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  3. Cameras allowed?

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    I always have been and always will be against loose article on rides. Those of you who have been around for a long time will know my point of view on this issue from previous discussions on this issue. During my 5 years as a ride operator here in Australia and overseas I have seen on numerous occassions what happens when a loose article comes off a ride. The result is not pretty for the item that has come off the ride, thankfully I have never personally seen anyone get hit but have witnessed some close calls. The park I worked at overseas had a loose article policy but it wasn't as strict as Wonderland Sydney and I did notice a large number of incidents there. Bussy

  4. Ride Queue Times

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    The problem with these boards is that they are hard to keep acurate as has been stated above. The problem when we did us them at Wonderland was that it was so busy and it was all hands on deck so there was no one available to go and change the board. The other problem I have with these boards is, how do you judge the length of a queue? Yes you can make a guestimate but it also depends on the operator(how fast and effiecent they are), how many people you have operating the ride (loaders or unloaders or not) and even weather condiditions(if it's hot generally people work slower and some rides operater slower in wet weather). The only advantage I can see in these boards, is for the operators, generally if people see an hour wait on a ride they won't or will be reluctant to join the queue. This then reduces the pressure on the operator of the ride. Bussy

  6. Big pineapple

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    Queensland's historic Big Pineapple on the Sunshine Coast for sale with overseas buyers keen From: AAP November 26, 2009 12:00AM Source QUEENSLAND'S historic Big Pineapple could be sold to an overseas buyer after the close of tenders this week. Overseas groups were among those interested in the more than 170ha of land for sale surrounding the Sunshine Coast tourism icon. The theme park - featuring a 16m-tall fibreglass pineapple - has been a fixture of Queensland tourism since 1971, drawing families with its train rides and a range of delicious sundaes. The site comprises 16 allotments on 15 titles, and is divided into a 78.6 hectare parcel where the the Big Pineapple is and a 91.9 hectare-southern parcel of land being used for rural purposes. Existing facilities on the site include the main building, functions rooms, offices, shop, confectionary factory, macadamia nut factory and car parks. But pulling down the pineapple would contravene heritage listing. The park was added to the Queensland state heritage register earlier this year, ranking it alongside the state's top historic buildings and cultural sites.
    So the Big Pineapple itself is safe but that doesn't go for the rest of the park. Bussy

  7. Paid Parking

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    Wonderland originally had "toll booths" to get into the car park their remains are still there. I don't think they lasted long and I have no idea what they charged. Personally I would object to paying for parking at a theme park, as I do anywhere else and if I can avoid it I will by doing a bit of a dodgy move and getting free or very reduced parking cost. Wait what am I saying, the toll both remains are long gone just like the rest of the park. Bussy

  9. Single Person Slides question

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    You need enough water under you to provide "lubrication". From my time as supervisor of The Beach at WLS I never came across anyone having trouble on the slides wearing rashies. There was a problem with people of the Mulsim faith and Indian decent thinking it was ok to try and go on a slide fully clothed. I lost track of the number of times I was called a racist because I denied them entry to the slides. I had to explain that it was because they physically wouldn't slide down the slide about 20 times before they got it through their heads and understood that I was preventing them embarassment. Bussy

  12. Sand Storm

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    Here are a couple of photos I took from the front of my house at 7am when I go home from work. The first is with the "sunset" setting turned on the other on the standard setting. The third is my car. I had a bit of trouble finding my car when I left work because all of the cars in the car park looked the same. I am hoping the prediction of another dust storm for the weekend are incorrect as I washed my car yesterday and I don't want to have to do it again. Bussy

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  13. Dick Smith head office moving to Eastern Creek site

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    As for Aldi - another chain that started out of Sydney, in a little place called Minchinbury. Part of their business plan is to target high population, low income, high convenience areas, with a gap in the market for a competitor. They have avoided Adelaide and Perth to date because it will be difficult to break into the market, with a smaller population that already has a plethora of choice with Woolworths and Coles. Once their recent marketing campaigns show some promise (Aldi until recently did not advertise on TV), they intend on looking into expansion to the west.
    Aldi don't have a store in Minchinbury and their first store in Australia was in Bankstown. What they do have at Minchinbury however is their head office and largest distribution centre, which is about to be surpassed by their Prestons centre which will be opening in the next few months.

