Well, what a very busy day at DW and WWW it was. I'd say one of the busiest days since reopening. Bluey and Monster Trucks are very very popular, so well done to DW for organising these extra activities for the holidays. Most rides had very decent queues. And, they have reopened the park loop to access Corroboree and what a difference it makes.

Bluey is being held inside the Exhibition Centre. A large queue area is setup out the front of the building. An extended queue wraps around the wall towards Tail Spin and a trolley parking area is where Flowrider was. Sky Voyager is definitely still the most popular ride, with the queue overflowing into Main Street. WWW also had long queues, with most extending the full length of the tower.

Access to Monster Trucks is through the wall where Zombie Evilution was. Show is very very popular. Was going to see the 12:30 show, walked up at 12:15 and the seating had reached capacity. From the queue of Gold Coaster, the seating stretched along the back of the Thunderbolt queue.

Ice cream Parlour Reno is done

BuzzSaw has reopened, but due to the lack of anything else in this area, the ride was almost a walk on

Giant Drops queue area was full, with the queue almost reaching the stairs. Gold Coaster was about a 30minute queue. The other thrill rides had reasonable queues. Kids rides had very decent queues.

It was great to see the path connecting from ABC Kids to Corroboree reopen once again (I believe this is only temporary for the holidays though). It made the park feel somewhat complete again. I hate the dead end that is caused when this path is closed. When you have to use the other route, you walk alongside a construction site, come to the Giant Drop, more construction, pass a SBNO ride and then a long path of not much to the back area of the park. 

Billabong Restaurant remains closed

While some signs say Wildlife, this one still says Corroboree

No Woolshed show

The Cassowary are still in their enclosure

A lot less Kangaroos are in the exhibit at the back. These were the only two I could see.

Don't let this picture let you believe the park was empty. It was very very busy.

The aviary and nocturnal house remains closed

This path is also closed

I thought this pond was empty, but there are still plenty of birds. But I think it needs some attentiom

With the full loop open, the back of the park was busy and it was great to see.

And here's a little Steel Taipan update

Every food outlet was also open, including the Noodle Hut in Tiger Island. They also had extra food carts across the park, with every one having a queue 

Edited December 29, 20205 yr by themagician

Im guessing that steel taipans tracks will start being installed most likely early/late feb?

I don’t think we will see it begin until April/May

Ground works will happen until Feb/March, then the concrete footings we will be installed, then track after that 

On 29/12/2020 at 3:07 PM, themagician said:

And here's a little Steel Taipan update

 

The wooden structure on the right - I'm having a hard time placing what it used to be part of...

@Whombex “theming”

Ive got no idea what it once was. I can only ever remember being like it is

It used to be a footbridge before the Giant Drop mess went in.

@joz wow a never realised that, I assumed the current setup was how it was always since the ride opened. 
 

Does anyone happen to have any photos of this?

12 hours ago, themagician said:

@joz wow a never realised that, I assumed the current setup was how it was always since the ride opened. 
 

Does anyone happen to have any photos of this?

Does NearMaps have a history function?

The Corroboree loop has been open for a while. It was like that when i went on the 12th last month.

25 minutes ago, Naazon said:

Does NearMaps have a history function?

Unfortunately not, only goes back to around 2010

Edited January 3, 20215 yr by themagician

It looks close to where the Skylink Station was. 

Is it part of the structure in this pic between the Skylink Station and the tree?
Does this angle help any?
Or this?

On 02/01/2021 at 3:53 PM, Whombex said:

The wooden structure on the right - I'm having a hard time placing what it used to be part of...

As @joz mentioned it was a footbridge that  started just before Hollywood House, went over the railway, turned right, and went down into Rocky Hollow. It was superseded when Giant Drop opened because it wasn’t wheelchair friendly and The Sanderson Group  thought they could do a better job. 😂 I don’t have enough fingers and toes to count the amount of times I’ve heard someone say they’ll eventually fix spaghetti junction. 🤷🏼‍♂️
 

 

2 hours ago, Slick said:

As @joz mentioned it was a footbridge that  started just before Hollywood House, went over the railway, turned right, and went down into Rocky Hollow. It was superseded when Giant Drop opened because it wasn’t wheelchair friendly and The Sanderson Group  thought they could do a better job. 😂 I don’t have enough fingers and toes to count the amount of times I’ve heard someone say they’ll eventually fix spaghetti junction. 🤷🏼‍♂️
 

 

The fun part will be seeing what remains of it after Taipan opens. Since they've had to remove some of it for construction. We could see the jankiest iteration of spaghetti junction.

