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GL definitely wasn’t running at around midday. M1 was a car park and I was outside MW for a solid 5mins without a cycle running

Forgot to upload these after visiting Sunday.

I believe they may have, yes. this time they just had the new 52 Batman. Green lantern, cyborg and penguin were also noticeably missing from the parade

Yep... thankfully didn’t effect me living on the GC.

Well that’s the current cinematic reality anyway haha.

Didn’t want to flood this topic with photos, so have uploaded some of the parade to the Photography thread https://www.parkz.com.au/forums/topic/6602-photography/?&page=34#comments

Here’s some photos from the DC night parade at MW for anyone unable to get along.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing mate!

Finally made it along to the event this evening. the park is quiet due to greater bris being in lockdown which is terrific! the green fountain is now yellow which looks kinda strange. saw HSD for the first time in 12 months or so. Script has changed a little, and the presenters/hosts wearing masks was a little weird to see. They have also gone back to only having 1 group per cart on scooby, whereas 2 weeks ago when last year they’d stopped that and were just filling carts. Thankfully it’s quiet so doesn’t really impact. WWF walk on SDSC 5-10mins

There was zero social distancing in the queue on ground level, no markers, painting, signs or communication from staff to social distance. QLD is in its best space Covid-wise with 4 months since community transfer, there would be no mandate surely to change queuing structure or capacity on towers, there wasn’t even markers on the tower anywhere once you were released to get up there. It’s just crazy and poor execution

First school holiday visit to DW today. crane in the car park lifting some ST pieces around. I’m usually quite defensive of DW, but they get a solid F for operational planning. Some of the decision making is just amateur hour at best. the monster trucks whist an unique attraction in theory just hasn’t been executed well at all. To have zero shading available for the show whatsoever, and expect people to go in 30mins prior to sit in direct sun on metal benches that were easily 80+ degrees - we were lucky we had towels in our bag. I’d say at least 30-40 people left prior to it even starting. the show itself only goes for 12-15mins, and is in one word - boring. then we get to WWW, where for some god awful reason they’ve decided to have the queue lines for green room and Hydrocoaster on ground level rather than utilising all the tower stairs, only letting roughly 10-12 people on the tower for each queue at a time. The outcome being instead of queuing in the generally shade of the tower, you are now queuing in direct sun, no shade, burning hot floors. A 1.5hr wait for Hydrocoaster and only 10mins of that wait was on the tower stairs itself. No communication, at one point HC broke down, line didn’t move for 15mins, but no one came along to tell people there was issues, only way we found out was people coming down the tower who told us as they tried to push through to get out. no idea what is going on, but they really need to rethink what they are doing.

Huh?

Sit me next to anyone you like. there is no social distancing at cinemas anymore, there is no social distancing at the shops in queue, aisles etc. time to stop living restricted when there is no current outbreak. Live cautiously, and if you are more susceptible take your own personal precautions.

And that is a fantastic point! Haha

Interesting that the GP seem to be allowed to take recording equipment on the ride...

The new owners may be keen to splash a little cash, or at least forward plan with early announcements. maybe an announcement at the end of financial year presentation for a 2022 opening

Loved LW/AA and bummed I haven’t been on it in a couple of years. Think my last ride was at white Xmas back in 2017 - it was a great coaster IMO and the revamp did alleviate the ear bashing that was annoying, and I didn’t experience the leg pain others mentioned - it was mildly uncomfortable in the brake run at worse for me. the intensity was certainly the highest of any coaster imo...

Think it’s essential with the bypass going in for The Big Banana to market itself as a stand-alone destination rather than just a place to stop for a drink and photo between Sydney and the GC, and this goes along way to doing it. hope it comes to fruition

I somehow doubt any companies’ strategic plan accounted for a worldwide pandemic that ripped a hole in the global and domestic tourism industries’ ass....

If you are heading to MW ignore the sign out the front that says WWF is closed for maintenance, it isn’t. also ignore the app which says the SE is closed, it also isn’t.

Lol better not go anywhere then... The sewerage samples were from early November. Means jack now.

6 weeks off school seems a good time to do some work on that.

Confirmed launch tomorrow, couple of key quotes from the article: Mr Randhawa said the ride offered thrillseekers a dramatically different experience to other attractions. “It has three different speeds and it is a really immersive experience because once you are elevated there is water all around you,” Mr Randhawa said. https://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news/gold-coast/theme-parks-vortex-ride-opens-in-sea-worlds-50-million-new-atlantis-precinct/news-story/ac758598dfa57736116b3cf6fc6a5363

18 or so months ago

Will be insanely busy, as will pretty much any day post Boxing Day until late January. If you don’t get there until 11:30 you’ll likely find fast passes sold out already