DaptoFunlandGuy

There was no glossing over, and I didn't say disclaimers cover all. What part of didn't you understand?

You're absolutely right, it's a minefield. there are ramifications for having blanket bans and the GS\FA-RN assessment routes are the best options all round. This is why I said they can assess, they can recommend, and they can absolutely prevent someone riding where safety is a factor. However, they can't pretend that some fanciful suggestion that you "might aggravate a pre-existing injury" is reason enough to discriminate. It is more a matter of degree and a balance of all the factors at play - considering the likelihood of it happening, as well as the consequences (or severity) of what could happen. (or to put it another way - if we stopped people from riding rides because there was the mere possibility they could be hurt - nobody would ever ride anything again!) In the current example, being in a brace that is custom fitted, strapped on with numerous velcro straps and\or press studs - the person is less likely to be injured in it than out of it, and it's highly unlikely to come off and injure anyone else. The assessment at that point likely boils down to whether they have hand grip strength capable for evacuations and\or whether the loss of the use of one hand is an excluding factor. Typically this wouldn't exclude people from all but the most extreme rides. I'm being very simplistic, and this is in no way formal advice or suggesting the parks are or are not doing the right thing based on their alignment with what i've suggested - i'm simply making a very long-winded point that they can't just say "no casts, braces or slings" as this would not meet their obligations under the DDA.

It's fun to fantasise and wonder what could be - but the reality of it all is quite simple - Village are pretty comfortable with the IP stable they have. They aren't going to acquire rights to other IPs from other production houses they don't have relationships with without a really good incentive to do so - something like an insanely popular new franchise that somehow hasn't been gobbled up by one of the majors... And acquiring rights to a franchise that is currently stupidly popular in overseas parks will be too expensive. Acquiring rights to a dusty old back catalog from a small independent film house that's been passed around production companies like a young actress at a Weinstein party probably isn't going to get them the bang (no pun intended) for their buck that they would need to make it worth it. Bottom line - your pie in the sky ideas are cool to think about, but there is no grounding in reality. it's never going to happen unless someone like Paramount comes along and buys the park - in which case you can expect the park to rebrand (and lose some of it's other IPs in the process) - but we all know how much Paramount thinks of the Australian Market so yet again, another pie in the sky pipe dream that is never going to happen.

I realise we've gotten an update just above where the staff in park were able to assess the situation and it was a different outcome to the park's online team - but just to add weight to this argument - the child's injury meets the legislated definition of a disability for the purposes of the disability discrimination act. This means that they cannot just have a blanket rule that says 'no casts, braces or slings'. This doesn't mean that they have to risk somebody's safety (the person with the disability or anyone else) - but they do have to review individual circumstances to determine what can be safely accommodated with reasonable adjustment. This can get very messy, and ultimately would need to involve doctors and medical assessments (and probably lawyers) if the abilities of the person were in dispute, so I would presume the park would err on the side of caution, but to simply say 'no, you can't ride anything while you have a brace on' doesn't meet the threshholds and responsibilities required by the legislation. This is a garbage argument This is also garbage. The park's T&Cs all state they ride at their own risk. They're also not medical professionals equipped to assess whether ride forces are going to aggravate an injury. How many people with head, neck and back problems do you think ride big thrill rides every day despite the signage saying not to? The park can assess. They can recommend she not ride certain things that may aggravate an injury and they can record such advice without specifically prohibiting a person from riding where it isn't a safety risk. Like everyone else at the park - they ride at their own risk. If she were to aggravate the injury for going beyond her own limits or abilities, that would be on her and wouldn't make the park liable.

I mean let's split hairs, but Verne is often credited as the foundations of Steampunk - though the style and genre goes well beyond Verne's works. Oh how I wished that the pinch point here would have been widened....

Yeah it's not like screwing in a new lightbulb \ lamp into an edison mount - but it is repairable. I figure you could technically just replace the broken ones - but it's circuit board level repairs - like replacing a processing chip on a motherboard x 100 and not worth the labour compared to just replacing the entire board when it's time to do so.

When I went, we had to present our group paper to the metal detectors to enter the final queue, so that cheat didn't work.

I get you - the point I was trying to make is that they already moved west to be more 'winter' and while it makes sense to have it in a cooler weather slot, where it is now is where it landed, so my conclusion is that it was too difficult to get it later in the year than they did, otherwise they'd have done it the first time they moved it...

lol. Friday Night Games were ridiculous. I suppose it was an opportunity to spin off the show into another format and get extra viewers in a difficult timeslot - i'd heard it as a return of it's a knockout style and it really wasn't (sidenote - return the original it's a knockout format - that would be a hoot!) I guess my nostalgia is the earlier series around 01 before they started 'tweaking the format'

Just to be clear, I wasn't serious about the DEC being used, just that it made way more sense than Kevil.

You're 100% on the money. I think the argument from most folks though is they don't have the right amount of money.

I think that's a bit of a cop out considering the park never used to take it down in winter (stupidly) and the change to the maintenance schedule is a more recent thing. Each ride takes a certain amount of time. it's not a simple thing to just push a ride back a few weeks unless it's necessary - you need a slot to fit it into and to do that you need to either move something else, which also has a specific time requirement, or you need to run over into school holidays, which we all agree is never ideal.

I had completely forgotten about it until Magician mentioned it, but I had watched a local youtuber tour the new park with their kids earlier in the year (Wanderlust is the channel if you want to check it out) - so now we have to factor that into our planning as well. It is wonderfully efficient to get just about anywhere, but Mandai is pushing it... The shuttle from Khatib station \ Route 138 from Springleaf are your best public transport options (and they are both reasonably cheap and services are very frequent - every 12-15 minutes) but you're still looking at up to 90 minutes one-way with interchanges from a central location like Dhoby Ghaut - which isn't ideal if you're planning on hitting multiple parks in a day. Our last two visits we stayed on Sentosa, which further compounds the issue - average travel times shoot up to over 2 hours, with 4 different interchanges - not the sort of journey you want to do after night safari, that's for sure!

This is part of the reason we're planning to stay at Mandai - bird paradise and river wonders in a day - night safari at night, the original 'singapore zoo' is - i would say - around a two-thirds to three-quarter day on it's own, and you still have Rainforest Wild Asia which opened a few months ago. It's too far from the 'city' to make multiple day trips, so staying nearby and knocking them all on the head means two days will get it done, but any of them are worth the trip - even if you only have a half day - pick what looks most interesting to you and give it a go. If you aren't interested in zoos, or you're not keen on travelling that far (nothing is far in singapore, really) then there's still a mountain of other activities to do on Sentosa outside of USS including the luge, zipline, aquarium, waterpark, beach, minigolf, indoor karting and a whole host of other activities.

Correct - they do try and have everything open during holidays but west is no great loss in winter.