DaptoFunlandGuy

For those who don't want to follow dubious links, it's the Zip line that runs through Fremont St in Las Vegas. You gotta have a lot of length for these to be good. They're shit capacity, so it'd be an upcharge too. Yay for 12PPH! I don't remember what Eureka's capacity was, but it was a damn sight better than this... You should work for VRTP - you'd be the perfect person to replace high capacity classic attractions with low capacity attractions!

With JL - From memory - they will send cars through empty when the ride is stacking - if it takes too long for a car to load and launch, cars start backing up in the final scenes. Eventually, cars stop mid-ride, and it ruins the experience for everyone. Sending a car through empty helps them catch up (so sending several through catches up a lot) and it also saves time when they come back around and unload too. It might seem like a waste to do that but in reality it makes everyone's experience on the ride better. Pretty sure Scooby is run the same way too. It's funny you know - I was searching through old threads... REALLY old threads (2004) and I found a TR that I wrote when I came up to the GC on holiday during the September school holidays. I complained about capacity at Dreamworld (among other things) and had nothing but praise for the VRTP parks. Back in those days, MW still had the studio tour, PASS, Matrix walk through and blazing saddles. No Green Lantern, no Batwing, No Justice League (we still had Batman Adventure), no Intencity, no HWSD, and we still had River Ride. All of the things the park has since lost are all of their sponges, and the new additions have been spectacular, but poor capacity. Batman Adventure would effectively clear the queue when they took guests into pre-show in the library. Although it was PRE-preshow, you didn't feel like you were waiting - you felt like the adventure had already begun. They could do this in roughly the simulator time (which I think was about 4 minutes) so you could almost guarantee you were on that ride in about 12-16 minutes. LTRR is pretty much the same story - the pre-show could run on an endless loop taking almost the entire queueline in one hit, with a similar load-cycle-exit time. These rides really couldn't be fucked up operations wise - they were constantly cycling. Rides with a load-start-stop-unload-wait cycle (like most of the new ones we have today) are the problem. (Yes operations is poor too - but they both contribute) It is rides like these that the park is missing. Not dark rides, or kids rides, or simulator rides - just sponges. any ride that is capable of admitting a large group at once, and getting through those people quickly, but still keeping them occupied the entire time. FInally - and this is especially important in summer - they need rides that are air-conditioned. In peak summertime periods, the best thing in the world was riding LTRR, as it was dark, cool, and you would get wet. WWF was not the same - as to get wet, you had to endure several outdoor flume sections in the sun. Not a bad idea Skeet - but even indoors, or in air conditioning, non-face (costumed) characters don't last long. I've worn several incarnations of the Shrek suit, and worked as a photographer with the original Shrek costumes. Those costumes are odd - the keep the heat in, the cold doesn't get in - but the outside heat does. You'd have to have meet and greets in a cold room for it to make any difference to the costumed character. When we used to do Shrek shoots at Wonderland - Farquaard and Shrek did 20 minute stints every hour. Donkey would come out last, and donkey had no minimum limit - as soon as the performer had had enough, they would get up and leave, even if it was in the middle of a photo. WH&S is very important for characters in costume. Face characters on the other hand - Marilyn, Austin, Shaggy etc - they should be able to do longer stints... I would suggest somewhere along the way some braniac decided that all characters should have the same time limit. If an appearance room is necessary - they have plenty of shopfronts they could use. Actors could cycle in and out, and be replaced by someone in the same costume every 20 minutes - just as they do in WDW... or - use showstage. Its wasted as it is at the moment - has dressing rooms backstage, plenty of queue area and seating... perfect!

#ShameVRTP DnM at WNWGC was an institution, and they took it away - god knows why as I always found it to be great... ...and then they bring it into WNWS? Shows how much they care about the locals who made their theme park stable what it is today... (but then again, they don't really show much care for the Sydney folk either...)

Don't knock the 64k RAM...

I must admit it's not an original idea - and it has been done before... Gooooooooooooooooogle

Universal Singapore also offers advance purchase of fast pass. not sure what the T&Cs are - I imagine they're non-refundable. If you pay for a friend on the understanding they'll pay you back, and then they don't show, i'd suggest your friend should still pay you back...

Interesting name choice. Gold Coast Bulletin would have a field day with that.

As someone already mentioned, this might just be a test to see whether people would be willing to pay additional admission for a separate ticketed event - like FN or WC - with the view to reinstating them as a separate event on a regular basis. Its a kids movie, so clearly its targeting the families who live or are staying on the GC as a different form of nighttime entertainment. I'd have liked to have seen them trial this in november or december pre-christmas, with a view to running all summer if it proved popular... Personally i'd jump at the chance for some more classic adult films (get your minds out of the gutter) as well - like Jaws... but the rest of the park should operate slides - or at least the parts of the park it is safe to open (I know some slides didn't run at night when they previously had movies...)

