DaptoFunlandGuy

You could paint them, but you'd turn it into a black hole style slide and end up blocking most of the light inside the slide. It looks like a survey marker on one of the support poles, which I can't imagine you'd need for demolition. This thread is 9 months old and hasn't had updates in a while (personally i'd thought they had already removed the slides but I don't visit the park often) - i'd say the reason they've started removal now is probably because their next attraction will go in this space and this is the timeline needed to open the new one. I'll be very keen to see what they replace it with. Hopefully better than the jetstream replacements.

I don't bother with the show anymore. At this point it feels like an abandoned show set from a long ago time, and a bunch of kids have discovered it while exploring the ruins, and invented their own show in their imagination. The fact that it still looks straight out of a quaint italian town is jarring against the 'city vs country' utes, and it's the same trope rolled out at every capital city royal show by the Showtime team. The park continues to sacrifice their quality entertainment offerings for cheap and lazy solutions.

Depending on how much you want to do, you can reasonably tick off the major points in both Kyoto and Nara in a day. We managed to do the Arashiyama bamboo forest, Tenryu-Ji Temple and flower garden, Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine (Thousand Torii Gates), and then detoured to Nara to visit the Deer Park all in the same day. While in Osaka, we enjoyed the Tempozan Aquarium and Wheel. Universal's express pass was essential. Staying on property at universal also means you get the inside scoop on what time the park will open the next day (the park has publicly advertised opening times, however gates open well in advance of those times and the hotels generally know what time it is planned to be, and if you haven't paid the premium prices to guarantee entry to Nintendo you'll need to be first in the park to guarantee you get yourself a timeslot. I'd encourage a visit to Hiroshima Peace Park. Miyajima was also on our list for a day-trip but other events changed our plans and we didn't get to go.

Or unless you planned it that way to make a timeline set by the project overall... :Gasp: Village would never! And neither do you, we're all just speculating here. Nobody is going to front up and say they're working on the project so the best we've got is guesses - some will be optimistic, some won't. If the ride opens on boxing day then IDGAF. At least, the night works show they're pushing to try and hit the deadline, instead of changing the date on their billboards six times.

Night testing isn't that unusual. But its also very smart, that way you can isolate the envelope during testing and have it open for continued theme work during the day.

funds and tickets do not expire provided you swipe a game, or reload once every 12 months

he really enjoys being inside his own echo chamber.

Just to repeat my original post - friends of mine received renewal offers despite having already renewed. Can confirm a friend of mine who isn't local also got a locals renewal offer.

Awww mate, she's just trying not to hurt your ego.

to be fair I saw recently Dreamworld had put out renewal emails recently too, and friends of mine received completely different pricing offers - including some who had already renewed. Sounds like both mailouts are broad targeted to the entire mailing list rather than targeted renewals, so they're both just as incompetent as the other. ...or they've just mail-blasted their member lists to get a message of urgency out quickly and are prepared to cop the flack from messaging people who aren't eligible. I get multiple messages because I renewed some passes, and bought new passes other years, so I reckon i've probably got more than one "member number" in the system so even if I have a 'current' pass they're probably still showing one of my membership numbers as 'expired and eligible'.

Yeah, what is going on with the village marketing team? sounds pretty incompetent...

I don't see one either. Either they know something from the inside they're not explaining, or... actually I have no idea what the motivation could be.

I'm ok with first aid given the on-site needs for the park, but they should not be taking up more on-stage real estate for back of house space \ offices. such bullshit. i noticed this earlier but didn't think too hard on it. The 48 hour expiry on tokens is a bit shithouse. While holiday makers are likely to visit and use up all their tokens in one visit, having a longer expiry might encourage more regular visitors to spend bigger on their packages, knowing if they don't use it all they can come back another time to finish it off. Saving up tickets earned for bigger prizes is also a motivator. It's a huge part of the timezone formula to encourage more play - seems a really boneheaded move not to keep cards alive - even for say, 6 months - or 6 months since last play, or something like that.

the one thing that sticks in my mind is that the intencity building is right next to the parade entry, which essentially means big vehicles (like fire trucks and ambulances) would enter the park there. The old first aid building was landlocked. there's no way to get a patient out of the park without wheeling them back through guests, or admitting an ambulance into the park. Neither of these are a good idea, so it kinda makes sense to put first aid there. The rest of the building could still have stayed an arcade. Probably doesn't get the foot traffic that main street \ wb kids does though...

