DaptoFunlandGuy

Credit to @Jay Jay The Jet Plane for finding this. BREAKING: EASTER IS IN SEPTEMBER NOW.

I don't think i've ever agreed with you more.

Acknowledging of course that you don't think it is a smart move, I think it is, if only for the fact that its a clever distraction. Long term, tapping into nostalgia and doing all the old shit is plain dumb. But distracting folks while you try to literally lay the train tracks in front of them, for now, is smart... in my opinion. (And just to add to that, I don't think some barbershop singers and a steam train display are going to make people think of rapids. so long as they don't put a raft in the middle of the main street fountain, I think they'll be ok for now.)

At the speed that a train goes through the transition between the cobra roll and the loop, I can't imagine they're going to have much time to stop and smell anything!

look beyond the enclosed ride building and smoke machine. these are just examples. the point is - a ride plonked on a concrete slab in the middle of a carpark can be improved on without the actual ride model being modified or the layout being adjusted. It doesn't have to be fully enclosed. it doesn't have to be enclosed at all. As I mentioned - Hershey just 'plussed' their Boomerang by adding a tunnel. I think it's Japan that has a coaster launch "powered" by screams. There's a lot a creative can do without building a box around it. I didn't study theme park 101, so i'm not the person to ask for specifics as to 'how' to plus a ride - the point is i've got eyes, and I can see plainly that turds can be polished, and even rolled in glitter. I'm happy to wait and see how much glitter they roll this in before I decide that it's shit.

In very simple terms, what i'm saying is, just because a ride plonked onto a bare concrete slab without further accoutrements isn't considered to be anything special, it doesn't mean it can't be made special. I'm not MW, so i'm not about to tell you "what MW would do" - the point is they could plus the clone into something special. If Aussie World can turn a standard Alpine Express into one of my favourite flat rides in Australia with little more than a dark room full of theatre fog and some scanners \ moving heads, i'm prepared to *wait and see* what MW can do before I write it off... which is the only point i've been making here.

One of my favourite coasters of all time has a top speed of 51.5kmh, only just faster than the Road Runner Roller Coaster at 45.9kmh, but it feels SO much faster because of what the park did with it. It has a 'sister' ride too - built first, which only gets to 43.5kmh. Both of them would be considered 'thrilling' even though one of them is even slower than road runner...* Even though concept art has proven sorely unreliable - i'm going to wait until I at least see what they try to sell before I write it off simply because some folk associate the manufacturer as being poor, or the existing model being mild. If Hershey can relaunch their Vekoma boomerang as a new experience by adding a tunnel and theming it to Jolly Ranchers... anything is possible. [spoiler] (The original californian space mountain, by the way - also worth noting the Orlando version is slower than RRRC at 43.5kmh) [/spoiler]

Honestly, I'd take that over cookie cutter corflute anyday.

I'm going to disagree (shock horror) but I have a simple point to counter here. Pretty much all I hear from folks who knew 'old dreamworld' is 'it's not as ______ as it used to be'. And its true. We know that. Like you said - gangrenous limbs and all that. Folks are getting nostalgic for old dreamworld because current dreamworld has its share of problems. We also know that they can't wave a magic wand and replace everything tomorrow. Rebuilding the brand, and the lineup, takes time. Adding some simple entertainment elements that people see and go "oh my gosh, remember when we visited and those barbershop guys sang to mum \ sister \ whatever? oh those were the days" Like any player of RCT will tell you - if you can't afford to fix the problems right away - hire some entertainers to distract the guests. I agree that thematically these entertainment options and nostalgic things don't fit anymore with the current dreamworld, but it is a 'dream' world, and since anything can happen in a dream its not that far out of the question, right? I don't see some of these things continuing on, but for now, for their 40th birthday celebrations and as a gap filler this year until the next thing arrives to start plugging the holes, i'm ok with that offering to distract the guests for the time being...

I just googled 'Family Movie' and among the results were the likes of Maleficent, Pixar's Onward, and the 2019 live action musical 'Cats'. We haven't seen a footprint, layout, POV or even artist's rendering yet. Maybe don't judge a book by the cover you haven't seen yet?

Dreamworld's got a lot of icons, but movie world is the home of the coast's greatest collection of codpieces...

When I went to Magic Mountain in 1996, all their ride closure\maintenance\excuse our mess signage was all LT themed characters. Yosemite Sam is in the Movie World parking lot remindin' varmints to turn off their headlights. I don't see an inherent problem with using the park's licenced cartoons broadly across their signage, but I did actually say 'tailored' signage, so if there were a move to re-introduce the life-size cutout characters, i'd be keen to see them have a proper, suitable board for each ride - or at the very least a Justice League theme for the DC rides, LT characters for WB Kids, & Scooby (no brainer). Then you've only got Roxy (Either go with the current resident film star - or Marvin is perfectly fine given his long residency) and West (for which Foghorn is perfectly fine IMO, but if you wanted to, I'd probably go with a bunch of vultures atop the signboard to fit in with the ride's bridge. Other than the time for a painter to produce this (heck, let's face it, their digital sign printer can knock it up and they can just nail it to a piece of plywood), what's the big deal in this little attention to detail?

An A-frame with some mass-printed generic corflute signage is not an improvement on hand-painted individually tailored artworks. (I mean, its been a long time since they were individually tailored, but still...) The problem with black and white signage is a lot of people tend to walk straight past them - especially in a village park where A-frame signs are literally everywhere. Give me a 3-dimensional moose you can punch any day.

That's a bit... erm... Phallic?

The quote is right there - family ride will be more sky voyager than steel taipan... My bet is some sort of enclosed attraction than a thrill ride... and given the closure of Big Red Car was at the beginning of Greg's time at the park, that's probably a good spot for it too, provided you can give it an appropriate theme for the area. (Especially since ABC Kids was also due for a refurb before Covid) I hope they realise the old train was also wheelchair accessible. For all the folks who neg this guy - this is the sign of a great park leader. Ivory towers don't help execs understand what the boots on the ground can tell them - they've got to get the same boots on and walk a mile beside a guest to know what impact their decisions are having on the guest experience.

I wonder if they'll give as much love to the main entrance building. it is desperately in need of love.

It's surveyors tape or flagging tape. Used outdoors to create bright visible markers. Surveyors will attach them to boundary pegs and the like. Search and rescue teams also use it to mark the edge of their search patterns. So the tape itself doesn't have a specific meaning - it will be to indicate a spot or area that requires attention in some way. It could be markers for cleaning, painting, rust removal, NDT testing... heck it could even be the places to attach the dynamite for demolition.... (but probably not)...

@Richardhas indicated that there is something in the works for this, so I wouldn't entirely write it off. I know i'm being way too ambitious but i'd love to see something nice like Manta's launch bay at Sea World San Diego. It fits the park to basically copy that too.

But movie world is world class. they don't need to do that.

Track does go in, but only from the front.

If people, who haven't visited before, visit and find the only 'adult' level rides are Rivals and Scooby, I doubt they're deciding to buy a pass.

It's the new insurance requirements - you can't kill anyone if nothing is open. #alldreamworldsfault

I'm pretty certain this fenced off area to the right hand side of the staff entrance is signposted as a HLS - although admittedly its been a few years since I went down that end of the carpark. The top right corner of this view shows a Windsock: And here's the google streetview, although there does not appear to be any signage indicating that it is in use, the windsock suggests it's still relatively active:

^...with the point being that they only roll them out when they expect to have large crowds - not because guest experience is being negatively impacted without it.

Sorry lads - No new Nearmap since November so no alternate viewpoints right now...