DaptoFunlandGuy

The big screen at Movie World is used to great effect for nighttime events, private events etc. Since the roof at Sea World appears to have the primary function of providing a nighttime event precinct, I would suggest the TV screen has the same basic purpose. During the day it can "Introduce Village E-serve!", and at night it can run related imagery, live video etc, without the need for messy projection set ups etc.

It may be my failing memory here, or just lack of recall, but if i recall correctly - hasn't Dreamworld until recently been more profitable than Main Event, and it is Dreamworld that props Main Event up, rather than the other way around?

I'm sure when a mod gets around to it they'll throw this into a more relevant thread, but since the conversation is here at the moment... V8 Redline, and now HWSW, although they don't appear to fit the theme, please remember, it's Ocean Parade, and we're on the Gold Coast - home of the Gold Coast 600 (Formerly Indy) - a motorsport road circuit that just happens to get within metres of the beach. For me, it fits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle-Vision_360°

Am I the only one making the connection and thinking blade runner = oscar pistorius = no legs = smiler incident = not a great image for the mind... ...and let's not forget the whole shooting your girlfriend thing....

Can I ask why they weren't made in the 'Lets talk shit' thread?

^well... they do say the internet is primarily about cats.... so it suits.

WB have commissioned something like 12 DC movies, and I think they're up to about number 3 or something. I think it's safe to say that DC is a big part of WB right now.

I'd like to hear your views on the Knott's Boomerang.

I tried to - I really did... but I couldn't. Your thoughts are quite valid in many areas, but I struggled to read it as the grammar alarm in my head just wouldn't stop going off. I don't want to derail this discussion into a grammar \ spelling discussion, but do yourself a favour: I was under the impression the claw was some sort of beast? Crab doesn't work as a crab claw looks very different to the themed posts of the ride (which are more like Talons). I remember the marketing campaign for the Claw back in 2004 - with bus shelters ripped open and slashed by 'the beast' that was the claw.

So when did you make the trip to the manufacturing plant? How are you so certain that painting wasn't done at that time? It's not like repainting superman escape in situ. You're dealing with bare steel that has also been welded. There would be several coats of paint to go on, and each would need curing. Additionally, there are hundreds of pieces that required painting - both supports and track. They don't just line every single piece up and then hit them all at once with a giant spray gun. Each piece needs to be maneuvered into a spray booth for each coat. Take a look at the time it takes them to move a single piece from the carpark to the coaster site. Now multiply that by the number of pieces, and multiply again by (probably) base coat \ rust protectant, and then likely two topcoats at the very least. Shipping from Germany is approximately 43 days, give or take. This would suggest, based on when parts first arrived, that they would have departed Germany sometime in February. Many construction trades shutdown for a month around Christmas both in northern and southern hemispheres. Now this is all assumption talking out of my ass, but i'm "pretty sure" Germany probably did too - and not to mention, that it was Winter over there - a time when paint drying \ curing in cold weather takes longer than when its out in the hot tropical sun. So, given we've got about 3 months between the incident and shipping, and we probably lost about a month with holiday periods and festive seasons, and the cold weather prolonging drying times - I would suggest that IF painting hadn't commenced at the time of the dreamworld incident, it would have commenced VERY SOON AFTER. On reflection though, i'll just take your post the same way you intended your Pirates of the Caribbean post, and just chalk this up as another one of your stupid, very unfunny jokes. ahhhhh.... that feels better.

Airtime.exe not found. (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)gnore ?

Hoooooooo Rayyyyyy Forrrrrrrr.....

It does. Hard cards require special machinery to print. The 'laminated' cards are a specialised sheet of paper that can be run through a standard laser printer.

RCDB rounds to 1 decimal place - i've never seen a metric conversion to feet listed at more than a single decimal. This is definitely photoshopped, most likely by the original poster.

