DaptoFunlandGuy

Well.... white fixes everything! /s I'm confident in saying this wasn't their original plan - otherwise it'd have been white from the start. If this is their fix, it's poor, but if they've gone white to offer it as a canvas for a paint and sip class or some local tag artists like I suggested a while back, then I can't wait to see what they put up. I think it'd be a great local touch to get any long-term hoarding tagged up or otherwise painted by artists. (As long as, if the park tries to reuse them or copy the art for other purposes besides hoarding they pay the artist for usage, of course)

It feels like you're trying to corner someone into a specific quantifiable measure to argue against - it isn't that simple. Not only does the park, the attraction mix and the number of rides impact on quantifying, so does the individual guest. I still think it's hard to have a firm line. If you're open, you consider that you can offer guests something. Guests coming into Movie World with children under 10 right now are only lacking the carousel (and scooby) so the vast majority of the kid's lineup is available. The present situation for older guests has DC Rivals, West and Doomsday down (and scooby). It's bordering on becoming an issue for one-day guests *in my opinion* - especially if unplanned closures impact on the day. Green Lemon, Batwang and Superman, along with Justice League and Roxy are the only 'adult' offerings available. If they lost another one out of that lineup, i'd hope guest services would be receptive to a request from a disappointed day-guest. (Again, *in my opinion*) A short while ago I posted a picture of the A-frame outside the park when they had a significant number of closures on the board - such a list was so long, they nearly ran out of room for all the magnets they had on there. On a day like that there should be no question - hands down, have your refund. But again, individual circumstances vary, and one person's ruined day can be another's 'best day'. I'm not intimately familiar with the park the screenshots posted earlier came from. All I can see is two attractions open, and most of the big names (the ones i've heard of) were closed. For me, that'd be a deal breaker - and given most of my trips overseas don't have spare days to try a park on more than one day - if that was their offering for my one and only chance to visit - i'd demand my money back, simple as that.

oh I don't know - something like the current topic of discussion...?

Yep, and that's perfectly fine, assuming no unplanned maintenance or downtime. People clearly can't complain if they were told about it before purchasing. It doesn't make it ok to charge full price when your park is decimated by closures, and it doesn't make it ok to offer a voucher for a return visit and refuse a refund.

Well, your personal experience must mean its the same everywhere and expiry dates are added by corporations just for shits and giggles then! No. It isn't. In case you missed the sarcasm above. I don't want a voucher i'm almost guaranteed to never use. In the words of my attorney,

For starters, it's a one-way dead-end, currently.

Since they are 'guest rideable' - seems a missed opportunity to have one set up as a photo opportunity - let people sit in one, put up a static backdrop of the harbour bridge or greenscreen it and sell "on ride photos" - they've already got the photowallets made up...

If I was a day ticket holder, and fronted up to an overseas park I was unlikely to visit again, and the ride closures looked like that, i'd be asking guest services for a full refund rather than a free pass i'd never use. And If I was a local, i'd have an annual pass and probably wouldn't care.

I'm not sure the Dreamworld Main Street is flat enough to suit a typical parade - floats wouldn't work, I don't think. While there is no wave swinger, there's a small problem of a giant bodgy wall taking up half the pathway.

Marvin's footprint takes up about 40sqm. The space between the HWSD exit doors and the hut is quite a bit larger than that - however i'm not sure whether it's viable - and would depend on what they use the space behind first aid for - The hut is connected to another structure, which is also connected to first aid.

Perhaps the trees have now grown enough to shield the neighbours from the screams that the screamguard is no longer necessary?

Yeah the carrots were removed many years ago. I remember at the time there was an online community petitioning to keep them - there was a website and everything and I think it had cast member connections to it as well. This thread from August 2007 shows the demolition For a while now i'd thought the rundown shack the subject of this thread had formerly been a carrot... they have the same basic shape - but looking back now I don't think it was... Yeah - gotta be honest, it looked like shit so i'm also excited they're removing it. It's interesting that they're doing it without any apparent plans for the area so i'll be keen to see what they do with the space once it's gone.

I think they dropped the 'scream' name to avoid negative connotations. It's probably wise to avoid other references including 'lights out at dreamworld'. Regular, random, non-event-specific night events would be cool but i think they need to restore day trade a bit more before that should be a priority. Moonlight Markets are doing a great job of getting people used to coming to the park at night so I think it's only a matter of time before we see them start to expand their offering to include the park attractions at least in some part (and they've already started with Flyer)

Latest nearmap has a number of containers and site shelters in place. There's definitely room out there for the globe (it's not like its much bigger than a minivan), but (and this is just laziness here) the 'commercial vehicle entry' is the primary vehicle access to main street. A franna with a giant globe swinging off it can't get to the maintenance area any other way except to drive around WhiteWaterWorld. So the current storage area - which is about 150 metres from the gatehouse is a lot closer than the ~1.8km round trip to drive the globe all the way to BOH. Realistically they should have put it straight onto a flatbed - but IMO it's where it is because they didn't want to walk the damn thing all the way round the back.

Yes - the big point of difference is 'opening them at night to a non-admission paying public' is different to 'opening them at night for a specific, ticketed event'.

I hear the Bodge signage has already been taken down

Gee that red text on that red background is just *chefs kiss* /s

It's been a while, they're probably just keeping staff current. I wouldn't hold my breath for it to reopen anytime soon.

QBCC requires the principal contractor to exhibit signage at a construction site, however it is required to list both the builder's name and their QBCC licence number. Most 'mandatory' signs usually contain other details like the contact information for the site manager, etc. There is no law that requires a billboard advertising the contractor. This is just a banner, and is not a legislative requirement.

That was pre-covid. Everything is a QR code now. Also in case you missed it...

Jesus christ. They're literally doing all this construction to improve the first impression. Fuck - California Adventure had blank walls lining Sunshine Plaza for months while they redid the park. Sure, let's work on first impressions but when you're working literally inside the entrance gate, there isn't a whole lot you can do to pretend like there isn't a construction site. ...because this is so much better, right??

At this point this is probably just being ignored because it's annoying folk so much. Perfectly put - I understand it, but it's definitely overblown. Also - the digital experience isn't your first impression of the park, but that globe has been around for about a heartbeat of Dreamworld's lifetime. It is not the 'must have photo' for families - this is: Families lining up to enter the park first thing in the morning line the kids up for a shot under the globe at the entrance. It's as quintessential as the sea world entrance and why we celebrated when sea world removed all that shitty photographer crap from the front entrance The Globe in the fountain is certainly a photo opportunity, but it feels born out of the influencer era - it is something devoid of life - it's framed to exclude other people from the shot so the 'grammers can get their perfect jump selfie. But it just makes it look like the park is dead. Screw the globe. I'll take my group photo on the front entrance steps every time.

But in the same article: this is also at Disneyland This was one day after the ride was closed, and there are a number of areas yet to be addressed. it shows that even the most magical place on earth doesn't do things in a day, so a day of a blank wall is a work in progress, and something to overlook. It's what they finish with that's important. As the saying goes, never show a fool an incomplete job. The stickers that have appeared this morning smack of a 'completed' job and i'm now underwhelmed.

Absolutely - this smacks of "oh fuck, they're right. get something up there" I'd rather they'd waited a week to have full height corflute artwork run off (see Dreamland construction hoarding for ideas) than to have overnighted this cheap shit. Actually - i'd rather plain black walls than this shit.