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It's a reasonable assumption that the removal was sudden and unplanned given that it happened during the peak season. If they could wait a month and do it in February then surely they would have. With that in mind: Village Roadshow have announced increased scrutiny on capital expenditure. The roller coaster is huge CapEx that is already locked in and certainly unavoidable at this point. VRTP recorded a pretty sizeable drop in attendance for the half year and VRL were pretty cautious (even pessimistic) about where the division will be come end of financial year. I'm not entirely sure where all this talk of new theming already being fabricated started, but I wouldn't be so sure. With additional CapEx unlikely and operating budgets stretched thin because of a likely revenue drop, unless there were unavoidable contracts for the re-theme signed prior to the Thunder River Rapids incident, I wouldn't expect anything this financial year and I wouldn't hold my breath for anything this calendar year given there will be huge uncertainty surrounding theme park performance until at least the end of next summer.

Answer "yes, I believe it was a failure of the flux capacitor" or similar and see if it gets printed.

Looks like we have a future Parkz member to look out for

It could have been so much worse. They could have been s̶t̶u̶c̶k̶ on the motocoaster.

I have to admit, I'm having fun in the comment section of the news articles. It sucks that they're still posting these articles, but it's a chance to try and show people the other side of the story when they say that the park or ride should be shut down because of the issue at hand.

How long should it take? This line of thinking happens to me all the time. I have clients ringing me up wanting to go ahead with a job and they try and tell me how long it will take. I tell them all the same thing. “This is not KFC, I’m not sitting at the front counter waiting for you to place an order. I have 3 months of work sitting in front of me before I can even get to your job. Plus, I must squeeze in my Parkz gossip throughout the day”.

under the cloak of darkness

Lol. Skipping dinner to do live news coverage of a non-event. Jokes on them ???

Lol! Don't get me started on the GCB ? I've already been banned from previously posting on the Courier Mail FB page. Apparently they don't take criticism about their theme park reporting methods as well as the others do lol ?

And they are published on each park's website so I see no need for them to be posted on Parkz. OR ANY OTHER FB PAGE FOR THAT MATTER

It's really cute watching you guys get excited at these early stages... ...now show me more pictures

No movement on the carpark/containers today. Few guys working in the channel on the electricals

except by the time the media publishes those sorts of articles, we've already been talking about it for a week.

Sure do:

My feeling is that any boost to tourist numbers during the games would almost certainly be offset by local residents that are getting out of town or avoiding tourist areas like a plague. I think a fairly small selection of things like Australian Outback Spectacular that are more tourist oriented will fare better than the major theme parks, who rely heavily on locals. By and large though I think it'll be a wash. Beyond the actual games there's of course plenty of exposure to be gained by the region as a whole as a result of the Commonwealth Games.

Yes, I must say The Age has reported on this very sensibly and factually. even outlining the simplest things that can trigger a sensor failure in detail. possibly a turning tide? but probably not.

Haven't been asked if I work there yet @Theme Park Girl, but I've got experience with interactions like these since I worked in attractions at WDW last year. Defending a theme park? Unheard of! Where's my pitchfork?

Already have had that accusation against me, TPG!

Posting "cut the crap" type responses on the sensationaism social media posts out there, and getting a bit of hate from some who have it in for the park. Just having a good at them.

Let's all keep our fingers crossed that this amazing new coaster brings MW the massive (and sustained) attendance boost it will deserve, giving VRL the flexibility and confidence to fix up Scooby etc. I know all of us on here will certainly be doing our bit to help out! ???

Good stuff on their part, @Theme Park Girl, to shut the sensationalist media down asap.

Good thing little Mr got his licence back when they first came out... Still carries it in his Parkz lanyard along with his pass

Shut up Smurf. See the thing is - whilst I only have a pass for one, I can choose, independently of spouse, partner, mistress or friend to go to a park whenever I choose. I could literally get in my car right now if I desired, and be at MW in a shave over half an hour. This of course does mean I have rego and insurance to pay - but it gives me independence - and if that makes me a peasant - then i'd rather be a peasant than a smurf.

Additionally to this, but i think if they add stuff into the ride, they'd have to test the envelope to ensure people can't hit it \ touch it etc - so if they did it piecemeal every night, they'd have to test the envelope every day before they could open it... I don't think so.

Great, another thing that makes ToT's theme even more ambiguous! So it's a space mission now?????

Yep - here's how the outback show paddock looked last September during Thor filming: Thanks Mr Obvious! lol. I think what DjRappa means, is why is the marker dropped in the middle of the paddock, instead of on building 25 (A) next to South Wardrobe, where they actually belong: http://www.movieworldstudios.com.au/media/plans/VRS-Site-Location-Plan-2016.pdf

As long as you know your place, peasant.