Slick
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On 2/10/2023 at 11:20 AM, wikiverse said:
I'm glad Jaggs Journeys took the initiative to finally fill it in himself.
No wonder it’s taken them years to do, it’s a lot of dirt for one man and a shovel.
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Cougars haven’t been around for many years now.
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What’s the shake out when it comes to major attractions?
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It’s missing a ton of golden trim and paint to elevate all those blue windows.
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The film they showed there was insanely high quality in terms of production value (and no, I didn’t make it).
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On 29/7/2023 at 2:04 AM, CR4ZE said:
Serious question: what's the benefit to these parks in operating year-round?
The combination of weather conditions and school holiday break periods are unique to SEQ and different from the US. That's the whole story in one.
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30 minutes ago, Dean Barnett said:
But for the opening night? like a musical opening with a understudy
Were you there?
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1 hour ago, Baconjack said:
or has been broken down for parts for the other gondola (most likely imo).
East side testing, FYI.
1 hour ago, Guest 239 said:Does each gondola need its own operator? If so I'd say it's purely a cost thing.
^ This.
On 27/6/2023 at 1:26 PM, joz said:200 feet is imperial 1/2 ToT. It's not right if you need to do any precise engineering but gets the job done in most applications. Though the metric 60meter Rivals is more useful.
Glad to hear others do this. For my whole life I've done metric to imperial conversions quickly PURELY off the back of ride heights e.g. "400-ish feet is 120m-ish aka one Giant Drop" or "30m is 100 feet aka one Arkham Asylum".
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22 hours ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:
On second thoughts.... Where is the outrage? Plain black walls without so much as a vinyl sticker?
This needs more lynchmob.
I agree - it’s super trashy. Good thing it’s not the very first thing people see on the way in. Hopefully this is all clears out before school holidays in a week or two.
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37 minutes ago, TBoy said:
(thanks to Jaggs Journeys)
I never would've known that if you hadn't had mentioned it, his watermark is far too subtle.
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3 minutes ago, joz said:
I don't think you can quantify it TBH. Depends on the park, the attraction mix of the park, and which rides are down ans how many.
I'd agree with this. So in the context of Movie World and the present situation, what is it?
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No need to be rude - clearly enthusiasts aren't happy with how many rides are closed, so I'm simply asking where the bar is - how many rides constitute a refund for you? How many rides need to be closed before they lower the price?
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How many closures constitute a refund? What's the rule here?
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5 hours ago, themagician said:
The bit they really, really, really need to do is pressure wash and reseal that rock work.
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4 minutes ago, themagician said:
@Slick genuine question, were you a part of the team that designed the print for that wall?
Negative on that one.
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29 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:
Jesus christ. They're literally doing all this construction to improve the first impression. Fuck - California Adventure had blank walls lining Sunshine Plaza for months while they redid the park.
Sure, let's work on first impressions but when you're working literally inside the entrance gate, there isn't a whole lot you can do to pretend like there isn't a construction site.
...because this is so much better, right??
If you look closely there's a nice wrap that tells you what's going on.
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38 minutes ago, Gobbledok said:
Surely dreamworld managers are not running the place based on parkz
In a perfect world, what do enthusiasts want? Because fans can't have it both ways - folks want the parks to be transparent and more receptive to feedback (and even engage with enthusiasts 😱) but also think it's ridiculous when they leverage insights from the folks that know their assets the best.
To be frank, if analysts, investors and even the boards themselves use Parkz for insights and insider knowledge, there'd be something wrong culturally if the middle managers were too short-sighted to do the same.
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3 minutes ago, Gobbledok said:
Right artwork
wrong scale
Why isn’t the wall that blue colour too
Could be because it’s a knee jerk reaction to this thread. 😂
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I think you've backed yourself into a corner. I've pretty clearly written that I have no doubt there's more to come, the issue for me is that the first impression for any theme park should never be having the park's icon dumped out the front and inaccessible and then immediately followed up a giant black wall, particularly when guests are expecting to take a photo at that spot as part of their day. I'm pretty flabbergasted that people are happy to give any park a pass on that, it definitely shows a lack of objective criticism on those who side with the park.
And in the process of trying to defend something obviously very, very average, you've chucked everything in plus the kitchen sink - from photos that require you to be peeking through other fences through to positioning me along an opinion set that has nothing to do with me. I don't think you're being objective so much as you're being a contrarian for the sake of being a contrarian.
30 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:the main priority is restoring the entrance to provide guests with a great entry experience in the future.
