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  1. DaptoFunlandGuy
    I had planned to reply to a whole bunch of posts above, with rebuttals to each, but this is all that needs to be said. You can't fix 10+ years of poor management and bad decisions overnight. You also can't point to board members who have sat for the past 6 years when many of those board members have relied on CEOs and similar to inform them of the best direction to go in. Ride removals - may not be the decision we'd all like, but the neglect of the management prior to TRRR made it the only option. Loss of IP - if you've got a choice between renewing a 10 year old licence, or building an entirely new land \ attraction group - what's going to give you the boost? New Dreamworks might have given a 20% bump, but 10 year old renewed dreamworks won't. If you've got a limited pile of money, you'd put it towards something new, rather than keep old things going without getting additional value out of it - see also: tower of terror. The simple fact is the current set up is likely to turn the park around, and as their forward planning starts to bear fruit, momentum will build. They've effectively started from scratch due to the poor planning of their predecessors with nothing in the cupboard to start from, so to point to early progress and say "Dreamworld = Bad" is misguided and shortsighted.
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    Just to close this particular query - Judging by @Slick's timeline of 10 years after Longhurst, I would presume that would date well prior to 2009 - which is the first available image of Dreamworld that Nearmap has. Can confirm nothing that looks like a corkscrew element is BOH in that image. Staying on old theme park pics though - I noticed that this enclosure (I presume by the double fenceline that it is for Tigers) has recently been cleared and re-landscaped. Was this like a 'rehearsal set' for them to train the tigers prior to going 'on stage' ? Any idea why they're suddenly redoing it? (there appears to be a new rock retaining wall on the lower left side that wasn't there in any of the previous shots) November 2009 April 2022 November 2022
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    Yeah this is pretty stereotypical for a woodie and is the reason why those who haven't ridden one don't understand what a woodie can give that a steel coaster can't. Glad you got to ride it - I was hopeful i'd be right about them opening it late. See I think it depends on your criteria. I think everyone is going to judge things slightly differently and there is a dimension where leviathan will rank number 1. I still consistently rank Space Mountain as my number 1 in the world, despite it not being the tallest, fastest, longest or most iconic. Right now my 7 year old thinks Leviathan is the absolute shit (though, that's going to last a little more than a month before we take him to LA)... Everything is subjective I guess.
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    Our parks have been so transparent about everything that's happening so it's really their own fault. /s
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    Remember the era, though. A dreamworld pre-thunderbolt would have been needing a coaster, and heck - corkscrew was iconic for sea world. the imagery of a corkscrew spiralling over the midway prior to the double loop chiropractor's best friend, it would have worked, THEN. just not now.
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    I mean, that sounds like a you problem. My wife suffers really badly from 'spew-forces' - she hated the zacspin, for example, but absolutely loved Tatsu. That pretzel loop is definitely forceful, for sure, but for us the experience was just *chefs kiss* I get the load issues, but given our parks have additional restraints beyond overseas - seatbelts, RFIDs, gimp masks on shockwave... sitting down and having your feet in some stirrups doesn't sound too difficult.
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    I still dream of a Flyer. I was watching POVs recently and Tatsu came up - and I could FEEL the G forces from the Pretzel loop. Dare to dream though...
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    Yeah I think Taipan is the counterpart to Rivals, and building a hyper would be a waste on Dreamworld's part when there are so many other opportunities - why build the same thing the other guy has when you can build something different?
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    Don't lose heart yet. Many days it's been down but not on the official closures list it does come up before the end of the day.
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    I respect your opinion as being different to my own, but you haven't added anything new, and i've already responded to that.
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    It is, and I said that... but I'm not going to keep going around in circles. You think they've been completely transparent, and I (and others) don't. Happy to leave it at that.
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    This is entirely plausible, believable, and acceptable. Also entirely plausible, believable and acceptable. In my view, that's not being fair to the park, but everyone has their own views. For me, being transparent would be... actually being transparent. I will agree with you on one thing though... and that is that we DON'T have any right to know what's wrong. The flip side of that is clickbaity media hit pieces, and everyone speculating from the benign to wildly fanciful as to the reason. #Vacuum You can't point to the park's current level of "transparency" and then suggest the speculation isn't fair to the park. People are going to fill in the blanks if the park leaves blanks. A sudden closure usually implies "something went wrong" and puffery isn't transparency, and speculation ensues. The last several pages of discussion here have largely been the following: wild speculation of possibilities people casting doubt on those possibilities people suggesting if the park was open about whats happening and why, the wild speculation wouldn't occur someone suggesting the park is being transparent, and we should be grateful they even bothered to update the website at all instead of leaving a date they know they're not going to meet and letting everyone book travel to visit their park only to push the date back and the last min... shit this sounds familiar.
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    Judging by the phone number, they've had those patches a while.... LOL
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    It is. Surely. But the cloak and dagger website updates in the middle of the night without a peep from the park drives speculation. The whole direction of this discussion is just "be transparent". I doubt a pump is gonna take two years to arrive. If it wasn't safety related, then i'm wondering why it had such a sudden closure with almost no forewarning. And i'm left wondering because... you know.... vacuum. Yes, it's a real thing every day. for the past 3 years. We all know it, but this is why it should not be an excuse any longer. Because this thing is 'new normal' it should have been factored in. It is no longer unexpected. (And certainly shouldn't contribute to an additional YEAR delay not even two weeks after the initial announcement.)
