DaptoFunlandGuy

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Except, of course, as we all know, the decision to switch doomsday to neutered B-mode was entirely and exclusively due to guest feedback. /s

i've been 3 times - only when there's been a new show i've been interested in. The earlier shows were better than the later ones, IMO. When you design an arena to suit a specific show and storyline, and then you change the show, elements of the old show remain - like the homestead and the helicopter. The same thing happened with HWSD - the little italian streets are now apparently just a city street for some bogans in utes. I'd love to see them completely redesign the show from the ground up rather than finding new ways to use the same house, helicopter, quad bike jump, etc.

Nobody is disputing that. What's your point?

Correct me if i'm wrong, but Universal didn't do a deal with Warner Bros - the deal was between Universal and JKR. While theoretically possible - the standards required for Wizarding World related attractions would be out of MWs budget. I love the idea, but the world of HB simply lacks relevance. I'm pretty sure the last Flintstones movie was 2000. The Jetsons was 1990. The only HB IP that have any level of recency is Scooby Doo, Smurfs and Tom and Jerry. And the park has 2 out of 3. Not sure they'd get the modern take on Smurfs as that's a Sony\Columbia production, and i'm not sure the cartoons would hold up today against that modern look.

Like that would ever stop them. Like any external group, they'd have a contract. the contract could be up.

I'm pretty sure the DCR painting got postponed last year because Superman shit the bed and they wanted DCR back online to fill the hole. So the locker upgrades got put on hold. This doesn't mean they've abandoned the idea... (although it doesn't mean they haven't either - if the money allocated for it in last year's budget got spent elsewhere, and they didn't allocate funds for this year, then it's stalled indefinitely.

The current stable arrangements are untenable, and unsafe. I've had animals in these facilities and the upgrades are overdue. Moving animals into the arena via the current vomatorium is alsodangerous as it is a major thoroughfare for crowds moving from gregory terrace to access the train, the parking station and the precinct on the north side of the arena. The multi-storey stables are part of the arena upgrade to machinery hill, which means arena animals can be kept within the arena envelope and not have to shut down accessways \ block patrons in the middle of the event. While we're on the topic of arena upgrades - the current disability access is fucking woeful - something that has long been fobbed off on the basis of legacy or historic excuses, while the RNA sold off parcels of land for development without bringing its main facilities up to modern standards. These changes are also well overdue and about fucking time. Look, I personally like the idea of building a new purpose built venue like they did in Sydney. The main issue with that is that many of the facilities the RNA has here are heritage listed - so even if you move RNA to a new home, you can't do much with the heritage buildings that remain. QGOV has committed to keeping the Ekka here and they've committed to upgrading it, so its a done deal. They're going to make more efficient use of the north eastern facilities around the arena, which allows them to condense some older facilities that are no longer suitable and turn those old facilities into housing, which - in case anyone hasn't been paying attention - is sorely needed across the country. It's not the outcome I would have preferred, but it all makes sense.

I think what you meant to say is that they’ll shoot themselves in the foot if they take the Village Roadshow approach

Now you've gone and done it.

The RNA did this to their own grounds. The Ekka deserves its fate.

Not necessarily. This isn't a refurb. this is an entirely new ride. There's no guarantees it commences testing and they have problems. I'd suggest until Mack hands over to the park they're staying quiet. Once it's handed over, they'll start shouting it loudly - and in the meantime it can have a few weeks of technical rehearsals prior to an official opening to train staff without setting guest expectations too high. At least I hope that's what they do and not have a grand opening on boxing day with minimal staff trained and a line going back to WWF...

Yes, because it's what the camera sees. It doesn't see the studio lighting, and the scaffold holding up the house set (and all the other sets) and the overhead catwalks and rigging (or the mass of cameras, booms, dollies and other filming equipment behind the camera either). The original film set had the benefit of: being 100% indoors not needing to meet practically ANY level of fire safety not needing to adhere to any WH&S requirements. Naturally the park isn't going to be able to recreate an all-weather, all-season, immersive recreation of the original sets. For one - there's too many vandals masquerading as guests who would destroy it inside a week. But it's certainly enough detail to show what they were going for. In a real movie set environment, this would be the facade set up, and then set dressers would come in with all the foliage and flowers and little touches that complete the look. It's like visiting a backlot that isn't currently being used for a production. By all accounts though there is one thing MW was able to get right about the original film sets of WOZ:

Perhaps not but it sure resembles one

They've used that exact phrase since at least February 2023 on the MW website and backed up by this very thread in the same month here:

I mean - there's plenty of solid green walls in film making (but I do know what you mean) But 100% agree with you on the shade...

I couldn't care less.

I mean, I don't like that jarring aspect that comes with leaving these sorts of things untouched, but i've said multiple times in the past that if you're a 'movie studio' park you get a pass on sight lines as the idea is it's only what the camera can see. There's plenty of lights, rigging, booms and other film making devices just outside the lens.

If you had a memory longer than a goldfish you'd have scrolled up. Don't put words in my mouth to start another circular argument.

this isn't the smoking gun you think it is.

I haven't seen WOZ in person, but from what i've seen, the only way to the maze precinct through Woz would be to go via the ride queue pathways? If the rides are closed for the event, either the whole land is, or the rides are closed so that they can use the ride queues for getting guests to the mazes. Not sure how the internal areas of the WOZ queues will stand up to night time fright night shenanigans... so I'm hoping they don't use it.

Looks more like something is definitely down. Anyhow - this doesn't point to anything sinister - regular maintenance on the launch system can include de-tensioning the cables.

Road design is a factor though - SEQ has a lot of hairpin onramps that can't be taken at speed. Additionally, even with long straight onramps, the speed limit sign is at the end of it, so most drivers don't accelerate to highway speeds to merge easily, and end up either stopping at the end of the ramp, blocking the onramp flow, or merge onto the highway at 60-80, stacking up the left hand lane. That said I find a lot of drivers can't merge even when the conditions are favourable, and many people can't roundabout either. They need to teach roundabouts and zipper merging in school.

There is some analysis out there that traffic isn't made better by adding more lanes - the more lanes you have the more traffic you get was the outcome if I recall. Offering an alternate route is definitely a must - one thing shuts down the highway and there's very little alternative - but i'll take 4 new lanes in a connector over no new connector at all...

I thought C4C was just the QLD container scheme. Though funding SWF makes sense. DW would likely use DWF if they established similar, I assume.