page_title: Warner Bros. Movie World
section_title: The 2010s–present
hierarchical_section_title: Warner Bros. Movie World / History / The 2010s–present
caption_attribution_description: English: The Non-Inverted Loop for DC Rivals HyperCoaster at Warner Bros. Movie World.
context_page_description: Warner Bros. Movie World is a theme park on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Owned and operated by Village Roadshow's Theme Parks division, the park opened on 3 June 1991. It is part of a 154-hectare entertainment precinct, with the adjacent Village Roadshow Studios film studio and nearby Wet'n'Wild Gold Coast water park, among other properties all operated by Village Roadshow.
  The park's theme is based on Warner Bros. and related DC Comics properties. Jointly developed by Pivot Leisure, Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow, the park was designed by C. V. Wood in 1989 to adjoin the existing film studio complex. Movie World is Australia's only film-related theme park, and the oldest of the three Warner Bros. theme parks worldwide. It recorded 1.3 million visitors in 2007 and ranked third in yearly attendance for Australian theme parks.
  The park contains movie-themed rides, attractions and shows. Various costumed characters regularly patrol the park to interact and take photos with guests. Each afternoon, characters participate in a parade along the park's Main Street.
context_section_description: In celebration of DC Comics' 75th anniversary in 2010, Movie World held a DC Heroes vs. Villains parade that ran during the June–July school holiday period. Later in the year, the park's first annual White Christmas event began. 2011 saw the closure of two attractions; Looney Tunes River Ride in February and Batman Adventure – The Ride 2 in October. Showtime FMX's MotoMonster Xtreme show temporarily replaced Hollywood Stunt Driver from 26 June  through to 18 July 2011 as alternative winter holiday entertainment. Green Lantern Coaster, the park's fifth coaster, soft opened on 16 December before officially opening on 23 December. The $10 million El Loco coaster manufactured by S&S Worldwide features a 120.5° drop angle–the Southern Hemisphere's steepest and world's third-steepest. Lethal Weapon – The Ride closed in January 2012 for a $2 million refurbishment. The coaster received a new train manufactured by Kumbak with lap bar restraints and on-board audio. It was renamed Arkham Asylum – Shock Therapy and its station building was extensively rethemed; the adjacent courtyard (Lethal Weapon's former queue area) was turned into a mock-jailhouse exercise yard, and the building transformed into an Arkham Asylum overrun by the Joker and his cohorts. The ride reopened in April.
  Housed in the former Batman Adventure - The Ride 2 building, Justice League: Alien Invasion 3D opened on 22 September 2012 and incorporated world-first animatronics and 3D projection technologies. The $9 million interactive dark ride attraction was manufactured by Sally Corporation, with additional technologies provided by Alterface, Threshold Entertainment, Bertazzon and others. The Hollywood Stunt Driver stunt show closed and was replaced by Hollywood Stunt Driver 2 on 20 February 2014, a revamped show that features Showtime FMX motocross riders who perform more thrilling stunts than before. The Junior Driving School, where riders navigate a miniature replica of the theme park, opened at the Kids' WB Fun Zone on 12 September. Built on Looney Tunes River Ride's footprint, the ride was planned to open in 2013 but was delayed as Village Roadshow reallocated investment towards an expansion of Sea World's Polar Bear Shores attraction. Festivities and a parade commemorated the park's 25th anniversary on 3 June 2016. The DC Comics Super-Villains Unleashed interactive precinct opened on 24 September, built on the site of the former Boot Hill Graveyard. The area's main attraction is Doomsday Destroyer (its namesake the DC villain), a Suspended Twin Hammer thrill ride designed by Intamin.
  Planning and development applications for the park's sixth coaster were submitted by November 2015 and vertical construction began in April 2017. DC Rivals HyperCoaster opened on 27 September 2017. At a total cost of $30 million, it remains the single largest ride investment in Village Roadshow's history. With Tower of Terror II's 2019 closure, DC Rivals HyperCoaster remains Australia's tallest, fastest and longest roller coaster. Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi opened on 25 July 2018. An Aquaman film exhibition opened on 13 December and featured props and costumes from the film. Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster closed for an extended maintenance period from July to November 2018. During this time, the ride was refurbished with new projection mapping technologies and other special effects. The rebranded Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster: Next Generation opened on 15 December. The WB Studio Showcase, opened on 1 November 2019, exhibits props, sets and costumes from numerous Warner Bros-distributed films such as Suicide Squad, Mad Max: Fury Road and A Star Is Born. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the park temporarily closed from  22 March 2020 and reopened on 15 July at 50% guest capacity with various social distancing and sanitisation policies.
caption: DC Rivals HyperCoaster is Australia's tallest, fastest and longest coaster
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