DaptoFunlandGuy

I'm quite surprised with the price hikes that anyone retained these pass-types!

I did a quick google (I haven't been either) and it's clear the layout crosses over itself several times, and there isn't sufficient room between them to ensure clearances. no - you can't split the envelope.

I think we're all just that cynical about village's motives now that we think it's all intentional and deliberate. 100% each track can operate independently of the other and train rebuilds should be done one at a time so that they can keep the other one operating. There are some occasions where both would need to be closed where work is needed on shared systems or envelope access, but general routine maintenance shouldn't need to offline both at the same time, and i'm confident that they won't do that "just because".

Can't really say if it means anything towards locals beyond our own experience - we didn't renew and don't currently hold village passes, but as far as non locals are concerned its a much better deal. I daresay sales of non-local annual passes probably dried up at their price point and it's possible they realised trying to milk the infrequent visitor by charging so much more to someone who is going to use it far less wasn't really a smart idea. I know a bunch of people that time their GC holidays so that they can visit twice, 11 months and so many days apart, and get two holidays worth of use of the passes, which makes it far more affordable. A lot of those folk have been preferencing Dreamworld far more often lately. From a pass overhaul perspective i'd like to see two things: Offer a 13 month pass. For many people the parks are a once or twice a year thing, and offering this lets people mentally assign the cost across two trips instead of one, making it appear far more affordable Offer discounts. The park up the road offers a minimal discount on what is reasonably priced food and merch and you feel a little better about it seeing the sub-total drop just that little bit. I'm sure Village's prices could afford to offer passholders a little off. Heck - they could jack the prices up for everyone by 5% and offer passholders discounts back down to current pricing and it would still give the mental feeling like you're getting more value out of your pass. I don't believe Village should drop their prices across the board (though the non locals adjustment was probably the right one). The cut-price race to the bottom of the previous decade didn't help our parks much at all and i'm all for them improving the bottom line, but doing so while taking a steaming turd all over the guest experience is what is keeping us away. We'll happily pay the premium price they're asking for a premium product when they're actually delivering one. And it hurts me to say this - i've always favoured village over dreamworld until the past couple of years post-pandemic, and I know a bunch of people who work or have worked for Village and they're a passionate group of people that are devoted to what they do. There's just too much shitfuckery that has happened and is continuing to happen right now to turn the tide.

Yeah they're careful cuts. Some rides are literally welded together onsite - I know the Vekoma Boomerang was. Judging by the photos and Narra's spot of the existing weld line, it does seem like they've done it carefully. Looking at the gondola support arms TPG has highlighted - they too look like they've been shorted at a pre-existing join line. Whether they were welded or whether they were bolted together though it's hard to tell, but definitely looks like it's able to be shortened intentionally.

Are you sure it's 8? Bermuda and Pirates OTC are both about 4 to a row. An 8 seater boat feels massive... Finding imagery of LTRR to confirm is a bit difficult (i'm sure its out there but it wasn't easy on a quick google). ETA: turns out I was right - it's "4 to a row or your boat won't go" 6:35 in this clip. Looks like your trauma is slowly fading @Cactus_Matt

The stairs aren't an issue in the Hollywood iteration, and it is far better for guest flow, but I agree both of the installs are incredibly poor for navigation and such. it's just such a MORASS of people. I think the AR headsets for MK are neat, and the ride would be nowhere near as good if it were standard 3d.

Wow, taking over the Malaysian Street Food building is one way to expand the park! Truthfully the expansion plots they allowed when designing the park were never large enough to accommodate some of the products \ IPs Universal has developed in other parks, and probably a little short sighted. Losing the malaysian food court isn't the worst thing to happen - though I remember the loss of the dining precinct of The Forum made it really difficult to find somewhere to eat after park close and the Malaysian Food Court didn't cater to all tastes (plus it was a huge indoor space for what it was) so hopefully the Forum returns with a decent array of quality dining options so that the malaysian food court isn't a big loss overall.

Dejiki has also mentioned that in the article linked above. To give this perspective, this was the concept art: Meaning SNW has about half the plot I highlighted above. Comparing the size of Minion Mayhem i'm not sure there's enough space to put up what USJ or USH have - though I don't really have the time to do a size comparison of the show buildings (if anyone else can do a 3 way comparison between USS, USJ and USH to compare i'd be thankful!)

Yeah the state of the park between my 2010 and 2022 visits was chalk and cheese. so much had been left to rot. I want to say covid was somewhat responsible but clearly it isn't entirely to blame. Our 2024 visit was a marked improvement from 2022, but still not back to 100% where it should, and the loss of the forum dining precinct for 'redevelopment' was also a let down. I'm waiting until resorts world have finished fucking around with the wider RWS precinct before we book another trip back - hopefully once Nintendo is opened up (though at this rate we might see SNW open in 2040).