They've dismantled, not demolished, so i'd say Mammoth has another life yet to live - and I assume it will probably go to one of the smaller lesser known parks. There are far easier places to store parts to ship out than the middle of the sea world car park. I'm going to be quietly optimistic that Sea World has sprung a new ride on us whilst we were all focused on MW. time will tell i guess. Nothing appears in PD online for either of the Sea World lots since the BA for the alterations to the stage seating was processed in feb\march...

Sounds like they had a big crowd and were looking to try and get people through the gate as quickly as possible. Although a greeting would be nice, I wouldn't consider it rude if they were otherwise occupied. I go into the park for an experience. To be honest, when i'm at the gate I just want to get inside and am not going to let a lack of conversation with the gate staff ruin my day. I'd be pissed off if the gate staff were having a chat with every guest entering the park. Especially if i was in the queue behind them and getting impatient at the time it was taking to get in. Eye contact \ smile would be nice, but not if they're trying to do their job as well as instruct another person to do theirs in order to speed up the efficiency of the queue process. Quoted for truth. See previous quote. They're not going out of their way to ignore and be rude to you (although maybe they recognise you as Pushbutton? Just a thought), they're just obviously mad busy, and trying to be as efficient as possible, based on your description. I'm not one to stand for bad customer service, but there's a difference between someone who is dealing with peak loads, and trying to be as efficient as possible, and someone who is outright not living up to the corporate expectations for customer service and either deliberately not doing their job, or lazily disinterested in doing their job. The sort of behaviour you want out of these staff needs to be natural, not forced. If you knock them over the head, you'll get a bunch of robots - no warmth, no sincerity, the proverbial flight attendant at the end of the flight. You end up with this fakeness, where they don't care, and only do it because they're REQUIRED to, because someone complained:

Love everything you said @Slick - but i wanted to add to this point - charging for sauce seems trivial, and it is, but we are in a culture where people insist on 'single serve' portions - so they need a tub \ packet of sauce. Buying individually packaged sauces and other condiments is costly. Disney does (or at least did the last time i was there) have sauce \ condiment stations. Add your own sauces and add as much as you like. I think they did away with the liquid cheese sauces at some places a while back because it was too hot and caused injuries - but pump pack sauce isn't expensive in comparison to the individually packaged versions (although it does require custodial attention, this can be done on normal rounds) it just needs people to get over their germophobia etc etc. To do this, you also need some ability to check who is entitled to ride \ and\or take tickets at the entrance. this either slows your operations or increases your labour costs. it might be achieveable in foreign markets, but it definitely wouldn't suit the Australian wage point.

Since the fencing around GL is matched with the new coaster, i'd like to see them make that the 'official' boundary - meaning the internal wall that used to be the external boundary is no longer needed - knock it out, build a big deck over the canal and create a nice new relaxing space near the front of the park. it's never going to happen but it'd be nice.

But those marks are inside the queue line for Green Lantern? if that was it, it would need to go over the top of the current GL queue...

Market forces require it. When you competitor offers something akin to your offering at a certain price point, you either have to be FAR BETTER than they are (which they aren't) or you have to match the price to attract patronage. Even worse - in the current situation dreamworld is in, it looks better to have a full park at rock bottom prices, than to have an empty park. If the price is too high, and it keeps people away, it reinforces the view to others that the park isn't safe (see previous GCB fluff on empty park) and that people are avoiding it. If Ardent \ Main Event do hold onto this long term, they can bring the prices up gradually once the memory of the incident has faded.

Old news. Still in the pipeline but a long way off reality

So i've given up trying to change and update the predicted dates I have on my fridge. it currently looks like this:

I guess it depends on where you draw the line as to what 'sydney' is. Redcliffe is to 'brisbane' what Prospect is to 'sydney' in my opinion - in terms of distance (not anything else). So a mega bump... please don't let this conversation rehash into disney possibles... I don't see a full scale disney park here for at least 20 years, if not more.

This would be the first year you've visited where Tiger Island (and not the little cafe\bar area) actually had 'show' seating.