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DaptoFunlandGuy

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  1. To the park? It makes sense. To the passholder? It's annoying, but it makes sense. To the day guest? The full price gate ticket on a once in a lifetime visit to the park who is confronted with the abomination that is HWSD, Roxy and Wild West Falls as the only adult level attractions who gets told by the park's social team they should have checked the website? get fucked.
  2. You can still operate Superman while pouring if you can work within the red area. It's a temporary issue from a DDA point of view (or steps could have a temporary ramp if necessary) There are ways to ameliorate this. Vehicle access gates already existed facing the plaza, and temporary fencing can be used also. This particular point could have been worked around to keep the ride running if they had wanted to put in the effort. That's fine - if its necessary to do it, sure - but two things: How much crane work still exists? The track is built so we need a crane to put the train on, and we need a crane to lift in the theming pieces? How much of that could have been done after hours - again if they had wanted to put in the effort (and pay the night shift rates?) The point is, had it been operable, they could have run Superman for a lot of this. Even if the entrance side (green, above) needed new concrete, that takes you out for a week tops. Other fences exist to maintain the envelope even if the primary fence was taken down. They could certainly have planned lifts to occur outside of hours, or early morning with crews cleared by 10 or 11. All of it is a cost, obviously, and the cheapest option is to just shutter it until everything is done - but if that be the case they shouldn't still be charging full price while taking the cheapest option. If they want to charge full price, they should be spending to keep as many rides open as is possible. The fact you've already said they could have closed it later already proves there was a choice here - they made it, and it's caused backlash as a result. Fact.
  3. Sorry wasn't the conversation replacements for Doomsday... which is outside showstage? Another dumb idea from your brain. It's a paid experience. The park is lacking capacity for numerous reasons, and your solution is to open up TWO seats, that normally cost $30+ each, and make them free? So for the approximately 350 people that they can fit on this in a day, wahoo. and for the rest, you end up pissing people off even more because they couldn't ride it. The only way you make backwards free on DCR is if you turn the entire train around and run one each way. Two month periods is being slammed as a cash saver. maybe it is, and maybe it isn't. but both parks seem to do it, and they never used to. So it could be a cash saver or it could be the post-TRRR consequence of modern regulation and maintenance. But long term maintenance periods that occur at the same time ARE a problem. Scooby is down long term. By all accounts, unavoidable. necessary. shit happens. Doomsday is down - probably for good. it's been shit pretty much since open, unreliable so even if it were to reopen it isn't likely to stay that way. Superman - down, for maintenance but apparently also to pour some concrete and get the rest of Flash ready to go. Ok, fair enough if its necessary, but concrete surfacing in an area that is normally guest accessible during ride operation doesn't prevent SE from running. Flash's area in the helix is also going to be guest accessible when opened, so some level of work could continue whilst Superman ran too. If the ride maintenance itself is done, getting SE back online should be a priority when the park is where it is. If it means closing it again later (When less other things in park are offline) then so be it. Batwing - down, allegedly for maintenance and also apparently for Flash, though I'm not sure I understand how Batwing is impacted by Flash construction?
  4. Honestly, The Rebel at Aussie world was really well done back in its day. It impressed me and is essentially the same ride experience (i think its a bigger model than avalanche) and TBH movie world needs a couple of spinner flats that spreads out the guests rather than these big imposing ride structures. Tassie Devil was a similar model at Wonderland too, and it was always popular. I'd be happy to see it, appropriately themed, fitting into MW as one of a selection of small flats of mid-thrill level. TBH I don't know why WnW doesn't do it. The park is always dead in Winter and it'd save OpEx.
  5. So let me get this straight: Surfrider first made news around February 2007 Track was onsite around April 2007 Ride was testing around September 2007 Ride opened on 23 September 2007 Total time lapsed - 7-8 months, or six months from delivery to opening. The relocation had been in planning since August 2022 Construction began in April 2023 It is now March 2024 We're now twice the original build time We're now 18 months from when it was 'planned' The ride still doesn't have a train on track, let alone testing or theming. How incompetent are these people? Interestingly, their latest posts about Flash haven't mentioned that tagline anymore. Hopefully they've realised how stupid it was and dumped it for good. I think a lot of people on socials are getting confused about it given the proximity and the red track. I think it will be harder to confuse in-park, but certainly the marketing has people very confused when a lot of folk recognise it as surfrider - being a retheme of an existing ride, and others confusing it for superman, and assuming the retheme is a retheme of superman...
