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The problem I have is that despite the constant delays, they continue to name dates. At this stage they should just say 'Coming Soon' and call it a day, because otherwise it just seems like they're leading us on. Also fun fact: if you bought an annual pass after the announcement in 2019 and renewed it for each opening of the attractions opening dates in the hopes of riding everything once it opened then you'd be on your fourth season pass. May 2019 > May 2020 - Purchased to ride Vortex for the proposed late 2019 opening. May 2020 > May 2021 - Renewed fin hopes for the change to the late 2020 opening of Vortex with Leviathan also still proposed to open late 2020. May 2021 > May 2022 - Renewed in hopes for the new proposed June 2021 opening of Leviathan. Luckily each new delay including Summer 2021 and Easter 2022 still fall under your pass. May 2022 > May 2023 - Renewed in hopes for the new proposed date of September 2022. You would have paid either $756 or $1000 by May 2022 and have only gotten one new flat ride to show for it.

18 months ago we were still within the early days of the pandemic. things are recovering, of course. But this all ignores the fact that this project was planned prior to that, and most of their plans would have been solid prior to covid, given how soon after we saw parts arrive and work commence. Sure, the supply chain might have lengthened a bit but they're not going to the back of the queue - they were at the front when covid hit. I do not accept that this can be SOLELY attributed to global supply chain delays and raw material availability, which is how it is presented. If they made the decision to put a hold on orders while they figured things out, and then when they asked to come off hold they found out 5000 other people had leapfrogged them, then that's on them - but thats project management, not supply chain.

You can't simply say it's “shipping issues. If so, explain the following. •Steel Taipan was Built • WnW got a brand new slide complex (Slides shipped from Canada) •Movieworld got brand new ride vehicles for WWF. • Luna Park Sydney got 9 rides shipped out. I don't buy this shipping excuse at all. Sure, covid doesn't help but it's not the entire reason. Weather, yeah that won't help as well. Won't cause delays like this tho.

"in the coming weeks"

I know no matter what counter arguments I make, it will just get disregarded, so i'll just call bullshit and be the chess pigeon for once.

It’s the right colour…

You're all thinking too hard. It's gonna be called Hoop Snake.

I also doubt it's the full issue, but it is an issue that has had an impact. I think it's fair to say there are things that were out of their control, which had a flow on of them fucking up bits they did have more control of. ST and Leviathan are also totally different projects, in the same way that Rivals and Sky Voyager were different projects. At the end of the day, the wash up will be something like 'they got hit by some totally fucked shit they couldn't do anything about, and then kicked a few own goals of their own'. You can't put that on social media, nor would you expect them to. You also can't say 'A contractor fucked something up which set the whole thing back a tonne and we fucked some other shit too', so just go to the next thing that HAS made an impact on the situation, which is covid. In previous years, managing the project the way they have, they would have made it for Easter at the very latest. That being the case, you probably can just say 'Covid' and call it a day.

Got mine within three months of ordering, new build.

What about inanimate carbon rod?