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Nobody saw an Electrical fire. How even would you? Just the same as nobody saw an EXPLOSION at Green Lantern. Pretty much the same garbage as when someone tells you the story of how they got electrocuted one time, which is baffling how they are telling that story if they are DEAD

It’s a bit like removing the warm and inviting couches and fire pits and replacing with Westfield food court style zero atmosphere tables.

That is certainly not the impression they have given the company in terms of their long term plans. I think you’ll find also there are some significant share holders in the new ownership company that have been around for a long time. I think it’s just more a case of VRTP having a bunch of catching up to and the buckets of money, time and personnel are only so big.

For the love of god it’s called Movie World. Two words, neither of them with capital letters in the middle of them.

It’s pretty easy to improve when you were at beyond rock bottom though.

100% the reasons why it’s not been a huge hit. Top Golf is meant to be a hospitality venue that also happens to have golf. That’s why it’s so successful in America. But they put a theme park operations person in charge of the thing and it never really found it’s feet. Should have had a top notch hospitality operator as GN from day one. Remember when it was going to be open till 1 or 3am?

Yeah but I just don’t understand what that has to do with Dreamworld’s management? Yes they took a bunch of old Village staff but none of them were working at Movie World at the time.

Why negative for Movie World?

Hey I’m just taking the method used by the two biggest and most successful theme park operators in the world 🤷‍♂️ Problem Aussie parks want to throw around buzz words from the big boy counterparts without any clue what they involve.

Seem to have misunderstood what a soft opening is. If the ride (and seemingly staff training) isn’t 100% bedded in then you don’t advertise it at all. A soft opening is/should just be that you’re at the park and it happens to open up for a while. Zero expectations. It seems to be this clash of priorities between operational needs and trying to do some kind of fan suck up effort.

How is plonking the old train with a plaque that basically says “we had this thing that was good, and now we have nothing. Oh and we tried it for a minute in 2016 but then couldn’t be assed” a good thing? VERY strangely executed project this. But you know, gotta keep the steam train nufties fawning somehow I guess.

I think she really did try

I want to read about complaining from all the additional noise from the new Big Dipper coaster. That's how you know they are really full of shit

There's a lot of people wanting to demand the parks give them refunds over this, which the parks probably will for good will, but no reason they should. A lot of them are the same idiots saying "I am not vaxed and I will boycott any business that only allowed the Vaccinated to enter"... so super clever logic at work there

Thats interesting because certainly in the theatrical (commercial) and technical production side of entertainment I’d say 99% of people have had both jabs.

Because the corporate soulless administration side of an entertainment business should never be public facing. Its not a thing, its just egotistical desire to be more than what you are. Just be an amazing theme park in it’s own right. Hell even “Disney Parks” failed as brand and Disney IS a thing. It’s like you buy a ticket to Moulin Rouge the musical and purchase a T Shirt or program from the show. You don’t go to get your hands on some Global Creatures Pty Ltd merch.

Ironically Victoria has the exact same laws and people are just happy there to be able to go do these things again.

How are those two things related?

Its a bit chicken and the egg. Price need to go up to increase the guest experience. Naturally there is a small lag between one and the other. But really you have to look at it like this “we pay $500 and we can go to one park, or we pay double and we can go to four”. People don’t really think about Dreamworld having several things because it’s marketed as one park. And as soon as the kids want to go see the Dolphins it’s a moot point anyway. And that’s before we factor in that people have actively demonstrated they just have cash to burn right now. My current take is that DW need to drop their price to bring people back. But Village need to up theirs to bring it back in line with the value of the product and start to increase their ability to improve that product. I think both are making the right decision.

It also more closely resembles a scaffold shed than a cave.

Good

Im interested in the light show. The videos I’ve seen make it look pretty huge. Why lacklustre?

The bit I don’t get is why didnt the supports just extend to the ground?

Good stuff. All seems very sensible.

Because pedantic is the favourite theme around here I will correct myself to say "**I** NEVER SAID USE UNTRAINED PEOPLE".