DaptoFunlandGuy

Are you starting with a hangover? or you wanna start from tomorrow and get on it tonight?

I've personally argued this point a lot in the past. the pushed back opening dates make it harder to plan for people who visit out of peak periods, so I can't put them down if this is the case for the longer maintenance periods. It still doesn't explain taking down so many of their majors in one go, and for the same period. I can only assume Batwing and Superman being down at the same time have to be flash related - but their crossover is minimal, so unsure what the impact could be. The point isn't one ride, it's four. They've now known for more than a year that Scooby would be offline. So when you're planning your annual maintenance, why do them all at that same time? Yeah by all rumours and accounts it took them by surprise - they'd planned it, but not so soon. Regardless, it's been closed a year now, they've had plenty of time to consider the impacts and instead of trying to shuffle things around they've gone "fuck it, we'll do it all at once, to hell with the guests paying single day prices outside of school holidays!" and and That's the bottom line.

we've seen maintenance periods and downtimes far more in recent years than we ever have before. Regardless of the reason why, it leaves a hole in the park's lineup. When you take down attractions for massive overhauls, it highlights the park's capacity constraints and everyone can feel it. Dreamworld could feel the loss of Giant Drop while it was closed for refurb (especially having lost so many others permanently in recent years too) - but with Batwing, Superman, Doomsday and Scooby all down simultaneously, we're left with Green Lemon, Wild West Flaws and Dc Rivals to prop up the park for almost two entire months. Now, I understand there are new requirements on machinery maintenance that must be adhered to, but come on - stop taking the piss - there had to be another solution than to take down those three major attractions at the exact same time, and FOR the exact same time.

Careful with those words. If I remember correctly, Doomsday's current neutered operations and the removal of The Wipeout were both because that's what guests wanted. I can't recall prices, but i'll bet you hot chips and hot dogs were a damn sight cheaper than po' boys and chowder bowls, and likely that's why the cheaper options were favoured. It's less about what guests want, and more about how the options are structured and marketed. Ahem. Take a gander over at Dreamworld's tasting trails (or Epcot's food and wine festival, or California Adventure's food and wine festival) to see the popularity of the 'tasting passports' \ "sip and savor pass" (and similar) which shows it can work. (i've personally bought both the DCA and Dreamworld options, and felt they were great value). You sell a ticket that gets a guest a small sampling from all of the vendors - this guides them to each stall in turn, ensuring they're all kept reasonably busy and productive, and well patronised. Guests given the opportunity to 'try' everything are more likely to spend more money on something that they like - even if it is more expensive. (Also, more guests walking around with a unique product from a particular stall, the more "i'll have what they're having" effect you have) A hot dog and chips is safe if you aren't sure what a "po'boy" is, but if you like what you sample, you can bet you're going back for more!

The event has gotten less and less each year. It needs a reinvention. The food they had at Movie World's carnivale event was enough to go back year on year. Now the food they have is the same boring shit they serve, but with special garnishes or decorations. Bring back the unique food. Figure out how to do some sort of street parade (you don't need giant floats to have a parade). The atmosphere in the park during carnivale is lacking and they need to make it more exciting (and having it immediately following the school holidays is probably a miss too - everyone is trying to get back into routine and this doesn't help)

Yep - they only lost one car. part of the shelter at the start of the 'brake run' was damaged, but with one less car, they may not need to replace that anyway. They may need to repair or replace the traffic light safety system though. The park has had a lot to focus on and vintage cars shouldn't be a priority. Thats also a bloody big tree, and arborists have been kept pretty busy. It seems like it would be easy enough for them at this rate to just wash their hands of it and decide VC has had it's run - not waste any time trying to bring it back online - but I also feel like the current direction of Dreamworld - trying to harken back to their roots and play on nostalgia - should restore the ride and give park fans one last chance to ride it - whether it has 4 months, 10 months or 2 years left in it - bring it back.

Yeah the closure date is the first day of QLD School term. Whether it was planned or unexpected, the new rides always tough it out over the summer holidays and go down the second the coast gets a chance to breathe. I didn't know it was down (and we'd planned to visit yesterday and only found out on Saturday it was down, but thanks to the ex-TC rainfall, we postponed it a couple weeks, when it is planned to be back up!) but visiting the coast in the few weeks post holidays is always a risky manoeuvre. The park has taken a lot offline immediately following the holidays. Thankfully they're all flats (and vintage cars has a pretty good reason) though on the bright side its nice to see Triple Vortex is coming back this week. Think yourself lucky you're visiting this weekend - If you'd waited one more week it would have been worse down the road:

LOL. Vekoma is on such a merry go round. People pour shit on them for years for things like the boomerang and the SLC and the brand becomes unpopular, and now, everything old is new again. 🤣

Yes. Right now. Not in whatever timeline we're working on where it should have been september, then Summer 2023, then April and now the equivalent of 'in the coming weeks'. Clearly they've had a problem commissioning it. the fact that they built it, then pulled half of it down only to put it up again a few days later shows that something didn't go the way it should have. They've proceeded with this project making a lot of assumptions and the changed dates prove that they got them wrong. They would have done better commissioning a brand new flat ride, or bringing in a trailer mounted travelling ride to alleviate movie world's capacity issues. It has now officially been one year since Scooby Doo went down for this extended rehab - and we don't even have an opening date for Flash - (something we had last year, though it has now come and gone) and Flash is something that we've all agreed was most likely something they did to boost the park's capacity issues while Scoob was down. At this rate, Scoob will open before Flash does.