Recognition of good performance is always a good thing but i've always considered a rewards system based on who did the fastest or most dispatches, or had the highest efficiency or whatever encouraged staff to cut corners to achieve better times. I'm all for improving the park's operations but it starts with culture, and leading from the top. If everyone expects a higher level of performance, the new guys will be encouraged to aim for the same standard and the tradition continues. You mean, except for the other Mack coaster up the road with the exact same seatbelt requirement, and the additional step of an RFID tag to ensure it was the operator who did it up? Operators go down together so a second person is present to witness the other person do their job. In the case of an incident, there are two people who can attest to the procedure being done correctly prior to dispatch. The belt is done after the push pull to ensure that it is the hydraulic that is holding it down, and not the belt itself. And this is why operators have to do up the belt.

Ahhhh, the Six Flags model of guest retention.

The afterdark event was open to members only, and the second event might not have sold out, but it was certainly PACKED. We went and never even set foot on Ocean Parade From the get go, the night market was always a way to attract people to come back and see what had changed. Many people hadn't returned since 2016 and covid did nothing to help that - but so much has changed in the park and inviting people to come in and just SEE it for $2 while enjoying some entertainment and cheap eats was a quirky idea to try and attract people back - and it looks like it has worked to some extent. I'm glad that it also makes money because while running a loss campaign to improve attendance is good in the short term, if the campaign is also profitable then it's more sustainable long term. As a shareholder, I'd presume you'd be happy with them making money, but it does seem like you being happy with what they do these days is rare. ^Ladies and gentlemen - the problem in a nutshell. But why? Unlike Carnivale and White Christmas events, this event wasn't free to attend. It required an additional payment. Further the first event was in the middle of holidays - a time when a lot of passholders tend to avoid the parks, and the second event was put on with relatively short notice compared to the first one as a make-up event. I held a village membership for years that included fright nights tickets every year and I used them maybe once. Just because a passholder is invited to attend something, doesn't mean they will. They could very well be similar to Brad's situation above - dropping in for a couple of hours after school or whatever. Not everyone who is a passholder is going to attend every member event on the calendar. Yeah we're getting into the weeds on this but if it's just a matter of how much space is available to fit people into, DW wins even with the 'shrunk footprint'. There's still a few holes in the DW lineup which i'm sure they have plans for. All I can say is we went both passholder nights, and while we got soaked on the first night, it was still pretty busy - could not find a table anywhere for food, and people were out riding rides with consistent queues despite being soaked. The second night, queues were pretty consistent, with plenty of crowds throughout the park. We opted for the queue express 5 rides, and other than an early ride on Murrisippi Motors, the only other rides we did all night were via express queue and they were well worth it. (We did also eat at Janes, so that took up a large chunk of the night - notably although we got to Janes by 18:30, they were full and turning people away, advising folks to come back in around half an hour. They were right, and just after 19:00 the place had settled down and walk-ins were seated with minimal wait times. We were in the queue when Taipan went down, and credit to the maintenance crew for getting it back online as fast as they did. The ops crew working Taipan were absolutely pumping people through all night (truthfully, the crew at Jungle Rush were doing even better) and all of the Ops crew we interacted with throughout the night were amazing and did a great job. The nightscape in Rivertown is gorgeous and I can't wait to attend more night events in the park.

Now that i've read the earthstory concept, I understand the sound effect is meant to sound like stone sliding on stone, but it just sounds like a horrible screech and I wouldn't have picked that that's what the sound was supposed to be without the concept descriptions. Saturday morning cartoons have better "stone door rolling open to reveal hidden room" sound effects in things like scooby doo and the flintstones - I hope this isn't the 'final' sound effect. and they've just gone with a rough edit because the final wasn't ready.

ok so they renamed the restaurant but didn't get the signs redone? #consistency.

I think the camp under the fig tree is what eventuated from that... No clue why they ditched "Jungle Jane's" but they should have kept it.

Batwing and Superman always go down together in February. Batwing may have gone down early for unplanned reasons but the scheduled maintenance periods almost always align.

I disagree. The internet is becoming a shitty place because people who hold certain values or beliefs feel it is their place to identify content posted by someone else that they disagree with, and then proceed to berate them for sharing it. #karen No, it doesn't. Video of rape would be video of a criminal act. Republishing it would potentially make you some kind of accessory or contributor to the damage towards the victim. There is no crime here - the operators were found not to be liable to the accident, she did everything she shouldn't have done. She made a mistake. There are plenty of videos online of people making mistakes and paying a significant price. If you aren't comfortable with that, you should probably ask your mum to put the parental controls back on your ipad.

Does FOTWW have these?

Even if you put aside the fact that this would be the worst decision they could make, the simple fact of the matter is Village's ego would never allow them to buy a second hand ride from Dreamworld.

Isn't wicked witch a ground level station? so theoretically someone could wander out the rear of the station and into the envelope if ops aren't paying attention?

Hasn't that already been discussed, and the 100m was more like all of the work put into scoob, flash and woz combined or something?

That's way too much capacity for MW.

(it's sarcasm)