WARNER BROS. MOVIEWORLD Australia
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Village Roadshow
Park News - (3/21/2025) According to an update posted on Blooloop, the bankruptcy filing in the US by Village Roadshow Entertainment Group will have zero impact on the Australia-based theme park operator, Village Roadshow Group, as they are “completely separate” from each other.
Village Roadshow Group (aka: VRG) was formed in 1954 and includes the Village Roadshow Theme Parks, Roadshow Distributors, Roadshow Productions, Village Roadshow Studios and Village Cinemas. However, the confusion is understandable as VRG were at one point the owners of the VREG (Village Roadshow Entertainment Group), but have had no control, oversight or financial responsibility of VREG since 2017. In fact, in reaction to the bankruptcy news, they have sent a notice to VREG to terminate their use of the “Village Roadshow” name entirely.
Late 2024 - Wizard of OZ - (12/20/2024) Congratulations to WB MovieWorld in Austalia as Blooloop reports that the park has now opened the new Wizard of Oz themed land and attractions, as well as bringing all your favorite Wizard of Oz characters to life. You can also see a video tour of the land and rides below.
(12/6/2024) Testing is underway on the Flight of the Wicked Witch roller coaster at Warner Bros. MovieWorld in Australia as a key feature of that park’s upcoming Oz themed land.
(10/12/2024) Blooloop reports that Warner Bros MovieWorld Australia is now testing their new Wizard of Oz themed Kansas Twister roller coaster. The new creation is actually a pair of side-by-side Vekoma Family Boomerang coasters that reach a height of 22 meters. Next door the park also has installed a dark purple Vekoma inverted coaster called the Flight of the Wicked Witch. Look for the new coasters along with the new Wizard of Oz themed land to open by the end of the year for the park’s busy peak season.
(2/13/2024) WB MovieWorld Australia announced new details about their planned Wizard of Oz themed land and attractions set to open by the end of 2024. The land will feature a Yellow Brick Road, buildings of the Emerald City, the “Flight of the Wicked Witch” family suspended coaster, and a pair of interwoven Family Boomerang coasters that will be named the “Kansas Twister”.
(7/20/22) Believe it or not but Warner Bros. Movie World Australia just announced that they are building a new Wizard of Oz themed land for the 2024 season. According to the announcement on Facebook the land will feature a pair of racing Family Boomerang coasters, a new suspended family coaster and lots of immersive theming.
Based on the artwork, the racing family boomerang coaster tracks appear to be set on a drab Kansas farm looking property, while the suspended family coasters runs in and out of a dark castle structure with red and blue trains that immediate bring the Flying Monkeys to mind. In the background is a large green structure that can only represent the Emerad City, but what lies inside is still a mystery. So far they are only promoting the land as having two rides, so maybe the large green structure could contain some kind of interactive walk-through adventure, but it could also simply be a large restaurant. One never knows…
 Late 2025 - New Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster - (12/17/2025) As expected, the newly revised Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster has finally reopened at Warner Bros. Movie World Australia. The last version of the ride (version 2) closed in early January 2023 to undergo a massive retrofit that would include revised scenes, new effects and more. You can read a brief review over at Themeparks-AU, as well as watch a great POV of the newly updated ride below shot by Mr. YumYum that shows off the new queue and the entire ride experience.
In general, the first half of the ride appears to have been greatly improved with new scenics and now presented with great theatrical lighting and effects rather than toss you through it all mostly in the dark. Things get a little odd in the second half of the ride however.
Fans of the first two versions of the ride will remember that following the elevator lift and backwards push out to a turntable, the cars would enter a layout that appeared to be a more traditional wild-mouse style layout in a giant open room. The older versions of the ride lit this room with crazy lighting as you took the switchbacks that led into the final drops, and listed to a fun version of the Scooby-Doo theme song over the speaker. While I have not ridden this coaster myself, I’m told that this was one of the most popular areas of the older version of the ride.
While the new current version has all the same track elements… this big action room is now taken entirely in the dark… and in silence. I’m not sure why they would remove it all, and a wild mouse in complete blackness is a little odd, as one of the big thrill points of a wild mouse experience is watching your car whip around the switchback turns and being worried it might come off the rails.
Overall, it’s great to see the ride back open… and if you’ve ridden the new version and think I’m wrong about the big dark room, let me know. Experiences don’t always translate well based purely on the visual’s captured by a camera, but to my eye this just looks a little dull compared to what you used to experience.
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