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They're selling themselves short though because they've included the parade and HSD, but not the Roxy Theatre? I'd argue the Roxy Theatre is more of an attraction than Batmobile.

On those measures I'm surprised that the fountain in the entry plaza isn't counted as an attraction, unless it's under maintenance?

BGH aren't in it for the long term, they're in it for the money. But they do need a product they can sell to an eventual buyer, and since the land isn't theirs anymore, it won't go the wonderland route, so they're going to need to start rolling this turd in glitter because they sure as shit don't want to polish it. I've been saying this for a while now. The tide is turning.

I mean, it IS Movie World.

If they’re going to do that, I’d rather they didn’t bother at all. Do it right, or don’t do it at all.

And long term that’s going to be their biggest issue. If you read through comments on their page and fan pages, so many people are warning people to not go, it’s a waste of money and/or they had a horrible experience. But also, there are people asking which park they should visit or if it’s worth going to MW right now and most people are saying don’t bother, go to Dreamworld. It used to be the other way round and it’s taken years for DW to recover, but they are starting to show signs of consistently good crowd numbers and positive customer feedback. I think MW (probably Village in general) got to comfortable and thought they had the best product (which they did for a while), but they became to reliant on that idea and their beloved attractions (Scooby, WWF, Superman and Rivals). People remember those rides the most and they’re the ones people want to ride the most, but when they’re all closed for maintenance at the same time, people see the park as almost having nothing to do and that it’s a waste of time when they can’t ride they’re favourites. DW got rid of all of their fan favourites and they paid the price for it. But now people aren’t necessarily going back because they have the best rides, but because people have a better time and there’s a lot more to do.

I agree that's what they will do, but even just subway tile on the wall. or even the cheap method and paint on the subway tile.

Theming enhancements would be awesome, but I think the term ‘enhancements’ is overselling what they’re doing. I believe they are introducing a loose article storage system at the station and then removing the lockers to create additional queue space, with there potentially being a single ride queue.

What changes do you think we might see to the queue ? Could enhancing mean making it look completely different ? I have always felt it doesn't look that much like a subway station. It would be cool if they added some arches like what's on Gotham city escape.

Neither of these are what occur, now that they’re majority owned by private equity. 9.9 times out of 10, all private equity wants is short-term profit, and therefore the common result of a company becoming private equity is cost-cutting & getting as much people buying as much as possible, more often than not at the expense of things such as general upkeep, customer service, and (in this case) ride reliability & cohesive ‘lands’ (why have a Superman area when we’ve got 2 plots of land nearby, ripe for IP? Why have a somewhat cohesive DC section, when black asphalt & a road sign works well enough, and there’s space elsewhere to shoehorn more DC IP into?). So it’s not park execs sitting around a marble table, nor is it a series of ‘whoopsies’. The private equity wants as much revenue from the park as possible before they flip it/it goes under, and what’s left of a park management team is accommodating that. Similar things happen in a lot of industries, I think not too long ago there was similarly anti-consumer/private equity conversation about retirement homes in the United States. And, though not the same, there’s also the Boeing story (they merged with McDonnell Douglas & allowed it’s management to overtake their own, so not exactly a private equity swooping in & trying to flip them, but it’s caused a similar outcome).

And I just pointed out that it wasn't the same complaint every day. These people are in the C-suite. If you're saying that it is more likely that they are incompetent, (as much as I'd like to think they are too) unfortunately you're just very naive. I mean, I'd love nothing more than to slap an image from one of their social media profiles on here in a farcical example of them doing just that, but it wouldn't be realistic, nor would it be fair to them. Unfortunately we don't see them walking the parks, interacting with regular guests and showing that they care about the very poor experiences their guests are having. The park is no doubt doing what they do best - quietly slinging free tickets at people who have complained, but that doesn't fix their image problem. And in the absence of some of the C suite coming out and explaining things, we are left to draw our own imaginative and wild conclusions. Contempt is the very least of it. A few years ago, Dreamworld was in a very similar situation, and the CEO sent out an email to all passholders to explain why things were the way they are, what they were doing to make sure it never happened again, and issued every passholder a free ticket to an after hours event that was normally an extra charge. They didn't have to do that. but they did. And even though we couldn't go to the after hours event, I personally appreciated the gesture. I was far less pissed off with the state of the park because they had made an effort to make it right. Meanwhile at village: Radio Silence.

Agree with an earlier comment, the previous format for ride maintenance made it easier to plan my 2 week trip from NZ. I could work out (relatively easy) which days in my trip would best suit to visit the park based on ride availability during that 2 week period, now I have to click one day at a time, and almost put into a spreadsheet to understand which day will be best to go. Would have suited my case better to have the maintenance schedule in a table format (days across the top, rides down the side).

Of course its the state of the park and its crappy and annoying and we all hope they sort it out To be clear I wasnt saying we should be nicer to the park or defending 600 closed rides I was saying thats its boring and annoying to keep coming on here only to read the same complaint over and over again when its not like its a new thing I think that whole contempt of guests phrase that people throw around on here is laying it on a bit thick though I highly doubt some exec team sit around a marble board table and have meetings on how they can screw guests this week I just think they screw up a lot and end up in these bad situations somehow

Oh, so that’s why they updated the site… (new maintenance homepage) (the actual attractions that are included in their very forgiving ‘operational attractions’ counter were all in the kids’ section, bar GL, JL, & Batwing) Just saw that this was pointed out earlier, but yeah, it’s a misleading statistic at the least.

to be fair, on the main Rides page it does have an ‘Under Maintenance’ banner instead of the ‘Now Open’ badge, and the same ‘Under Maintenance’ banner is at the top of the New Atlantis page.

Meanwhile on Sea World’s website:

I mean that’s not a terrible idea considering MW doesn’t experience as intense of winds as SW does. Maybe they could put it within Superman Escape and Flash so they can market it as the world-first-ride-within-a-ride-within-a-ride!

“Aquaman: Tower of Power”, coming to a Doomsday plot near you!

It’s been like this for a while, but Trident doesn’t have a reopening date and has been under maintenance (I believe) since early Feb.

Sorry.

Not a mass walkout, but I know from past experience that most seasonal contracts end after the Easter holidays. Its entirely reasonable that they didn't offer enough seasonal casuals the opportunity to move up to PT and as such simply don't have the staff available.

It's that pesky 3pm pickup with a 5pm park closure that gets in the way though, am I right?

It's a bit rich to consider Green Lantern to be 'working' at the best of times.

7 roller coasters in one photo and only one of them is working.

I find it easier to work when my child is at school.