DaptoFunlandGuy

No doubt just an upgrade to their advertising to try and catch more punters. It's insanely expensive for what they offer... But you can charter a chopper from SW to take you to Topgolf for a night with the boys, and have them pick you up when you're done for a few thousand. I assume they'd land in the MW helipad though...

something something statue something something.

Or Red like another park down the road... Truthfully though it's bizarre some of the colour choices on building materials at the moment, but many of the manufacturers are just bulk producing in 1 or 2 core colours. To misquote Henry Ford - You can have any colour you want, as long as it's white...

Yep, I’d say since all the new ones are shutdown for 3 days midweek, chances are that’s when they’re hoping to install the fix for Kaboom… it makes sense anyway.

Were all seats active or some locked out on the one train? also, it’s pretty well established Village only run two-train between Christmas and Australia Day. I mean - compared to some others I’ve seen - the bad ones really take you on a Journey.

To be fair, there's a lot more competition out there that they have to compete hard to convince people to choose their park over the hundreds of others they could go to - so the extra marketing is needed. The GC parks have long learned the arrogance of being the only "real" option for Aussies (yes, other regional parks are out there but rarely are they the 'reason' for the trip - just a 'do while we're there' in most cases), so they don't have to compete as much - Honestly I think the only reason we got the Rivals video we did was because an enthusiast did a hell of a job and village went - "WOW - we should pay him" otherwise I doubt we'd have gotten the rivals one either.

Home streaming services won't even let you use a dongle to screenshare off a phone to a TV using HDMI because it thinks you're trying to pirate the signal. Copy protection on digital streaming services has entered the 21st century - even if Village Roadshow haven't.

Which opens the door. You're flat out wrong. The park isn't suggesting it. The family isn't suggesting it. Park fans who know the history aren't suggesting it. You've ignored every well reasoned argument to bang on about a statue that everyone else agrees he wouldn't want, but you think it's ok, because he's dead and wouldn't know? That's hardly honoring his memory.

Some days - I wonder if that's even a consideration for them.

Ahem..

Trident will take only days to construct. Landscaping likewise can be done quickly - I've read stories of Disney World executives, office workers, wives and family members out treading sod into the ground the day before the press-opening of the Contemporary. "Green side up!" The main thing we need to see happen is Leviathan needs to cycle. At Wonderland, Bush Beast was cycled through the night to reach it's manufacturer spec'd minimum cycle time to open to guests. Once we see cycles, it won't be long.

If the lead time to a fix for these boats is as long as has been implied, sensors and power collectors could be removed, and old PLC backups could be restored. it’s a case of being bothered.

If I remember correctly didn’t we see the ride cycling at one point with both old and new boats? the inability to “roll back” changes that caused issues is poor planning and poor execution.

Village Roadshow once again demonstrating how easy it is to forget about Wet N Wild.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-01/seaworld-said-to-make-3-4-billion-takeover-bid-for-cedar-fair SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. has offered to buy amusement park owner Cedar Fair for around $3.4 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said. SeaWorld made a bid of about $60 per unit in cash for Sandusky, Ohio-based Cedar Fair, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. The companies are working with advisers on the proposal, the people said. Deliberations are ongoing, and it’s unclear whether the approach will lead to a transaction, the people said. Cedar Fair confirmed in a statement that it had received and was reviewing an “unsolicited, non-binding” proposal from SeaWorld. Perella Weinberg Partners LP and Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP are advising Cedar Fair. A spokesperson for SeaWorld didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Cedar Fair rose 9.6% to $54.51 at 11:23 a.m. in New York before trading was halted, giving the company a market value of about $3.1 billion. SeaWorld rose 4.7% to $62.35 at 12:35 p.m., for a market value of about $4.8 billion. The talks underscore SeaWorld’s bullish outlook on leisure and entertainment as the industry rebounds from the coronavirus pandemic, which had sapped tourism demand. The company, which temporarily closed all of its parks in 2020, reported record revenue and profit in the third quarter, as tourists returned to to its stable of 12 destinations, including SeaWorld, Busch Gardens, Aquatica and Sesame Place. SeaWorld went public in 2013 under Blackstone Inc.’s ownership and suffered a blow after “Blackfish,” a documentary released that year, accused SeaWorld of mistreating killer whales. Blackstone sold its remaining stake in the company in 2017 to a Chinese leisure company.

But they already had the letters made up and everything!

My guess is opening hours are quiet hours, and with BD being one of, if not the most expensive thing to run, better to hold it and build anticipation until there's enough of a crowd gathered in park to warrant full train operations. Given what we've heard of how light the trains are, sending them partially full might also cause other issues. It's also possible that the morning maintenance checks take longer and it was easier to keep it closed for a couple hours than to try and get everything open at once. Not the same, but Bush Beast's morning maintenance checks and track walks were still ongoing when Wonderland opened, which is why Goldrush didn't open until an hour after the rest of the park did

If you'll excuse the accidental double negative - ^what he said. The restraints are more restrictive - as I mentioned recently the operators are now spieling regularly that the restraints are restrictive and might not fit some guests.

I mean it's not a bad sign if they've already decided what they're doing with that space, but instead they're going to have back of house sheds and maintenance facilities SMACK BANG in the middle of the park. It seems like a poor choice, but the presence of the points there pretty much confirms it.

This year they closed. What a spectrum.

The new boats entered service with the front row operating - so my question would be how did they NOT pick it up prior to that? And what about the old boats - obviously nearing end of life or no longer compliant and hence the replacement but they were still running them until recently - could they not have continued doing so while the new boats got corrected?

considering the fanfare they made about the new carriages and such, I think it's poor form that they've not kicked into high gear restoring the train line and operations.

I'm not bored enough to dive into standards documents and whatnot, but from what I recall, it's not about the harness type or whatever - but whether the supplemental system was infallible - ie harnesses that had ratcheting locking systems that could not be unlocked except with intention are seen differently to hydraulic locking systems that aren't independent of each other. I think this is why Buzzsaw had such issues and then later modifications to it's restraint system because the 'layers' of redundancy weren't independent. This is all from memory though, so don't quote me on it - but that's what I remember...

Plus at the rate WA is going, it's unlikely to be able to be considered an Australian Coaster anytime soon... haha!

At the risk of being accused of being pedantic - I feel like it's more at the end than the middle.