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SurfRider’s track has now been repainted Red and Gold. Jaggsjourneysau

How can you get the top right and not the tower. 🤦‍♀️ Clearly @Slickis right and everybody else is wrong. Once you see it, you can never unsee it.

I get that this is meant to be a joke, but the peak headway between trains on the NYC Subway are 6mins. I dunno man, I really get the impression that you're one of those people that isn't happy unless they're complaining.

Does it light up pretty and look like it says Dreamworld? Cool. Job done. better than Gold Coast street lights.

Lol this is straight up wrong. Atlantis was announced in mid 2019 a couple of years after building Rivals & Topgolf (which weren't cheap either). Many years before BGH were in the picture. Village weren't healthy on cash and the parks lost a lot of foot traffic post 2016 (which people have seemed to forget). Not unlike down the road. Presentation is improving. Superman has opening day effects back which I hadn't seen before since I was too short to ride last time they worked. Rides are being renovated, repainted & removed. Hedges are being trimmed. Say what you want about the cheap printed signs, non working effects on West & uniforms (among others) and I've never been a fan of these but cleaning up the mistakes of the past takes years (Dreamworld have done it for 6 years and still aren't finished). Look at Atlantis and that seems to be the standard going forward.

Flash or Wonderwoman?

The irony is delicious. 🍻 Anyway, now that your axe is ground, TLDR; One's clearly right, one's clearly wrong. I could do this all day with street signs, billboards, books, keyboards, logos... It's pretty standard for W's to look a certain way. 😂

You've subsequently and ironically managed to inadvertently back up my original argument that your statement has no factual basis beyond personal opinion. That was my entire point in the first place so thank you for doing my job for me.

Honestly, I think you're expecting too much.

You don't need to form a bad-faith opinion because I said standards instead of semantics - it's so dreary because my opinion doesn't materially change either way. The joy of communications/advertising/design is that it dabbles in the grey of manipulating consumer mindsets on thousands of tiny things, however imperceptible or subconscious which is the point I'm getting at. It doesn't matter what their justified position was for using an upside-down M, it's still odd. Plain and simple. Ultimately it all adds up to form a conscious consensus about an organisation and this is one of those indicators. TLDR; people who aren't knee deep in typefaces may not understand what they see, but they'll know something's off. To drive the point home, here's some memes. This is what most people think: But here's the reality. It's an old graphic designer joke I've recreated just for you: And in real-world corporate environments, here's the reality of why you use the right typefaces the right way: Vertical strokes are the reason why it looks strange not the size. If legibility was an issue, they'd be using a font with larger counters to increase long-distance visibility. This is a forum where folks enjoy talking about details in an industry that prides itself on adding in little details to maximise the experience and immersion. If that's how you feel then you're in the wrong place. 🤷🏻‍♂️ This. It's totally okay, folks like me just expect more than just okay because once upon a time the bar was actually set quite high.

Honestly quicker to go out to the carpark from Superman. Less congested too. The last time I was in the states - about 10 years ago - parks had smoking areas everywhere, including e-cigs - the areas were even sponsored by the e-cig companies with the ashtrays and benches having advertising. So it was quite a shock this year that none of the parks allowed smoking in-park. All smokers were required to exit the park - and that included e-cigs and vapes. It was honestly so nice to walk around the park without getting smacked in the face by smoke. (ex smoker here)

I’m sure there was, still doesn’t mean they should ignore pretty basic graphic design and English language standards. W’s just don’t commonly have vertical strokes, which is why it looks weird. It’s just basic and communicates a lack of detail.

W is a premium letter. It costs the same as a double U

These arent something mass produced Making 2 Ms wont be any cheaper than an M and a W

For what it's worth, the dispatches when I visited a few days ago were just over 2 minutes. It can happen!

Eh, what? Which capital investment do you think is most reactionary? WoO was in development and announced before DW revealed their plans and it's clearly not in response to ST but has to do with the balancing MW, the Hotel has been on the boil for a good decade now, Atlantis is from the time you say Village weren't investing. Scooby being pretty much completely rebuilt clearly isn't an answer to anything, and Surfrider and Marvin seems entirely to be in response to Scooby's closure and strain on the rest of the park in terms of line up and capacity. All of this is happening at a time when attendance is well above the long term average, and they clearly aren't suffering from competition. The only thing you COULD say is in response to DW is that with DW's low attendance, they're overwhelmed with how many guests they have, and that also they no longer feel WnW needs to compete with WWW so move Surfrider to the dry park that needs the capacity. Like I'm sorry but you're talking out of your bottom here.