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  1. I see doomsday is getting closedforroutinemaintenance’d. Pull it down
  2. I’m not a fan of village given my postings but this is illogical. Prices of day tickets now compared to where they used to be are pretty consistent with inflation so I don’t think it’s price gouging at all. Also @wikiverse you would have hated Cyclone. Gold Coaster is smoother than its ever been with those restraints
  3. And Bermuda Triangle/Skyway/Corkscrew/Looney Tunes River Ride/Sea World Monorail/Batman Adventure etc At least movie world aren’t throwing spare buckets of paint on the ground of queues of rides, leaving rides sitting there in the open for 10 years to rot away, not taking care of buildings (and making them look fucking ugly), letting nature take over natural features, or leaving scenery pieces to rot. Hell, even not having a maintenance logbook on their rides at all whatsoever. Old dreamworld regime didn’t care for their park experience (or guest safety for that matter). There’s plenty of reading you can do if you go back far enough on these forums, or look at the coroner’s report on these things. Laws are in place to make sure pre-2016 dreamworld cannot happen so this comparison is baseless.
  4. 2d comic art is fine but Village has proven that it can do that style at a good standard with Doomsday. What’s the excuse here? I guess given this is a last minute addition that’s been done to resolve capacity issues and nothing else they will just put in the bare minimum amount of effort
  5. They built nothing to keep guests coming back. We have all heard this before. ultimately this is where your comparison makes no sense to me because for all their flaws Movie World IS building stuff as opposed to nothing. So they are doing the bare minimum to keep people coming back. They are also not closing down WB Kids permanently to save money. (though on a side note the way village is looking after leviathan is giving me massive bush beast vibes)
  6. I wouldn’t class it as “cost cutting” personally id rather class it as “bad management”. The bulk of movie world’s major rides are over 10 years old (excluding Rivals). Quite a number of these rides are difficult to get parts for (compared to dreamworld’s ride list where they got rid of all of those types of rides). So they will need more time to work on these rides - that’s just part and parcel of what happens when rides get old and more time needs to be spent caring for them. From my view these woes are more of a victim of poor planning. Scooby’s renovation was as pointed out by many a snap decision and should have been foreseen much earlier (or done proactively) to take into account for lead times. That decision means one of the park’s biggest crowd draws will be down for between 2-3 years. Likewise Arkham’s replacement has been too slow. The ride sat there for years with zero action while movie world came up with a thousand ideas on what would replace it. They should have known they had to replace this ride for a while, given what happened to Corkscrew, but it was again another spur of the moment thing. That replacement ride is now due to open 5 years after the ride it replaced closed. Both of these things are managed properly and people wouldn’t be writing these reviews because rides are open. Was this done to save money? Probably, but that’s not the primary reason. Movie world management know these all have to be done eventually so why take the “she’ll be right mate” approach and take your sweet time with these things and make decisions on the spur of the moment rather than with some foresight. Cost cutting to me means nothing gets built - so the Wonderland comparison is moot in that regard.
  7. I do really like the grey dreamworld logo on this sign. It looks infinitely better than the old one. Hopefully a few more of these are rolled out around the park and/or themed to the area they sit in (like a wooden one for rivertown)
  8. this is such an embarrassing article. You don’t even mention one of the rides you’re going to be opening soon in it. I don’t see Greg begging Taylor swift to go to dreamworld. Draw your own conclusions with that one
  9. It’s a village wide thing. They’ve done this at sea world for pretty much forever, they’ve left retired rides at the park visibly rotting away in front of guests for years on end until figuring out that they need to do something about it. Reminds me a lot of early 2010’s dreamworld actually. To their (read: Bikash) credit it’s been slightly fixed up though. Reports of leviathan quickly becoming a bone shaker are seriously concerning too. Village can get away with this shit because people who come from interstate are indifferent and are still going to visit their parks regardless. Old Dreamworld did this until they killed people. It’s quite frankly a huge shame because new dreamworld is a better park than it used to be but the reward for effort hasn’t been there because of those aforementioned deaths
  10. It's almost as if a sizeable portion of the parks he's visited are Six Flags joints that are to put it lightly not very well looked after. For our standards, yes. Movie World looks horrid right now. Our parks dont compete with six flags but movie world does compete with dreamworld that's spent the last few years getting cleaned up while movie world has been neglected. I've mentioned all of these many times before but will elaborate again: Ride effects not working or deactivated (looking at you West) Removing cool signage such as road runner and scooby and replacing it with shit flat ones that all come from the same machine (why? are they a safety issue or something) Rubbish and upkeep (managers at these kinds of places need to be on the ball with this stuff so I wonder what they are doing) Removing virtual queue to gouge more people for fast track (straight up anti consumer I actually hate this one) Seldom touching WB Kids in a decade, apart from removing a hut and a ride and then adding another one (when i last visited a year ago the state that it was in was embarrassing, would hate to see what it's like now) Unenthusiastic/sometimes rude staff (I wonder what the management team are doing right now, because I know from experience that doesn't happen at entertainment venues with the right people in those positions) Retiring ride specific staff uniforms (Superman, West and probably scooby when it's back are worse without them)
  11. With all that bush near superman, does the ride take place in smallville rather than metropolis these days? it’s like they have purposefully ignored to integrate the land into dc land and left it to stick out as a sore thumb because it’s too hard to move a few churros and drink bottle carts to someplace else.
  12. So this confirms that the main entrance will be as you walk past superman. Walking through DC land to get to wizard of oz is going to be quite jarring (as will be that giant rainbow you will see heading into the final brakes on superman, but I digress) Complete missed opportunity to re use the Chinatown corridor on Main Street imo
  13. Yeah that’s new, when it first opened the pre show if I’m remembering it right would play when the load process started. That’s one very long dispatch cycle then if they are waiting to play the pre show after the restraints are locked. The station pre show is awesome but I don’t think it’s a good thing in terms of throughput. Hopefully for Oz the pre show is not in the station (or if it is, is a bit shorter), but im not holding my breath
  14. Nah that’s not this one. Think you might be talking about the tilt coaster one
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