  6. TBH, I believe that tree always had speakers - though they were ground mounted in the garden. The little character stage obviously had those removed, but the audio lines were still there, so this was an easy way to bring music back without much effort. (It would have been nicer to recess them into the stage front, but it's better than nothing.) Interested to see what the new dining experience will be. Hopefully it isn't a re-skinned Rick's, and weren't they doing a refurb on the dirty harry grill recently? I do hope it isn't something rehashed or recycled and its truly a new experience. They could always reopen Stars Cafe rather than keep it shuttered.
  7. Usually. (Also, we had concept art, just not THIS art, back in July last year at least) - I think the entire series for this attraction has been a bit cobbled together. By all accounts, it was a knee jerk reaction to fill the hole left by Scooby. This is evidenced by the fact it was refurbished and repainted at WNW, reconstructed, but never reopened in that colour scheme before coming down again to switch parks. Originally planned to be operating already (wasn't it originally slated \ rumoured to be September last year?), they clearly ran into problems with Intamin, also evidenced by the fact that they built it, and then pulled it halfway down before building it back up again a week later. They've also been working on that entranceway for far too long. My guess is they built what they thought would work and someone has pointed out an issue with the design so it's stalled while they've come up with plans to fix it - perhaps its too close to the launch building for superman? The fact they've released the entrance art now could be the start of a brilliant teaser campaign (which I find unlikely) or it could just be that they've just gotten the revised art on the entrance and wanted to show it off as soon as they received it - which I find more plausible. Honestly if the art is representative of what we get, I think it's ok. The Superman S kind of dwarfs it a bit and definitely shows which superhero has the bigger.. ahem.. logo. I'm keen to see what this looks like once open, but we all know this is just the appetiser before WOZ.
  8. just looks like a bigger version of extreme speed machine with more axes. I'm sure it'll be intense AF
  9. Magician's thoughts kind of stick with mine. I can't support the argument for TI being quiet, but I can say the last 3-4 times i've been in park, we've visited the wildlife area, but not the tigers. Tiger Island is a dead end at present, and the changes to the tiger show\presentation mean there is less to see also, and while Wildlife is also a dead end, there were several reasons to visit wildlife - vintage cars (until christmas), Koala photos, train ride... I love to visit Goldie when i'm in the park and I also like to spend a few minutes at the TRRR memorial. Reasons to visit TI - Tigers.
  10. I mean, it'd been SBNO for like 2.5 years at this point with no evidence of work going on. We're planning on a Japan trip this year, and looking at the situation, my wife who is very much not an enthusiast called it wouldn't be reopening.
  11. Not to mention, didn't the whole track come down, and go back up at WNW after a repaint not long before they moved it? Then they took it down and repainted into flash colours before going up at MW? Would have thought they'd have checked \ tested the track then too, so they'd have a good idea of the current condition.
  12. Don't forget, this is a relaunch of an existing attraction. Minimum Viable Product: The Ride, Next Generation.
  13. Shazam doesn't pick anything else up, though it has mistaken 1 or 2 of the other tracks for something else which i've listened to separately and confirmed it got it wrong. TBH i'm surprised the Mark Petrie track was so easily identified.
  14. all the design team are working on WOZ so this got farmed off to the work experience kid.
  15. Is the Corin Forest toboggan still a thing?
  16. The worst of all of that is this - please tell me this isn't an electrical connection that's been taped together and just left for so long even the electrical tape has perished? As far as i'm concerned - you can't pin all this on BGH. They might be slashing budgets, but a lot of the same people are still in the same roles and these images just show a lack of attention to detail all round. the cables strung all over the place - sure they might be temporary, but there's no excuse to leave them dangling over scooby, or hung up on the awning supports over the old photo centre. FFS tech services needs to take more pride in their work in that regard. I'll give things like the ground speakers a pass because that's budgetary and if theres no budget you can't replace things that are broken - but fixes like speedy's - this cable is a joke - someone has set up a catenary to go over the ride path, presumably to charge the ever aging old batteries in Speedy's - but why? and why isn't it run through a conduit? what happened to the previously installed power? Did they dig it up to install Marvin?
  17. It's almost like you don't know Gazza at all, and even at a guess based on his travel blogs here, i'd be quite sure he's got it already.
  18. Ironically the web page still posts as 'street food festival' so they've only changed the words on the page, not the page title. And yep - all the offerings are from in-house venues, no externals are coming in for this one. Might as well have emailed everyone and said "come to the park to buy food from the same places you always have! There's nothing new to see here!"
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