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    *and storm for items that don't fit in your pocket
  16. DaptoFunlandGuy
    That's just it though. The media slaughtered MW with headlines of "Major Movie World Ride closes after almost 20 years of operation" instead of "it's getting refurbished". If the park had been fully transparent, anyone that saw the headline would know it was bullshit - but the park leaves a vacuum, of course the media will fill it with drivel.
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    Fair point. Please forgive my exasperations.
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    Riding bananas is probably entering dangerous meme territory, but certainly they could have had B1 and B2 at the back of the car waving with the seats in front. How can it be BiP carousel without bananas? (I am however conscious that the park has been putting things in place as they go, and they've clearly prioritised getting the rides back up after the dreamworks stuff is removed, to keep rides running. So, this may not be the final product, and they're just adding things as they become available. I'm keen to be surprised.
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    The problem with that is they originally said 2024, so now saying 2025 means people don't like it because they're going to get something slower than they were originally told/thought. They can deliver it in 2024 now, but the reaction will be "should've said that from the beginning" Correct, they are still being felt. My dealer has just advised i'm going to be waiting at least another 12 months on a vehicle I ordered in April last year. it happens. But they aren't blaming covid shipping delays, and they said i'd be facing more than a 12 month wait to start with because they had a backlog. I'm not saying covid isn't affecting things, i'm saying that we all know covid is affecting things, so you should be factoring those effects into your timeline from the get-go, and not blame covid when your timeline blows out by a year less than two weeks after you announced your original planned opening date. exactly. (Also, for anyone skimming, let's be clear that the park hasn't blamed covid for this year's blowout. the point is they haven't said anything, and the covid angle is just a hypothetical being speculated on....)
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    There isn't much to Rivals backwards that I know of. Obviously they can only accommodate one row because of the reduced clearances to the row in front, so it sounds like a single backwards row on a train would be cheaper than two forwards rows. (Although then you need two sets of ride cameras to capture the backwards row so it probably comes out in the wash overall. The tech on the spinning seat obviously costs more, and requires more maintenance, so the costs for spinning seat are more or less justified. I'm sure i've said before that Leviathan's backwards seat is a waste. The true woodie experience is rushing through headchoppers and the like and facing backwards is not a fun ride, whereas on rivals it's insanely fun.
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    Wait, you mean Disney rides never travelled over guests before, and thats why loose items weren't an issue, but now we're travelling closely to non-riding guests, they've changed the rules? 😮 it's almost like they've come to the same conclusion that our parks have! Here's your happy medium - our safety culture still allows rollercoasters to be built and ridden by humans, with the proviso that no loose items are allowed, and additional seatbelts and RFIDs are used to eliminate risks. Seriously, if it's that big of a deal to you - move overseas. I hear some regions in South America and their efficiency on their coasters is awesome with no bothersome seatbelts and they've only killed a handful of people this year. Maybe we'll get lucky.
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    I think given the IP present in park, the appearance of a photo opportunity during the MW30th celebrations, and the fact that the only other film production that comes to mind is the 1989 Fred Savage film called 'The Wizard' about a video game playing kid, which was published under the Universal banner, I can't imagine what other plausible conclusions we'd have come up with. Honestly there'd have just been 17 pages of arguments with people who can't make up their mind whether to make our parks more efficient through the use of turnstiles, or have our ride operators manning the front gates, popcorn stands and bathrooms is simples.
  24. DaptoFunlandGuy
    I never said it was the 'only way' - i acknowledged alternative methods. I simply discussed why an app was preferred as being user friendly, and fairly difficult to break. As for getting it installed, a QR code is generally all you need. Most people these days don't need their app store password as their finger or face ID works just fine. What if they overcharge? What if the connection is down? Theres a whole bunch of shit operators have to worry about without being trained in retail operations as well. Thats WHY you have to go to a store (or retail cart, etc) to purchase these additional experiences outside of the app environment. And so help me if you point out some random park in Flugerstrom gives eftpos terminals to their ride operators as justification i'm really going to lose my shit. When they get to the front page, do they not then have to insert their username and password and login to access their ticketing and other information? Does that not also give the merchant certain access to information you're concerned about? These days you can prevent apps from tracking other activity outside of the app, but regardless, those who prefer paranoia have alternatives, so what's so wrong with having an app for those who don't care?
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    Purely having an address bar they can accidentally type over, or click back and break the authentication, or pressing stop accidentally, or any number of other things makes it not-idiot-proof. And there are still to this day a lot of idiots that insisted on writing their name and address on a bit of paper instead of QR checkins. And their personal details are probably still gathering dust on a shelf in restaurants, clubs, and entertainment venues to this day because the data guys can't just 'wipe' the databases when its on paper. I'm quite ok to keep using the app, and i'm quite ok for you to keep not using it. It'd be preferable though, they offer a non-app purchase option for upcharges in park in a way that doesn't require operators to carry eftpos terminals.
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