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  1. 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

  2. 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.

  3. 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)

     

  4. 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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  5. 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

  6. 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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  7. 15 hours ago, Tricoart said:

    More concept art has been posted. Unsure how legit it is, but the poster seems to have done stuff for Village (Float mockups), DW (the Rivertown art, and maybe some DWF stuff), Taronga (Reptile & Amphibian Conservation Centre concept art), & others.

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    (Source)

     

    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

  8. 1 hour ago, red dragin said:

    When I rode it today, pre-show started once harnesses were locked. Queues were slow, but only two loops of people around the central funnel thingy so not busy either. 

    First time ever riding it. The story/theme suits that ride perfectly, it's really well told. The 'cave paintings' in the circular queue set up what's coming. And f*ck that coaster is full on. Definitely how I'd imagine trying to ride a sea monster might be. I regret not buying a pass when it first opened now. 

    I hope both major parks exceed that level of story telling with their new rides this year. 

    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

  9. On 11/2/2024 at 3:52 AM, daltma10 said:

    The theming and the direction seems great and all, but, do we have a track and support colour yet? All artworks released show either brown, yellow, or orange. I reckon the colour of the ride itself will impact the theming.

    There’s footage of the jungle rush turntable being tested in the Netherlands if you look far enough back on this thread.

    The track/support colour (orange track grey supports iirc) look similar enough to the artwork that’s been released, so it could what they might be shipping everything to dreamworld in.

  10. On 11/2/2024 at 11:23 AM, Rivals said:

    hopefully they’ve got a replacement lined up for that plot of land since it is probably the parks “headlining” / most well known slide. a slide like Honu at Volcano Bay could work really well. i’d love to see a Slide Wheel but, i think that would be better in SurfRider / Whirlpool Springs plot of land.

    but in reality, it’ll probably sit there for a couple years. 

    Something like Tantrum at raging waters would work excellently for wet n wild. Thrilling enough to fill the gap aqualoop filled in and different enough from the rest of lineup.

  11. 14 hours ago, Tricoart said:

    Alongside the concept art, a video was released with some construction footage & a rough 3D model of the site, as well as confirming the coaster’s names as ‘Kansas Twister’ and ‘Flight of the Wicked Witch’ from the trademarks. (Credit: Movie World’s IG)

     

     

    Hahahaha nice try @New display name

  12. 18 minutes ago, Naazon said:

    I mean with such a major prop piece, they wouldn't show renders of it it they didn't have it already planned, budgeted and purchased.

    Yeah but my worry is that it’ll be a plane plonked on a slab of concrete. At that point may as well just put a lawn on it and a few bushes instead of the plane. As I said the concept art looks too good to be true - and in most cases for parks it is. We’ve never really seen something at that level of detail in Australia, let alone at dreamworld, so there’s no precedent to follow. 

    Happy to eat my own words if construction photos prove otherwise though

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