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  1. Just not sure what the drawcard is without rides? What should motivate me to go here to eat food when I could visit say Eat Street or Miami Marketta?
    3 points
  2. Is it the train they are waiting on? In the Parkz update last year they had photos of the train?
    2 points
  3. I dunno, if it was me I’d have my star 30million budget black hole attraction open for something like this to drive gate. Surely it’s draw hasn’t fallen off already. Or does some foot carts create more spend than their latest attraction? Seems off to me. One statement said they’d are about innovation. But the same food stall concept of your local market or shopping centre doesn’t speak that to me. Integrating it with a stellar attraction offering would be more innovative right?
    2 points
  4. Nobody is paying $99.00 to enter a park, to but a taco for $15.00 when they can buy a taco down the road for $7.00 without something else pulling them into the park.
    1 point
  5. It's a good looking train, to be sure. Will definitely give Steel Taipan a run for its money in that regard. Here's hoping they install some good lighting for the ride - would be cool to see that train sparkle at night.
    1 point
  6. Yeah I'm confused by this too. Looking specifically at the extended trade evenings - it's only two nights from a two week school holiday period, so you'd firstly assume that they're not doing these two nights on to drive gate, right? Otherwise you'd be doing as many nights as possible, opening the rides and making it a big thing. In which case, if it's not driving gate, it's attempting to capture additional F&B revenue from in-park guests. But they've already been in park the whole day and probably tried the things they wanted to try, so why would they want to stay in the park if they've done the attractions/experiences they've wanted to do and they've already tried the food? Realistically then, are they trying to market to local passholders to go out of their way to come in for those two nights? And if so, why would passholders make that trip if the rides are closed? I'd say that the novelty and really the load-bearing assumption of why this would be successful is precisely because it's in a functioning theme park. If you take the functioning element away (which also subtracts wildly from the atmosphere and in turn, the experience as a whole), I think you lose the reason why passholders would go out of their to make the trip for those two nights. At which point, I have to wonder - who are the two nights for? Interstate tourists staying at the Coomera Motor Inn who don't want to walk to Coomera Westfield for dinner? Critical thought regarding the two nights aside - the creative is nice and fresh and I can't argue I'd be doing much different if I was in Ardent's C-Suite from the goal mindset of "creating a value-add for each holiday period to get passholders in the door."
    1 point
  7. I don't know what exactly they're waiting on - But since we haven't seen it yet, I'll assume the coaster train is at least one of those things. (Because let's be real, if you're waiting on "themed elements" or other non-essential things you're probably going to resign yourself to pushing ahead without it and maybe adding it later - or operating it as 'technical rehearsal' until everything arrives) If I had my order in for an opening in December 2020 (so assume original plan was for testing September 2020 latest), and I still didn't have my coaster train.... I wouldn't be waiting for the shipping company to tell me the bad news i'd be tearing every person involved a new asshole as to why my brand new multi million dollar attraction still didn't have a train 18 months on. If the suggestion is Village are just sitting by the phone waiting to be fed a scrap of progress from the supplier, then their project management is probably doing about as well as their communication.
    1 point
  8. It’s a shame there won’t be rides at the night eats, but I hope they’ll have some street entertainment/singers and maybe even some fireworks I think it’s good they’ve now got an event for every school holidays and providing they mix things up a little at each event or offer something new/different each year then it should have a positive impact on the park for the next few years
    1 point
  9. It’s a street food festival for the Easter holidays
    1 point
  10. Not your fault, but you still have to communicate these things with your clients and manage expectations. If I was your client and you told me when you found that out that there was a shipping delay and kept me in the loop then I wouldn't have an issue because it empowers me as a customer and shows that you care about my business. Though if you gave me a deadline after deadline and once they got near you just said "Yeah there has been a delay and it's beyond our control" then I'd be rightfully upset because it's withdrawn information that could help me make a decision to take my business elsewhere or whatever. Nobody is upset that the project is delayed. People are upset that the business has made consistent deadlines and then backtracked off them whilst acting like we should have never had an expectation to begin with. Underpromise and overdeliver. Its a lot easier to lose consumer trust then it is to earn it.
    1 point
  11. A babushka of red shipping containers. Inside the smallest one is a little store where you can buy small plastic red shipping containers.
    1 point
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  13. Soooo, pretty much what I said in regards to communication being less than stellar and the delays being BS are not the same thing. But also (and not saying this IS or ISNT the case here) you can only pass on what info you have. Both manufacturers and shipping companies have a habit of being less than forthcoming with delays on a premise of ‘not delivering bad news’.
    0 points
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