DaptoFunlandGuy

Given how many of the VR leadership followed Greg to DW, i'm not sure how much trickling would be necessary! But agree, regardless of what the guy was or was not responsible for at Village, his people skills far exceed others in similar positions.

The ride system itself was a great experience, however much of it was driven by parks and manufacturers to be the record breakers, and the experience itself, while thrilling, lacked a certain something. Couple that with the fact that it essentially detroyed the landscape of the park, carving it neatly in two, disrupting routes between various parts of the park, and interrupting the 'escape' of a theme park periodically with punctuated launches (not to mention the siren prior to each launch). It was a great thing to ride, but i'm glad it is gone. As soon as the park can rid itself of the remaining infrastructure, or repurpose it for other attraction uses, the better.

He did say 'with a few changes'

Concept art gotta concept art I guess...

I saw on facebook this morning that two park items had gone up for sale. TPSN posted that the old Paradise Country trams (which were originally the Studio Tour trams) were up for sale on Marketplace for $5000. DGY also posted that the Dreamworld Churro Stand was up for sale for $16,500 by a guy in Loganholme who sells a lot of different demountable buildings. I can't seem to find the posts again now, but they were definitely there this morning - so if you did grab an image, feel free to pop it below.

Pity the crews working in the miserable conditions today - but can confirm the train must have gone on yesterday as there was a giant red and yellow surfboard hovering over superman this morning.

I have absolutely no doubt that anyone discussing JR and JR in the same topic or conversation would include an obvious differentiation, or simply spell out the entire name when needed to avoid any acronym confusion when referring to JR or JR. Just like you did.

I think these days most english speakers would use their context clues to work out a discussion about Dreamworld's new attraction construction doesn't relate to Sea World. Just like when Sky Voyager made it complicated to discuss a former rollercoaster at Sea World... Nevertheless I think we'll all manage. If Y'all cant figure out whether I'm talking about one or the other, feel free to ask.

I think you missed the part where I said: What Can I Say Except You're Welcome!

Looked like some lifts were happening in the Superman helix this morning... could we have a train on track?

Now who's trippin...?

Just to give some perspective, according to Nearmap, the WOZ site was blank canvas on 17 September. Footers were either poured or in progress on 13 November. By reports here, the coasters were completed around 22 March. So all in all, we've got between 4 & 6 months for construction, though this doesn't take into account a likely ~1 month shutdown over christmas. By comparison, Dreamworld: JR site was effectively 'blank canvas' on 28 December Footers \ slab went in \ in progress around 14 March Assuming the 1 month christmas shutdown, potentially we see JR completed by June. We already know much of the theme works have been completed off-site The building structure isn't likely to be tilt panel so it'll be a tin shed that goes up in less than a week. I think its fair to say JR can come together pretty quickly once constructed. The major factor for JR is going to be whether the prototype switch track element works as intended. I think it's highly likely both attractions open by Christmas. Earlier opens would be good but Christmas is usually the target for these major attractions. I think Village has a lot more to build after the coasters, based on some of the concepts they've released, so no doubt they need more time to do that, hence why they've finished the coasters earlier...

You could do more than just a few lightbox posters of the movie. Have the cast member appear like a storyteller, reading from a storybook - once upon a time... establish the characters, get some audience participation (anyone remember A FLOGGING!) If you have the licence for the characters (like Tom and Jerry for example) perhaps you could show shorts or an earlier episode of the characters to establish their background for anyone who is unfamiliar with the characters? even a 60 second montage of character establishment? Hell, if I can think of it, surely it can't be that hard to achieve these sorts of things?

Woz is BGH's big investment. There's been no motivation to spruce the park up to now because they weren't ready to sell yet - they hadn't done enough to make a profit from it. In the next 12-18 months, I'm guessing we're going to see a lot of effort made to fix that (hopefully including Roxy). They're going to be in a position to sell and they can't sell WOZ if the rest of the place looks like dogshit. Things I would do: Reintroduce a pre-show to Roxy - similar to Shrek where it actually introduces the story, rather than just having it a dark holding area for the next group of guests. Use it for something. Upgrading or replacing the seats in theatre would be nice, but not essential if they're still functioning. Get all the shuttered facilities online - Stars Cafe, West Burgers etc. Return Showcase to a proper Show to take some load off attractions and offer something else when maintenance or downtime impacts the park's capacity. Turn Doomsday area around and chuck in a few small flats. Honestly even a 'scrambler' style ride, (suitably themed of course) would be preferable to having Doomsday sit and rot. (Longer term i'd see SVU rethemed back to western but for now the cheapest thing is to keep current theme and get a new ride - or two - in to replace the hammer). You could probably fit two small 'scrambler' sized attractions in that footprint. Ditch HWSD and Showtime in favour of a show that is more than just 'driving in circles, the show' Return intencity to guest accessible space. restore dodgems (ick) or utilise the space for other purposes - something i'd love to see is perhaps a mini "special effects" show (done more like convention stalls rather than an actual 'show' where one stall has a green screen, one has a Mo-Cap set up. (There's more to flesh out on this idea which maybe i'll write if i find the time) Flesh out kids a bit more. Use the other side of LTRR shed for some sort of dark ride, or an ariel's grotto style area. Again, returning previously guest accessible space back to the guests. Open Chinatown. Theme it to Yellow Brick road. Before anyone says they've already got a yellow brick road next to superman, there is more than one road. And the majority of Oz were matte paintings, so get some talented artists in to paint the walls of the alley and boom, immersive Oz Yellow Brick Road. You could even have the artwork progress, cornfields, apple tree forests, poppy fields before you round the corner and the big emerald city is revealed...