  14. fav ride

    in Theme Park Discussion

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    Well to be true Bussy, It was Sea Daemon. Used to be between Bounty's and Jousting Ring before the Wildlife Park was built - then it was moved to the site of the old funnel webb, and renamed HMS Endeavour. You will notice it on page four of the 1985 Souvenir Book sold out of the park - on the park map. I'm not going to supply the link, because we all know that the site is banned off the forums. However, given it is relevant, I don't see that there will be any objection, so i'll type it out - www . wonderland history . net / 85sb / (just delete all the spaces)
    Not quite linking a banned site, naughty naughty Alex. The point I was trying to make is that both rides are the same thing and it's pointless listing them both. Bussy

  17. Dick Smith head office moving to Eastern Creek site

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    It's a moronic approach to boycott a company because they have a premise on a bit of land that used to be a theme park. Chances are they don't even own the building or land just lease it from another company. You might as well take all your money out of the bank and hide it in your mattress while you are at it because the banks provide the finance for these kind of developments. For those of you who "boycotted" LG products it is even more stupid because LG were there before Wonderland closed and you not spending $100 on a DVD player, I doubt most of you can afford a couple of thousand dollar TV, made no difference to their bottom line. Bussy

  19. Wonderland Maps

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    Actually Wonderland had 2 slides that required tubes, Aqua Tube was the other one. I remember the trouble we had towards the end getting boats that would last more than several trips down the slide. Several times I was given a bunch of money, at one point $700, and the keys to the security Barina and told to go and get some boast. I ended up at Clarke Rubber haggling with the Indian owner of the store for all his boat in store for the cash he had. Haggling with an Indian store owner is one of the hardest things I have ever done, stingy only starts to discribe him. In the end I won though :D Mountain Cascades was closed for quiet a while before Wonderland, mainly because it required 2 staff members and we were struggling to man the rest of the Beach. Bussy

  21. Wonderland Sydney is closing!

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    You make a pretty good point Bussy, but unfortunately, if I got any more specific as to which of the NPP's, privacy regulations or sections of the act itself were involved, it would kind of give it away.
    I fail to see how telling us which part of the act or regulations gives away what information you may or may not have. Unless, that is, the part of the act or the regulation says "Information relating to the real reasons why Wonderland Sydney, owned by Sunway, closed, shall not be disclosed". The act and regulations are not that specific. I know a fair bit about privacy law due to my current job. The information I have access to is extensive and extremely sensitive and if I accessed it without good reason and/or leaked it I would not only loose my job but I would also be charged with a serious indictable offence and most likely have a stint in gaol. Bussy

  23. Could this be our first B&M?

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    Either I missunderstood you, or you just connected the dots to point out to us that B&Ms arent made in Australia like previously thought...
    What I was trying to point out is that unless you know what type of bar code the company is using, there are heaps and it is probably be one of their own making, it is pointless to speculate on what the bar code means, unless you have access B&M's company information. I can tell you that, after some research, I have found that 9 digit bar codes are not an international standard. Bussy

  24. Unique Underwater Project.

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    I have looked at the proposal, this thread and the thread that has branched off it and I find it strange that you would come to a forum with this. Fair enough if you had managed to get backing and it had been built somewhere and you wanted to pass on further information about it, but not when any of that has happened yet. Personally I think you are way off with your estimate of $200,000 and 6 weeks to operation. It looks like you plan to have solar and wind technology to generate the power. Those are both still expensive technologies, even with government grants. My family has a 50 year history in the construction game and I can tell you that the materials cost for a project of that scale, in water will be close to, if not over $200,000. On top of that you have planning, engineering, administration, labour, and government costs. I have no doubt you will be able to get corporate sponsorship for this, and while I don't know how much you plan to get out of that, but I think you will find that it will be less than you expect because corporate sponsors want a good deal out of sponsorship ie, want something back from it and while in the short term they may get publicity, the fact is in the long term people will forget about the habitat and that's not good when it comes to and income stream from corporations. It's a good idea but wouldn't work well at a theme park. Maybe you should be proposing this to the Great Barrier Reef Authority or somewhere is Western Australia. Bussy

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