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Yeah I dunno how you can say that Disney isn't your thing and its not El Toro/EGF, but you haven't been for 20 years, and still skip heaps. At Animal kingdom what about the Dinosaur multi motion ride, or the other credits in the park? Like, if you'd ridden the majors and still not liked it I'd understand. But if you're visiting places like WnW Syd and AK, literally riding a couple of things and giving up then its not really a full experience. Would be like me going to SFNE and saying "nah, won't bother riding bizzaro, have already been on a hyper before, plus the line is too long". Surely it can't be that the only rides you like in the whole world of theme park enthusiasm is the Intamins?

Plus I really don't see how the Homeless & Travelers Aid Society is involved in this at all.

Adding onto Alex's comments - a repaint probably wouldn't add too much time to a maintenance season for the ride, they could easily have plans for the future, but they've decided to work on the more important matters first and get the ride open to the public quicker. Remember, they've also got the other parts of the area to work on to, it's not like the wipeout where that was the only thing they were doing.

I do agree with your comments Alex. 12-18 months ago I wouldn't have been so pedantic about them doing a 'complete' job, and been happy that we got something improved on some level. I guess in my mind the refurbs especially around their dining options have been top notch recently so I wanted/wished that standard to continue as they moved along with new attractions and/or renewals.

All they would need to do is reopen Chinatown Alley, and suddenly Gotham Cafe could be linked to Arkham, to SE, to JL and GL. Chinatown Alley could be rethemed to something Gotham - that way you're walking through Gotham from Gotham City Hall to the Arkham Asylum... not that hard. I totally agree with everyone that a repaint would have been nice, and solidified the new theme well (no matter what colour they went with). Orange (i'm sure Sea World has some left over from SeaScrew) would have worked well as many hot wheels track sets are orange... what i'm trying to say though is that few people (if any) complained about the paint job prior to the Hot Wheels announcement. The only complaints were theme, train and queue - and we know they've changed 2, and it waits to be seen whether the third is done also - put simply - they've fixed everything that we on here have complained about - and instead of going 'awesome - they fixed all those things we complained about' - we simply move onto something else to complain about? Perhaps there is a repaint in the works - but perhaps with the weather (it is storm season) and the approaching summer season, they didn't have the time. Maybe they're repainting after the Xmas holidays, and we'll see a new colour rise up in February? I think Rappa is right (over on the DH discussion) that many of us can never be pleased and must always have something to complain about. Right now i'm just keen to see what a new train can do to the old girl - and hopefully it gives the coaster a new lease on life for years to come.

That said, it is worth mentioning that Movieworld has 2 superhero themed areas.... the Gotham City cafe, complete with Gotham Hall & Batmobile/Batbike is fairly distanced away from the rest of the DC rides & area. It has been that way for years and they have done very little to change it. So Dreamworld isn't alone in that sense. Yes some bright, vibrant track colours to match the bright, vibrant new toy-themed train I thought would have been a no brainer on DW's part. The current pale yellow & blue just doesn't quite cut it in that sense, sadly....

My thoughts exactly.

Please let's not get into this again. As I've said before what's done is done. Individuals took certain foolish actions and the park responded accordingly. Everyone here has expressed the blatantly obvious about the stupidity of these actions. It's done.

I think it's more of a general feeling that when they go to the effort of replacing trains/doing whatever to upgrade/extend the life of a ride, a repaint would go a long way towards making it feel like a complete revamp.