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You’re talking to the wrong people then. Most good operators are smashing it at the moment.

If he does get you one, don’t post it. They could get fired or banned from site, has already been one case of this. Just enjoy the video, it will be worth the wait.

We’ve nearly all been on here for years saying the parks are undervalued and should be increasing prices. So good to see them finally taking the plunge and doing so. Also the UTT has progressively gotten worse and worse even since it started. First two years were great, exclusive, edgy and premium. Then it got more and more revenue generating, watered down and oversold. So not surprised it’s been canned.

Totally agree. Take some bloody personal responsibility, you watched him climb it!

Millennium Force only has stairs beside the top arc of the lift

My reason is because they all look tacky as hell. From the kebab shop style lighting package through to the fact I could see Bloody wheels underneath the thing, that sky flyer at Seaworld looked awful. As does nearly every other traveling ride no matter what you do. Yes I would say the exception was the Seaworld Eye, and if you could do that with something sure. But I highly doubt that’s what you would get. Id hate to be a park operator. One day its “they suck because they didnt build a fully themed immersive attraction”, and the next “oh just wack some carni rides in there.” I dont envy their position

Just 100% no, no way, never to the idea of bringing any portable rides into the parks. gross

I don't think anyone is suggesting that at all. The shutdown was scheduled for a long time. It's likely the closure is a new thing but the work would still happen at the planned time in the next few months.

It It does if you hate yellow and prefer white

So does that count as an enhancement now?

There is a huge amount of tech that can be upgraded on this thing. Everything from the media servers, through the gaming system to the projectors is ancient by computer standards. The ride doesn’t run on DMX triggers, its all PLC based with a basic background state and individual scene triggers. You can easily change out scene by scene components to upgrade whilst leaving the underlying PLC control system untouched (PLC technology doesn’t really change ‘that’ much over time). So there is a hell of a lot of new life that could be breathed into the attraction just with system upgrades to the current equivalents of what is already there. Some new lights would be nice too.

6 weeks is a long time for a ride that needs basically none so I would imagine there must be some decent work going on to the rides effects/theming/av given that's all the ride is comprised of. I would much sooner see JL returned to good condition and money spent on other additions than them spend millions on replacing it with something likely similar.

Isnt it having a big downtime soon?

Honestly who cares? No but I’m the one paying so I’ll be the one reading. If others want to they are welcome to pay also

Sure just send me the $24 to cover my subscription fee

I actually bothered to read the article and it fails to mention a date or comment from the park stating a delay. They probably been doing Parkz forum research again for their amazing journalism. From what I gather the park is rushing towards the Sep 3 date and aiming to open as close as possible to that date. Both theming and ride elements alike are in the full swing of commissioning right now.

They are testing at night for obvious reasons so… ???

Least someone’s PR and Marketing departments are on the ball!

She's a politician... it's basically in their job description

Sometimes Parkz knows things

Yeah didnt Luna Park just make the biggest investment in forever 5 minutes ago? Yes its not perfect but its not nothing.

I have zero issue with them getting money others didn’t fwiw. I also don’t ‘hate’ DW either just to be clear

Did you read what I wrote at all? Or are you too busy frantically searching Parkz for years old posts from people to try and dig up as some kind of 'gotcha'? <- which is just damn friken sad by the way, get a life! I said it's irrelevant what we think, the reaction from the public was bad, which is not what the park needs. I know how this played out, because I watched it yesterday.

Dom is correct that everyone has different opinions and everyone is entitled to them. My position has/is always also (as much as many don't like it) that enthusiast opinions (including my own) really do matter little when it comes to the grand scheme of things in terms of the business side of a theme park. I will say though that I read maybe 8 versions of this story posted on News socials yesterday. In each case the overwhelming public majority was a down vote to Dreamworld and angry comments about it. So right or wrong, my opinion or yours is largely irrelevant here, what is important is the optics are bad, for a park who already had bad optics as a legacy. The government is the government, so their shit actions will be largely forgotten amongst the next shit thing they do, unfortunately Dreamworld's rep is somewhat less resilient.

Yeah and they don't turn around and build a roller coaster with them! Honest the Dreamworld sap bias is so ridiculous in this matter. How on EARTH does Dreamworld spending wildlife money on a bloody roller coaster (*cough* apparently it's just delayed and they'll do it later. BS! And if you can build a coaster in covid, you can build a small building for Koala research) somehow turn into Sea World are evil and their management is horrible and they hate everyone? What? Because the CEO drives a nice car? Give me a friken break! And yes the government is just as culpable in this as Dreamworld. It's disgraceful the government said yes to this, and it's equally so that Dreamworld even asked. Yes it is straight forward, straight forward that they care more about getting a shiny coaster open to drive gate (how's that empty carpark working out for them by the way?) than their animal commitments. No I wouldn't agree at all if it was Village, I would be equally as horrified. And don't keep bringing up Polar Bears, that's just being ridiculous for being ridiculous. Guess what, Tigers don't live at Coomera in the wild either!