DaptoFunlandGuy

No? The costumes weren't multiple layers, designed to be worn separately, with over-tops interchangeable. You really should read things every once in a while.

It doesn't matter. No HSR is going to sign off on a layered uniform requirement for ops. Superman's unload is fully exposed, Leviathan opens at both ends and the smoke effect shows the heat flow into the station (plus those screens will also generate heat), Rivals having cover doesn't keep out the temperature. If its a 35+ day, its still 35 in the station. its just a windy 35. NO. No. no. nO. NO.

That's not a thing. Nobody ever said 'Warner Brothers Sea World' or 'Warner Brothers Wet and Wild'. Previously the park branding remained separate, or was grouped under 'MyFun', the 'themeparks.com.au', branding and things like the '3 Park Superpass'. (My word they've had a lot of online portals and presences, haven't they?) Village Roadshow has been a partner in the group since Movie World was first conceived back in around 1989. They bought Time Warner out in 2006 so have been the parent company for around 17 years now. Unless they rebrand Movie World, nobody is going with 'Village Roadshow Warner Brothers Movie World'. The rake is ever present, but that doesn't mean they're going to start renaming parks.

Consider that they have to leave their current position, make their way back to wherever their locker is (or wardrobe if they don't already have the costume) - get it, then go and get changed, put their current set away (or return to wardrobe) and then head to the new position. I think it would be reasonable to allow up to 10 minutes for this to avoid rushing or unexpected delays (like being waylaid by a guest on main street). But here's the kicker - they have to do that while they are on their own break time - so they lose break time having to get changed for the next ride. Doing that type of physical labour in summer, wearing multiple layers is not conducive to heat stress management. And a ride specific polo =\= a ride specific costume. This I agree with. While they do occasionally share staff across parks (mainly for events) I can't imagine it would be a huge impost on them to have different shirts for different parks. Buying in those numbers the bulk pricing shouldn't vary too much between 1 park or 3. It's sad, but in the scheme of things, many big parks are changing to this format, and while I don't like it, its a necessary cost saving measure on a scale the little parks don't have to worry about. Cedar fair have colour coded their staff depending on their role, and looking at this, i'm ok with that as the shirt stands out, and the colours enable you to clearly identify the role those staff are fulfilling. I'm sad we've lost most of the ride specific costumes, but it's costumes, not just 'ride specific polo shirts'. My only complaint about this direction for Village is that the shirt is uninspired, boring, and blends in too much with the average guest to make them stand out as a point to go to for help. On my recent trip to the US, I made a point of showing my son what the staff were wearing each morning, so that if we ever got separated, he knew who he should approach for assistance. Fortunately that never occurred, but to tell him - "find someone with one of these namebadges" would have been a lot harder for him to spot in the spring break crowds we had each day. I wonder how well crowd control during summer is going to go for them...

From what I understand, they're gone. Roxy is apparently the only attraction costume that remains from what i've heard.

If that is the case then the ride-specific costumes could make a comeback once flipped in a few years. I remember when Wonderland cleared out, they still had several ride-specific costumes in Wardrobe that had long since gone out of use - Presumably VR's wardrobe department won't just destroy the old ones so hold tight to the dream and maybe one day they'll come back?

The loss of the ride specific costumes is a sad day, but it does make operations easier as staff don't have to change if they get reallocated, and you don't end up with a Justice League Host assisting on the parade (or even JDS!). But I agree about the choice here - there's nothing wrong with the tan coloured pants, but the bland, uninspired polo makes them almost invisible to guests. Dreamworld has (as far as I can remember) also moved their staff to a standard polo, but theirs being bright blue with yellow accents does stand out as "I work here - you can ask me for help". It feels like a missed opportunity to get a really nicely designed dye-sub dri-fit polo with some level of village-level branding (if they have to have the rake, at least do something nice with it) that would stand out as "I don't wear this in public, i'm an employee".

