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Why shouldn't all staff know about the park they're in? I don't care if you're the CEO or doing work experience scrubbing toilets, the phrase 'I don't know I only work here' isn't good enough. At least the photo staff were able to send you in the right direction, and didn't just want to give up on it like Guest Services did. I'll give the benefit of the doubt and say he wasn't being rude to guest services, but wanted an answer to his question. Fair enough. I think the real answer is 'There will be a gold pass but no one knows anything about it, because no one in marketing has spun the big wheel that determines what perks are included and how much it'll cost yet.'

For someone who is constantly banging on about other people's rudeness, it sounds like you were quite rude to the guest services folk. I also find your expectation that ANY staff member in the park should be able to answer questions about ticketing offerings purely ABSURD. Ride operations cast members have a lot of things to remember to ensure your SAFETY... and you want them to be able to tell any guest that might ask what ticketing options are planned for two months away? You want cleaners (who are typically the bottom of the ladder in a park and paid the lowest too - note i'm not saying this is the case in MW, only generalising) to be able to do the job of guest relations? NEWSFLASH - Guest Relations staff are the only people who should know the answers to those questions... However there's something you've missed here - you were asking about a multi-park ticket... and this is where multi-park staff (such as the call centre, or the website) come in... because the staff at each park cannot possibly be expected to know everything about every park within the company. I would never expect a park photographer to be able to tell me (reliably) whether the park would offer a premium ticket commencing in 2 months time. I'd expect them to know the showtimes for the street and stage performances on the day... I'd expect them to have an idea of which characters were appearing when... and i'd expect them to be able to tell me where (and when) I could collect my photos, and roughly how much a single print would be. I'd expect most park staff to be able to point me to the nearest toilet, locker, and major attractions... I wouldn't expect anyone except guest relations to be able to talk to me about ticketing, and for group wide ticketing, i'd expect the local park guest relations to know, but totally understand if a yet-to-be-released product was as-yet unknown to park staff, and totally understand if they would suggest calling the call centre to find out further info. I'd also totally understand if the call centre wasn't able to answer these questions yet - the company may not WANT people to know that it was coming yet - perhaps because they're planning on NOT offering free VIP gold upgrades this time around, and hoping to get most of the 'budget-passholders' onto a regular VIP before upcharging for VIP Gold like they used to. All I can picture is a petulant enthusiast stomping his foot in the middle of guest relations about how THEY should be able to tell him what the company is planning to do about tickets BEFORE the company has decided to release that info to the public. What makes you so special?

Clint let me know if you're planning to go for a drive and check out some of these defunct parks as I would love to tag along. We can make it a field trip. I didn't realise it was O'Neils that ran Adventureland. Considering they are a fairly reputable company I'm surprised they let it get into such bad shape. Remind me not to go on any of their travelling rides. It would make sense for them to sell the land as the area is probably worth more now. Same with Magic Kingdom. Maybe these poor guys will finally make the profit they've been waiting soo long for

Sydney? Im guessing if so then it is probably ONeill's AdventureLand at Prestons (Camden Valley Way) that you're thinking about. No there's not much left. The slides are still there I think. I think the land was sold as recently as earlier this year. O'Neills were a carnie firm that have been around for yonkers. The land was mainly used to store the carnie rides. ZordMaker.

Nope adventure land was/is on Camden Valley Way. I went there once many many years ago and remember it exactly as you describe. We went out there once in the school hols and it was certainly up an running, just basically a bunch of carny rides dumped around the joint. I was much more interested in the things you decribe when I was there too. The boat ride, slide, waterslides, train and who knows what else used to be there. I know that it was called Walley World when these things were running but don't know anything more about it :-( Does anyone? To throw another one into this mix there was also another park just near Magic Kingdom called Dizzyland... all I ever saw of it was an old defunct sign outside what used to be the entrance many years after it closed and that was back when i was 12 or so. Maybe I need to go for a drive out that way... the only time I ever went to Magic Kindom was after going out to WL one day with dad in the first week of the xmas hols. Some of you may recall WL never used to be open the first week but that had not been publicised, many people rocked up to admin unhappy that day, us included. We were offed free return passes, dad took me to MK to cheer me up :-p

A few years ago I visited a park in Sydney called 'Adventure Land - Carnival on the farm'. I'm a bit confused because it sounds exactly like this Magic Kingdom place. Is it possible that it is the same park and they changed their name at some stage? Anyway, checking out Adventure Land turned out to be very interesting so I'll give you a little trip report... It was like a park out of a horror movie. We drove into the parking lot which was deserted. There was this little canteen area where the whole family that runs the place were sitting. They stared at us as we approached in amazement. They told us if we wanted to go on any rides to let them know and they would turn them on. We were the only ones in the park. The park was actually quite large. An old rusted railway track circled the entire perimeter. There was a lake/river which obviously used to be some kind of boat ride but it was totally overgrown. The boats were covered in weeds and bushes. You could just picture the place in its heyday with the train chugging along the track and the boats cruising down the river. There were a few portable rides like a Ferris Wheel and Cha-Cha. There was also an in-ground waterslide winding down the hill. A massive yellow dry slide (similar to the ones you see at the Easter Show) was supposedly still in operation but upon closer inspection I noticed the base of the slide was covered with redback spiders. My guess is that you'd end up with a rather sore behind after riding that one. From what I could tell the park had once been lots of fun, I'm guessing before Wonderland opened. I think the operators also ran a portable ride business which was probably their main income 'cause they certainly wouldn't have been making much cash from Adventure Land