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Hard agree. There was a queue time website I saw a while back that showed the world's top queue times for the day. Top three were almost universally Tokyo Disneyland's Beauty and the Beast, Tokyo DisneySea's Soarin', and DC Rivals.

It’s great when our parks are busy, when the parks are busy, it indicates they are probably successful, which can lead to better future attraction. The downside is some Gold Coast parks, believe it’s ok to have Disney queue wait times, even though the attraction doesn’t merit it. International visitors to the Gold Coast, commonly comment, how shit the operations are at the parks.

It looks like we’ll soon be getting a new park map. @Ogre shared this image showing part of a new style of park map (it’s on a sign in the wildlife area stating the path ahead is closed) Obviously this is still in progress as some rides have numbers and some done, but from this ‘draft’, it looks great!

A couple of the rides are world class, as good as anything you see in the world, but you can’t call the attraction world class, because the operations & queues, let them down. Rivals probably has the same wait time to a similar ride, so why am I unwilling to wait 2 hours to ride Rivals you ask? Queuing sucks in Australia. 2 hours feels like 3 hours. 3 hours feels like 5 hours. You barely move, the staff look like they are being told to slow the dispatches down, there is nothing to look at and most of the time it’s hot. In a queue where you feel like you are constantly moving, you don’t get bored & bothered because you feel like you are making progress. I don’t believe, I can last more than 2 rides at MW before I walk out the gates anymore.

@Brad2912 your defiantly on the money here, the announcement is believed to be something far bigger than a gyro swing replacement. The Claw now approaching its 20 year anniversary would require either one of two things to occur. A 10 yearly inspection to be completed over the course of the next 12 months which would be a significant closure period. Or depending on the capital spend required as part of the ongoing R&M (10 yearly) it might make sense commercially to replace/upgrade the asset, the latter of the two defiantly being the option undertaken. These considerations where also hinted at in the recent FY earnings call. My money however is on a high thrill new coaster....

That would be awesome!

I can have a detailed look a look for you whenever I head to the park next! I've been meaning to film the queue, so it would work out well