still very busy.

[Tim Dasco]

WA still has another week.

[Brad2912]

Seaworld was packed yesterday. I forgot that the holidays weren't aligned, arrived at 9:50 and it took 20mins to get into the park, funnily enough though the lines for the kids rides were no more than 1-2 cycles all day though 

[Santa07]

The park felt quiet, but most queues were still rather long, around 30 minutes for most attractions, 45 for ToT and Buzzsaw.

 

The two guys operating HWSW were hilarious today.

"Please make sure you remove all loose items including hats, bags, phones, pokeballs and tiger cubs"

"Once again, make sure your phones are out of your pockets because there are no pokemon to catch on the ride"

"Enjoy the rest of your day at Dreamworld, where there are so many worlds in one... and pokemon"

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

they have probably had some people take phones on the ride to see if there are any out there.

[Santa07]

11 minutes ago, AlexB said:

they have probably had some people take phones on the ride to see if there are any out there.

With the way it's taken over society, I wouldn't be surprised. Nor would I be surprised if the kids jumping over the gate that Ninja saw were looking for them.

[Jay Jay The Jet Plane]

surprisingly the teenagers didn't have their phones out when I saw them, maybe they were fans of Andrew..

Hot Wheels isn't listed as a Pokestop in the game surprisingly when I checked and yet KH is... 

Edited July 13, 2016 by Theme Park Ninja
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[Brad2912]

Not TI related but the new Billabong Restaurant signage looks sharp

apologies for the orientation...

[Brad2912]

Inside has had a touch up too..

[Brad2912]

[Jay Jay The Jet Plane]

On 27 June 2016 at 4:23 PM, ThemeTendo said:

As far as I know he walks everyday, it was just a one-time thing where he had "other commitments." - I probably should've mentioned that in my original post! haha

spoke to one the handlers yesterday, Kai isn't going on his walks around the park because the guests in the park found him "scary", he's also getting too big for the enclosure so he's staying in the back area with the older tigers until Tiger Island reopens. In saying this he was in the TCK enclosure for a good hour yesterday

Edited July 16, 2016 by Theme Park Ninja

[Santa07]

I did notice he was getting very big very quickly the other day.

Other guests finding him scary is rubbish... if you're going to a park with tigers taking up a main portion of it you'd expect to see tigers around the park. Don't go to the park if you're scared of tigers. And they're cute and cuddly not scary anyway. 

[Jay Jay The Jet Plane]

put him in the Zombie Evilution maze without a leash, then they would have a point, 

Edited July 16, 2016 by Theme Park Ninja

[Brad2912]

2 hours ago, Santa07 said:

I did notice he was getting very big very quickly the other day.

surely he didn't grow that much in the day...

2 hours ago, Santa07 said:

if you're going to a park with tigers taking up a main portion of it you'd expect to see tigers around the park. Don't go to the park if you're scared of tigers. And they're cute and cuddly not scary anyway.

I wouldn't say a Tigers are main portion of the park, they are a supplementary attraction to the rides. And to say "dont go to DW if you are scared to tigers" is ridiculous. I love tigers so it wouldn't bother me (though they are hardly cuddly creatures..) but most guests wouldn't expect large tigers to be being walked by leash around the park. Being scared of an animal but comfortable knowing they are on the other side of a 10m moat or a glass window is very different to having one being walked close to you with no physical barrier. 99.9% of people are scared of tigers, your comfort with them is knowing there are barriers to stop them eating you...

took this last year at DW in the Lair. So cute & cuddly til they get hungry...

Edited July 17, 2016 by Brad2912

[Brad2912]

Think I've found a great potential attraction for the Dreamworld river, a great Eco-based attraction that will have guest snapping at the heals to get in line..

 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

You'd have to modify the river quite a lot to prevent them from escaping. I foresee another disney incident coming dreamworlds way if they go with that!

[Reanimated35]

Dreamworld Extremeworld.

Just like the special event Screamworld except they let all the animals loose for the night. 

[Theme Park Girl]

Latest Tiger Island pics... Concrete brick walls and cement galore ?

[New display name]

Thanks @Theme Park Girl One of my wife’s pet hates of me but it’s like a disorder and I can’t help it.  It should read " Concrete block walls and concrete galore" .

Note to you, I did give you 1 like.

Edited July 20, 2016 by skeetafly

[Santa07]

I that concrete pump this morning, work is coming along well! Didn't have time to stay and watch though, had to take advantage of ToT's empty queue and get my repeated front-seat rides on it 

[Brad2912]

1 hour ago, Theme Park Girl said:

Latest Tiger Island pics... Concrete brick walls and cement galore ?

Both things that heavily resonate with both tigers, and islands..

[Jay Jay The Jet Plane]

for those who don't know Ravi and Baru, (two of Dreamworld's Tigers) left Dreamworld last month and now is in Canberra Zoo, source: Themeparks all in one 

Edited July 20, 2016 by Theme Park Ninja

[Jay Jay The Jet Plane]

just saw this on my FB feed 

https://www.facebook.com/events/137362660029707/?ti=icl

Dreamworld is doing a Pokemon Go event at night time, this Friday, next Thursday and Friday for $25 from 6-9pm, 

$25 so I can find more Zubats, Pidgeys and Rattatas? yeah no thanks 

[Santa07]

4 minutes ago, Theme Park Ninja said:

just saw this on my FB feed 

https://www.facebook.com/events/137362660029707/?ti=icl

Dreamworld is doing a Pokemon Go event at night time, this Friday, next Thursday and Friday for $25 from 6-9pm, 

$25 so I can find more Zubats, Pidgeys and Rattatas? yeah no thanks 

That's actually a pretty good way to make money though, I'm sure a lot of poor losers will be sucked in.