Reanimated35
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So if a lot of this stuff is made locally (footers are a given) like cables and wiring and what not, what exactly do you get from the manufacturer when you order a coaster?
> Track
> Train
> Bolts/nuts
> Control systems/PLCs
But what else? Or to phrase it another way, how much do you need to rely on 3rd party companies to build a coaster, not including theming?
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13 minutes ago, Brad2912 said:
Well funny you should mention it, as someone who was in that mosh of people with my son (a parkz cap for anyone who finds me in the photo), I can attest that neither The Claw or Shockwave operated during the performance
Please be this guy with the glowing eyes.
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Aww, someone beat me to posting this.
Looks like a good replacement for that area.
I know it's to replace a temp attraction, but SW really need to do something about the ride position soon. Sure, the park is mainly a marine park and rides are always second. But is the Asian market big enough to sustain the park on it's own without locals?
I'm sure it probably is, and yes there's plenty of locals who still visit, but some new rides wouldn't hurt. Seaworld overseas, while more of an entertainment park, strikes a nice balance between rides and animals (ignoring the performing animal debate here). Sea World Australia has 1 dry coaster, 1 moist coaster, Castaway Bay which is not overly ideal for winter, and then the kids area.
SW really could use something new, even just a small flat. They've certainly got the space for it.
2019 just seems too far away to just fill the gap with a Jellyfish exhibit.
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There was a mix of
> Forgot I was doing this (told you it would happen)
> Had other games to play
> Have been busy
> Have been lazyBut I did make all of maybe 30 minutes progress on this the other day. Mainly just playing with the new custom billboards.
This was because there's no better option. And again, I did say it was going not be 100% accurate.
Also, it's taken me some time to get around to working on this park. (Also the fact I tend to leave the game running while I do other things for a while).
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1 minute ago, djrappa said:
The overall tone of how you describe better places to watch than they suggest, etc, how they don't do crowd control properly. The comments on marketing.
Just read as a very 'I hated the event, we're so great because we bought the special passes, park should love us for buying passes and not using them' review to me.
Fair enough, interesting take on it. 👍
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11 minutes ago, djrappa said:
Not sure why we needed the centered text which made this hard to read.
The centre tag worked fine originally for just the title but when the image was added it broke the tags. Thanks to the way the forum software treats the use of BBCode, it hid the tags in the editing view so I wasn't able to change the alignment for the rest of the post.
13 minutes ago, djrappa said:What I got from this overly indulgent read was that you didn't care much for the event and are sooo much smarter than both the park and everyone else.
How so?
14 minutes ago, djrappa said:Fortunately for the park seems most everyone else has very much enjoyed the event. As for no advertising, clearly not the case given how many people are attending.
By the sounds of this, I didn't make it clear enough that I was talking about the Ultimate Experience. The event itself is a great addition to the park and has been advertised well.
The Ultimate Experience isn't something I'd do more than once, and I don't feel that the experience itself is advertised too well.
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Because people need to realise they can't change the past and everyone just needs to move on?
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49 minutes ago, SuperV said:
SO I'm at the movies and a Dreamworld Big 9 advert came on and the actually called Buzzsaw, "Jack Darke's Buzzsaw"! I'm so confused
Why is that confusing?
Jack Darke was a British-born miller, who spent his later life in the town of Gold Rush in Queensland, Australia. Darke’s notoriety is derived mainly from the suspicious and tragic circumstances surrounding his death
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My take on today's event (or yesterday's given it's past midnight) ok let's just call it Sunday's event.
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Do you remember the last time Warner Bros. Movie World had Super Heroes & Super Villains en-masse in park? It was 2010 for the 75 year DC anniversary. Do you remember that? I don’t. I wasn’t there, but I’ve seen videos on YouTube and it looked pretty cool.
Anyway, the Super Heroes & Super Villains are back for the new, and aptly named “Super Heroes & Super Villains” event at Movie World. With a name as basic as that you’d be forgiven for thinking I came up with it. Now, lets get the important question out the way first. Do you think this event might give us a clue to the new Hypercoaster theme? Wait, no, we’ve passed that period of “magenta madness” haven’t we?
So what’s this event all about?
Well, Carnivale buggered off to Sea World in January, and Fright Nights isn’t until October, so they needed something to fill the gap, and what better way to make use of theDoomsday/DC Villainmain street area, than with a new event?!
The event itself is great. The costumes are on point as you’d expect; the performances are well done (even if a couple of them are just the normal day shows anyway); and the additional theming features some old movie props and a multitude of great photo opportunities.
There are a few different ways in which you could choose to experience this event. The first, and most obvious one being just rock up with a camera for the day. Or maybe you’d prefer to have breakfast atTiffany’sRick’s and get some photos taken with different DC characters. You could also go all out and do the “Ultimate Experience” which gets you plenty of inclusions, more on that later. There is also one final pre-purchasable experience targeted to kids called the “Junior Justice League”. I don’t know anything about that as I don’t have kids, but I’m sure Movie World would have made it a great offering to the younger ones.
