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Yeah the liquid coaster (now note that I definitely didn't say Mack Water Coaster because they suck) idea is right for log ride area as it's more family in nature and could have an extended layout. I also firmly believe a typical shoot the chutes type ride like Intamin Mega Splash is needed in Ocean parade both for the weeny factor and also to give the park the wet capacity it needs with TRR gone. This type of ride is also very safe given the very shallow trough and wide boat which means its safe even though not permanently engaged with a track.

Compromise? https://rcdb.com/1893.htm The new Mack rocking boat prototype is probably another option to satisfy the now shy Australian market also.

They should replace the log ride with another well themed log ride. The park needs family rides and it desperately needs water attractions. doesn’t need a thrill gimmick but certainly needs a good family pleaser

Unless you play NRL in which case not required

Tempted to delete this post for being so silly but seems some things need to be very clearly spelled out. Typically we try to take a hands off approach to moderating and let people be adults. So if one person be's stupid and swears at another one it'll likely get a pass. Believe it or not mods don't read every single post, and if it's rubbish for a few posts they likely get a scroll by. But if there is this sort of thing buried in amongst a bunch of other terrible stuff yes of course it'll get removed. I mean the fact that this sort of thing needs to be explained to satisfy a question like this is why whole threads end up getting deleted because it's just too much effort to deal with this kind of nonsense.

I don't really understand... You're saying we take action without communicating up front. Are you suggesting we should post in a thread saying "hey please don't carry on with nonsense about a COO or we'll delete it" so that if people do that, and we delete it then it's up front? I mean how does that work? We deleted it, then just this morning I posted above why. Not really understanding this particular grievance here. If it's that it was deleted first and the explanation came later then the simple fact of the matter is it was deleted in the middle of the night, and then this morning one of us actually had time to write an explanation. As I alluded to earlier, all of us have jobs (and shock horror, lives) so aren't sitting in front of Parkz for 12 hours a day or more. And again disagree. Your post above talks about someones actions in running the park. That is very different to calling them a wanker because you didn't like what they said to you one time. Not sure if everyone else has the same, maybe they don't but I certainly have a 'FFS Filter' in my brain. When you read like 10 posts and your reaction is just 'For F** Sake look at this rubbish, it doesn't need to be here' that's when it's time to moderate. To be very open and honest the mod team had a brief discussion about the thread in question over whether it should be edited through, or just deleted without a trace, or hand picked into a new thread. We all decided that it was late and it was way too much effort to edit something that would likely then result in more carry ono about that. So in the end a new thread was created. The end result was the same so guess it's just not possible to win in this scenario. You'll see that Richard reaffirms my story from above as to why we arrived at the conclusion we did about the thread.

So, I'm not sure what is so hard to understand. We removed a thread because of the nonsense it contained, and then above is a bunch more of the same. This is a forum for discussing THEME PARKS, not personal grudges with people. How you feel about a particular persons personality is totally irrelevant to the running of a theme park and it's very obvious that a select few members here have a personal issue with one person. That's ok, we all have our issues with people, and some in park management. But this is not the place for it. If you want an example of what is acceptable discussion, read the post above. AlexB makes comment on the management of the parks and perception in the media without hurling personal insults. As for the hours of time wasted in people's posts being removed, well please blame your fellow members for turning the thread into a shit storm and not us. Do you realise how long it takes to sift through and weed out every single post one at a time? We may very well go through and put back some of the posts that were valuable, but that takes time, and the important thing to do was to quickly end the slinging that was going on in the other thread. Unfortunately there was some collateral damage, but sometimes that can't be avoided.

Let's all take a step back from our own personally created narratives for a moment here and look at things from the outside... The nonsense back and forth previous thread really did little more than embarrass both Parkz and honestly also to some extent the people posting. I have no doubt in my mind that the COO of VRTP couldn't give two shits what names some people on a forum call him, and certainly not enough to the extent anyone would contact us to remove the posts. The very boring truth of the matter is that all of the Admins felt it was a complete rubbish thread and it would be sad if anyone from management of any park did read it and took that as a reflection of the maturity of the enthusiast community as a whole.

Shame there aren't more of them

Getting closer!

This latest stuff is truely terrifying and also just shameful. The fact that the most basic fundamentals of control system design and risk assessment weren't even present is just unbelievable. ANYONE with ANY knowledge of how rides should be could walk up to that thing and know it wasn't right. At least we know the price Dreamworld placed on a life is about 3grand

Nice, where are these from?

To be fair, periodic maintenance (weekly, monthly, semi annual, etc) is really based on Cycles for the most part, not time (unless it's shelf life of things like Oils etc) so if the rides aren't running, maintenance intervals do push out.

I maintain that the reason they say they can’t make money there is because they offer up glorified carni ride trash. If they made over the entire park to be an authentic heritage recreation of a classy boardwalk pier (a rose coloured glasses nostalgia image if you will) it would do a lot better as a must visit tourist attraction.

And don't forget the Studios at Oxenford, anyone that sees a drone anywhere near that place is going to have some goons out to visit you real quick to find out what you're doing. The studios do not mess around when it comes to Drones.

Yeah I was talking about countries in full lockdown.

Complaining that you pay for foxtel and others now get it for free would be like me complaining I earns my Qantas status this year and now they’ve given it to others without. Adding a benefit for one doesn’t increase a burden for others.

Serious question. If they go to lockdown, how do they get food?

As I've learned only too well this past week, at this time an order for something guarantees nothing at this point. All bets are off!

I think we possibly have a contender for most intelligent post of the year (the year 2020 that is!) above!

All these ideas about just removing the poles and changing the roof at all are just ridiculous

For the love of god pick an artwork and stick with it

Yay statistics

I’m sure the event would have done well if it wasn’t for the current virus situation. Them stating the two reasons I don’t think should be considered as two separate reasons but more as one the effect and the other the cause.