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Tricoart
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18 minutes ago, red dragin said:
Do we, as a 'community', feel like they've listened and are making an effort, at least on the communication side of things?
IMO, they definitely are addressing those concerns somewhat, but there’s still a way for them to go. Their semi-openness about what’s going on currently (Superman queue/hydraulic launch fault, Doomsday destroyed, the vids & images of Flash/WoO construction, etc) is good, but some of these were done in ways that could’ve been more ‘open’ & less ‘reactionary’. Like, how they’ve now confirmed that Doomsday is closed ‘cause they’re figuring out what to do with the ride, but it’s already been that way for a while, and it’s still only stated as ‘Currently under maintenance’ on the website. Or, how they had the relatively large amount of hype-building posts for the Flash, an inherently reactionary ride in of itself, just to count it as officially open to no fanfare on a random Friday afternoon. Like, the fact they’re doing what they’re doing is a step up from the recent past, but it’s just not quite there yet (again, IMO).
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Kind of a shame that there wasn’t an actual opening ceremony, they’ve been fun to go to recently. Not that I think Flash warrants one, but theit constant hyping up of an ‘opening date being announced soon’ had me believing they thought it did.
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2 hours ago, TV15 said:
The other thing that I'm interested in is if they're getting INTAMIN out to also inspect and try to help them with Doomsday Destroyer and maybe something for FSF...
They already had Intamin out for FSF a bit ago, and I don’t think it’s breaking either companies’ banks to send some engineers over again.
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2 hours ago, themagician said:
MW have now confirmed that the queue will undergo a refurbishment to improve its theming and they’ve released some concept artworks
really hope those aren’t the finalised colours. if not, first ride-outside-a-ride opening july 2024!
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Really don’t know why posts can’t be deleted by the author of them here tbh
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Looks like they’ve started with the entrance to the turntable, photos hopefully come soon.
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19 minutes ago, Aw hype said:
Which has led to significant fatigue in the wheel bogies...I hope to be wrong but i think this may be a substantial closure with a re-design/re-engineer component.
that’s what eltororyan seems to have heard is occurring from his sources. he didn’t say the part, but he doesn’t expect it to be open anytime soon as zamp engineers it again.
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30 minutes ago, REGIE said:
Village have pretty bad offerings for merchandise. Of course they got the DC stuff and Loony tunes but as far as actual "MovieWorld" stuff and stuff for their rides it's very poor. The DC rivals joker head shirt is probably the best they have? I am mainly focusing on T-shirts at the moment but it would be nice to have other stuff as well. What shirts would everyone like to see? I quite like these designs. (Credit to Chryslerlover on reddit)
They definitely need better merch, but those shirts looks more like early 2000’s merch for a local laser tag place. The best reflection of what the parks need, IMO, are designs more akin to these (maybe not in exact style, but effort/level of design).
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40 minutes ago, themagician said:
I wonder if they triggered this on purpose so they could ‘practice’ an evac. Since it was the last ride of the night and wouldn’t delay any guests waiting in the queue, it makes sense they would practice them so they become efficient when it does happen
I was the only non-staff member on/near the cycle, and nobody was expecting to happen, so I doubt it was purposefully triggered.
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Forgot to post this in the chaos that was yesterday (for me), but FotWW’s castle has begun construction, as viewable from Flash’s exit.
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1 hour ago, themagician said:
And this is exactly why soft openings are so important.
exactly, i’m just happy (weird thing to be happy about, i know) that i got to experience a full one cause i was so close on levi opening day lol
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Update: Got on last ride of the night, and got evac’d lmao. Only other people on it were staff (great people running it rn btw, real enthusiastic & rather quick too), and they said that was the first stoppage of the ride they’ve had to deal with. My un/luckiness from Levi’s opening day (was also on last train, nearly got evac’d but it was able to advance to station) persists.
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1 hour ago, TBoy said:The Flash is undergoing technical rehearsals (thanks to ChrisEvans via TSPN)
Didn’t realise what this meant til I rocked in for the last hour of opening, they’ve actually learned from Levi & opened it for guests pre-grand opening. Actual good job, VRTP!
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1 minute ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:
Thats a really long pathway to the Dreamworld Wildlife Foundation. I can't even find where it is on the map, but i'm assuming it's somewhere near the Tigers?
I was thinking that lol, but thought context would be enough for it to be understood what DWF I was referring to. DF just doesn’t sound right to me, ig.
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Image dump from today, in some form of order:
Overview of Jungle Rush’s site from Corroborree:
Scaffolding/work walls have gone up around the Corroborree:
Images of the (soon to be) ride building:
(which, basic walls have begun to go up for)
And, of Jungle Rush’s track in the carpark:
Plus some images of the new Vintage Cars plot in its current state (in case you were wondering, the old one is still seemingly untouched):
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‘Cause there’s no general Dreamworld Update page, and most of these qualify, non-Rivertown images/updates from today:
Touch-ups are being done on the pathway between Sky Voyager & DWF.
