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Needs moar teaching.

Yeah, but like, is that really the type of callback to history that Movie World is crying out for?

Then I'd say you honestly need to harden up. There's a whole wide world of actual scary out there.

The only thing I can think of is that they are trying to represent "a day in the life" on set. And, I think it largely succeeds at that; it's boring, tedious, repetitive, and largely has you wishing nonspecific harm upon everyone involved by the end.

Via email in a ticket response.

I have it in writing from the park that it's not. So there's that I guess. You'd be surprised. Here's that technically complex process happening at Darling Harbour on a public thoroughfare in 2013 at midnight.

I think the issue is Showtime. They are a bunch of revheads, and as such everything they do seems to revolve around that.

I almost hate myself for that.

@New display name C'mon buddy, the ops are like watching old people f**k. Cringeworthily slow, and you know by the time it's you on the loading platform you'll probably be 80 too.

No hate, just observation. Gut feel is they'd happily leave up an unlaminated A4 sheet for six months without batting an eyelid, so when they are willing to go the extra mile on a for-real sign then you know they are all-in on it taking while.

You know you're in for the long haul when they spend on a sign.

Says the account that seems to drop in to immediately get offended and then disappear again. You contribute nothing. Thank you, fk you, bye.

Yeah, I did the light rail once out to the parks. I don't bother now - we just Uber it.

Nice finds, but I can not understand why some people are dead-set determined to pipe unrelated music over the top of videos like the Garrod one. It adds absolutely nothing, and in-fact detracts from the historical value.

It did, and in fairness to the park it was considerably improved versus a few years ago. But it's still beset by problems such as plenty of non-functional targets, effects that don't work (eg; Supergirl wall), missing audio and missing lighting. It's almost like maintenance is an ongoing thing or something.

I did add "if you can be bothered" to cater for the notion that it's a junior coaster in their kids area, although with a 110cm height restriction versus a 90cm height restriction, a 46km/h top speed versus a 2km/h top speed, and an 11m versus 0m height which one do you think you're going to find more kids on? Brutal.

Working from one end of the park to the other, Justice League would be before Batwing, but even so I personally wouldn't be putting JL into category of "adult" or "working"

I absolutely think there's scope for a transport ride in a park spread so linearly; I mean it was only a few years ago they had two. The park is a massive chore to navigate, to the point that it's probably guest-hostile. Artificial barriers to flow all over the place

The park confirmed to me that the monorail is done, but they reserve the right to replace it in the distant future.

That's good I s'pose, but we'd given up by that stage. I do wonder though what happens to the staff assigned to SE for the day if the ride spends the day down. Can they not be reassigned to other attractions where they can meaningfully impact wait times? I could see the benefit on something like Tweety Cages that cycles very slowly because of the cycle of; stop ride -> go and unlock and pin exit gate -> walk back to one of the cages -> unlock cage, assist guests out of cage -> close cage -> move to next cage, repeat -> walk to exit gate, close gate and secure -> return to ops booth to retrieve height bar -> walk to entry gate, unlock and begin briefing riders -> admit riders -> close and secure entry gate -> return height bar to ops booth -> walk to first cage and assist guests -> walk to next cage, repeat -> return to first cage and secure -> walk to next cage, repeat -> return to ops both, brief riders -> start ride. I could see how having a second operator could quite feasibly double the cycles per hour.

They lost SE the afternoon before around 4pm and it didn't come back up. It just really struck me at the time just how thin the line-up was, and just how broken so much of the stuff in the park was or at least was perceived to be. For example; First building you encounter in Main Street is a shuttered outlet that has clearly seen better days. Roof of main street looks generally shabby. Chipped/cracked paint on the street curbs and small scenery items. Most main street windows look dirty/weathered. Every ride photo barcode dispenser was empty and in most cases broken. At least half of all ride photo screens broken/not functional. Items like ride queue length displays clearly long-term out of service. Empty enclosures where static displays previously existed. Major attractions down practically everywhere you look. Major attractions with badly faded paintwork. Major attractions with stuff that just clearly doesn't work. The Doomsday area was to broken stuff what studio showcase was to the Batman franchise. Not to mention, of course, it blows out queue times on other stuff when you have so many rides down. It was a real nuisance that the ride queue times in the app were so far out of whack. A clear example that persisted all day was Marvin; 5 min advertised wait all day, never dropped below 35 mins in reality - all of the kids queuing in direct sun. Not really good enough. Standard VRTP attitude everywhere that there's no sense of urgency. Nothing more frustrating than watching a train sit in the station for a full 5 minutes multiple times while queuing while staff would stop for a good long chat any time one of them rotates out. "Oh wait, have to come back for my water bottle..." I totally get the idea of working safely, but there's working safely and there's walking from one end of the station to the other in slow motion. Adding to the perception of how thin the park is for things to do is the walk from Batwing to the next attraction. As an adult your next working attraction from Batwing is either West or (if you can be bothered) RRRC. I didn't include DD as it was seldom running, and when it was running it... may as well not have been. They were expecting a crowd of 3k people in the park for the day.

I have to say, being in-park today the line-up is super-thin. But it's not just that; it's the overall perception of the park itself. My wife left the 4D movie with the kids after they were unable to show it due to technical difficulties. Her remark; "Does anything in this park work?". As you look around you see broken stuff practically everywhere (not just the major attractions). In fact, about the only thing you see any real effort put into is the up charges which tends to piss you off more than anything. The value in attending on a day like today just isn't there. I get that a park can have good days and bad days but... surely this is a by-design park management flaw now, rather than just an unlucky circumstance?

Imagine being such a shit friend.

These people would sell tickets to their own grandmothers' funeral.