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  1. Given how many of the VR leadership followed Greg to DW, i'm not sure how much trickling would be necessary! But agree, regardless of what the guy was or was not responsible for at Village, his people skills far exceed others in similar positions.
  2. The ride system itself was a great experience, however much of it was driven by parks and manufacturers to be the record breakers, and the experience itself, while thrilling, lacked a certain something. Couple that with the fact that it essentially detroyed the landscape of the park, carving it neatly in two, disrupting routes between various parts of the park, and interrupting the 'escape' of a theme park periodically with punctuated launches (not to mention the siren prior to each launch). It was a great thing to ride, but i'm glad it is gone. As soon as the park can rid itself of the remaining infrastructure, or repurpose it for other attraction uses, the better.
  3. I saw on facebook this morning that two park items had gone up for sale. TPSN posted that the old Paradise Country trams (which were originally the Studio Tour trams) were up for sale on Marketplace for $5000. DGY also posted that the Dreamworld Churro Stand was up for sale for $16,500 by a guy in Loganholme who sells a lot of different demountable buildings. I can't seem to find the posts again now, but they were definitely there this morning - so if you did grab an image, feel free to pop it below.
  4. Pity the crews working in the miserable conditions today - but can confirm the train must have gone on yesterday as there was a giant red and yellow surfboard hovering over superman this morning.
  5. I have absolutely no doubt that anyone discussing JR and JR in the same topic or conversation would include an obvious differentiation, or simply spell out the entire name when needed to avoid any acronym confusion when referring to JR or JR. Just like you did.
  6. I think these days most english speakers would use their context clues to work out a discussion about Dreamworld's new attraction construction doesn't relate to Sea World. Just like when Sky Voyager made it complicated to discuss a former rollercoaster at Sea World... Nevertheless I think we'll all manage. If Y'all cant figure out whether I'm talking about one or the other, feel free to ask.
  7. I think you missed the part where I said: What Can I Say Except You're Welcome!
  8. Looked like some lifts were happening in the Superman helix this morning... could we have a train on track?
  9. Just to give some perspective, according to Nearmap, the WOZ site was blank canvas on 17 September. Footers were either poured or in progress on 13 November. By reports here, the coasters were completed around 22 March. So all in all, we've got between 4 & 6 months for construction, though this doesn't take into account a likely ~1 month shutdown over christmas. By comparison, Dreamworld: JR site was effectively 'blank canvas' on 28 December Footers \ slab went in \ in progress around 14 March Assuming the 1 month christmas shutdown, potentially we see JR completed by June. We already know much of the theme works have been completed off-site The building structure isn't likely to be tilt panel so it'll be a tin shed that goes up in less than a week. I think its fair to say JR can come together pretty quickly once constructed. The major factor for JR is going to be whether the prototype switch track element works as intended. I think it's highly likely both attractions open by Christmas. Earlier opens would be good but Christmas is usually the target for these major attractions. I think Village has a lot more to build after the coasters, based on some of the concepts they've released, so no doubt they need more time to do that, hence why they've finished the coasters earlier...
  10. You could do more than just a few lightbox posters of the movie. Have the cast member appear like a storyteller, reading from a storybook - once upon a time... establish the characters, get some audience participation (anyone remember A FLOGGING!) If you have the licence for the characters (like Tom and Jerry for example) perhaps you could show shorts or an earlier episode of the characters to establish their background for anyone who is unfamiliar with the characters? even a 60 second montage of character establishment? Hell, if I can think of it, surely it can't be that hard to achieve these sorts of things?
  11. Woz is BGH's big investment. There's been no motivation to spruce the park up to now because they weren't ready to sell yet - they hadn't done enough to make a profit from it. In the next 12-18 months, I'm guessing we're going to see a lot of effort made to fix that (hopefully including Roxy). They're going to be in a position to sell and they can't sell WOZ if the rest of the place looks like dogshit. Things I would do: Reintroduce a pre-show to Roxy - similar to Shrek where it actually introduces the story, rather than just having it a dark holding area for the next group of guests. Use it for something. Upgrading or replacing the seats in theatre would be nice, but not essential if they're still functioning. Get all the shuttered facilities online - Stars Cafe, West Burgers etc. Return Showcase to a proper Show to take some load off attractions and offer something else when maintenance or downtime impacts the park's capacity. Turn Doomsday area around and chuck in a few small flats. Honestly even a 'scrambler' style ride, (suitably themed of course) would be preferable to having Doomsday sit and rot. (Longer term i'd see SVU rethemed back to western but for now the cheapest thing is to keep current theme and get a new ride - or two - in to replace the hammer). You could probably fit two small 'scrambler' sized attractions in that footprint. Ditch HWSD and Showtime in favour of a show that is more than just 'driving in circles, the show' Return intencity to guest accessible space. restore dodgems (ick) or utilise the space for other purposes - something i'd love to see is perhaps a mini "special effects" show (done more like convention stalls rather than an actual 'show' where one stall has a green screen, one has a Mo-Cap set up. (There's more to flesh out on this idea which maybe i'll write if i find the time) Flesh out kids a bit more. Use the other side of LTRR shed for some sort of dark ride, or an ariel's grotto style area. Again, returning previously guest accessible space back to the guests. Open Chinatown. Theme it to Yellow Brick road. Before anyone says they've already got a yellow brick road next to superman, there is more than one road. And the majority of Oz were matte paintings, so get some talented artists in to paint the walls of the alley and boom, immersive Oz Yellow Brick Road. You could even have the artwork progress, cornfields, apple tree forests, poppy fields before you round the corner and the big emerald city is revealed...
  12. Yeah from what i've heard it was winds taking them down yesterday. If you live in SEQLD, you'd be an idiot to suggest anything else. The park is really suffering at the moment. Sure it's a case of short term pain, long term gain, and they'll be in a much better position once this is all said and done - but their silence on the current state is absolutely deafening.
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