DaptoFunlandGuy

Not sure if it's been mentioned in another thread but since it isn't mentioned here, Mark Petrie has a nice little track people might be familiar with called Where We Are.

Nope. +1 for ditching the arcade. it died the day the prawn disappeared.

Free-spin 4D coasters need to burn in the pits of hell. Hard pass. The ride has operated for 24 years, with millions of riders. There's been a few recent incidents but i'd like to hear the outcome of investigations before I treat any incident as justification to close the ride. By all means don't operate it until the outcomes are known, of course.

This piece of string is exactly 34 centimetres long after I precisely measured and cut it to that length. None of the events have 'sold out' - just the pre-sale. manufactured hype and urgency means nothing. They've struggled to sell out these events for years - ever since they stopped including entry as part of annual passes.

How do you figure?

MDMC was a $10M attraction. As a benchmark i'm pretty sure that roughly half that cost is the ride and systems, and the other half is shipping and construction. Pulling all the pieces apart, resurfacing and putting them all back together is probably not leaving any change out of $5M, and a train is almost definitely around $1M each. Upgrading the launch systems and likely all new PLC is probably at least another $1M, so you've got around $12M remaining to transform the building, theming and 'other elements'.

it's probably been built in a former executive's backyard somewhere 🤣

The ride is 22 years old, and it is still getting one of the biggest wait times in the park on the regular. I'd say it's worth a minor investment to kick another decade or two worth of life into it.

You can make it work... this thing is 102 years old.

They have an entire "sound stage". There's a lot of unused space in that building if they decided to remove SE and go with something else. I think they'll do whatever they need to do to keep it though. We've seen partial re-tracking before. Intamin has the profile for the old accelerator and it wouldn't take much to design new pieces to drop in to replace the launch if necessary.

The trouble with both Jet rescue and Motocoaster is that unload doesn't exit the opposite side. The design is inherently dependant on a separate unload station, otherwise those getting off, and those getting on have to push past each other. The alternative is unloading at load and then waiting for all the unloaded guests to clear the station before opening the load gates - so the time you've saved by eliminating the unload station is eaten up by convoluted operations procedures. For attractions designed to have a separate unload, they should operate with one wherever possible. Single train ops are the exception to this but the better alternative is - buy three trains. Rise of the Resistance (ROTR) Jungle Cruise (JC) Haunted Mansion (HM) Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway (Should be MMRR) Admittedly I really had to think about it to get Jungle Cruise, but got there without googling in the end - but absolutely agree if it is not common to the thread, acronyms should be defined - especially overseas parks (even if it is Disney)

Yeah, because nothing says immersion like re-entering the load station from the unload station to collect your belongings from cheap steel storage boxes.

Unlike during the construction of Rivertown, they don't have a back-door access path open to them, and they aren't going to close down Rivertown either. Given how close the rivertown store is to MM, no access will happen that way, so it will all need to be brought in from the Giant Drop side... Either they're closing off access to wildlife behind Giant Drop (the long way round behind Rivertown isn't that bad), or the site will only be accessible to vehicles outside of park hours.

I think that speaks to the manufacturer, or the issues that plagued construction throughout covid, or even potentially the part that executives robbing the company blind could have played in this here, rather than tar every wooden coaster with the same brush. There are plenty of woodies overseas operating for decades, plus Wonderland operated 2 of them successfully for almost 20 years, with only minimal roughness (compared to Levi) towards the end of their lifespan (which may also be somewhat contributed to by a reduction in maintenance towards the end too)

The writing's been on the wall for a while. Village is tightening their belts everywhere they can reasonably get away with. It's something we kinda expected when BGH came on board, but with the recent embezzlement headlines, it's even more understandable. Does it make it right to be paying a premium for a pass and having a product persistently and repeatedly watered down? absolutely not - but the reality is what it is.