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Neither, but I feel that (much like many other things Village have done recently), they respond to things now and don’t think about the future and the impacts it will have

They also had this response to make it ‘feel’ more personal

Construction of the shed has gone vertical (Photo TPSN)

This is the parks response to someone’s comment about the lack of open rides

@DaptoFunlandGuyinteresting. It’s been a few months since I last went, but it’s a shame to hear it’s not as good as it used to be. I was hoping they would’ve simply made the markets better with the addition of rides on top of what they already had. Have the crowd levels dropped to?

The event page was on the website last week and it did say it was returning in 2024. I am both surprised and not surprised at the same time if it’s not returning. The event was very popular, but it was also originally created as a trial for the night markets. And since the night markets are doing very well, they probably don’t feel the need for the overlap. Hopefully they have a new event to replace it during the Easter holidays, so I’m excited to see what they come up with.

Rivals reopened this afternoon

@Noll_57 further to those, here’s some from google and Facebook in the last day

I don’t know the facts behind how they could get to a point where over 60% of there rides (with the majority being ‘major’ attractions), but I’d hope that the park realise how poor this situation is and they tried to make the guest experience better in any way possible. I wasn’t in the park today so I can’t confirm this (if anyone was, please comment), but if they had more characters on Main Street, more show times, offered any sort of voucher/free merch/return ticket that would be at least be putting in an effort to try and make up for maintenance issue. I’ve already seen comments online and people indeed are not happy/impressed by the park today (and in general) and have said they won’t be returning. So I hope the park begin to realise that people just aren’t going to continue to visit with the park in this state.

So out of a possible 16 rides, they have 6 operating. Well done Movie World, well done.

I don’t think it is from a ‘we’ll close rides to save money’ perspective, but more a lack of organisation in their maintenance department to ensure they have all the necessary parts for any unexpected downtime. And also a lack of managing their attraction downtime periods to reduce overlaps. Rides have and will always need yearly maintenance, but in reason years MWs attraction seem to be needing more of it, for longer periods and more rides are closing at once. The impacts of the TRRR incident has definitely had an impact on maintenance periods, but they need to get on top of this and streamline their maintenance processes. Rides will always have unexpected breakdowns from time to time, but the way to reduce the impact from this is to not have any more than two (whether that’s two main attractions, two kids attraction, or one of each) closed at a time (Obviously having Scooby closed for several years effects this, but in this case I wouldn’t include that in this formula). And try not to have the closed attractions next to each other in the park (for example, don’t close Doomsday & WWF at the same time because that makes one quarter of your park closed). For a long time they would close Storm Coaster at SW from Feb to April because that aligned with shortly after when the attraction opened and they had to ensure they completed maintenance the same time every year. And to fix that they did two lots of maintenance so its annual schedule could be moved to the much more sensible time of the year (winter). So maybe they need to do this again with all of their rides at MW. This would mean there would be a year when some rides would need to close twice, but if that meant a better schedule for the years to come, I think that would be worth it. So no I don’t think they’re closing their rides on purpose to save money, but I do think they are saving money by not investing in a catalogue of (backup) parts that they keep in back of house so that when rides do go down, they don’t have to order and wait for them to arrive. This cant necessarily be done for every kind of part for every ride in the park, but at least some effort should be made. But I don’t have any evidence of whether that’s fact or not, but whatever they are doing now isn’t working. They have become shit at managing their park, attraction operations and their maintenance. And if it continues like this it’s going really start to hurt their performance and most importantly (from their perspective) their pockets.

Good day to not visit MW This only leaves Green Lantern & WWF as the only operating rides outside of Kids WB

@Tricoart with a good lens you’ll probably be able to see it from Production Drive as you drive towards Paradise Country

@Tricoart my guess would be from the pedestrian bridge to cross the creek to get over to Topgolf.

Which makes me think the ride was in a worse condition then they’d ever realised and after being smashed during the Summer 22/23 season, it was no longer safe to operate, hence its sudden and very immediate closure

The building contractor for the project posted them on their socials

Awesome to see them add this. Small thing, but helps improve your day. Im really hoping they plan on reopening the Billabong (Rivertown) Station when the land opens. Even though it’s not a massive walk, I think it will (again) help improve a guest day just by reducing some of the walking

No she won’t

Got this ad for the fact Origin was a part of the solar panel installation at DW

I’m assuming this entrance is at the red line and the rainbow will be between the red and blue line. Which means that this land begins at where the Superman Escape ‘land’ ends. And therefore I guess they are seeing it as there isn’t a clash. Comparing it to how Arkham Asylum entry was placed and how the theme blended, there definitely was a clash. No matter how they (Village) are looking at it, I still think the smarter and better entry point should’ve been off Main Street using the former Lethal Weapon entrance.

Some more awesome concept artworks

I think the best spot for one of them would be in the H2O Zone, I would say on the former Buggy’s site, but is that too similar of an attraction to Kamikaze? But I think they should have a more family oriented attraction replace Aqualoop so that you have a kids/family side of the park and then the more thrills side

In every concept artwork they’ve released, the track has been a different colour, so there’s knowing exactly what it will be at this point. But it’s more likely to be a colour from the more recent images compared to the original images released

Why be quiet about it? If they decide to not proceed with reopening it, just openly say that ‘due to extensive damage the attraction won’t be reopening, but don’t worry, we have an exciting new version of the ride opening in Rivertown later this year.’ The park have been pretty transparent about what’s happening at the park and works across the past 18 months, so I’m sure they would make a statement like this if they decide not to reopen it.

With the reopening date already pushed back a couple times and considering there doesn’t appear to be any on site progress towards getting the attraction reopened, it makes me think we won’t see it return