DaptoFunlandGuy

So when did you make the trip to the manufacturing plant? How are you so certain that painting wasn't done at that time? It's not like repainting superman escape in situ. You're dealing with bare steel that has also been welded. There would be several coats of paint to go on, and each would need curing. Additionally, there are hundreds of pieces that required painting - both supports and track. They don't just line every single piece up and then hit them all at once with a giant spray gun. Each piece needs to be maneuvered into a spray booth for each coat. Take a look at the time it takes them to move a single piece from the carpark to the coaster site. Now multiply that by the number of pieces, and multiply again by (probably) base coat \ rust protectant, and then likely two topcoats at the very least. Shipping from Germany is approximately 43 days, give or take. This would suggest, based on when parts first arrived, that they would have departed Germany sometime in February. Many construction trades shutdown for a month around Christmas both in northern and southern hemispheres. Now this is all assumption talking out of my ass, but i'm "pretty sure" Germany probably did too - and not to mention, that it was Winter over there - a time when paint drying \ curing in cold weather takes longer than when its out in the hot tropical sun. So, given we've got about 3 months between the incident and shipping, and we probably lost about a month with holiday periods and festive seasons, and the cold weather prolonging drying times - I would suggest that IF painting hadn't commenced at the time of the dreamworld incident, it would have commenced VERY SOON AFTER. On reflection though, i'll just take your post the same way you intended your Pirates of the Caribbean post, and just chalk this up as another one of your stupid, very unfunny jokes. ahhhhh.... that feels better.

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It does. Hard cards require special machinery to print. The 'laminated' cards are a specialised sheet of paper that can be run through a standard laser printer.

RCDB rounds to 1 decimal place - i've never seen a metric conversion to feet listed at more than a single decimal. This is definitely photoshopped, most likely by the original poster.

They've dismantled, not demolished, so i'd say Mammoth has another life yet to live - and I assume it will probably go to one of the smaller lesser known parks. There are far easier places to store parts to ship out than the middle of the sea world car park. I'm going to be quietly optimistic that Sea World has sprung a new ride on us whilst we were all focused on MW. time will tell i guess. Nothing appears in PD online for either of the Sea World lots since the BA for the alterations to the stage seating was processed in feb\march...

Sounds like they had a big crowd and were looking to try and get people through the gate as quickly as possible. Although a greeting would be nice, I wouldn't consider it rude if they were otherwise occupied. I go into the park for an experience. To be honest, when i'm at the gate I just want to get inside and am not going to let a lack of conversation with the gate staff ruin my day. I'd be pissed off if the gate staff were having a chat with every guest entering the park. Especially if i was in the queue behind them and getting impatient at the time it was taking to get in. Eye contact \ smile would be nice, but not if they're trying to do their job as well as instruct another person to do theirs in order to speed up the efficiency of the queue process. Quoted for truth. See previous quote. They're not going out of their way to ignore and be rude to you (although maybe they recognise you as Pushbutton? Just a thought), they're just obviously mad busy, and trying to be as efficient as possible, based on your description. I'm not one to stand for bad customer service, but there's a difference between someone who is dealing with peak loads, and trying to be as efficient as possible, and someone who is outright not living up to the corporate expectations for customer service and either deliberately not doing their job, or lazily disinterested in doing their job. The sort of behaviour you want out of these staff needs to be natural, not forced. If you knock them over the head, you'll get a bunch of robots - no warmth, no sincerity, the proverbial flight attendant at the end of the flight. You end up with this fakeness, where they don't care, and only do it because they're REQUIRED to, because someone complained:

Love everything you said @Slick - but i wanted to add to this point - charging for sauce seems trivial, and it is, but we are in a culture where people insist on 'single serve' portions - so they need a tub \ packet of sauce. Buying individually packaged sauces and other condiments is costly. Disney does (or at least did the last time i was there) have sauce \ condiment stations. Add your own sauces and add as much as you like. I think they did away with the liquid cheese sauces at some places a while back because it was too hot and caused injuries - but pump pack sauce isn't expensive in comparison to the individually packaged versions (although it does require custodial attention, this can be done on normal rounds) it just needs people to get over their germophobia etc etc. To do this, you also need some ability to check who is entitled to ride \ and\or take tickets at the entrance. this either slows your operations or increases your labour costs. it might be achieveable in foreign markets, but it definitely wouldn't suit the Australian wage point.

Since the fencing around GL is matched with the new coaster, i'd like to see them make that the 'official' boundary - meaning the internal wall that used to be the external boundary is no longer needed - knock it out, build a big deck over the canal and create a nice new relaxing space near the front of the park. it's never going to happen but it'd be nice.

But those marks are inside the queue line for Green Lantern? if that was it, it would need to go over the top of the current GL queue...

Market forces require it. When you competitor offers something akin to your offering at a certain price point, you either have to be FAR BETTER than they are (which they aren't) or you have to match the price to attract patronage. Even worse - in the current situation dreamworld is in, it looks better to have a full park at rock bottom prices, than to have an empty park. If the price is too high, and it keeps people away, it reinforces the view to others that the park isn't safe (see previous GCB fluff on empty park) and that people are avoiding it. If Ardent \ Main Event do hold onto this long term, they can bring the prices up gradually once the memory of the incident has faded.

