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They lost SE the afternoon before around 4pm and it didn't come back up. It just really struck me at the time just how thin the line-up was, and just how broken so much of the stuff in the park was or at least was perceived to be. For example; First building you encounter in Main Street is a shuttered outlet that has clearly seen better days. Roof of main street looks generally shabby. Chipped/cracked paint on the street curbs and small scenery items. Most main street windows look dirty/weathered. Every ride photo barcode dispenser was empty and in most cases broken. At least half of all ride photo screens broken/not functional. Items like ride queue length displays clearly long-term out of service. Empty enclosures where static displays previously existed. Major attractions down practically everywhere you look. Major attractions with badly faded paintwork. Major attractions with stuff that just clearly doesn't work. The Doomsday area was to broken stuff what studio showcase was to the Batman franchise. Not to mention, of course, it blows out queue times on other stuff when you have so many rides down. It was a real nuisance that the ride queue times in the app were so far out of whack. A clear example that persisted all day was Marvin; 5 min advertised wait all day, never dropped below 35 mins in reality - all of the kids queuing in direct sun. Not really good enough. Standard VRTP attitude everywhere that there's no sense of urgency. Nothing more frustrating than watching a train sit in the station for a full 5 minutes multiple times while queuing while staff would stop for a good long chat any time one of them rotates out. "Oh wait, have to come back for my water bottle..." I totally get the idea of working safely, but there's working safely and there's walking from one end of the station to the other in slow motion. Adding to the perception of how thin the park is for things to do is the walk from Batwing to the next attraction. As an adult your next working attraction from Batwing is either West or (if you can be bothered) RRRC. I didn't include DD as it was seldom running, and when it was running it... may as well not have been. They were expecting a crowd of 3k people in the park for the day.

On the flip side, I ordered 2 cars in April 2022, and at the time of order, the dealer was already telling us to expect a wait time of more than 12 months, even though they suggested it could arrive by December. Fast forward to July when the first one arrived, and the second one comes in this month. That's the entirety of my point. It isn't 2020, so we're not dealing with something we've never dealt with before. We know how long things are going to take 3.5 years in. We shouldn't be going with the pre-covid schedule, making no changes to account for the by-now known delays, and then throwing our hands in the air when it all falls to pieces and blaming covid. (As an aside, I know several people who cancelled their cars the month they were ready for collection, so dealers are getting stock back to sell that wasn't previously available - as folks who did want to spend their money on a new car suddenly find cost of living putting pressure on their budgets - so there is stock for sale, provided you aren't fussy over the exact model, style or colour) Regarding one of the cars I ordered - we'd ordered a special model, and while pre-covid, the factory would churn out a number of them every month, the dealer told us that certain components were in rare supply, so while they were churning out dozens of 'base models' every week, the upgraded models were all on hold until a 'certain number' came into the factory to make it worth them doing a retooling of the production line. From what I understand - they never slowed down, or stopped - but they did change their production schedule and focussed on volume rather than meeting the oldest orders.

Went by on the train just then, almost the entire coaster is not there at the moment, except the lift hill supports.

I want a medal. Please message me privately to discuss this further.

Want a medal? I never said all cars.

I was in park today, first time since 2019. It was not great. I get planned maintenance, and I understand unscheduled maintenance. However we had people in lines next to us complaining that for the period of their annual passes they rarely attend when there isn’t multiple headliner rides down at the same time. We also witnessed guests confronting staff at the front of rivals when they shut the queue at 4:40 ‘to ensure the staff can close the ride by 5pm’. I’m sorry but if you have three of your 4 available ‘big’ coasters out of action (planned or not) and only a 1 train service on the single remaining big coaster, then you sure as heck don’t shut the queue almost 30mins early because you want to go home before 5pm. That’s clearly a directive from management, and it’s one that says we don’t really care what the customer thinks because the customer just keep coming, but surely this is going to unravel for them one day soon right? In addition the bathrooms were filthy everywhere we went, the food insanely expensive, (almost $20 for a cold burger and a handful of cold chips that amounted to a meal as small as a cheeseburger meal from maccas), for comparison we had a large burger with decent serve of chips from dreamworld for $16 big serve and fresh. Lots of wear and tear around the park, weeds growing out of gutters and cracks in the buildings etc. I don’t know I guess I expected more. We went to dreamworld last week, almost everything was open, there was a lot of bright fresh colours everywhere and you could see plenty of investment into the park. The absolute biggest difference that stood out to me was the staff. At dreamworld they seemed very engaged and energetic, and wanting to cycle through rides efficiently, at movieworld we found them uninterested and some of the painfully slowest operations I have ever witnessed around the world. As someone who hasn’t been to the parks in many years, and who has visited many parks around the US, and Asia, it seems as though dreamworld are driving the right behaviours and expectations from their staff and delivering a far greater customer experience. Just one man’s observations 😉

It's obvious DW are being tight-arses with the roofs but it could have been as simple as removing the tiles and thatching the roofs.

The concept art presents that roofing largely the same as it was, so i'm not sure there are plans to change it - at least not this round.

All Asian architecture should have been removed with the change of lands. The East Asian hip roof does not belong in this land and the transition form rock to building makes no sense. Hopefully there is more to come to improve it.

Village parks don't have the capacity to spread that sort of load. a small group of people with an unlimited wristband can essentially marathon the park's signature attraction and grind everything to a halt.