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100% a new gondola system with a mid-station at the castle and then continuing to the resort!

2022 - Sep 30 (1 day before) 2019 - Sep 27 (1 day before) 2018 - Oct 3 (2 days before) And any years before this I couldn’t find anything when having a quick look through

Yeah that sounds about right for previous years. It wouldn't be hard to go back through prior year threads here to find when the sold out dates started appearing in the discussion to nail down those facts, but it does sound right that they'd have nights sold out, and be putting on extra nights by now-ish. Perhaps they have priced it up too much - or perhaps this price point is finally getting it right so that they can make a decent profit without cramming the park full - which would make it far more enjoyable for those who did cough up the dough.

SE was also down Saturday (presumably all day, when leaving around 12 it had been added to the maintenance board at park entrance). Indeed it did, even the new Starro projection has been working fairly consistently.

yeah once they started bolting lights to the track and removing the safety cowling and power bars (not to mention scrapping the monorail train), it was done. This is the part where i'd lambast Bikash for his statements when they scrapped the other train, but the reality is they may not have had a decision at that time and now they do, so benefit of the doubt. It's a shame to see it go, but if it is truly done for, then I hope that: The park makes every effort to remove the track and pylons around the park wherever possible and as soon as possible. A new, modern slow-paced, family friendly attraction is investigated and procured to take advantage of the unique and picturesque location on the spit. (I'd love a modern transport attraction, but a big wheel would be just fine. The Southern Star Wheel in Docklands Melbourne is having some financial difficulties - Imagine that giant star lit up across the spit at night! Since Flume and the castle are both done too, now would be a great opportunity to redevelop that whole mid-station precinct. Despite New Atlantis, there is a gaping (physical) hole in the park's lineup right now that needs to be addressed.

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.

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 😉