Prize and ticket games are programmable. there's rarely luck involved. each machine is cailbrated to pay out a certain amount of prize or ticket based on how many plays, or how much it costs to play. the value of what you win will always be covered by the cost to play. No story games kind of makes sense - you can typically play these in any arcade. Having prizes that are 'exclusive' to the park means the experience (even if its the same type of game you see on Cavill) is something you can only get in the park.

Presumably when you're standing in the arcade, that will be a bit more obvious - but anyone familiar with Timezones in the past decade would understand the card readers are different colours - usually games that have actual prizes in them (like claw machines) will be a different colour to games that spit out "tickets" and again different to those that are just an experience like racing car games. When selling an 'unlimited' package, you don't really want people to be able to play the shit out of your claw machines which are typically geared to pay out every X number of plays, so those packages only include a limited number of plays, so you can't essentially 'brute force' a prize by playing it non stop without actually covering the cost of the prize inside. yeah see I think this is the option many parents would opt for with multiple kids. Drop $50, give 4 kids a card each and off they go, thinking "shit, 36 tokens should keep them busy for a while" only to have them back inside of 5 minutes with all their money gone. I think there's going to be a lot of pissed off parents when they find out those 36 tokens only bought 3 games. Yes, for the price you'd expect somewhere around 4-5 games for that price, and it is a theme park so its not ludicrous for the price to be bumped a little - I just think the '12 credits per game' price is a bit misleading. The $35 bugs bundle seems like it'd be a good middle ground, and 120 tokens sounds like the kids will run off some steam - then you figure out its only 10 plays and you feel a little ripped off. The psychology is understandable - it'd be a bit crap to advertise "3 games for $12!" but at least it's honest. I feel like for many people this will leave a bitter taste in the mouths of families. What was wrong with the arcade building they already had? /s

Just got a text advertising fright night tickets selling out for this weekend. Just checked online and you can still buy GA tickets for all 5 remaining dates It blows my mind that only a few years ago we used to pay that price for an annual pass with fright nights (and other events) included. I can't imagine buying a season pass either - imagine logging on and buying a season pass for $499 today - which is actually more expensive than buying 5 individual tickets to the remaining 5 events! I'm a little late to the upgrade options, but just having a look and the fast track add-on for mazes (+$130) and the maze+rides fast track (+$190) are still available too. The only other upgrades are food or midway games, so no premium experience offered either. By all accounts the event has still been well received by the punters, and it sounds like a good experience for most folk who went there - but I really hope they're seeing this "we didn't sell out" metric and realising their missteps...

It would be mildly amusing if, after all these years of Village planning 'some sort of hotel' at Oxenford, if Dreamworld did beat them to the punch. (I still say they still should have built the animal kingdom style resort on top of the mountain overlooking WNW and AOS instead of plonking a glass box in the flooded carpark) Technically Paradise Country takes the Northern Gold Coast Theme Park crown of being first with short-term accommodation though...?

Why do we have WOZ alongside Doomsday and HWSD? You're off your rocker. Nah you can't use Disney as an example to him. He's just gonna play pigeon chess with you - and he's the pigeon.

Oh I read where they said 52 metres. I also read where they said April 2020.

the thing is they're still in the rebuilding phase and their night events are primarily geared towards convincing people to come back to a safe, friendly local park. but they're clearly working on tight budgets and projects with set allocations are much easier to plus with a figure to spend in mind than an event budget that you're obligated to hold because you sold it as part of your annual pass offering. (now where have I heard that before?)

Yeah i'm not gonna pull out a ruler on their concept art - we know the concepts and models utilised a lot of artistic licence... Otherwise Trident would have fountains and there'd be a giant rock wall waterfall around the front of the coaster...

I'm not sure they need to advertise, given they frequently hit capacity during the season... https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1cGnVggUvfPKoZew/

If I remember correctly, they were originally in talks to purchase a permanent model from Funtime. somewhere along the way they switched to SBF Visa. I have no information as to why they did that but if I had to guess, i'd assume it was price.

Definitely potential when they have a functioning train line again. the shuttle service probably doesn't work very well... You have a really funny way of showing that.