Saturday 21 November 2015

Quick Australian News Update

I know it's to early for my normal weekly update, but it's such a big news week this week with IAAPA and all, I thought I'd get some big Australian news out of the way.

Firstly, a lot of talk about the Wanda theme park proposal, and the fact that they didn't deny it would be related to Disney. While I'd be the first to be overjoyed for a Disneyland in Australia, looking at the facts it seems unlikely. We know that Disney has knocked back proposals for the Gold Coast in the past. We know that Wanda is creating it's own theme parks with the Wanda brand, and these are not "Disney" style parks. We know that Wanda has had nothing to do with either the Hong Kong or Shanghai Disney Resorts. This hasn't stopped the hype of this taking hoed, with the Huffington Post, NZ Herald, Stuff.co.nz, Buzzfeed and just about all local media writing articles about. Once again, I'm the wet blank. Getting our own Wanda resort would be amazing, but I'd rate it about a 20% chance at this point. It being a Disney resort, I'd put at about 0.5%. That's only fractionally higher than I would put Disney coming hear by itself.

Moving on to real news, something big is coming to Move World. Parks.com.au have reported on the VRTP co-chairman Robert Kirby announcing there will be a major announcement of a "world's best" attraction at the Gold Coast park in the coming months. Clever detectives on the Parkz forums have found a development application for a rollercoaster at the shared Movie World/Wet 'n' Wild site. This is great news, so speculation is well underway at the Parkz forums. Early speculation seems to suggest that the Wild West area at the back of the park is the most logical place for expansion. At least one well connected forum member is very excited, so this could be great news!

We have also had little Sunshine Coast park Aussie World tease us this week with this little note in their FunMail newsletter:
"Oh, and I almost forgot! We're getting ready to announce something big at Aussie World - It's something that most of our fun loving guests have been asking us to introduce for a little while. We're getting ready to announce it to the world, but as our loyal tribe you're amongst to hear out about it. Make sure you read FunMail all the way to the end to find out more"
Now we can't get to excited for Aussie World, as the don't have as bigger budget as Dreamworld or Movie World, but still they have been making great choices in their last few investments. So again, great news!

Finally for this weekend, Sea World was forced to briefly close  due to a vegetation fire on the Southport spit yesterday. The park was only effected by smoke and reopened yesterday afternoon. It is expected to open as normal today, with cooler conditions reducing the risk of grass or vegetation fires.

I'll be back Tuesday with a full news update as normal! Until then, Cheers!

5 comments:

  1. Okay, so I definitely wont get my hopes up for a Disneyland, I wonder though with a bit of media hype if it at least wont be considered - am I clutching at straws here :P Oh I wonder what Aussie World is doing - hopefully something other than a sick educing ride :P Maybe a water slide?

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    1. Yeah the Aussie World one is interesting!! They are being a bit cryptic about it too, something that most of our fun loving guests have asked for.. We'll see!!

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  2. I think they'd be fools not to make it a Disney. we need a park that is recognized worldwide to attract people here.....why put another 'unknown' park here as we already have them. When i say unknown i realize Australians know Movieworld and Dreamworld but they aren't widely known about outside of Australia so why bother with just another normal park? Plus i live a 5 minute drive from the proposed site in Coomera and i shall throw the biggest baby tantrum if it dosent end up being a Disney and nobody wants to see that. lol From what i just read it said that they pulled the pin at the last minute all those years ago, as they wanted Disney to enter the Aisan market........now they've done them with Shanghai opening very soon. i think its a bit of a coincidence that they planned on Disney being in Japan and China and just as Shanghai's ready to open there a talks about a new themepark being built here, but wont say yes but wont say its a no to being Disney........hmmmmmm i dunno......i still think we could be in with a chance here. Imagine just how many people they will dissapoint if its not and how many parents like me will never see their Dream of taking their kids to "The Happiest Place On Earth" happen due to the cost of getting the whole family over there.....i know im never going to beable to take my lovely kids no matter how much i wish apon a star! I wish they could let us know...the suspense is flippin killin me. ��

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    1. For the record, I would love for it to be a Disney park, but I don't think it's likely at this time. It is a chance, just not likely. I can't see Wanda wanting to brand a park to anyone else, but I could be wrong. It would be amazing if it came off! These things take time, and I'm sure the extra publicity they have gotten from the "Disney" news increases the chances of the whole thing coming off.

      Don't give up on your dream of taking your kids to a Disney park. Even if it isn't literally down the road, you never know what the future will bring!

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  3. I think they'd be fools not to make it a Disney. we need a park that is recognized worldwide to attract people here.....why put another 'unknown' park here as we already have them. When i say unknown i realize Australians know Movieworld and Dreamworld but they aren't widely known about outside of Australia so why bother with just another normal park? Plus i live a 5 minute drive from the proposed site in Coomera and i shall throw the biggest baby tantrum if it dosent end up being a Disney and nobody wants to see that. lol From what i just read it said that they pulled the pin at the last minute all those years ago, as they wanted Disney to enter the Aisan market........now they've done them with Shanghai opening very soon. i think its a bit of a coincidence that they planned on Disney being in Japan and China and just as Shanghai's ready to open there a talks about a new themepark being built here, but wont say yes but wont say its a no to being Disney........hmmmmmm i dunno......i still think we could be in with a chance here. Imagine just how many people they will dissapoint if its not and how many parents like me will never see their Dream of taking their kids to "The Happiest Place On Earth" happen due to the cost of getting the whole family over there.....i know im never going to beable to take my lovely kids no matter how much i wish apon a star! I wish they could let us know...the suspense is flippin killin me. ��

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