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Facade progressing well, very curvy. First batch of windows in.

That's correct Push, well done🙂

The second section of glass facade is just starting to be put into place right now.

Not to mention Your Eyes Are Telling Lies: Reloaded.

Trucks are cheap. Every bit of that shit should be picked up and taken to Movie World back of house. It’s really poor all that nastiness is in the view of the public.

Just got an email and attraction is opening December 12

Just got an email, and it will be opening December 13

Hahahahahahaaha, be warned @AlexB I will be using this in the future. NEVER!

I'm not going to be too specific so as not to spoil it for anyone but here are my initial thoughts. Special effects (projection mapping) - excellent as I was expecting. Story - Well to be completely honest not as intense or moving as I had been expecting. Also I just didn't feel like I got into the story quite as much as previous shows. This could very well just be because it was the first time I've seen it! Also it was the very first show tonight, and there were just a couple of parts where I could tell the performance still needed a little fine-tuning. Food - Very good, but (again just me being completely honest)I didn't enjoy it quite as much as the meals from previous shows. Still good though. Oh, and the helicopter from High Country Legends is back! Overall I'm glad I went. I will be going again very soon (tickets already booked for December). I highly recommend it to anyone who's never been before, as well as to those who have! Final comment for now: I was really hoping they'd have Mark Mitchell end the show with "Coupla Days!" The line could definitely have been made an appropriate response to a question and would have been a superb finish to the show. I reckon there's still enough people who fondly remember that line from watching Con the Fruiterer who would have loved that! The show did end with the same song as the previous show "I Still Call Australia Home". It's a wonderful song, but there are many others that could have been equally good, but also would have been fresh to the new show. To me it just seems a bit lazy to use the same song. I'm whinging though. It's fantastic! Go see it! 😆

Hi! Please help me graduate and fulfill my market research project for my MBA course by filling out this survey as part of our major course requirements. The goal of the research is to identify the factors affecting theme park attendance in Singapore and Australia. Since theme parks play a vital role in improving the tourism image of the country, my research aims to help the theme park industry in identifying which area they can focus their strategies on based on the latest perception of theme park visitors and eventually add value to the country’s tourism. Once completed, I will also be very happy to share the results of my research. Here's the link: (Australia) https://goo.gl/forms/AsT2pq43YookcOPj1 Suggestions and other information are also welcome. Thank you!

Due to the nature of AOS, it will last as long as it is profitable. Since it is a dinner show, a lively atmosphere is needed as part of the experience. They need to ensure it remains at near-full capacity for every show otherwise prices would go up and there would be less in attendance and therefore, less atmosphere, a critical part of the experience, which would reduce value for money. AOS seems to update the show every time attendance drops enough to be close to break-even and/or near it becoming noticeable that some seats aren't being filled (I have never seen AOS sadly - though I want to - so I'm not sure about the latter & the former is just a guess). If projection mapping wasn't introduced, I'd say Heartland would have been it's last show before a major re-think. To 'replace' it, they should just remove the word 'Outback' from the title of the attraction. So it is just the 'Australian Spectacular', which would allow them to also tell other Australian stories not related or linked to the outback. Retrospectively, they could rename the original show as just 'Outback'. However, I'd say projection mapping has allowed Heartland to have a 3 year stay rather than a 1 year stay. As I will detail below though, projection mapping may only add a short-term boost to AOS though. It should be noted AOS are heavily influenced by Olympic ceremonies. Ignatius Jones, who designed this segment in the Sydney 2000 Olympics Opening Ceremony, yes, you guessed it, helped design the original AOS. In 2002, he even directed and wrote a travelling musical theatre called The Man From Snowy River: Arena Spectacular (You can see the influence it had on AOS in the below video, which I think was filmed in Brisbane Entertainment Centre): So no doubt, he was the man to help design AOS particularly since that film above was distributed by Village Roadshow. Back to the Sydney 2000 Olympics ceremonies though, those ceremonies heralded in the 'technology' era of Olympic ceremonies. These types of ceremonies reached their peak a decade later with Beijing's massive effort in 2008. 2 years later, Vancouver did the 1st ever near-fully projection mapped ceremony, heralding in the 'projection mapping' era of Olympic ceremonies. Projection mapping was used prominently throughout that ceremony but this segment (from 01:35:55 to 01:41:44 - the impressive projection mapping really starts at 01:37:41) was what really heralded in that era as people then realised the possibilities projection mapping can provide. David Atkins creatively directed the Sydney & Vancouver Olympic ceremonies and helped Ignatius Jones with The Man From Snowy River: Arena Spectacular. Projection mapping has been used prominently in all Olympic ceremonies since then except London 2012, who used it only in 1 segment. However, projection mapping has been critizied in Olympic ceremonies in the past 4 years as being 'lazy', 'cheap' and 'overused' as it has replaced many of the special effects once utilized in the Sydney 2000 to Beijing 2008 era. VRTP shouldn't fall into that trap as it will turn the show into a glorified cinema screen otherwise and regular visitors would easily see a lack of creativity in technology & special effects. Olympic ceremony directors have, since that criticism, in the past couple of years, began to try and blend projection mapping with technology more where budgets permit, which has reduced that criticism, though not fully. So it should be noted that how Olympic ceremonies evolve will likely be how AOS evolves.