But what time is eyes down for bingo next tuesday?

First appearance on Nearmap is May 2016, but the last image prior to that was September 2015, so I think it's probably appeared prior to Christmas. Star Tour started around July 2016, so it was probably one of the first products on the board, but possibly not THE first. Given the vehicles parked so (very) closely in the first year, it's bringing a vague recollection of perhaps a Scooby and the Gang photo Op, which makes sense being opposite the ride, but the second image is the big ambulance, so likely a fright nights prop...

Considering by all accounts this was supposed to come into the park to alleviate the pressure felt by the loss of Scooby (lol) Scooby is going to reopen before this thing does. Should have just sent it to Sea World.

There's a lot of factors to take into account when you're comparing something 40+ years old. One of them is your labour cost. In 1982 - the average wage in Australia was around $300 a week. Today* it's somewhere around $1600 a week which is more than 5 times an increase. Making a like for like comparison is really hard when you've got apples and helicopters. At the end of the day its puffery in a media release. they can explain those numbers any way they like to make their point. It's a presser, not an AGM.

Your recollection is incorrect, but it is not my place to comment on these matters. Your mark is wrong.

Fairly sure there's enough balanced viewpoints \ counter viewpoints about VRTP on here that anyone with eyes could see you've missed the mark on that one.

You can't market a ride without referencing which hemisphere it's in, can you?

It's still an imposing attraction, off putting to many GP, and still with absurd height requirements. It's very nice of you to speak generally about the entire Australian populations tolerances for G forces based on your extensive research into the population's capacity. /s While we're making broad generalisations based on non-scientific research (AKA opinion) I'd like to share my own in depth research that says less than 30% of riders who physically meet the manufacturer's requirements (ie - they're tall enough) will actually want to ride this. (Source: my family group who didn't want to ride this)

Doesn't it always?

I do find it just a little absurd that today we find it easier to build massive slabs of theming in a foreign country and then ship it and put it together locally, than to bring the skilled artisans and tradespeople to the park and do it onsite. I mean, I guess it's quicker because you can have the walls built before the area is ready for them and it goes up quicker, but it still just feels wrong to be making it all elsewhere.

Pretty sure they're removing things like this in favour of Fast and the Furious Rollercoasters these days...

So you've already answered half the question. The Zacspin \ Freespin style of attraction are incredibly forceful, and a lot of people don't enjoy having their breakfast put through a blender while it's still inside their stomach. I've done one once, and while I didn't mind that it was super forceful, the people I was with came off rather green and would never even consider looking at it again. Movie World needs to increase it's appeal across its attractions and that includes three things: Having more rides that appeal to a wider selection of their current audience Having height requirements a bit lower so that more of the family can ride together Having attractions that by their nature have a higher, not lower capacity. 8 Riders per car isn't big enough for a dispatch and it needs to be increased to get more guests through the ride. As for the SkyRocket - apart from it being so super similar to Buzzsaw that the majority of people will think they bought it off Dreamworld (remember, a lot of folk thought Vortex at Sea World was the old Wipeout), it also has a 54 inch (135cm) height requirement (see point two above), the trains are quite confined and difficult to get into (see also: What's the worst coaster train on the market and why is it the Sky Rocket II? [Ice Breaker] : r/rollercoasters (reddit.com) (and while we're at it, refer back to point number 3 - it's slow to load because of the complicated harness system which you know won't be improved upon at movie world). We visited San Diego last year and I was the only one who wanted to go on Electric Eel. I enjoyed the ride experience (not the load experience) but I know some of the people in my usual group would not have enjoyed it, and for that, i'll refer you back to point 1. In conclusion - You've demonstrated that you know a lot about different ride models, and you've travelled a lot to experience a lot of coasters and turnstiles. The problem with your suggestions is that you're only thinking of what ride you would like to ride, and not what ride is going to work best for the park overall. The big thrill parks like cedar and six flags have these balls to the wall models, but look around - they've also got a great selection of things the whole family can ride together, and a bunch of other attractions just for kids. Our parks are quite lacking in their selection, so what they have can't be polarising, and shouldn't start at 1.35 \ 1.4m height requirements... You've hit it bang on. Like T O T and like X\X2, if you have much the same track, and you just replace the trains, or reprofile a piece here and there, by all means relaunch it as a new 'version' of the same attraction... but don't demolish one ride, build a completely different ride, and then call it the same name. just don't.

On both accounts, just simply - "NO".

that website is garbage, but if you keep hitting refresh, it eventually gets to a point where you can purchase. picked up a couple for some family members to join those of us who overpaid. #swingsandroundabouts

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Looking a bit more closely at the pictures, i'm wondering if it's meant to be "Had No Fucking Train" ?