Old news. Still in the pipeline but a long way off reality

So i've given up trying to change and update the predicted dates I have on my fridge. it currently looks like this:

I guess it depends on where you draw the line as to what 'sydney' is. Redcliffe is to 'brisbane' what Prospect is to 'sydney' in my opinion - in terms of distance (not anything else). So a mega bump... please don't let this conversation rehash into disney possibles... I don't see a full scale disney park here for at least 20 years, if not more.

This would be the first year you've visited where Tiger Island (and not the little cafe\bar area) actually had 'show' seating.

perhaps when the lift hill goes up behind it it will make for an impressive backdrop. I give it 6 months before someone manages to steal at least one of those.

Obviously that particular license agreement pre dates Hollywood and Japan. I'm open to someone supplying a current copy of the document since they've now licensed it in three different areas. As for the london attraction, this isn't proof that Universal doesn't have exclusivity - the terms specifically allow Time Warner to Leavesden was the site of most of the filming for the series, and hosts many film sets. Regardless of geography, I'd say they could easily do that without needing to define territory, but you have made your point and I stand corrected - at least until the current agreement surfaces.

So you want the VRS to build a facility large enough to replace all the current Studio 1 & 2 functions, elsewhere, so that the park can use them for a month per year, so that the purpose built facilities THE PARK BUILT FOR THE SAME REASONS can be used for something else? I disagree in terms of the 'cost a lot of money' part - set up costs are the big issue here, and showstage has much of what is needed already. Wonderland hosted an amazing illusion show in a vinyl tent, operated by 6 performers, 1 technician, and 1-2 backstage support staff. Operating costs are a fraction of those for a ride (which can be upwards of $1000 an hour - which is more like your wage cost for the day) - plus ushers. Other than the core stage performers, the rest of your show crew don't add to your costs, because most of your ushers, stage techs etc are already on shift for the day due to HWSD, Parade etc. i'll be happy with anything, so long as you stop suggesting WestWorld... firstly because I had to google it to even know what you were talking about, and secondly - because im sure you aren't suggesting they theme an attraction to the 1973 film, this tells me that you are suggesting a theme based on a series that only aired a little over 6 months ago. How about we give it a few seasons to ensure the writers can keep things fresh before we plow good real estate and good money after an attraction that hasn't proven itself beyond its first 10 episode season - especially when series 2 won't air for another 9+ months..

they're running high speed internet to the go karts...

You're right about one thing - Time Warner does OWN the theme park rights. I misspoke. But unfortunately, here is where you're wrong - Time Warner have granted those rights to and Universal holds the EXCLUSIVE LICENSE for theme parks and all related attractions. Although WBMW did have a HP experience attraction for a couple of years (2001-2003), this was before the license agreement with Universal was made, which was announced publicly in 2007. Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1262449/000119312507178559/dex1041.htm \To wit: So... pretty much ANYTHING inside a theme park, et al: The current license term runs until July 2019, with two five year options, provided the park doesn't default - which they're unlikely to do for the same reason Orlando will retain its license to use the Marvel characters exclusively on the east coast. So Time Warner can't just decide to allow another park to use the HP license. Universal and Time Warner agreed to exclusive use by Universal, and the only way they'll release the exclusivity is if they choose not to renew the option (which would suggest the theme is losing its popularity anyway), or if their standards drop below the expectations outlined in the contract (and if Dreamworld can maintain the Dreamworks standards, the chances of Universal defaulting on HP is highly unlikely). Given Hollywood was announced in 2011, with Japan announced in 2012, the HP juggernaut at Universal is unlikely to end anytime soon.

I wouldn't say NEVER @Brad2912 - if the studios \ VRL \ MW know that their regular stages are clear for the period necessary to host a maze, it might give them an opportunity to do an 'extra' every now and again. The only point that needs to be made is that you can't rely on them to be available, and therefore you can't take the in-house facilities already designed for the purpose and use them for something else, or else you are back to square one. Better to build a NEW purpose built facility for whatever ride, show or attraction you want to make. Personally i'd like to see them revive the showstage with something before we start building new stuff out the back end.

Ok - what would YOU call that?

Mate - I know you're new here, so i'm going to be really really nice. You're a fucking muppet. @Levithian has already said they CANNOT USE THE STUDIOS FOR FRIGHT NIGHTS. This is WHY they built the sheds out near west. Muppet. Muppet. Muppet. Below is the west burgers building. You aren't worth my time with measurements and such, so i've included intencity for scale - as you can see, almost the entire building (if you exclude the skill games area at the top) will fit within the dodgem cars arena. Hardly 'quite large'. Seriously - just shut the fuck up.

It's been explained before. open an internet browser click in the address bar type "www.google.com.au" reading the article title words in the media link - type those into the search box. In this case "ardent-leisure-ceo-deborah-thomas-to-be-replaced-by-simon-kelly" (without the hyphens) Click 'search' Scroll through the results until you find the media outlet originally posted (in this case the Autralian), or - you know - feel free to read the same article from many other news outlets that don't have a paywall. Now you know how to do it, the first one has been done for you: http://bfy.tw/BR7T

*sigh* I liked it better when Push was sulking and not posting much. I thought Joz was quite restrained, and to be honest Push, you got off lightly. Go back to your hole.