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The issue to me is that many of these recent ride renovations and "upgrades" have either been done in a really half arsed manner or have ended up detracting from or breaking some other part of the ride experience. For example, the Wild West Falls upgrade saw effects being renovated/reactivated, control systems upgraded and new boats added. But capacity is now significantly lower, many of the audio effects are out of sync and/or play on top of each other, the queue line videos have been completely removed and the area music loop surrounding the ride no longer plays (plus many of the practical effects they only just refurbished are already broken again). It's a similar story for most of the other recently upgraded attractions. Plus other general park issues that have already been mentioned on here many times before (the lack of background music in many areas, overgrown gardens, poor operations, dirty and tired areas) continue to be a problem and are holding back the park from being truly "world class" IMHO.

SurfRider’s track has now been repainted Red and Gold. Jaggsjourneysau

OMG. I hate it when they go to the expense of lighting a building and then it gets put on the default "cycling through the rainbow" mode. In particular, going past this one at Helensvale.

From what I’ve heard they are RGB and the intent is to change the colours depending on the in-park events/time of year

The “LD” letters are lit up in blue tonight, everything else is still in the dark.

After all these years, the oil rig theme makes sense now.

Speak for yourself.

Let’s hope they aren’t colour changing and running heaps of tacky colour patterns. Single big bold colour is a statement and looks classy and impactful. Last thing we want is a 400’ high impression of a kebab shop.

Honestly - I thought the original press release mentioned that they'd be changeable for different events, but going back to look for it - it's another @themagician forecast. He must have been there in person for this one, because he was right again! Honestly with them going to this trouble, making them RGB changeable is a no brainer - With the proliferation of cheap RGB lights in everything from gaming desks to car underbody kits, if they DIDN'T make them changeable it'd be a cause for embarassment

Lol this is straight up wrong. Atlantis was announced in mid 2019 a couple of years after building Rivals & Topgolf (which weren't cheap either). Many years before BGH were in the picture. Village weren't healthy on cash and the parks lost a lot of foot traffic post 2016 (which people have seemed to forget). Not unlike down the road. Presentation is improving. Superman has opening day effects back which I hadn't seen before since I was too short to ride last time they worked. Rides are being renovated, repainted & removed. Hedges are being trimmed. Say what you want about the cheap printed signs, non working effects on West & uniforms (among others) and I've never been a fan of these but cleaning up the mistakes of the past takes years (Dreamworld have done it for 6 years and still aren't finished). Look at Atlantis and that seems to be the standard going forward.

How can you get the top right and not the tower. 🤦‍♀️ Clearly @Slickis right and everybody else is wrong. Once you see it, you can never unsee it.

You've subsequently and ironically managed to inadvertently back up my original argument that your statement has no factual basis beyond personal opinion. That was my entire point in the first place so thank you for doing my job for me.

You can't help yourself. We get to this because you make flippant off-hand remarks that aren't based in reality. As Joz demonstrated above, you even contradict yourself at times. You probably should have. You should by now have realised that people here aren't going to let you get away with bullshit. And providing a complete and utter shutdown in one post reduces your avenues of attempted rebuttal. You attempted a stab at Superman Ops by expressing your desire for superman to dispatch as often as a real subway. Your previous words (which identified Superman Ops as "bad" when it was 4-6 minutes) were thrown back at you. You tried to give your original comment legitimacy by screenshotting a travel blog that claimed 2-5 minutes was normal. I provided numerous sources that called your source into question and showed a much more balanced assessment of the frequency of the subway you yourself pointed to as a source. You switch to implying the direction the conversation went is somehow unexpected You double down on your original position trying to explain that one platform can handle multiple services, while ignoring the fact that that platform is also fed by multiple tracks, whereas this fictious rollercoaster city only has one track. Objection your honor, this question has been asked and answered. He's badgering the witness!

Or better yet, don't accept is as an L and accept it as a learning opportunity. Say thanks for the info/insight/research, and move the fuck on.

You really can't help yourself, can you? - you've always got to disprove the other guy and defend your statement even when you've been called out. And you always fail. Saddle up. Even if you take the average of all of those running times over the course of the day, the average frequency of the NYC is 7 minutes and 22 seconds across its operating day. The 5 minutes quoted run time during peak hours is also smack bang in the middle of your quoted Superman dispatch times. However you should be careful of your sources. The site google has quoted there is not an official site - but a tourist blog run by a commercial tour company - Civitatis Tours. Let's check some other sources: Wikipedia starts off noting there are actually five different service patterns, rather than the three the tour company mentioned (the others are late night and weekends, so presumably won't help bump the average). What's also notable is the fact the NYC Subway has 28 different routes, and each operates different frequencies - expresses, all stops, some only in non peak times - but what gets really interesting is this table: What we see here is that, even in rush hour, not every train comes every 2 minutes, and if you average it out (based on the fastest time for each line), it still comes to 5 minutes and 40 seconds during peak. Now, assuming we take wiki with a grain of salt: The official MTA website shows all the schedules for every line, and if you go and look at those examples during peak hour the frequency is scheduled quite often less (ie, longer wait) than posted even in Wiki. Pedestrian Observations has written an article specifically regarding the NYC Subway frequency, and in their own analysis, they found an average of 5 minutes and 42 seconds during morning peak across all lines. New York City Photo Safari (another tourist blog) states most trains run every 7-10 minutes, with some as many as 15. It notes that if you wait more than 10 or 12 minutes, it's unlikely the line is operating at that time. TL:DR - you got owned, stop talking out your arse and just accept the L occasionally.

If only it dispatched as frequently as an actual subway