The candy shop and icecream shop needs a modern exterior, hope they are finally giving it a brand new look to fit in well with Sky Voyager 

Edited November 3, 20205 yr by Rachelkinks

1 hour ago, Rachelkinks said:

The candy shop and icecream shop needs a modern exterior, hope they are finally giving it a brand new look to fit in well with Sky Voyager 

I quite like the ice cream and candy shop how they are because I don't know if id want it to fit in with sky voyager 

2 hours ago, Rachelkinks said:

The candy shop and icecream shop needs a modern exterior, hope they are finally giving it a brand new look to fit in well with Sky Voyager 

Yikes I hope that's made up; that'd be horrible 

Edited November 3, 20205 yr by joz

Not the ice cream shop!! Does anyone know if it's getting a facelift or new "shaded seating" going in?

The sign on the fence suggests refurbishment and it’s reopening soon 

It's yet to be seen if it's a refurb or a rebuild. Let's hope it's a refurb and comes back how it was.... not to match Westfield presents: Sky Voyager. 

At least if it matched then got done for green bean and the candy shop, you'd  at least have a consistently shitty looking main street. 

So dreamworld has shown me their envisioning of main street to look like in the next 5 years, What do you think?

Edited November 4, 20205 yr by Taj O'Neill
this is a joke

Horrible. Needs more water features, open air and palm trees

14 hours ago, Taj O'Neill said:

So dreamworld has shown me their envisioning of main street to look like in the next 5 years, What do you think?

Not enough covered seating

Pandamonium and SideWinders reopening date has been pushed to the 9th and 18th of December

I’ll be more than happy never to return to Dreamworld after yesterday.... What a poor excuse for a “theme park” these days.

But in saying that, White Water World was fun! 

4 hours ago, HussRainbow87 said:

I’ll be more than happy never to return to Dreamworld after yesterday.... What a poor excuse for a “theme park” these days.

But in saying that, White Water World was fun! 

I agree,  I love in ormeau, went there for the first time in a few years and was terrible,  even my 6 year old wanted to leave to go to movieworld. Rode sky voyager for the first time to..... imo underwhelming

1 hour ago, Ash said:

Rode sky voyager for the first time to..... imo underwhelming

I mean, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, even if it is wrong. 🤣

I don’t really think Sky Voyager really adds anything to the park, I think for somewhere like Ferrari Land, it worked well and the film was interesting, the USA one... well... yeah. 

Sky Voyager was the biggest waste of money in history.

Just now, Rachelkinks said:

Sky Voyager was the biggest waste of money in history.

Care to back that up with some reasoning? I'm quite intrigued 🧐

I mean look - it was the wrong choice of ride for what Dreamworld needed in a recovery phase. They needed a big coaster or other massive drawcard and sky voyager was not the right choice in that environment, and in that line of thinking, it kinda was a waste of money when they needed something big to turn things around.

As an attraction though, its a great addition, and not a waste of money at all.

Firstly its capacity really takes a load off the rapidly declining list of attractions. Secondly, it provides solace from the heat with a good 20-ish minutes of indoor and air conditioning.

As an attraction type, soarin' is still amazingly popular in Disney parks around the world. The new-ish installs in the Asian disneylands have obscenely popular lines. Its the ride that keeps on giving too - as we've seen, change the ride film, and the whole ride is a new experience again. The film cost is a small part of the overall cost, so longevity is a no-brainer, provided the machinery can keep up with it.

The experience itself is also great - it suits MOST age groups, from ages 3-100+ so its a great all-rounder family attraction. Sure, its not the greatest thrill, but not everything in a park should be.

Sky Voyager has a place at Dreamworld. Add to this the new Steel Taipan at that side of the park and it takes a lot of pressure off the struggling Ocean Parade.

I really can't comprehend, with all of the above, how anyone could consider it a bad addition in any way except perhaps the timing of when it was introduced, for the reasons mentioned above.

The terminology I always think of with this is 'Motivator V pacifier'. As in; what's going to Motivate you to visit the park, and what just keeps you busy she you're there.

 

Because of how hard it is to market and explain, SV is a pacifier which cost more than most big headline rides. I think it's  the right ride for the park, and it does have legs; word of mouth is rather good for it, but just good enough for the price they paid for it. To be fair I don't think they expected to pay as much as they did, and had it opened when originally intended followed straight away by a flatride replacement for Wipeout they'd be in a much stronger position while they figured out what they were doing as a next big thing.

 

That's another thing I wonder with DW's thinking these days; did they see Doomsday's reception at MW, and go 'flatrides don't work, we're not replacing Wipeout', without fully understanding the differences in how the 2 parks attraction line ups gel. A flat ride, particualy an underwhelming one like Doomsday at a park that has the 4 best coasters in the country just isn't that big a deal.

 

On the other hand, for most of DW's life I thought it as mostly a ride line up of pacifiers, but at such quantity that you want to go. Maintaining that quantity at least to some degree is important for having people choose DW again for their next theme park visit. Aside from ToT and Giant Drop, nothing is truly remarkable. Some flats are on the better end of things (Wipeout and Claw both managing to be motivators in their own right, also Cyclone was a thing for a time) but nothing else really broke through for my taste. I think when Steel Taipan opens it'll be an 'emperor has no clothes' moment where all of a sudden how ordinary the rest of the ride line up is will become super apparent.

 

This isn't a bash on DW either by the way, DW historically even with a less impressive ride line up offered a better day out. It worked well for them, until it didn't.

The upper facade of the ice cream parlour is now completely gone, so it’s safe to say that the overall aesthetic will be changing dramatically 

Pandemonium has all its cars and arms offsite somewhere. It being closed as well as Sidewinder & Claw really saps some family attractions out of the mix. Line of Madagascar is therefore well outside the queue house. 

Whilst I personally cannot remember what they used to be, ride ops are making constant mention on the Dodgems that the ride restrictions have now changed. I have checked the website and it reflects what they are now verbally telling everyone pre-loading. My guess is previously shorter kids could ride, and there wasn’t an actual specified height limit to drive, you just had to be able to reach the peddles 

Seats are all detached from the arm on Claw 

3 hours ago, Brad2912 said:

It being closed as well as Sidewinder & Claw really saps some family attractions out of the mix.

Shots fired 

Progress update on the Ice Cream Parlour 

On 19/12/2020 at 11:16 AM, themagician said:

Progress update on the Ice Cream Parlour 

It's a shame that the rebuild is purely a vertical wall. Seems to be lacking some of the character that it once had.

It looks bloody awful is what it does

😪 tears for how they still keep butchering DW!  One ^&%* up after the next! Not so much WHAT they do is all wrong, it's just how/where they do it!