Saturn?

for a fraction of a second? that isn't 'catching fire' thats being scorched by the source of the flame. thats head damage. the fire never caught... but now we're onto semantics. I don't agree a light fixture 'caught fire'. I accept it is plausible a flame was in too close a proximity to a component and caused it to melt \ deform. I don't see a fixture catching fire.

^Was that PC on PC or PC on PS4 or PS4 on Xbox 3PC or Lynx on Game Gear?

There's merit in the idea - but as to why else would they move it? if they're run off gas canister as most are (as opposed to gas lines to a central feed) - perhaps some safety officer had an issue with crew replacing canisters that had to be loaded from the front, and rather than get heights \ harness qualified techs to do that every day, they decided to move it backwards so it could be loaded without it? Plausible? Yes. Plausible a pyro effect mis-fired causing heat damage to part of a fixture? Yes. Plausible a light "caught fire" for "a fraction of a second and self extinguished" ? No.

i have a good reply to that, but first i'm going to watch the video.

Actually, it's a green dye, to make it look green, not brown. I'm nowhere near 100% on this, but isn't the Murrisippi connected to Oakey Ck? And if so - then it probably can't be a bit less brown than that as it is the natural water colour.

Sounds like a cool extra. Mate - please try and proof read. I assume it's auto-correct getting involved, but I don't think rides can beg (but they probably can begin), and I don't believe you were ever the HWS. (Although I'm sure this story occurred when you were AT the HWS)... also - can we be consistent with Acronyms? Are we talking "HollyWoodStunt" or "HotWheelsSide" ?

Yes, they're going to allow free entry on the SkyCoaster to the thousand or more people who pay $15 to see this movie... [/sarcasm]

RCT. Brand loyalty.

Actually - this board has quite a history of people wasting their time arguing about shit that isn't true. #FireEyes #CantileveredRoofVentsSmoke. People get called out (*and caught) for bullshit posts all the time... In your original post - you said a light was set on fire. You subsequently said it was the protective housing. Now you're saying its the rain shield. I'll accept thats what you meant all along, but you have to understand you caused some confusion there. Now, i've watched the video you posted frame by frame. What I see, after the flame out is a flicker that is substantially further than the flames reached, and if you watch closely, that same flicker is visible BEFORE the pyro is fired. Chances are the 'flicker' on the video is simply the lamp visible through a vent, and it comes and goes as the head rotates. I'm not in a position to post screenshots of the vid, marked up with what i'm saying - so maybe we're just talking about a different flicker? Who knows. When I get home i'll fire up the video and do a closer analysis... but until then, I'm still not sold, and as I said - until I see pictures in situ, I don't believe it has occurred quite how you say. Doesn't mean you're wrong, just means I don't believe it. No reason to get butthurt just because someone you don't know doesn't believe what you post on the internet.

From VRTP mailing list: So what are we saying here... the park has all that technology sitting there 364 days a year wasting away doing nothing? or are we saying the park has at great expense brought in all new equipment just for one night? Obviously a separate admission event, like FN or WC but for WnW... but no mention of whether slides are open (although for $15 I assume not) - it'd be nice if they were a bit more detailed in their promotion.... And are we really making a big noise about a film that came out almost 2 years ago? Come on village....

What did you want? Swimming pool blue? It's the same colour as Oakey Creek...

I'd love to see them do a complete overhaul of WWF and restore some of it's classic effects to their former glory - as well as re-doing the ghost town, and perhaps installing some new effects... but sadly we've seen WWF go down for many refurbs that we expected would be long enough to really give it a good go, and they've always disappointed - with at best a re-dressing of the tired and worn out sections. I think it's safe to say they will never return fire effects to the mountain - there is just too much at risk, and there are much safer ways of achieving similar effects - just without sparks. I'd like to think Superman's downtime is to allow for construction, but I don't see that Superman would really impact on anywhere else, unless the doomsday plan goes into effect - but i'd like to think that with the time superman is down - they will paint it in something a little more UV resistant.

My BBQ does the same thing when the gas bottle runs out. The flame goes 'puff' as the last of the gas burns under pressure, but then residual gas, no longer under pressure is sucked into the vacuum left by the flame, and it flickers briefly once more. If you're hanging your hat on 'a light fixture caught fire' based on a flickering flame - i don't believe it. Again I restate that what I am seeing looks to be the pyro running out of gas in the middle of the show. Unless someone can show me a melted fixture... I don't accept it - not to mention that anybody doing a show on this scale would have minimum clearances between pyro and lighting, and secondly - a quick puff of flame like that isn't going to be enough to set plastic on fire - at worst even if it did happen - the fixture would most likely continue to work and it would have a slight deformation of the housing.

I don't see any fixture catch fire. I see a flame out. I don't see any impact to any other fixtures. I'm thinking they ran out of gas.

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