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Honestly, its disgusting to charge full price for that.

Using the thumbs up as a response to a 'survey' produces false results as its the default "like". Edit: They totally know that though, and want the results to be as sensational as possible to match their story narrative.

A quick little update for Skytropolis Indoor Theme Park https://www.parkz.com.au/attraction/skytropolis-indoor-theme-park (more pics) This park is also located up at Genting Highlands, and in fact when you come off the skyway the entrance is right there a few floors below. The park is free to enter, with no gates , so I went for a stroll before opening and got pics with crowds out of the way, and then later returned after Skyworlds closed to actually ride stuff. The theme is a bit of steampunk mixed with circus. So not quite story driven immersive theming, but a lot better than your average amusement park for sure. In this case the only thing I rode was the Zamperla Volare, Super Glider. The reviews I have heard previously turned out to be true, its actually a really smooth ride. The turns are still too tight and not well heart lined, but it’s the “best” Volare out there. The copper colour scheme looks pretty good too! Looks great in the environment. Still one go was enough. (You can get individual ride tickets, so it worked out to $5 AUD for that one ride) I had intended to ride a couple of the elevated attractions like the suspended monorail, Ferris wheel etc, but the whole park has walkways for other levels of the mall wrapping around it offering high vantage points, so it seemed a bit redundant. The rest of the park is a collection of Zamperla flat rides, all looking quite well presented. The place gave me Dazzeland / Tops vibes with the big columns and a Powered Coaster (SBNO at the moment) cantilevered off them. Overall, worth a look since the park is open into the evening well after Skyworlds closes so you can easily hit both, though the line up of attractions is perhaps the most generic you’ll see anywhere.

Had considered making that point, but the DW thoosies might take it personally.

If we count the days it was closed for this period as well as the unscheduled maintenance at the start of the year (first 9 days) then it has been closed for 142 days out of 169. If it just keeps getting extended I feel like it might be time to get rid of it.

Clearly not living in Kenny and Belindas Dreamland

To be specific since you decided to go this route management being too proud to admit the park made an error in judgement. Not anybody specifically.

I mean hopefully if you're buying tickets online, you're also looking at the page that tells you what's closed, at which point you can still back out. Much harder to back out when you load your family in the car and rock up at the gate though.

I suppose they could also spend enough on maintenance so this sort of endemic downtime doesn’t happen. I can’t think of any other park that has so much trouble keeping its rides open.

But if they did that, they would need it to have a one year expiry date because if it was only a month, there is a chance just as many rides would still be closed. And if people have travel interstate or internationally, a free day wouldn’t cut it because that would mean there would be need to pay for flights, accommodation, etc. If this is discount offer is still current, then it’s definitely good they do that. But most people are buying tickets online before they’re visit, so what are they getting as compensation.

My personal thoughts at this point are management are just too proud to admit they made a mistake with this ride/scrap it.

Planes being assembled (thanks to Jaggs Journeys)

Seems to have come from this 2017 document published by Griffith Uni (full doc is attached below). It is a student work. https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAIQw7AJahcKEwjwm6-o9If_AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fresearch-repository.griffith.edu.au%2Frest%2Fbitstreams%2Fe02053e2-8f97-4e0a-aa51-cf1952015768%2Fretrieve&psig=AOvVaw1QxjY-BUYisfkpP_xf9XcZ&ust=1684809952183559 Dupre421564Published.pdf Edit: the 2017 date might be a bit misleading, and was sought from google. the document refers to the monorail being closed "since 2019"

The carousel now has strip lighting around the interior of the ride, coupled with the new fresh coloured fencing it looks absolutely fantastic. Sorry I couldn’t get a photo, they were spray painting in the area so couldn’t get close enough.

Mildly relevant to this topic given the earlier mention of closures, but this is the maintenance board out front this morning, presented visually: (I realise this map still shows Pounce n Bounce, but it doesn't show Marvin ride, so still pretty representative of the lineup today. I've excluded Showcase since it's a static walkthrough rather than a ride or show. There is literally no reason to turn left at Main Street as that entire wing of the park is a ghost town) Sourced from TPSN.

$9/$10 per month entry, depending on initial sign up. $12 per month entry and 1 entry each year to White Christmas, Carnivale and Fright Night, later purchases excluding Fright Night. $15 per month, as above + Wet n Wild Sydney access.

Concrete has been ripped up in one half of the area (thanks to Jaggs Journeys)

This is Disneyland level quality! #Peoplemover #RocketRods

Berjaya Times Square Theme Park 17th of April 2023 https://www.parkz.com.au/attraction/berjaya-times-square-theme-park A quick little report from Berjaya Times Square. I went there one evening around 6pm. The park closes at 8pm but there was sufficient time for me to do what I wanted to do. The park is in the immense Berjaya Times Square mall, which is easily accessible from Imbi station on the KL monorail. The park isn't well signposted from the entry to the mall, its up on level 5 at the opposite end of the mall, but was soon there after asking for directions. The main drawcard is of course Supersonic Odyssey, a custom Intamin looper and probably one of the worlds biggest indoor coasters. Park was dead so I did about 7 laps, most of the time was spent waiting for a couple of extra people to turn up, but on a few rides I got the “zen” ride with an entire 24 seater train to myself. The station is up the top of an escalator. You do a gentle downhill S bend into a slow heartline roll with plenty of hangtime (Paced much like the ones on GL and Abyss) From there the ride meanders around a bit, doing a lap around a flat ride, and then this weird u turn where it was more like two 90 degree turns, but it unbanked itself halfway through. Eventually you reach the lift hill, getting a nice whiff of Beef Rendang from a restaurant below. At the top, there are further moderately paced turns, including an elevated hammerhead element, before the train dives down the big drop. From there is quite a large loop (sadly though the walkway through the middle is inaccessible) . Next comes a quick ascent into a banked turn (I guess its a stengel dive?), passing through a giant mouth in the process. A cool element because it still carries heaps of speed so a good snappy transition. Next comes a corkscrew (with that distinctive intamin snap at the top) followed by a couple more turns and the final brakes. Overall, its a decent ride, but I felt it spends a lot of time “stuffing around” with slowish turns, and its really only the final quarter where it goes all in and feels like a true intamin. Interesting how design has really evolved over the years. I imagine if you built something like this today there would be all sorts of wierd outerbanked turns and wonky bits to spice it up on the first section. But it was designed back in 2001 so it's like having a mine train fused to a looping coaster. There’s no denying it looks visually stunning. In malaysia I was constantly amazed by the scale of the indoor spaces and malls they build. And the engineering looks pretty interesting too. As for the rest of the park, The kids area had a real acid trip feel to it: I shoehorned myself into Botanic Drive to try and get some pics under the corkscrew of Supersonic Odyssey but kind of failed. The other ride I was interested in, Spinning Orbit, was closed. You guys might recognise this as the tower ride that was planned for the middle of the Superman Helix that never went ahead, abeit this was a smaller version. I was only mildly miffed since I’ve been on the huss equvivalent at Tivoli Gardens, and it was ok. The park also used to have a double hammer ride the same as Doomsday at MW. That too is gone now. There were quite few closed rides and areas. I'm not one for spin and spews so was happy to watch. I did spend a bit of time riding escalators and lifts to try and get some good vantage points of the coaster. The park is cheap enough to go there for the coaster alone, at around $25. I probably lucked out because ramadan was on so that often kept places like this quiet during daylight hours, so effectivley having an ERT session on the coaster was a nice bonus.