Baconjack
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Why do people on here complain about the sky voyager facade so much lol it fits the theme of what the ride is about. Art deco respectfully does not scream to the average guest of a flight around australia. When it’s one of your key attractions that’s not what you want.
I get that it’s jarring but the most you could do is repaint the white a different colour (perhaps grey) and change the sign.
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It looks shit but it’s what gets the clicks at the end of the day. If you look at the engagement it’s twice or triple fold compared to the other stuff they post so they must be doing something right. Lots of brands do this, to varying degrees of success and quality, but it’s about consistency with the uploads.
Cant fault them (or village either) for trying to get ahead of the algorithm
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Something really similar already exists with Rivals (in its first couple of years) with the double sided bins in the station where riders boarding placed their stuff next to the train, which would rotate towards the station wall by the time guests went back into the station. Iirc with 2 train ops the bins would rotate after guests on one of the trains disembarked and got their stuff, with the bins emptied for the next train and the next train’s stuff towards the wall waiting for them.
There’s no reason something similar could be implemented into superman for a “next generation” revamp, however this would obviously necessitate a major re routing of the queue as those lockers would need to be placed on the wall next to where the fast track queue for the ride exists now. Don’t think this gets implemented until such a revamp occurs, if it ever does, because it requires massive works to not only the queue but the wall to fit such bins in.
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Did the laminated sign printer machine get retired or something?
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Probably need a location more central in the park for that kind of thing, I dunno. Close enough to west and scooby, close enough to Main Street, close enough to Dc. Also the ambo point is valid too the building is right next to a service road.
Real question is why does there need to be an arcade in a theme park? This isn’t sega world, and if people want to do that they’d go to Timezone. I never saw anyone in the old arcade ever so why bother making alterations to a building for a new one? Make it a walk through or a proper attraction of some degree, it a complete waste of space that movie world does not have in spades
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Where was first aid before?
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52 minutes ago, Tricoart said:
By ‘latest technologies’, they must mean the latest technologies for Village rather than Intamin (delays/mishaps during construction, rare showy & vague press posts over actual communication to guests, and spending the bare minimum amount possible).
I mean they are somewhat right. The ride was done up at wet n wild not long ago
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Generic names that mean nothing - coming to an Epcot, California adventure and Hollywood studios near you.
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13 hours ago, Park Addict 93 said:
Exactly this, simply have it listed as closed indefinitely on the website as MW currently has for Doomsday
Or just rebrand it as mursissippi motors and say it’s opening in December
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5 hours ago, themagician said:
Same, but it took them many many years to decide to do this for AA and it felt like they really didn’t want to.
I believe it was ‘That’s so Mid’ that shared on their socials a look through the hole in the Scooby alley gate and there was no sign of any construction happening in that part.
If they don’t do something to it they’ll need to construct a gate there or something to ‘hide’ that alleyway so you ‘can’t see’ down there so it ‘doesn’t distract’ guests from their multi-million dollar shiny new ‘world-class’ land.
They’ll most likely repaint the walls or something. I remember seeing somewhere concept art for an archway to the land that would sit at the top of the alleyway so I reckon there are intentions to retain it.
Having guests walk in and out of superman plaza would result in far too many people around that section of the park, they should have both of those walkways open where possible. Plus you will need an extra route out of the land for an evacuation
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On 4/4/2024 at 2:47 PM, New display name said:
Who builds coasters in Australia?
Arkham and Gold Coaster were subcontracted to the same local company (able leisure) who made the track and supports in their Melbourne shop off the vekoma/arrow plans.
Different time though I’m pretty sure most coasters built here until the 2000’s were subcontracted to local manufacturers
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Doomsday counterweights removed (from tpsn)
I reckon this is more evidence pointing to the fact doomsday is being pulled down. Looks like a blowtorch cut at the top, if they were doing a full strip down they’d unbolt that section
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5 hours ago, Park Addict 93 said:
Black wrap around the ride fence yesterday too.
I see doomsday is getting closedforroutinemaintenance’d.
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6 hours ago, STRAWS said:
i don't mind this too much at least it's not gone up like How village made their prices rocket.
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
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17 hours ago, Rivals said:
Doomsday’s maintenance schedule now has no reopening date and just says “From 5 Feb 2024.”
this is what they did to Arkham before silently closing it, maybe they finally decided to pull the plug on Doomsday.
And Bermuda Triangle/Skyway/Corkscrew/Looney Tunes River Ride/Sea World Monorail/Batman Adventure etc
15 hours ago, Ashley Jeffery said:Jeez even Dreamworld at its lowest wasn't this bad. Have they thrown everything into Wizard and forgotten the rest of the park?
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.
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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
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4 hours ago, themagician said:
This is the parks response to someone’s comment about the lack of open rides
Was this AI generated? Serious question
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25 minutes ago, TomiJ said:
Why did Wonderland Sydney close if it was not from poor management.
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)
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18 hours ago, New display name said:
You're kidding yourself @themagicianif you believe MW isn't cost cutting on purpose by increasing maintenance times. DW are cost cutting by reducing park hours, MW are cost cutting by extending time frames. MW mechanics aren't working on 4 closed rides, every day at the same time, for 2 months.
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.
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21 hours ago, Ogre said:
New safety sign for Seabed Splash, quite nice looking!
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)
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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
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3 hours ago, STRAWS said:
Bottom line is Movie World is run by a bunch of Tools. No wonder why all of their top staff left and went to Dreamworld.
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
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17 hours ago, Cactus_Matt said:
On whatever topic we are, seems like foreign visitors (specifically in this one case US YouTuber 'AirtimeThrills' ranks Movieworld pretty high, mainly for Rivals, which he ranked as his 13th best coaster of all time, and he's ridden over 600 coasters around the world (for whatever that's worth).
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)
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2 hours ago, themagician said:
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.
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300-400 likes on Insta compared to their usual output which gets double digits, that’s definitely three times the amount ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
More people use Insta these days especially young people where reels are more popular as a format.