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Maybe we will see a comeback?

You seem mad. Y u mad?

They'll be pleased to know it's that easy, I'm sure.

What's a good walk-through, anyway? None spring to mind.

Caps Lock is cruise control for cool.

Haha, yep, you got me. I had assumed it was an elevator early on, but by the time I later found out it didn't actually go anywhere it was always known in my mind as 'the elevator'. Twas the earth drill.

No more than a year after it opened. I remember it well because in the last hour or thereabouts of the park being open (and as the buses have taken a lot of the crowd away) most rides are walk-on so it was a race to see how many you could get in that time. We had assumed the BT ops knew this and therefore weren't going to make people sit through the pre-show for no good reason. Naturally this was still in the days of fire on the mountain, and the turntable still operating.

How do you feel it would stack up against the BT pre-show?

This is worth watching. Verrrry similar:

I saw Bermuda in its heyday, including the pre-show. The costumes and all were lovely, but ultimately it was being herded into the room to watch a video clip, and then over the top onto the turntable. There really wasn't a lot to it. It added about as much to the experience as a video clip you'd be shown before a game of laser tag. The fact that the storyline of the ride tied into the video clip was nice, but that's about it. Come back late in the day and you'd find the video clip on a loop and people allowed to walk through. If I contrast it to the Batman ride you had the library set with the bookcase, then the tunnel where there was a back and forth between the host and video clip, then the bat cave, and then you'd be pushed through to the ride which constantly referenced the pre-show. That was a multi-stage pre-show with much higher production values. LTRR's pre-show was a mixed-bag. The room with the painted characters was fun to kill some time, the animatronics were a bit goofy but the kids probably liked them. The elevator was... an elevator. Whatever. As far as quality of effects in the ride itself Bermuda craps on the others pretty comfortably, but if we are simply taking the pre-show I don't think we can say the same. If I had to wonder - I'd say the Batman pre-show was double the length of the Bermuda one.

Or, just thinking about it, we could just not worry about it and assume that people are more interested in riding the damn thing than they are in whether a relatively insignificant level of detail exists in a place that has absolutely no bearing on the ride experience...

Correct, ala the fake-arm-soda-can gag window.

1: No, he is complaining that the fries are too expensive. They are. 2: It's okay to come out of your cave now - McDonalds has been offering table service for their gourmet burger (CYT) menu for quite some time. They even offer delivery in some stores. Amazing and life-changing, I know. 3: Not true, depending on the pathogen the onset of symptoms can be within hours, and may indeed have been the last thing you ate. You are not recommended to see a doctor in most cases unless symptoms persist for more than three days. Looks like 0/3 on that one. Your aim is normally better.

Better yet, he also has released them to the Internet under a Creative Commons license for you! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Enclosed_hallway_before_circular_room.jpg

Someone with the same username and general penchant for abuse of the written word no less.

Trying to compare local pass prices to their equivalent in US dollars makes no sense. The opex costs of the park are incurred in Australian Dollars, not US Dollars. That a pass here would be cheaper for a US resident is irrelevant, just the same as currency fluctuations have almost doubled the price of a pass to the American parks for us in the last few years.

Yeah, the industry already has a thing for this. The customer is always the customer. That is, no matter how wrong the customer may be, no matter how rude the customer may be, and no matter how ignorant the customer may be the customer is always the customer and should be treated with respect and tolerance. They are paying your bills, so you should act like it.

That brings up an interesting point though about consumer behaviour. At a conference recently some research was presented that concluded that you could increase the customer perception of value at your property-owned food and beverage outlets by strategically placing a well-known brand that customers can be expected to know the standard pricing of in your park and contractually ensuring the mark-up on products over outlets outside the park is fairly low - the research concluded that customers saw the delta and made a value assumption on your other outlets that markups must be similar. It was an interesting take on it that I'd not considered. I'm unsure how wide-spread it is.

The issue seems to be value proposition. The punters know good and well that they are captive audience, and they also know that there's nothing in and of the parks themselves that should rightfully demand a premium for what is by and large very ordinary food other than profiteering. These are businesses, and people get that there are profits to be made. People don't mind paying low prices for low-grade fast food. People do mind paying premium prices for low-grade fast food. They will inevitably (and fairly) compare the prices they are seeing with what they consider to be comparable items on the street and rightly come to the realisation that it's a rip. That's why people will often seek out chain brands in a theme park - they are dealing with a known-quantity in the menu, the food standard, and what should be the pricing. Customers usually resent being bent over.

The image is 960x720 - which is what Facebook resizes it to. Given the image appears to be lifted off their Facebook page I'd say we shouldn't be too surprised here.

Which part were you having trouble reading? I have eyes and am happy to use them for you.

It should totally be a dark hotel. No lights, no windows, just bargain basement animatronics.

Would a shrewd businessman come in here and snark his potential customers/advocates? I must have missed that chapter in my studies. I completely get NDA's. They are nothing new. But, you usually need to pitch before you even get someone interested enough to sign one. What's the pitch?

So what would you say that you joined these forums to tell us?

It used to be an option in IPBoard: https://vimeo.com/20369319 Probably a setting buried somewhere.