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Your personal views do not matter. Because Disneyland. But seriously though - I share these conversations with my wife from time to time - She is a true convert. When I met her, she had no interest in theme parks whatsoever. Wouldn't even ride Scooby Doo! and hadn't been to a park since the early 90's with her family as a kid. In less than 5 years, she's gone from that, to having favourite rides and favourite parks - even compares WHICH version of space mountain she prefers. We were married at a park and celebrated by riding a roller coaster between our vows and our reception... our honeymoon was 13 straight days of theme parks across two states of the US (and another week of other stuff)... After explaining to her how you felt about Disneyland - she wanted me to tell you this... And I think many others here would agree with me on this point - SO MANY PEOPLE have no idea what Disneyland \ Disney World is - they think it isn't for them... but spend ONE DAY in any Disney park - and I promise your opinion will change.

That article is pretty stupid. Park experiences busy day, two rides closed. There were signs out the front, and what, are they supposed to make Scooby Doo go faster? What the hell are you talking about with that Bulletin? Having said that, why wasn't Wild West open if Rick's is shut? Why are Taz cars closed? Why do you have a policy which forbids outside food and not have the means to feed all the guests in the park? Why are Lockers for a ride $2? Why not quietly reduce the day ticket by $20 while all that stuff is closed? The general vibe Movie World's policies give out is 'We hate you, and we won't spend a cent on making your day better than the bare minimum'. Management is good at passing that sentiment on to the staff too, and people notice. That contempt for guests is why WnW Sydney has been such a failure, and that's why people are queuing up to hang shit on Movie World now. If they were just so nice and awesome or the atmosphere in the park so amazing people might forgive them, but considering most things Movie World (and the Village theme parks at large) do comes across as a middle finger to guests then people will complain and loudly. And they wonder why VIP pass sales are down. If anyone from Village is reading, you can make money without ripping people off. Price things in the park reasonably, drop guest unfriendly polices, and treat the staff better so they aren't so uninvested with their jobs.

​I knew I'd get a bite out of you. When you arrive at a theme park you expect as a general punter that you'll get a full day out of the park, but we know MW isn't that when those attractions are all down at the same time. When you are charging full price you should be offering the full service. People may swallow it with an attraction or two out of action, but others won't - anything more than that and you'll increase the number of perturbed customers. I agree - you (generally) can't help unplanned faults, but similarly you also can't justify not compensating customers for that. If you book an international flight with a meal service and they can't serve due to a technical fault you have a reasonable expectation of being provided with a credit. If you're in a cab and it breaks down on the way to your destination it's unlikely that you'd have to pay, let alone pay the price you'd have paid if you travelled the whole way to the destination. Movieworld's reliability woes should not be the customer's problem. As for nobody paying $80/ea when VIP passes exist? I can forecast plenty do. They wouldn't be members here, so I'd suspect you probably wouldn't come into contact with them regularly.

Lol whoa, what did I start By all means, I'm not saying anything negative about Disneyland, I know its extremely popular and have heard all about how its this magical place to go to - since birth, in fact I just meant that it personally doesn't appeal to me as much as some of the other parks do. Tbh I'm not really much of a Disney fan to begin with, that and I've not always been impressed with the way the company has portrayed itself (ie. suing/bullying childcare centers and other small businesses for alleged copyright issues - including against deadmau5, my favourite music artist) which I admit has left me with a bit of a sour impression of them. Then there is this latest situation with them laying off 250 of their tech workers and making them train their overseas replacements (ie. this and this) which I'm not impressed about. So yeah, I admit that this has turned me off wanting to go to Disneyland a bit, but that's just my personal choice. Nothing against the park itself. I'm just happier to invest my cash in other ones which appeal to me more and that I don't hold somewhat negative views toward the owning company about.

*replies so Allegro has something to read*

Well, the source is reliable...

ABC Announces Q&A Theme Park