Electing to take on the “Ultimate Experience”, our day begins with breakfast at Rick’s with character photos available (and they’re free, so you may as well get as many as you can). Is the breakfast good? Well I’m not really a breakfast person, especially at an hour of the day where I’d normally be asleep, so I’m probably not the best person to ask. The available food is the same as what you’d expect at any hotel buffet and the small amount that I did eat tasted quite good.
During breakfast, you’re presented with your VIP lanyard, gift bag (containing a cape, keyring, drink bottle, RFID wristband for the DC Villains area, and a park map with meeting times for certain activities). You also get unlimited fast track, fast photos, and a locker to put everything in for the day.
What are these things to meet for? Well it wouldn’t be a tour without VIP seating for the Hollywood Stunt Driver 2 show, so there’s that. You also get a ride on Arkham fast tracked and using VR if you choose to (unless like today VR breaks down just before you get on the ride), you get a buffet lunch at Rick’s, AND a VIP area to watch the 6pm parade.
We’re probably the type of guest the park loves. We buy the tour, collect our fast track bands, then spend most of the day wandering around taking photos instead of utilising the queue jumping goodness of fast track. It’s easy money for them. We did go on 4 rides, and, side note, Scooby was looking quite dark today which was great to see given its current condition.
Having seen the stunt show so many times, we gave it a miss. Missing it is something I certainly won’t be doing when it eventually leaves the park. A day that can’t come soon enough.
Lunch at Rick’s was exactly that. The standard pizza & pasta buffet offering. The food is great there and well worth the money. Speaking of money, looking at everything you get in the “Ultimate Experience” it really is good value for money. Buying everything separately, you’d be looking at around $160-170. The “Ultimate Experience” ticket is now selling at the reduced price of $100, so that’s a pretty decent saving.
The other main selling point of this event is the parade. Now the parade itself is great and there’s more characters and performances than the normal parade, but what wasn’t great was the one thing that detracts from the overall “VIP Experience”. That was the viewing area for the parade. It was a very odd choice to place this up in the main square when the majority of the action happened down outside the Roxy Theatre. Fortunately knowing this, we skipped the VIP area and found ourselves seats on the kerb and had a great view of the shows.
That kerb though. I’m all for people doing the right thing and keeping the road clear for the performers and floats, but for a couple of the staff, even being as much as the hair on a bee’s knob over the kerb and channel was enough to get told off for being too close. Now you may think I’m talking about standing out on the street to see around the crowd to get photos. No. I’m talking about not even being allowed to have your toes touching the asphalt. Ease up a bit, guys.
Was the experience worth it? Yes.Would I do it again? Probably not because it’s not marketed as something with repeat-ability.
Actually, let’s be honest here. It’s not really marketed at all. Does Movie World not want people doing this? I don’t recall seeing even one in, or out of park advertisement for it.
The writing is probably all over the place in this, and I do plan on uploading several photos of the event, however I had 3 hours of sleep before doing this VIP day, and it’s now almost 2am, so just writing this review was a struggle. The photos will come later.---***--- -
I usually buy large shirts and these seems larger than our sizes to the point they'd almost be extra large. I'd consider buying one size smaller than normally so they actually fit.
Unless you need a new tent.
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Blue huh?.......fountain confirmed!
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14 minutes ago, elemist said:
I don't understand the purpose of these types of developments? Is it a case of build it and hope the parks can scale up to create the demand for the accommodation? Or to relieve pressure on accommodation in Surfers itself?
At least that seems to be the theory. I mean it works in movies, right?
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3 hours ago, Brad2912 said:
drinks, decorative or sauce?
We'll have to wait for a certain someone to run an exclusive so we can find out. Maybe it's all 3 of them?
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Shouldn't take too long for the switch to be in the bargain bin.
Especially with the Xbox One X coming soon and presumably some sort of offering from Sony soon.
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2 hours ago, GC Theme Parks said:
hypercoaster construction where more work is being done on the inverted loop
Well that's news to everyone. Including the designers and those building it.
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3 hours ago, Reanimated35 said:
Do you think these might be clues to the coaster theme?!?
Congratulations to those three people who recognised the sarcasm in this post. Or at least I hope that's why you hit "like".
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48 minutes ago, Skeeta said:
Does anybody believe Ardent's infighting will cause Ardent to drop the ball further and slow DW’s recovery.
That implies they're holding the ball currently.
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Do you think these might be clues to the coaster theme?!?
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1 hour ago, Skeeta said:
What! Two carts you say
No, I say "how are they connected?"
But I feel this was more of a marketing photo given the casual position everyone seems to be adopting rather than holding on.
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5 minutes ago, strop said:
Is anyone considering riding this Backwards FIRST?
Yup
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8 minutes ago, pushbutton said:
I could say your opinions are even weirder djrappa, but I see no reason to stoop so low.
How exactly is that "stooping so low".
You'd be hard pressed to find many people who could make sense of your views.
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True, but it's 2017 and people bitch and moan about everything and always look to blame others.
I wasn't able to find any info on what constitutes a "big boy" seat though. Any ideas?
Also big "boy"?!?!?! Why not big "girl"?!?! Or big "person"?!?!?! I'm offended!
/2017rant
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