You're soooo close to getting it. Thing is, you can have your cake and eat it too. A park can really easily go "hmm... first impressions matter at a time when we're really trying to build consumer confidence, and we're about to do this major temporary change to one of the most iconic bits of the park. We should definitely make sure that whatever we do we minimise anything that damages the guest experience in the interim. Let's make sure that when this bit of fencing goes up, we have a wrap on it straight away that clearly explains what we're up to. Because so far this year we've done lots of transparent communication, and people love us for that, so it'd be strange for us to do the polar opposite and leave black walls up for even a second. Especially when we've got night trade on too. It's not a good look for us. We did put wraps up late for Sky Voyager and this is even more of a prominent change to something people would obviously get upset about and there's a bunch of research that shows first impressions for experience and revenue matter, so let's make sure our project managers are all over this tiny but critical detail. If we have to spend an extra grand getting someone in before park open to apply the wrap, it's totally worth it. Also, let's make sure the globe's out of sight from guests as they drive in, that's such a massive slap in the face, especially when if they were to then get hit by a giant black wall with no information on it."
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2 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:
I'm sorry Dreamworld. You should aspire to be better - like the park down the road.
If that was the Movie World arch and the first impression when you walked in, is that okay? Extending to that, are those mesh fences ever okay? Again you’ve fallen into the trap that by being critical of one must mean I love the other - this isn’t old school V8 Supercars where you have to pick Ford or Holden. Either can do stuff that deserves both praise and derision.
I also love how you assume folks don’t care about the globe or taking photos. If it’s all about the rides, just put everything in shipping containers… oh wait.
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52 minutes ago, Tim Dasco said:
I disagree, I see the fact they have gone the effort of building a proper construction wall rather than cheap nasty temp fencing. So while it will take a tad longer to finish the impression from a guest will be much better than temp fence with rent as fence logos on it.
Re globe, its been put there for now, who knows if its just waiting to be moved elsewhere and just a temp spot.
It doesn't take days and weeks to apply a vinyl sticker to a wooden fence it takes hours, in fact it could've and should've happened after park hours or the literal second the fence went up, which is the point I'm making, not about whether or not they should've gone with some other kind of fence. Sorry, but there shouldn't be a giant black wall as the literal first thing guests see when they enter. Not now, not ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. If anyone thinks to the contrary my humblest of apologies but you're a Dreamworld apologist.
They'd have the whole project timeline and mapped out, but they didn't think to consider the guest experience and what it signals to guests when they're not met with a beautiful globe but rather a giant black wall as their moment of the day? Christ on a bike, shopping centres do this quicker and better - there's no excuse. Thing is,the path to profitability relies on guests using their annual passes at least twice but tell me, how many guests would feel their experience is worth coming back for when the first thing they see is a giant black fence and the iconic giant globe dumped out the front of the park?
32 minutes ago, yumyum said:I think it would look really nice at the entrance if they painted a Dreamworld mural or something on the black wall.
Exactly my point - anything would be better than this.
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Looks like it gets worse - right now guests are greeted with a giant black wall. No doubt they’ll put a wrap on those walls eventually but I personally would’ve moved heaven and hell to make sure where the globe was situated somewhere accessible (at the minimum) and had a wrap put on the second the wall went up. One day of trade with black walls as your first impression is one day too many.
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As the #1 focal point for guests, it’s staggering they didn’t spend the extra couple of dollars to temporarily rig this elsewhere. People are gonna arrive and the first or second thing they’ll see is half a globe and a bunch of disappointment they can’t get “that picture.” Here’s hoping I’m wrong and there is in fact a plan.
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History tells us that creating a culture that pressures people into keeping rides open is a bad idea.
Furthermore, there’s a reason why there’s the perception that if you take your car to the car-maker directly to get serviced that it’ll get better maintenance and care. Consider that the mechanics are niche to that particular brand and therefore have more experience and knowledge to do a better job. But some people here think the solution is to take their car to the local grease-monkey equivalent who promises they can do a better job and for cheaper? Crazy.
There’s two halves to the downtime problem, both due to the pandemic. On one hand, there’s undoubtedly been a brain drain in the industry. These aren’t simple bits of kit - there are hundreds of thousands of parts, rules, regulations and codes that would take any good maintenance person years to understand in order to realistically anticipate the parts and scheduling requirements to keep a ride operational. So there’s a skill shortage and the industry needs to replace those who have left the industry, and then those maintenance staff remaining are being pulled in two directions - one where they need to upskill new staff, and another where they are required every which way because their niche skills are in short supply in the organisation they’re at. Want to know how you create burn out and further brain drain? Rinse and repeat that last sentence.
Then you’ve got part supply issues - if maintenance staff have got plenty of tenure they might be able to anticipate potential shortages, but that’s a big maybe. But if post pandemic budgets are still tight and parts are at a premium because of economic conditions, maintenance staff might be asked to not keep so many spares afoot and have a more ad-hoc approach to consumeables. Suddenly you’ve got a strategic decision infiltrating multiple departments and creating outcomes that are the opposite of what the organisation is after.
But yeah, just subcontract out maintenance, that’ll fix the issue. 🫠
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Hopefully the primer dries soon so they can finish painting it.