Yeah - not everyone is as well versed and expert in theme parks and rollercoasters - it'd be awesome if you could caption or provide a little explanation to go along with these updates so those who aren't following every minute detail can keep up.

I hope they plan to cover over the Duloc castle facade at some point during this facelift - doesn't really suit the Wiggles vibe... ALso - they stripped out everything else, but left up the 'flyers' sign? what?

This is good to see - we've long bashed them for lax safety, so it's good to see them taking positive steps towards making paths and walkways safer to navigate in all weather conditions! I saw earlier today that they're repainting the kerbs around Main Street to black and yellow rather than the old red pathways - this is really a win for those with low vision as the contrasting colours stand out much better than red - AND it will make the height change far more visible at night, now they're open at night more often. (Funfact - this is why ACT firetrucks are yellow instead of red!)

Look I don't dole out a lot of reacts (mainly lazy) but this post ^ should be getting more reacts. It's very obvious you're happy to be proven wrong - you do it so regularly. The reason you might feel you aren't getting logical discussion is because everyone here has given up trying to be logical with you. There are people on these forums who literally do these things for a living, and you've stood here and told them they're wrong when they get PAID to do this. Plenty of people know why Rivals has seatbelts. I've even TOLD you. You're just not listening. Truthfully, most GP are very happy with a 'once and done' approach on a park they haven't been to before - they ride, they get off and move to the next thing. Gold Rusher at MM was a walk-on for us, but we did it once and moved on because there was other things to do. Yes it does. Yes it does. No you're not. Yes we do - and this just proves you aren't reading what people say to you. Just a reminder where I said: You're so focussed on your own desired outcome, you aren't even reading what everyone else is saying - you're latching on to what you want to reply to and ignoring everything else. From my own observations, I would consider the entire spiral section being full to equal about a 40 minute wait, so reading the report yesterday that the spiral was full and the wait time was only about 20 minutes immediately tells me that operations were running much faster than the last time I was there, or the GC has had another COVID outbreak and we're back to 1.5m distancing in the queue. I think the answer is back on the previous page -

Mate, respectfully - fuck off. You've quoted my reply "the only thing that matters to a guest is how long they have to wait. If a ride only cycles once an hour, I couldn't give a shit if its a walk on" - How the fuck can you disagree with that? If a guest walks onto a ride and is immediately dispatched, do you think they're going to care if the operators take 10 minutes between dispatches? Nothing in your long, analytical rambling addresses my commentary. While the ultimate aim of your long-winded ramble is to show that improved and more efficient operations will reduce wait times (spoiler - we all fucking know this), the average guest isn't going to pay attention to (nor care about) the speed of operations if the wait time was short, or substantially less than advertised. And if you really want to be pedantic, it's 146 seats you can sell in a day, because there's two seats dispatched at minute zero. I call bullshit. From Dispatch to station park, DC Rivals cycle time is 2:30. Can they do better than 5 minute dispatch intervals - you bet. Can they easily halve it to 2:30? No. That is 100% peak efficiency, with absolutely zero fuckups. Nobody with loose items, loose shoes, difficult harness lock, not even rotating crews between station positions (something necessary for safety to prevent fatigue) - absolutely nothing can go wrong. I've seen an awesome crew work DCR, and dual train ops they could probably get it down, but your version of armchair theme park operations says everything is easy. You're wrong. I'd suggest that is a theory. You've nothing to support that except your own interpretation of operations that you've very clearly denigrated on many previous occasions. LOL.

The only thing that matters to a guest is how long they have to wait. If a ride only cycles once an hour, I couldn't give a shit if its a walk on. So from a metrics perspective - working out how many people will get through per hour and how efficiently they're running, sure - dispatch intervals are important. But to 99% of the park-going public, the wait time is all that matters.

Being an Elon Musk product, the window is probably designed to separate from the doorframe using pyro, but during a collision, the frame with buckle and the pyro will fail to fire, leading to the entire car exploding. #SpaceX

I enjoy TPP a lot, but a lot of their content is industrial, and out of the way, whereas a lot more of Jake's content is parks and hotels. They do partner up and visit places together though, if you watch carefully in videos you can see the other vlogger in shot.

