DaptoFunlandGuy

I'm struggling to understand how an amusement park based in melbourne would have any impact or effect on another amusement park thousands of miles away, simply by... as you say... 'modelling themselves after' said park... How does that help Coney Island 'get back on it's feet? Your fixations with insisting that LPM is doing something, only to reveal later that they weren't is becoming really annoying. And why should a park model a ride (if they actually do get a fixed-install) on one in another park thousands of miles away? How many people would make the connection? How many of those would care? Wouldn't it be better to keep the park as unique and individual as possible, so it isn't just a clone of another park that someone might have already been to? Lastly, may I direct you to the dictionary, for terms such as PERMANENT, rather than Perminant. I don't mean to go all grammar nazi on you, but please try putting your posts through a spell-checker first... it makes what you write extremely difficult to read (and believe me - making your posts in anyway easier to read is absolutely necessary.)

To be honest, I don't think anything Jamberoo does is going to make WnWS change their plans or layouts. For us, when comparing the two - sure we will be able to state which one is better, but is a slightly longer tornado going to make you head to Jamberoo over WnWS? Not on it's own... for most Sydneysiders, they won't care.

Ok, but they've been doing site prep for about 3 months now... that would suggest what - June? Unlikely, but not an impossibility. The show building isn't going to save them that much time overall. Money yes - time, no. Gives them time for...... "Technical Rehearsals" that last 4 months... Sure you were. (Did anybody read that post and think "But its a TALKING DOG!" ? Because I did. And I lol'd.

September 2013 is a likely opening date, but frankly one i'm doubtful of. We've seen coasters go up quicker than that, so unless they're putting construction on hold over christmas (which is possible) I'd think we'd see it for Easter.... They commenced demolition works in september october - for it to take a year before it was up and running just seems a little long... Do we know any dates of previous water coasters as far as construction time?

It's been suggested to me that this won't be ready in April. I know that elaborate attractions take a while to put together, but thats 6 months away... I can't find the DA details on GCCC website - is there a fromto date on the approval?

doubt it.

I have one family member on standard VIP, and we have two gold passes. Purchased at the same time, here is what we paid (excluding booking credit card fees) according to our invoices: Gold - Original Purchase Price - $139 Gold - Renewal - $99 VIP - Original Purchase Price - $99 VIP - Renewal - $79

I presume the Zuzu is the 3 wheel model - like most are these days... Ok, so in the end we're talking about two mid-size cars, and a 3 wheeler pram. I know MW's car spaces aren't the biggest, but I put a fullsize family wagon and a 4WD wagonback side by side in those things without an issue. I certainly understand your concern for your child (i would be too) but apart from nudging the pram, I'd say you each had a reasonable amount of room... I reiterate that staff should not travel to work in uniform, (and to be quite honest, staff should be required to park in the furthest carpark from the gate)... but as I said - until he's on the clock, he isn't really obligated to be nice to you in any way. As a matter of fact - in my experience, (and in general) motorists up here are generally huge prats.

I know you've said it numerous times Joz, I just felt categorising it and laying it all out might get read (and reconsidered in future years) by management. Maybe they could bring back early entry for the summer (and the separate gate). I don't mind that WC is being included in the new passes - they spend a lot of money on those events and they want to ensure they get enough people through the gate to justify how much they spend. If they give away the gate, but make a shitload on flashy crap, upcharges and F&B then i'm all for it - but gold was meant to be a premium product... but right now, it doesn't appear that it's any different to any of the multitude of 'slightly varied' standard VIP offerings. I paid extra to get gold in the first year, and i paid extra to renew it versus a standard pass... forgive my implied 'sense of entitlement' but they've gotten more money out of me than a standard pass holder - now I want to know what 'extra' i get for that? And before I get shot down - I realise that what i've paid is still far less than the standard annual passes that used to exist before Q150 - I get that - and considering the attractions we've seen introduced since the passes started, they can't be doing too badly financially. I just can't see what benefits there are to having gold at this point in time because they've watered down the gold perks, and given some of them to standard passholders.... can someone please tell me what it is that I get with my gold pass that I don't get with a standard VIP right now?

It is a little frustrating that: I'm a loyal customer who purchased Gold VIP in it's first year... they release the passes the next year with no options for others to upgrade to gold then they take away the perks of having gold - like your own ticket line, and early entry then they offer it as an upgrade to passholders then they give it away free if you buy a standard vip then they offer one of the few remaining 'gold' perks (that is - free entry to WC) to standard VIP holders. Seriously - it is marketed as a premium product, and you're supposed to get more for it - then we lost half of the benefits, and they gave the other half away to standard passholders. What's left that makes Gold worth having?

With regard to the corporate christmas parties, I just want to mention that a lot of the movie world corporate parties are done on weeknights. (at least the one we went to last year was). It took me a good 10 minutes of trawling through the myfun and themeparks.com.au sites before i could find anything for this years events. Looks like a 'fire and ice' theme this year, but as yet no dates. $99 per person is really good value, and it seems they're looking at doing corporate parties at SW, AOS and SWR&WP... http://myfun.com.au/myfun/events/christmas%20events.aspx

Not doubting the event, I am sure it happened, but one question... If he entered the parking space at 'the speed he did', how did you have time to 'move closer to the car so as not to be hit' ? Okay - so i have a few more questions... What type of car model do you have, and what type of pram? And what type of car was this guy driving? I'm just interested - more of a physics thing.