4 hours ago, Jdude95 said:

The fun part will be seeing what remains of it after Taipan opens. Since they've had to remove some of it for construction. We could see the jankiest iteration of spaghetti junction.

Is it bad that I kinda hope they make even more of a mess of it... Just to see if it's actually possible!

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Bluey is being held inside the Exhibition Centre.

 

The terrorists posted a video where the young blue heeler, evidently under duress, said she is doing well, and demanded $10,000,000 for the organisation "Beavers Against God".

Edited January 4, 20215 yr by Gazza

8 hours ago, djmcbell said:

The terrorists posted a video where the young blue heeler, evidently under duress, said she is doing well, and demanded $10,000,000 for the organisation "Beavers Against God".

Huh?

The original post made it sound like Bluey was being held hostage.

11 minutes ago, djmcbell said:

The original post made it sound like Bluey was being held hostage.

Yeah but you didn't use quotes so it looked like a single statement by you.

13 hours ago, Spotty said:

Is it bad that I kinda hope they make even more of a mess of it... Just to see if it's actually possible!

Unless they actually repath GD, it's going to be a mess because half of it will just be hanging in the air with dead ends and 1 entrance/exit that is right next to their SBNO log ride

2 hours ago, Gazza said:

Yeah but you didn't use quotes so it looked like a single statement by you.

Yeah, sorry, was in a rush and by the time I got round to editing it I don't think I could.

First school holiday visit to DW today. 
 

crane in the car park lifting some ST pieces around.

I’m usually quite defensive of DW, but they get a solid F for operational planning. Some of the decision making is just amateur hour at best. 
 

the monster trucks whist an unique attraction in theory just hasn’t been executed well at all. 
 

To have zero shading available for the show whatsoever, and expect people to go in 30mins prior to sit in direct sun on metal benches that were easily 80+ degrees - we were lucky we had towels in our bag. I’d say at least 30-40 people left prior to it even starting. 
 

the show itself only goes for 12-15mins, and is in one word - boring. 
 

then we get to WWW, where for some god awful reason they’ve decided to have the queue lines for green room and Hydrocoaster on ground level rather than utilising all the tower stairs, only letting roughly 10-12 people on the tower for each queue at a time. The outcome being instead of queuing in the generally shade of the tower, you are now queuing in direct sun, no shade, burning hot floors. A 1.5hr wait for Hydrocoaster and only 10mins of that wait was on the tower stairs itself. No communication, at one point HC broke down, line didn’t move for 15mins, but no one came along to tell people there was issues, only way we found out was people coming down the tower who told us as they tried to push through to get out. 
 

no idea what is going on, but they really need to rethink what they are doing. 

 

100% agree with the monster trucks, took my 2 kids and waited the half an hour for a very lack luster show. My 6 year old son even said it was boring. Good to see something new, but failed on the execution 

They should’ve definitely installed some temporary shading. Why they didn’t surprises me. 
 

And for WWW, was it because of social distancing reasons. Maybe they’ve been told they need to manage the queues spacing and that was the solution because people aren’t capable of doing it on the stairs. But they should be setting one some gazebos of some sort to help with shading 

2 hours ago, themagician said:

And for WWW, was it because of social distancing reasons. Maybe they’ve been told they need to manage the queues spacing and that was the solution because people aren’t capable of doing it on the stairs. But they should be setting one some gazebos of some sort to help with shading 

There was zero social distancing in the queue on ground level, no markers, painting, signs or communication from staff to social distance. 
 

QLD is in its best space Covid-wise with 4 months since community transfer, there would be no mandate surely to change queuing structure or capacity on towers, there wasn’t even markers on the tower anywhere once you were released to get up there. 
 

It’s just crazy and poor execution 

I agree that the monster truck show is just horrible in every way. The seating, the heat, the horrible preshow entertainment. The show itself was boring and they only used the main dirt jump once at the end of the show. What a waste of money... Could've been put towards anything else and it would have been better spent.