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Possible house location?

It’s clearly a decoy post, they’ve already said a new purpose built house, not a retrofit of an existing building.
 
insider06 said:
Is the backyard going to be covered? Only watched that small clip once so didn’t get a good look at the layout but surely with that proximity to the roller coaster if housemates were out in the open in the backyard, people on the rides could see them and vice versa?
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That particular roller-coaster is down for maintenance until December 12, so that won't be a problem.
 
It wouldn’t be entirely impossible to build a backyard onto the exhibition centre, it would appear these are demountables built next to it, very easy to move away temporarily.

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I’d be disappointed if this was the house when it’s a space designed for hosting live audiences and could instead be used for a solid return to live eviction shows. The space would make it feel like event TV which I think we all agree is a key element that needs to return to Big Brother.
 
Yeah also the "road" would be an obvious route for the audience coming to/from the car park without being funnelled through other parts of the whole place. I'm tending towards the other area nearby that's fenced off being the actual house.
 
sav0001 said:
That particular roller-coaster is down for maintenance until December 12, so that won't be a problem.
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Maintenance might have been extended just for Big Brother, too. It was originally scheduled to reopen next week (September 12th), but from what I can tell, they've extended the maintenance very recently, maybe even today... definitely before the video went up on the BB socials though.
 
kamui said:
Maintenance might have been extended just for Big Brother, too. It was originally scheduled to reopen next week (September 12th), but from what I can tell, they've extended the maintenance very recently, maybe even today... definitely before the video went up on the BB socials though.
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Yeah I definitely remember seeing a September reopen date on the dreamworld website when I was hyper fixated on it last week
 
andrew_08 said:
Who knows what to believe but seems this location is not going to used as the house. I’d say production / the live show set
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I’m thinking the yellow highlighted buildings are going to be production offices/control room/possibly a smaller set. None of them are accessible by the public and sit disused and fenced off.

Could even see them doing some kind of Big Brother attraction in the yellow area as well, like getting a photo in the diary room chair etc.
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Wow. So the original theory was correct then. They're not going to place a part of the BB facility on the south end of the park and put a house on the north end like in the 00s.

This is most definitely production facilities. Probably even the live stage and control room (they shared a building on the original run). Even on versions such as BBUK (ITV retrofitting a soundstage) and BBUS (always been in a soundstage at CBS Radford) they've had an exterior extension for the garden. My money is on the vacant plot to the east of WWW. No doubt already under construction to some degree. Now we've been shown this I would expect to see more timely updates.

I do find it interesting the rollercoaster maintenance is being extended through December. Are they just going to shut it down annually when the show is on? Could this suggest a more prominent change to shorter runs? I do not see Dreamworld shutting down one of their [expensive] rides for three months out of the year.
 
Kingston said:
Incorrect. The original (2000 - 2004) house was NOT built on a soundstage. It was a couple of double wide trailers in a parking lot. Said parking lot was later the site of a new office building and BB was moved to the studio that housed Yes, Dear.
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I miss being able to see what time of day it is in the studio. And I miss the tacky water feature. 🥲
 
dasnico said:
I do find it interesting the rollercoaster maintenance is being extended through December. Are they just going to shut it down annually when the show is on? Could this suggest a more prominent change to shorter runs? I do not see Dreamworld shutting down one of their [expensive] rides for three months out of the year.
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I wouldn't rule it out that they'll always shut down the Gold Coaster when Big Brother is on air and I don't think it suggests shorter runs anyways. The coaster is 30 years old now and is on maintenance for a couple of months almost every year anyways. Mind you, this year it was already scheduled for 2 months of maintenance anyways. In 2023, it was down for 2.5 months from Mid-September to the end of November. Similar for 2022, when it was even closer to three months (April till almost the end of June).

So shutting down the Gold Coaster for three months every year wouldn't seem too odd for Dreamworld.
 
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