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You’re telling some great stories but that doesn’t make any of them reality.

Exactly.

Trees get old and need to be replaced. New trees grow #nature

What a stupid thing to say. If it’s one thing Aussies are better at than being slackers it’s tall poppy syndrome. That’s kind if the point of a general statement. The fact it’s possible to generalise is because something is common. Yes they have been smashed. They have been insanely busy, which is a good thing. More people = more people to make up 3 ride google reviews and general have a piss and moan online because they are annoyed 7999 other people also wanted to theme park that day. The repeat visitation is the metric, not google. One of the biggest complaints about Movie World is that it is so much busier than it’s competitor…

In sorry but Bullshit! There is a multitude of evidence (also known as take a walk outside into the world any day) to show that there is an insane amount of entitlement in the workforce where people want an incentive to do more than just above the bare minimum rather than do the best job possible in order to create opportunity. Or hell, just to feel good about doing a great job. If you can load 500 an hour but only work at a pace that does 250 simply because “why bother, makes no difference” then you are part of the problem. Nobody in our parks is working under “poor working conditions”. Give me a break!

It does if you make it a water themed serpent type creature like the marine park down the road. #original

They definitely rotate staff. I think WPHS in Australia even mandate it

WTF you can’t take Serpent Slayer ripping it off from the awesome show of the same name from Sea World legend. I dunno if it’s just me but seeing the same area at DW with merely the IP names removed just makes me think how much of a waste of time IP is. The area and rides still look great as they are.

I’m just here to say this, and it’s absolutely true so to hell with anyone that wants to criticize my comment. But sadly, by and large, Australian workers at the age and level of your average ride attendant are lazy and unmotivated. Does that mean the parks get a free pass? Of course not, but as pointed out, when it’s home time they will work harder to get out of there. As long as that is the pool for staffing them our parks will suck at operations compared to overseas. You can see this easily in hospitality, as it’s genuinely the same pool. With the absence of European and north American working holiday tourists over Covid staff in hospitality here sucked!! It’s slowly getting better. But theme parks don’t employ working tourists, so you will always have these feet dragging staff. That really is a big part of the problem, it’s largely generational and somewhat uniquely australian in nature.

Could we please just pick one thread to discuss this in.

They have an extensive archive and are presently going through a process of digitizing and remastering all their historical Qld footage

I think its a stretch to imply their review is biased because of a couple passes, which to be fair, any guest can buy. I think the fact that they mention at the very end “love to see the operations improved even more” shows they were prepared to be critical where they found it warranted (eg stunt show) but overall had a very positive experience at the park. Sometimes fresh eyes are nice to look through, especially ones that are well traveled.

Well to be fair you could fit the madhouse AND an indoor coaster portion and not have to build stuff all. I’d do outdoor station for the coaster straight opposite WWF station.

100% Mad house in Showstage. And then a powered mine train that has a very small indoor themed portion but mostly just winds all through WWF existing layout/theming including over the water. Positives of this: -Mad Houses are actually awesome a big people eaters -Main show building exists -New show building is low cost as is only small -Excuse to ass extra capex to enhance WWF as part of project -Result is a massive, themed non IP area -Opportunity to get a 2 ride package deal from Vekoma Cons: -Loss of show stage for showcase - use the old intensity building instead -Possible loss of fright nights pad - its a concrete slab, a cheap shed and some power, not hard to replicate elsewhere back of house

Didn’t say it was

Yeah it was close and they didn’t want it there. Mostly because it was shit and ugly. That doesn’t mean there is some rule that rides can’t be close together 🤦‍♂️ Also we do realise half the stuff DW say is total BS marketing spin right?

Where do people invent this nonsense from?

How to theme an outdoor coaster: STEP 1: Nemesis

You mean like clearing a fault with guests on? Where have I heard that said recently?

This is pure speculation but a couple ideas (the 1st one is a bit more rooted in educated knowledge): 1- If the ride was running 2 trains, something may have delayed the train on the brake run being brought into the station. This would cause the lift hill to time out and stop. I'm not sure what SWs Ops procedures are but if they aren't allowed to re-start the lift (its not standard ops mode) with people on that would be an evac. Alternate possibility is something in the station faulted causing the ride to require maintenance mode to reset it. They can't do that with guests on so this would also require en evac. I guess what I'm saying is that it's possible to have an evac on the lift when nothing is actually wrong with the lift at all. 2-A wooden coaster, the maintenance and checks of, and all that's related is totally new to the park. The late openings are more than likely due to a late handover from maintenance to ops. I think we'll find as the brand new to this maintenance team finds their groove with the ride the late openings will be less and less frequent. Thats just my 2 cents on those two matters. I have nothing to add about why it may be stopping during the day, but could be part of the above. Our rules here are pretty strict, something as trivial as a fault reset in other parts of the world, requires an evac of guests here and entire restart of daily opening checks. Where as Disney will pump trains on and off a ride at will by the operators, in Australia this requires the maintenance team and a ride shutdown. There are pros and cons to both, it may seem like over the top and a capacity killer, but also it means you don't have an incident like on the Smiller at Alton Towers happening.

Both were put in at kind of a dark time in company management where a lit of quick buck American regional park style stuff was going in. Thankfully long behind us now.

I’m assuming it goes forwards and backwards? Could have just run shuttle between Resort and Main Station

Not really. The whole idea is it being a premium product which limited people buy. If they make it cheap enough that everyone just wants to get it then it kinda defeats the purpose.

I think it’s advertising two separate products… but not very well.

Its obviously saying it includes Leviathan but not to ride it backwards.