Slick

What’s easy for an able body to do (say a few minute walk in the opposite direction after realising you went the wrong way) is ten times harder for a family with young kids, or someone with accessibility needs. When you have a park that’s closed as many attractions has it has (not to mention having cut off other paths and temporarily closed others) it could be very easily becoming a frustrating customer journey to intuitively figure out what’s on offer and how to get to it without feeling fatigued. I also think spaghetti junction is pretty obvious and simple, and yet thousands of guests continue to get lost in that setup. This is all scratching the surface of human design, and not putting a pathway through is a dumb move.

There’s been a pathway through longer than there hasn’t. Especially with the park not handing out maps anymore, it’s more important than ever to make it reasonably easy for guests to be able to get through the park. People don’t intuitively think “in order to get from Steel Taipan to Giant Drop, the thing that’s right next door, I need to double back in the opposite direction.” No, people think “oh it’s over there, so I’ll try walking over there” only to discover they’re stuck and lost. This is the future of steel taipan, especially when the muscle memory for so many guests over many decades has been to use that area to get from a to b. And it’ll only get worse when they add attractions back to the rocky hollow site.

It’s dumb.

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We figured after a lot of trial end error over many days that it was the Sea World steins themselves and not the beer that was the problem.

100% agreed - I think, simply put - as noted by imagineers in the case of Bermuda Triangle, we used to make really good shit for a lot less than anyone else. But during the GFC we traded passionate, skilled in-house creative for cost-savings and risk aversion, and we're yet to get the balance right. And finding that balance will require chairmen and CEO's who want to act less like Walt Disney (micro-managing decision making at every level) and more like Bob Iger (supporting and allowing space for professionals to flourish).

Not mine but agreed for a train reveal (?) it's pretty cool - really dig those kind of shots where they've gone to the effort of lighting small details (like the spinning wheel) which all add up. It'll be a shame if those eyes don't light up though - I kind of half expected them to at the end there. As I said before though, given my longstanding history with the park (and its ruinous fan-pages which trade mate's private conversations for influence) it'd be in bad taste to be openly critical at this point. That being said, there's a lot to like in this latest clip, so kudos to Dreamworld (and whichever agency they paid top dollar to do it). I'd say the lukewarm reception of Sky Voyager was an end to end failure that's been well documented on Parkz - from endless delays, to different messaging half way through, to the uninspired, precinct destroying facade, to the Brisbane Technology Park queue line - the list goes on. The ride itself is really solid - not Soarin' good, but having seen a lot of Brogent's (and others) ride films, we definitely got something that's better than 90% of what's out there. Sadly the sum of Sky Voyager's parts don't make it a word of mouth worthy attraction, which is what flying theatres rely on to generate more gate and ROI. There were better and cheaper ways to execute that ride from the marketing ride through to the experience, and I pray to any/all dieties that it's failure doesn't ruin the future of dark rides in this country. Stuff like ETF's Mystic Mover or Vekoma's Madhouse are easy wins for the first park that gets them - the big challenge however will be getting executives out of the creative phase and letting creatives be creative so we can start having some Bermuda Triangle style executions and not Sky Voyager style executions.

Maybe a Twin Hammer?

It’s the timing that’s bad optics. It’ll be tough to justify the price in the short term now, let alone an increase in the long term. If they held onto it for another year or two you could’ve had a chance to replace buzzsaw with another new thing. Instead it joins a long list of shuttered rides post-incident.

It’d be nice if they just refurbished the originals. My thought behind why they’re not doing that is that the change in gradient combined with the lacklustre diesel train means they need to get new carriages that are lighter or something along those lines.

It’ll be 17 days short of a decade of operation when it closes.

Advice for the haters - push it, push it real good.

If I was to critique it publicly I’d just sound butt hurt that I never got the chance so better I don’t. 🍻

I had a very minor role to play in the Tower of Terror ep, FYI. Keen to watch for sure.

Just realised the steel in the seats is the same orange as the track. Will be interesting to see how that looks running around the track and if it looks like the seats are floating from far away.

Glad it's not just me who thought it. 😂

The quality and professionalism of the Parkz articles over the last decade plus speak for themselves. I think you’re confusing the community who use the site to express their opinions and fandom with Parkz itself. You’re essentially confusing “why didn’t they invite news.com.au” with “why didn’t they invite everyone from news.com.au’s comment section.”

"Famous American franchise" - surely they could've swapped that out for "shot right here in Australia."

Still amazing to me that they’ll invite out Facebook groups like the dreamworld times who have a sketchy past and have a reach of maybe a few hundred (if you’re lucky) and completely ignore Parkz, despite having tens of thousands of times more reach, all because of a grudge formed because @Richard isn’t gushingly positive. 🤷🏼‍♂️

That’s some pretty terrible content. He called Dreamworld “Dreamland” at one point, speculated wildly and passed it off as fact and then recycled the same three shots a hundred times.

They have this real obsession with muddying the movie world brand, huh? I’m with @TimmyG - a big black box doesn’t look better than the mainstay logo behind it.

Judging by that last photo it looks like they've just infilled the troughs and left the concrete in (similar to what they did with some chunks of Gold Rush like the Rapids turnstile.)

I'm still honestly surprised they knocked over the train shed, the amphitheatre and Hollywood Cottage but left in Blue Lagoon.

Amazing how Vortex's best angle is from high above in the air.

It'll be clear what the intent is if they even bother to reach out to the parks directly I reckon. My bet is on them stealing footage from a bunch of enthusiasts, showing plenty of footage from the TRRR coronial inquest, referencing Luna Park's Ghost Train incident (with at best a passing reference to the ABC's doco) and then maybe getting in one or two industry hacks and interviewing them to get the soundbites they need. Hell, it's almost worthy of a bingo card.