With steam locomotives.

Queensland railways started in 1865.

You're all about facts @AlexB. If you want facts, I'll give you some. The first built diesel locomotive in Queensland was in 1939. The final phase of bushranging ended in 1920s. Bawd Brothers couldn't be bushrangers unless they owned a DeLorean.

Got an email and attraction is opening December 13

Excellent. My work here is done🤣

It's more a theme park than DW is. You got further then me. I'm still stuck on this question.

Well, that sucked. I've been to Adventure World and a bunch of other places that aren't on the list. Someone needs to realise that Australia is more than just the eastern seaboard. I can't actually complete the form.. 😡🤢🤮

Public interest at this point in time....

I attended the Media Launch for AOS way back in what, 2006.. loved it. But I never went back. Now seeing this show advertised has re-ignited my interest and for the 1st time in over a decade I have taken the time to find out more about what this one is about. After all these years I have a few good reasons to be dragged back and it is without a doubt doing the same for many others out there too. Sorry A-to the-Lex-to the-B but this tine I have to disagree with thee! People do love the Horses, the Show, the Food - and most definately the Beer! The show now looks to be rebooted enough to keep going for a couple more years before the next story- And that's just it- they can keep coming up with new stories all the time, keep it fresh! AOS ain't going nowhere anytime soon and neither should it.

If they are paying less than the” large and costly attractions"(as you said). That is the cheap option. The smart move would've been to dress it up. They even kept the tacky control booth. Gumbuya World put no thought or effort into this ride which is a huge statement about the direction of the park.

I wouldn't exactly say cheap.... KMG Rides aren't SBF

I wouldn't call that the graveyard... Isn't this the graveyard? Or is this the graveyard? Or is it here? This? Wait.... I found the Sea World Graveyard!!!

First up - Brisbane is just as forgotten by touring artists as Perth is. There are many things that influence a tour - for example - if the venue has a date available for the artist that fits in with the rest of their touring schedule - and it doesn't always work due to other major events. Bryan Adams currently has dates for Melbourne, Wollongong and Sydney, Hunter Valley and Perth - but nothing else. All of the east coast venues are consecutive days - but Perth is three days apart from the rest... which leads me to my next point - Perth's population is around 2 million, but they're 42 hours by road from Sydney and 36 hours from Melbourne. Newcastle's population is half a million, but they're 2.5 hours by road from Sydney. Adelaide is 1.3 million, and 8 hours from Melbourne. Its not a matter of jumping on a plane. The artist can be in another city in 24 hours - but all the staging gear isn't typically hired in locally (some standard things are, but all the custom gear, the band's specific gear and so on) needs to be road freighted from one venue to the next. For some bigger artists, very little local equipment is actually used, and almost everything needs to be transported from one venue to the next. To include Newcastle on your ticket, its a few hours north of Sydney, for half a million people - its worthwhile to hit the satellite city to pick up another quick payday. The payoff just isn't there for Perth. It's almost 17 times the travel distance, for only 4 times the population. Bryan Adams doesn't usually have extravagant and elaborate staging, so the costs of heading out to Perth aren't terrible, but for the bigger artists with many more truck loads of staging and equipment - the costs start to go up - and Perth doesn't have the satellite population that makes it viable. I know people in Brisbane that flew to Sydney for Pink. It's an hour's flight... but an hours flight from perth gets you what... Kalgoorlie? (pop 30,000) Esperance? (pop 10,000) Geraldton? (37,000). It's a matter of cost vs. supply. Perth is so remote to everything else in this country, it's little wonder it suffers in this area... I really don't understand why people continue to complain about Perth not getting the same attention as the east coast - its simple economics.

*this just in - an aquarium is more of a theme park than adventure world....

Yeah. They should bring out guys wearing blackface too. Just because it'd be a nostalgic nod to the past.

Two points... One, last night was the first preview performance of the show (official opening is next Friday) so I’m sure you’ll see some things refined. Two, Con the Fruitera is the perfect example of 20th century race humor which just would never fly with a modern audience so no way you’d see that line in the show.