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According to Ardents full year results DW have contracts executed for significant new attractions to be announced by the end of the year.

Genuinely exciting and terrifying. Terrifying because I promised my family DW passes when they have 1-2 more rides and financially I'm not ready for that.

Hey all! I saw the video released by Sea World's official Facebook page of the Leviathan completing its first test run and heard that testing commences later at night, and went to have a look to see if I could witness it in action! There was nothing from the Leviathan in terms of test runs, unfortunately; but here are some things I saw! The operators were testing the lighting that was projected onto the timber structure. The lighting has quite a few options, with colour, transitions, and some pretty interesting modes. Of course, all of this was being manually changed by the operators. One notable mode was where the lighting follows the track around, almost as though the train is lighting up the track as it traverses. Very interesting to watch! Thankfully, there was some testing going on, I wasn't expecting it but I noticed these flickering white lights behind the Leviathan. This turned out to be the Trident completing some test runs! You can see the chains connecting from what looks to be a three-personed carriage on each section of the chain. They tested the Trident once every 5 minutes, adjusting the height and the bank at which the chains are swung. Even though there was no sighting of the Leviathan completing some test runs, I witnessed something quite bizarre. I noticed that one of the two 12-car trains was resting on the chain lift. You can see the 'tail' as well as the backwards positioned seats as well. Unfortunately, there were no signs of movement when I was watching as quite a few contractors were scouting the track and presumably inspecting the structure and rails. I was determined to watch the train go around and assumed they wouldn't leave the train sitting on the chain lift overnight, but I never saw any movement. So I returned today to see if the train had been moved; to my surprise, it was gone! I will return another day and grab an update once I see it going around. Maybe even this night! Cheers! Liam

Visitation up 18%, ticket sales (value) up 61%, revenue up 37%. (And a $2Million Koala grant) 🤣 Yeah, since Ardent only HAS a themeparks group now, it makes sense to make the theme park CEO... THE CEO... @Richard used to do really indepth financial analysis on the end of year park results. I'd be keen to hear your analysis this time around as it seems like the park has really turned the corner and started to climb the hill...

Vortex had a terrific nighttime lighting package but apparently they can't use it because it was too bright for the ride ops

They announced rides, not that theyre buying Seaworld and adding rides.

Years of neglect isn't going to be fixed with one coaster.

Yeah 50,000 sounds like the total number of people they expect across all nights.

Wait, what? Where’d you get that idea from? That’s not an argument anyone on the planet is making.

Usually the event is capped anywhere between 5500-8000. I know it has been 8000 during previous years. I've previously worked across both MW and WnW and during the summer of 2015-2016 we had a day at WnW with over 16,000 and were still happy to let more in. They have said before that they don't have a cap for day trade and wouldn't stop a paying customer from going into the park. Unlike Raging Waters(when it was WnW Sydney) which used to stop letting customers in after they got to a certain capacity. Unsure if this is still the case.

Then you replace them. Is the problem the lights are too bright or SW put the control box in a dumb position?

Won't have the time for anything like that this time around. The results are abysmal though. 140,000 uptick in attendance (from their worst year on record) despite a major new attraction and pent up travel demand that smashed airlines, accommodation and the Village Parks for the second half of the year? Hard to read anything into these results other than something is seriously amiss with their overall strategy. It's more of a loss. That's a spectacularly misleading graph they put in there for some reason.

What idiot got LEDs with no dimmers?

I think its more if you want to see more of the shows, have time to eat, or just not physically stand in a crowded line. People may want to do rides since riding at night is a different experience. And of course attendance is not uniform, some nights will be busier.

@Tim Dascoremind me never to invite you to a party.😵

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DW you didn't read it wrong, they just wrote it wrong. The article's exact quote is: So yeah, no mistake of your own.

whatever it is it's prob going in the spot where viking flume was so it won't be a coaster.