Giant Drop is running the opposite side (not the one facing ST).
And (I thought this had already been posted here, but I couldn’t find it so I’ll post anyway) there’s a new sign atop the redone Churro stand.
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50 minutes ago, REGIE said:
It's usually always in the extra bit of track on the right of the unload area. Never seen it used though so I guess they just use one of them while the other gets worked on. I know other people have said they have seen both operating but no for ages.
Hasn’t been there for a while now.
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12 minutes ago, red dragin said:
So it looks like the Murrisippi Motors station is directly opposite Motocoaster shop.
Going to be interesting to see how they handle two currently clashing themes (jungle buggies vs racing motorbikes).
hopefully, by getting rid of the motorbikes…
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1 hour ago, Gobbledok said:
I highly doubt some exec team sit around a marble board table and have meetings on how they can screw guests this week I just think they screw up a lot and end up in these bad situations somehow
Neither of these are what occur, now that they’re majority owned by private equity. 9.9 times out of 10, all private equity wants is short-term profit, and therefore the common result of a company becoming private equity is cost-cutting & getting as much people buying as much as possible, more often than not at the expense of things such as general upkeep, customer service, and (in this case) ride reliability & cohesive ‘lands’ (why have a Superman area when we’ve got 2 plots of land nearby, ripe for IP? Why have a somewhat cohesive DC section, when black asphalt & a road sign works well enough, and there’s space elsewhere to shoehorn more DC IP into?). So it’s not park execs sitting around a marble table, nor is it a series of ‘whoopsies’. The private equity wants as much revenue from the park as possible before they flip it/it goes under, and what’s left of a park management team is accommodating that. Similar things happen in a lot of industries, I think not too long ago there was similarly anti-consumer/private equity conversation about retirement homes in the United States. And, though not the same, there’s also the Boeing story (they merged with McDonnell Douglas & allowed it’s management to overtake their own, so not exactly a private equity swooping in & trying to flip them, but it’s caused a similar outcome).
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Oh, so that’s why they updated the site… (new maintenance homepage)
(the actual attractions that are included in their very forgiving ‘operational attractions’ counter were all in the kids’ section, bar GL, JL, & Batwing)
Just saw that this was pointed out earlier, but yeah, it’s a misleading statistic at the least.
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27 minutes ago, Noll_57 said:
Meanwhile on Sea World’s website:
to be fair, on the main Rides page it does have an ‘Under Maintenance’ banner instead of the ‘Now Open’ badge, and the same ‘Under Maintenance’ banner is at the top of the New Atlantis page.
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10 minutes ago, themagician said:
It’s been like this for a while, but Trident doesn’t have a reopening date and has been under maintenance (I believe) since early Feb.
“Aquaman: Tower of Power”, coming to a Doomsday plot near you!
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2 hours ago, themagician said:
@DaptoFunlandGuy for comparison I used this checker for Sea World’s website (which is the previous style for MW) and Dreamworlds website.
Sea World’w website isn’t much better
And Dreamworld’s has a lot less violations, but the score is the same as MWs
Would ‘High Lawsuit Risk’ be in referral to actually suing due to the design of site itself, or an external issue that was influenced by the design of the site (like, being given false/hard to understand information from the site, that then led to a lawsuit)?
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46 minutes ago, themagician said:
What do we think the delay is for getting this open because from what I’ve seen, it’s done and ready to go? Staff training began a couple weeks ago, so surely they’re all trained now?
School holidays are only now 6 weeks away, so could they actually be delaying its opening purely to save money and they’ll open it early June to give them time to figure out the ride properly?
From my perspective, when you’ve got half of the parks attractions closed (most of them being major ones), surely you’d want to push as hard and as fast as possible to get this thing open?
My only guess is that they think it’s more than what it is, and want to treat it as such by waiting ‘til their ‘Opening _____’ advertising can hit the most people, regardless of how shit the park is rn & how that really hasn’t worked for them in the past.
Disney Expanding Footprint Name In Australia
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I feel like the chance of Universal making a ground-up park/experience here is leagues more likely than Disney doing it. Uni could make something as small as their Las Vegas horror experience, a mid-sized park like their family-oriented ones, or a larger-scale, all-encompassing ‘resort’ (if the tourism market is large enough). Also, with Movie World maybe going up for sale/undergoing ‘management changes’ relatively soon, Universal could swoop in like they did PortAventura, spruce the park up a bit & replace the DC IP with their own.