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Vintage Cars 3/1/24

People have a right to be upset. A day out at a park for a family of five runs you up several hundreds of dollars, and if your whole day amounted to ~8 hours of sitting in queues, you'd feel duped. Park-wide closures due to the weather, slow loads/unloads, 3-4 empty seats on ride cycles, single-train ops and so on all compounded together are giving paying guests a less-than-satisfactory experience, so of course they're going to speak up. Neither Dreamworld nor Movie World have enough attractions operating to keep up with demand. They're taking proactive steps to address these issues for the future, but in the interim it's reasonable to say these school holidays are not the right time to be visiting. I'm not going to rant about it in a Google review, but it's all stuff I've observed this past week, and you can feel the frustration amid the wearied atmosphere. Lots of families are giving up and leaving by lunch time. That's not a good thing for the parks or their staff, because though they've got the gate fare, they've got unhappy staff copping abuse, families not spending as much on food/merchandise, and a generally negative perception which diminishes return visitation. Was at DW today and because I somewhat know the daily crowd cycles, I was able to get my party a pretty good day out of it. We were there for ~5 hrs (yes, we got there very late) and got six different rides in, with a re-ride on ST at the end. I count us lucky.

Like clockwork

families go on holidays and buy theme park tickets this time of year, not everyone has a choice on when they can visit, so spending $500+ then having a below average experience will make them upset, and rightfully so. yes, people should’ve expected big crowds BUT so should the park so they can implement better crowd control. staff aren’t motivated or trained to do fast operations and there are way too many people being let into the parks at once. if you can’t get everything open, either explain that when announcing you are reopening (like Dreamworld did with Tiger Island and the other animal areas) OR keep the park shut until you can ensure everything is okay to operate. I mean half the compliments are about park presentation, food, dirtiness and communication issues, stuff the park CAN fix so guests on a busy day can still enjoy their time, but stuff they don’t want to fix.

I think vintage cars will be retired in current location until new vintage cars open in Rivertown. You can see tree took out part of roof of the load/unload and it wouldn’t surprise me if there was a ride vehicle that was under the wreckage.

in Theme Park Ogre’s new video it can be seen that Flash’s LSM’s have been removed, this seems like a theme with the construction process.

I like the Art Deco style. I'm guessing it won't stay Looney Tunes forever and will sell whatever's big at the time - Wizard of Oz for example.

I disregarded it because what you explained makes no logical sense. The operator WAS moving around the platform visually watching the tube (as I said in my original post) and was NOT watching the panel at all. Don’t be a self righteous wanker.