I'm sure given your interests that you'll have seen them, but in case you haven't, you should check out the 'Abandoned' series by Bright Sun Films on YouTube. Jake does a lot of coverage, in particular of the three parks you've mentioned (among others) Jake also produced a feature length documentary on SFNO called 'Closed for Storm' which to this day I still haven't watched due to the ridiculousness of region blocking and exclusivity agreements on streaming services. But i'm not bitter at all. #ImLying

We all know how much dribble you talk.

For the purposes of history, there was no purchase or sale so in my view no change in ownership. Macquarie Leisure = Ardent Leisure as far as i'm concerned.

Be an innovator not an imitator.

This is entire rumour. I'm not presenting this as fact, and take this with an ocean of salt. Source is reddit for what it is worth, just mentioning to continue the conversation here: It was suggested by someone who claims to have worked on the show previously that the park has been cutting back on non essential maintenance, and that they believe Murphy has been suffering as a result - initial observations suggested that the propellant wasn't sprayed out as intended, and instead dripped down inside the superstructure, igniting flammable parts inside. On my recent trip to the park I observed a lot of what i'd call 'lacking maintenance' and while I wouldn't have suggested anything safety related was impacted, the whole 'show' aspect was a little tired.

I recently rode in a tesla and it had an electronic push button door opener. I'm wondering - if there's an electrical fault\fire - how do you override this? As has been mentioned, many rides use Super Capacitors, rather than LiIon batteries - this is not the sort of thing to make assumptions on and state as fact. As for the Objectif Mars incident, while the best extinguisher for lithium ion battery fires is an F500 Lithium Ion Battery Extinguisher, chances are the one provided is likely going to be dry chemical, which is both corrosive and abrasive, as well as a respiratory irritant causing breathing difficulties. It is always preferable to evacuate people from the area before discharging an extinguisher. (Side note - F500 extinguishers are more effective on Lithium batteries, but are water based so shouldn't be used where AC voltages over 100v are present - so a complete power disconnect is needed prior to use of these extinguishers) Spare lithium batteries, or those detached from the device aren't allowed in checked baggage, but lithium batteries up to 160Wh that are installed in a device can be checked in, provided the device is isolated in such a way that it cannot be accidentally activated whilst in transit.

Something that shits me about park maps is when things are numbered, but the numbers don't necessarily follow a pattern - ie- they don't number from 1-20 starting top left and finishing bottom right, so while it is numbered, if you're not familiar with the park or what land things are supposed to be in, you end up playing a 'hidden object' game to try and find the number. A better option is to grid the map (like a street directory) so you can list the map reference of each thing - ie: A5, D2 etc. Best option is to have an app where you can find the thing you want and then tap 'directions' and have it plot out a path for you to walk from where you are to where you want to go, but i'll settle for map references if the app is too hard.

I'm pretty sure their current ops plan sends you in as a group one cycle earlier than originally intended, so you do see the pre-show run twice. it is going to have a small gap in between show-runs which is going to seem a little jarring. I hope that once they've worked out the best way to operate this they can rejig the show elements to work better with it. Yep. No matter how many load videos you have playing in the queue, no matter how many signs, or how many PA systems you use (most ops are muffled on the mic and you can't understand them anyway) there is nothing people in these queues will pay attention to more than an op shouting at them from 3 feet away.

Last I heard they were still working with authorities on a suitable compromise to allow them to return to multi train ops without compromising the design of the coaster. Either way I think multi train is going to require them to install some block brakes and i'm not sure they'll want to do that. If a ride has X number of seats, it should be able to operate with all those seats filled. Weight balancing should only be an issue if there are empty seats on a cycle, and even then, it should only be to have specific seats empty to balance - (ie - not have everyone on one side)

...and no need for E-stops either!