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Loopy lighthouse is now on site and looks amazing, Sledgehammers controls building is also being built now, But that’s all for today

JDude95 the group in question are a great bunch of kids that have good fun and do the best they can, I don’t believe I get treated like god and not sure where you get this from. Nonetheless i don’t need any attention from anyone at this stage of my career. Connect and send me a DM on one of my social channels and I will meet with you so you can clearly see that my aspirations are not godly and I really don’t give a damn about what people think or how they treat me, be respectful and treat everyone fairly and be nice. You don’t have to have a million followers for me to comment on your platform, I do what I feel at any given moment and comment where I wish to, take care buddy and relax and look at things differently with positivity. The level of intelligence astounds me, oops I forgot, I thought I was on #MAFS 😂 just kidding, yes I know my whereabouts. Take care buddy.

I was never pumping self serve stations so am a bit lost on your comment here. The only reason I have not been here is out of sight and out of mind. I need to make more effort and I will. And it not a matter of why I am anywhere it’s convenient sometimes to be where I need to be. They are not a bunch of kids, they are good people trying to make a difference to their existence amongst other things. I don’t have any ambitions to be a god or have an ego that would warrant this. Face book is easy. I have reached out to Richard to have something here on a regular basis. But I will not accept immature comments and childish behaviour from anyone here to be clear. We all need to be respectful and act appropriately.

Hey buddy nothing to do with Greg grabbing the mike. Chalk and cheese. Sure...I can appreciate your excitement. It will be worth it over time. It’s is accurate and true. Announcement has been delayed but worth the wait guys. Please bear with me.

It's a bit behind current progress, but here it is anyway.

FWIW thank you for checking back in with us. You don't owe us anything but your time and input is appreciated. Very excited to see what VRTP has next in the pipeline for their parks.

It’s people who do things like this who ruin it for literally every other drone user.

Fuckwits have really gotta stop flying their drones over active theme parks

Nail on the head.... Disney has long queues, especially for the newest attractions... but you don't FEEL like you're waiting because there's plenty of stuff to keep you occupied. The queues are just about as repeatable as the rides. Radiator Springs Racers opened in June 2012. We visited in April 2013 and it was still selling out fastpasses within 20 minutes of rope drop. Queues were routinely more than 2 hours for standby. We got a FP and queued in Standby and the amount of easter eggs, activities\interactives, themed signs and stories to read, and great ride-overview spots throughout - it felt like maybe half an hour? (Then it had a ride stoppage when we were 12 people from the front, but that's another story). Meanwhile, back on the GC.... Anyone that's visited Movie World during peak times can finish the following: "Hello and welcome...."

I waited a little over 2.5 hours for Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point the year it opened. That being said Cedar Point did line management really well with DJs, random entertainers and food/drink machines throughout the queue so the wait, whilst long, didn't actually feel long.

Hex fullstop is the poster child on how you turn a basic simple ride into a blockbuster attraction! Movie World needs to buy one for Show Stage already!

I've got something amazing to say. But not now. So I won't say it. So keep watching until I say I'm going to say it. But I'm not telling you when it is, so keep watching in case I say something.

Yeah this doesn’t belong in theme park discussion.

Yes, its not as simplistic as 'guests either go on rides or spend money in shops" and operators/designers do not try to "balance" those behaviours. As Rappa points out, guest satisfaction / entertainment is still the core product, and for that there are definitely some good quantative metrics used by industry leaders that design or operate parks to ensure that the average visitors does enough "things" over the course of a visit to feel as though, at the end of the day they got their moneys worth (It varies by the type of park) Guests that are being fed a good stream of entertainment will be happier and spend more, and linger longer and spend more. If they're not having fun they'll go home early. Excessively short queues are only a problem insofar as that you might be over investing and spending too much running a park that doesn't need all that, but if a visitor is experiencing 1 hour waits per ride, you can definitely say they won't get enough entertainment in their visit and investment in capacity is warranted (Eg extra trains, new rides etc) Edited just now by Gazza

Let's say by having three trains you can guarantee you can always have two trains running during the busiest 100 days of the year. If that second train conservatively improves hourly throughput by 200 (on Rivals it'd be much more), that's 1400 people back in the park potentially spending money on stuff on a typical 7 hour day. Let's say ultra-conservatively then that 50% of them spend an extra $20 on literally anything instead of waiting in a queue (my own knowledge suggests it's more like $50-70, but we'll go with worst case scenarios), that's an $14k extra a day. Over roughly 100 peak days of the year where the train will be running, that's 1.4m in additional revenue, which means a third train pays for itself in under a year. Even at a third of my already conservative numbers, you have an investment that pays for itself in under three years and generates six digit revenue every year for the life of the coaster. There's also additional on-flow effects from smaller queue times during peak periods which is best summarised as when you have high satisfaction rates with guest experience, folks spend more. Rivals has been doing 2+ hour wait times over the easter break. Arkham Asylum was consistently one of the worst waits in the park during peak periods. The years after Jet Rescue opened are widely panned as some of Sea World's worst. Exactly my point. Personally I reckon Dreamworld are fine for the next year or two with two trains - but as the crowds continue to come back in huge waves like they've done at Movie World the maths does check out.

That makes sense. I did a quick Google and found that Europa Park's Blue Fire has 5 trains and can operate with 4 at any one time, leaving 1 spare. Mental.

This morning’s update Drop has been added after the block zone

I was about to reply to this to explain why that might be best avoided, and then you nailed it yourself. Scooby is great, but the Gremlins adventure was a real 'movie magic' experience. Superman is awesome, but it took away the last bastion of 'movie making' in the park. Heck, young einstein gravity homestead shit all over dodgem cars. There aren't many examples today though of a replacement being better than what it replaced, and sadly, reminding everyone of such a classic as say - police academy - and then showing them what they replaced it with... sadly thats not the image you want to give to guests.

Real blokes don't use brakes.

Let's not confuse loyalty with forgetting to cancel something.

Vertical construction on Boomerang has started and Bug looks basically complete

Doesn't help when its promoted on this forum which gets them heaps of clicks.