See that still doesn't confirm it for me. Quite the opposite - the way I read it is the 'confusion' you cite over the terminology actually disproves your theory. How I understand what he has said is as follows: Train 1----------------------------------Train 2----------------------------Train 3 C1 + C2 ------------------------------C3 + C4 -------------------------- C5 + C6 (1 set of 2) ------------------------ (2 set of 2) -------------------- (3 set of 2) I don't really care one way or the other, but you've been banging on about this particular thing for so long, including many other 'facts' that you stated, which turned out to be utter bullshit. It's the boy who cried wolf who no-one believes. You could find an ancient silent movie of LPM showing 17 trains on the track in one single day of operation and nobody would believe it. Quite honestly - you're banging on about this as badly as you banged on about Mack being involved in the restoration, and you're claiming it all to be fact, rather than opinion or view. I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that if we put it to a vote, the overwhelming majority of votes cast would say they don't care. Can i ask a mod to add a poll to this thread (or is it better if i create a new one), with the question and choices as follows: Do you believe LPM used to have 6, entirely different, completely independent trains for the scenic railway, each of them a different colour, and each of them with two carriages each (a total of 12 carriages)? (1) Yes (2) No (3) Who cares (4) I believe 3 is the correct number (5) STFU-RWC

To be honest, considering the average price of a hotdog that isn't from a shopping centre foodcourt would be up around the $5 mark, and considering you're in a theme park where you can expect prices to be a little higher than usual, AND the fact that they have franks that are a foot long (which in most cases is about 6 inches longer than the bun is!) i don't see it being that bad. If you got a footlong hotdog with cheese and sauce for say $6.50 in a shopping centre - it'd be a bargain! So wheres the beef in an extra $1.50 in a theme park? (definitely not in the hotdog thats for sure - pig anus FTW!)

Forgive me for being sceptical, but i'm inclined to take this post with a kilogram of salt.

I personally think the standard of guests visiting the park has a lot to do with the standard of the staff working there. Not a direct attack on you Wyn - just a 'general observation' of the quality of guests we seem to have in the park these days. Most cast members in parks start out rosy, but they lose the 'gloss' over time, as it becomes just 'a job' - even Disney employees get that way in some areas circles. Unfortunately, we can't always expect those that work in the parks to have such a cheery demeanour outside the park. Another difference is - he wasn't being paid to be nice to you and follow safety procedures in the carpark - the government took away the opportunity to claim workers comp whilst travelling to and from work - so really a case of 'not his problem'. The only issue i take is that a cast member is travelling to work in uniform. Given how easily this identifies you, most parks that i know of have strict policies about employees travelling to work 'in costume'...

I'm working on a totally unrelated christmas lights display for this year too. The first string of lights went up on October 23rd, and it still isn't finished (i'm doing it outside of normal work hours). I started programming it (from scratch) about a week ago, and am still troubleshooting bugs as this kind of display hasn't been done by me before. (My thanks to those who provided some words of advice - they know who they are). Many in the area commented that they thought we'd started too early, and it's been essentially 'in test' every night for the past week. At this stage it'll probably take another 2 weeks before it is finished, by which time, it'll be time to 'go live' with it anyway. Given the scale of what i'm involved in, compared with what MW are doing - I don't blame them for having the park turned around 5 days after Hallowe'en...

I see no reason why the original actors for Han, Luke and Leia can't return. If they're willing, and if the storyline fits - why not? Hell - the guy that played Wicket came back for episode 1 (as a different character), i'm sure he'd be up for coming back again...

I sometimes can't quote at work - the scripts crash the browser. And if i'd done ^^^ it would have been wrong because it had already spilled over to the next page, and I wouldn't have counted those posts anyway.

Gazza if nobody gets to it before the weekend i'll scan my copy of the map.

Yes, sorry - it was mentioned on the previous page. It had slipped my mind that it folded over to another page when I wrote that...

well since they needed to indicate things under the roof, maybe they just went with a map that dates prior to the roof being installed?

With regard to the 'dont touch your seatbelt' rule, there is a good reason for it, which sadly - is poor design. The seatbelt has to be inserted the right way up (ie: no twists at all). If it isn't, the harness doesn't register a lock, and it has to be undone and redone. The problem is, if it's in the wrong way, the 'harness release' on the control panel also doesn't work properly, so maintenance need to be onhand with a special key to undo the harness manually. This takes a lot longer than the '10 minute' cycle time. Unfortunately, it's easier to tell people not to touch the seatbelt, than it is to try to explain what people need to do ahead of time, and hope that a) they're listening, and they get it right. When I first rode, the ops knew I understood how to put it in the right way, and they allowed me to do so, but during general operation they get extremely angry if you do so. I've reached a compromise, and I ensure the seatbelt isn't twisted, and hold the tab right in front of the buckle. the op only has to take it from my hand and push to get it done correctly... saves time at any rate. I should hope Movie world and Kumbak are working on a different seatbelt system that either works both ways, or won't allow you to insert it the wrong way, which would solve the problem.

Well not everyone has seen Universal's Earthquake - although it is also featured in beverly hills cop 3 as 'Alien Attack'. But yes - i thought of universal. I can't see pictures posted at work - but i'm assuming the image reanimated posted as for superman?

I'm sure theres a few animatronics they could chuck in there too - even simple 'BOO!' style jack in the box ones. Even just some cobwebs and a few spiders, change the pre-show video (Gazza's proven that can be done easily enough) as well as the voiceover announcements 'tremors in the tunnel' etc. It'd take a little work, but it wouldn't be hard to overlay superman.