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VR has been card, they only have eftpos terminals there, no cash register. They send you to the photo booth thing in the front of the park if you want to pay cash. Alex, it might have changed when they changed the brakes in trim station 1 to magnetic brakes. The train doesn't seem to stop and hold anywhere for any real period of time and when you come into trim station 2 you can hear the drive motors ahead of you turn on to bring you into the station. If it wasn't automated you would expect the time to vary a bit, but it all seems about the same.

Thats a taaaaaaaaallllllll set of stairs to be walking up every day.

This. No, just the hex values for the colour Orchid, as above. It's a light shade of purple that verges into pink. Its not quite as pink as mauve, but not as purple as magenta. Orchid is the colour I think it is, give or take a slight tweak to the red and blue. The colour changing in photos is due to uncalibrated/auto calibrated white balance of the camera. Each time the brightness alters, the white balance is correcting and the shade keeps adjusting.

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Pretty sure there is one of the main (electricity) substation/transformers that feed the park perched on that hill, along with what looks like fire fighting equipment. So I don't think it would be a simple area to develop. There would be service trenches running everywhere for power.

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I can imagine some rides dont need 2 people to startup/run too. So its not like you need 50 people or something each day to get the work done. I would also imagine there is a lot of preventative maintenance that happens behind the scenes too. Not so much working when the rides are closed, but doing stuff in anticipation for when they are closed for maintenance aswell.

Im not sure if it has been closed yet, but they were going to block off/lock the end of the spit for redevelopment of doug jennings park.

Nice write up Richard. Might need to modify the bit about the brake checks of a morning though? Id expect the brakes at the end of arkham to be checked every morning like other rides too even if they only slow you down when you are heading towards the station. Might sound like some other rides don't use brakes or aren't checked which would be pretty frightening.

Not sure they are trenches for pipe work, I think its continuation of the drainage that runs from the wet n wild overflow / outback spectacular car park.

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maybe they moved it to a pretty shit location and a lot of people don't even realise its there, so attendance is down and they don't want to staff it unless numbers are up/during peak and save on staff costs?

If they bring back the awesome priced/tasting family sized pies you used to be able to buy from the marketplace (people literally used to buy them without visiting the park, that's how good they were), then this is amazing news.

Its not just spending on new rides though. Capital expenditure is pretty much anything new, even includes things like renovations if they haven't already been budgeted/costed for. Pretty stupid when now is the time when parks should be putting more money into the experience, not just rides (though, for sea world they are in desperate need of new rides for sure).

Being pushed into the netting is going to catch your head while the raft continues below. I can imagine the worse case of whiplash ever, even if you didnt get caught up on anything solid. If there are restraints, it doesnt take much to visualise how someone could have their neck broken or worse. The loading sounds like the major safety aspect. Have the weight distribution towards the front and youd think it would keep the nose down.

Doesnt that building say something like production though? Trying to remember from arkham asylum. If its fenced off, it probably falls inside the studios though, so there might have been little chance of reclaiming land if the offices are in use. Unrelated though, i remember the studio tours driving through there. Used to see some iconic costumes in windows of the "wardrobe department".

It's a smaller area than the courtyard between scooby doo and arkham, where the old queue line is. It's also bisected by the superman track, so I can't see how you could fit the ride there, given its existing foot print, let alone the whole precinct.

Do you mean the smoking area in the superman courtyard?

You would have to remake the track and supports though. I reckon its pretty safe to say that the layout of the track is locked in by now.

How long does shooting take for aquaman?

How do you, as a quest, know what has happened is the issue though? it's not like you are told something broke, something failed, or it just needed to be reset, etc so you can't really be educated on the difference between a stoppage and a break down, especially in the case of being evacuated off the ride. You aren't going to walk away thinking it was just a normal stoppage, if you were asked by the media to comment, you'd be more likely to hear the ride broke down. That's the problem. It's kind of a lie without lying, telling everyone everything is fine, everything is normal hasn't worked very well so far, so continuing to call everything a stoppage is not the answer either.

The biggest problem for the member of the public is, how do you (they) differentiate between a "stoppage" and a "break down". Do you define a stoppage as something that doesn't require an evacuation? what about if you are stopped for over an hour before they restart the ride? If not an evacuation, do you then consider time to be the factor? if you are stopped for more than a few minutes, do you consider that a stoppage and not a break down? In reality its far more complex than that. The average member of the public probably doesn't know enough, or care enough about the operational side of things to be able to tell the difference. That and it's not exactly like our parks tell everybody the actual reasons for things happening. So it's not like it becomes common knowledge/practice anyway. So anytime they ride they probably expect they aren't going to be stuck/stranded/stopped at all, even if it is only a few minutes. So everything is going to simply seem like the ride has broken down. Education is a problem too, because you are only going to be able to educate those people who go looking for the information, it's never going to become a mainstream media interest that causes every person to view/read anything published. Again, the majority probably aren't all that interested about how they work outside of they go fast or turn upside down. Even with some really clever marketing, the number of people you actually reach within your target audience is probably so low that it's viewed as a waste of money. The main problem probably lies in that all parks tightly control what is said/released to the public/media. From the lack of simple explanations when incidents occur, right down to a simple warning about stopping during use. So it's difficult for every day stoppages and malfunctions to actually become every day knowledge for your guests. It would take a vastly different approach (and many years) for a simple ride fault and a planned, walk off evacuation, to become as normal as getting a flat tyre or having your battery fail and having to call RACQ. No doubt there is a level of fear involved there; acknowledging something has gone wrong and fearing being persecuted or indeed sued, plus you have the very real chance of incorrectly reporting an issue until it is fully known (which may take days/weeks, etc), so I can see why parks want to stay tight lipped when it comes to issues like this. If you opened up your park for filming maybe short 5-8 minutes segments, explaining each of your rides (i.e. 1 segment for each ride), including details on when it was built, how often (and how involved) they are closed for maintenance, how often they are checked and how it's safety functions work to protect you, maybe even simulating a ride fault that causes a stoppage? along with its key facts like height, speed, forces, etc (which most general people find kind of interesting); then made it available through various media channels, it could possibly be marketed as a behind the scenes access sort of deal anyone can access (without having to pay a large sum of money). Maybe have a host and the same engineer involved in each segment so people kind of relate to the same people each time? I wonder if all this change in attitude simply starts with additional warnings, perhaps something like, "While all checks and maintenance is thoroughly performed, amusement rides are complex pieces of machinery and may stop running without notice". Coupled with having a prepared, informed response for operational staff when even simple ride stoppages happen, maybe it would start to make it seem like nobody has anything to hide, and it's just a part of normal park operations that sometimes things will stop, but there are competent people behind the scenes that will be working to keep everything safe and get things going again.

When does it stop and start though? It seems to play for like to 10 mins and restart itself. Doesnt matter what is going on, it just seems to do its own thing. If you pay real close attention it seems like cyborg doesnt quite match the sound with his lip movements. But it seems that way all the time, like its a built in thing. Ive seen the small screens stop working before, just had some error on the screen. So i guess they can play up like any computer and mess up the video and audio. Im assuming it has some sort of computer playing the video in the station and not a little digital media box thing.

Because i dont think its part of the ride. Ive stood there for like 45 mins in the queue line and it just plays on a loop like other queue line video stuff. Doesnt matter whats going on, it just ends and restarts.

A roving person carrying something kind of like a ice cream vendor would be cool. Actually allow them to quickly tag on and demonstrate what happens on one of the elements. Make it more enticing (and make sense) than someone just standing at a stall.