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I dunno, if it was me I’d have my star 30million budget black hole attraction open for something like this to drive gate. Surely it’s draw hasn’t fallen off already. Or does some foot carts create more spend than their latest attraction? Seems off to me. One statement said they’d are about innovation. But the same food stall concept of your local market or shopping centre doesn’t speak that to me. Integrating it with a stellar attraction offering would be more innovative right?

Soooo, pretty much what I said in regards to communication being less than stellar and the delays being BS are not the same thing. But also (and not saying this IS or ISNT the case here) you can only pass on what info you have. Both manufacturers and shipping companies have a habit of being less than forthcoming with delays on a premise of ‘not delivering bad news’.

Water looks nice and clean

Let’s be clear. There is a mile long gap between Being bad at communication and Delays due to covid being bullshit and them being bad at project management. Yes 100% the messaging has left a lot to be desired. But again if you think everyone other than you is a bad project manager or liar just because you managed to ship one specific product, one time without issues then that’s silly. Another example. We just had a 40 foot container of product arrive today, 3 months from its already delayed arrival. Why? Because instead of going into Sydney shipping company just decided to send to Brisbane, then Victoria and then back to Sydney. Nice little holiday. And that was through ZERO fault of our own company.

Don’t be trying to post accurate facts that we know from our actual jobs that we work in every day. It’s what casual hobbyists BELIEVE to be the case that is ‘their truth’ on this and that is that. 😉 I waited 10 months for delivery of my car but apparently that didn’t happen just because someone else got a totally different car in less time 🤦‍♂️

A lot of things actually. When it comes to theming/entertainment technology it’s coming on many product lines to see manufacturing delays or up to 10months and shipping times of 4 months. Previously same products would have been on the shelf at manufacturers and shipped in a few days by air. This has all changed and is a problem we deal with daily. So the comments are genuine.

Agree The ride would greatly benefit from a few million thrown at it for a refresh just to bring it back to life and update some show scenes with new technology. But quality and tasteful, not like a hat happened in Scooby.

We all just gonna ignore the amazing graphic design quality of that video thumbnail then? Cool, no worries 😂

We would also expect from what we’ve heard a lot of theming still to be constructed…

See this is our difference. Nothing about the parks or comments on them is personal to me. A negative comment about them is not taken as an attack on my personal character because I can separate my identity from my interests. And if that one comment was a tirade I’d hate to see your reaction if someone really wanted to have a go about something. But I’m glad to hear YOU WONT LET ME do something 😂

Dude I literally commented on the specific issue of not being able to have the continuous Wild West Load. Any attempt to turn that into some personal attack is on you. Literally talking about one specific comment about a moving load system. Lay off your own kool-aide perhaps. And there’s nothing thinly vailed, I’m sad that the people responsible (and I know who they are) aren’t rotting in a gaol cell over the fatal incident. I’m happy to insult them all day long. They have nothing to do with present personnel at either park.

You can’t actually be serious with this post right? There is a MAJOR different between a park religiously following all manufacturer maintenance procedures and an inherent design flaw out of their control causing an incident that injured no one, and a bunch of cowboys hacking together a non existent control system, ignoring safety recommendations AND BRUTALLY KILLING FOUR PEOPLE! And you can’t also believe aesthetics of a sign in any way correlate to the safety of a parks rides??? Don’t be dense! Anyone is entitled to their opinion, like, dislike and critique of any of our parks. Hate MW, think they are crap? Sure. Think the sun shines out of DWs ass and a couple small changes to their shadow of a park is the greatest thing to hit the theme park industry? Go for it! But facts are facts. Previous ex management of DW were dangerous, unsafe, arrogant, and killed people. This ultimately had major impact on the insurance and regulatory framework of all parks in Australia which will be with us forever. And this ultimately means ride capacity will play second fiddle to risk aversion. How anyone can argue this I simply can’t understand.

What does any of that redundant ramble have to do with not being able to have a continuous station at west? And your assessment of regulators and insurance companies is inaccurate. They are extremely risk adverse now to the point that something that is extremely safe is no long enough. And it must be ridiculously safe to the point of being counter productive. That’s sadly the way it is, because no one wants another rapids. Village Parks always got a clean bill of health for safety because they took that very seriously. A faded sign has nothing to do with guest safety. Unfortunately this country will never see certain features of rides and immersiveness and efficiency again because of some very dangerous people who ran things at a single park. Thankfully those people are long gone.

Well we can thank the regulators and insurance companies for that now that they are all “you can’t have nice things” thanks to the incompetent f$$$s that used to run the park up the road.

Sega seems to fail because apparently all people want to do is live out some BS fantasy life and brag online how they go around shooting people. sigh…I remember when games were just a bit of fun

Latest update is opening on (the new) time.

Lol I’ve seen a few of these “we need to stop using Covid as a reason” comments on various things lately. Just because you’re over something doesn’t make it no longer a thing. Covid is very much still here and messing with our stuff. Events, even more so than other things.

Thing is as ‘locals’ we enjoy that. Because for a bunch of the year we have nice buildings with amazing facilities that are pleasant and quiet with just our own little residents communities. Then we put up with the crazy of families and interstate yobbos alike when it’s busy in exchange. None of us are really going to put out though… What we need is more of things like put out pushing into the unused retail spaces down in the center (and landlords getting a grip on reality to encourage that). That creates a more desirable tourist destination whilst removing eyesore blocks like the one where Put Put is and Slingshot was.

Now, with their latest coaster yet to even open yet we’ve decided not only they can’t theme a ride, buy also the 3 unannounced coasters will also be poorly themed. Let’s just cross our fingers they can spring for some Shade Sails, Stenciled Concrete and Gravel so the end result can be stunning.

Well yeah I agree that almost counts. But imagine throwing a roll or something elsewhere in the layout? An opportunity for ‘my first inversion’ would be a huge hit for families. And really that’s what you want to be targeting, and if it’s fun also for adults then great. And I say this as a 38 year old with no kids.

I feel like if you’re a young kid that boomerang is going to be a HELL of a lot more thrilling than Roadrunner. And if you’re not it’ll still be fun enough. As for the suspended, could it be as enjoyable as Jet Rescue? If it could then I say it’s a winner. But FWIW if there was a way to throw an actual inversion in the suspended family coaster I think that would be fantastic.

And good to see their LED lighting package didn’t even make it to opening without being completed stuffed and looking just for damned awful! Funny how in all those years where they were before the old fluro tubes never let them down.

I saw Artist Impressions of New Atlantis I saw Artist Impressions of Steel Taipan I saw Artist Impressions of Storm Coaster

It wouldn’t be an enthusiast forum is we weren’t all debating the validity of a parks decisions with zero confirmation that they’ve actually made them 😛

Just have them wear masks. Water boarding is all the rage right now!