Yeah from what i've heard it was winds taking them down yesterday. If you live in SEQLD, you'd be an idiot to suggest anything else. The park is really suffering at the moment. Sure it's a case of short term pain, long term gain, and they'll be in a much better position once this is all said and done - but their silence on the current state is absolutely deafening.

Can you imagine someone wanting to buy BGH's stake in the business with the old owners still attached?

We all knew that was the case with BGH. They weren't in the game to run a park, they were in the game to make money. They need to increase the value of their assets while cutting operating costs to make the books look good. What they need to do then is flip it to someone else before their actions completely ruin the park. That's the race they're in now. Hopefully to Kirby's bail in the deal too.

Well if you've never seen it, then it must never happen. Right? We've just heard from two people who present as former ride operators and both have confirmed guest behaviour was a common stoppage reason. So let's rely on the folk who watched 100+ dispatch cycles a day over a thoosie with an ego? SBF Visa gotta SBF, y'know? Nah from what i've heard they've had heaps of issues with it faulting and they're trying to resolve the common issues so it happens less often. I think its wild that a park model needs to be manually hooked up to an air line to operate though... ...and boy is it not worth watching more than once.

We all called it as a program that was poorly executed. It's a shame, it could have been so much more than it was. At least they didn't try to keep it on life support and shut it down. the 20 people who bought one will no doubt get their money's worth before it is closed off completely though.

Another 'A' step, but its still in the right direction.

On the contrary, the least amount of effort possible is what they've been doing - nothing. This is literally 'A' step.

Again if they'd opened up chinatown alley as part of the Oz experience, it'd actually be a great tie-in. Considering the old photo shop looks to be in a holding pattern I reckon we're gonna see some big things in there come Oz, so Roxy running it might be a cool nod too - especially in the lead up to opening.... a great way to get kids on-side with the storyline as I can't imagine many kids these days have seen a film made in 1939.

To the park? It makes sense. To the passholder? It's annoying, but it makes sense. To the day guest? The full price gate ticket on a once in a lifetime visit to the park who is confronted with the abomination that is HWSD, Roxy and Wild West Falls as the only adult level attractions who gets told by the park's social team they should have checked the website? get fucked.

You can still operate Superman while pouring if you can work within the red area. It's a temporary issue from a DDA point of view (or steps could have a temporary ramp if necessary) There are ways to ameliorate this. Vehicle access gates already existed facing the plaza, and temporary fencing can be used also. This particular point could have been worked around to keep the ride running if they had wanted to put in the effort. That's fine - if its necessary to do it, sure - but two things: How much crane work still exists? The track is built so we need a crane to put the train on, and we need a crane to lift in the theming pieces? How much of that could have been done after hours - again if they had wanted to put in the effort (and pay the night shift rates?) The point is, had it been operable, they could have run Superman for a lot of this. Even if the entrance side (green, above) needed new concrete, that takes you out for a week tops. Other fences exist to maintain the envelope even if the primary fence was taken down. They could certainly have planned lifts to occur outside of hours, or early morning with crews cleared by 10 or 11. All of it is a cost, obviously, and the cheapest option is to just shutter it until everything is done - but if that be the case they shouldn't still be charging full price while taking the cheapest option. If they want to charge full price, they should be spending to keep as many rides open as is possible. The fact you've already said they could have closed it later already proves there was a choice here - they made it, and it's caused backlash as a result. Fact.

Sorry wasn't the conversation replacements for Doomsday... which is outside showstage? Another dumb idea from your brain. It's a paid experience. The park is lacking capacity for numerous reasons, and your solution is to open up TWO seats, that normally cost $30+ each, and make them free? So for the approximately 350 people that they can fit on this in a day, wahoo. and for the rest, you end up pissing people off even more because they couldn't ride it. The only way you make backwards free on DCR is if you turn the entire train around and run one each way. Two month periods is being slammed as a cash saver. maybe it is, and maybe it isn't. but both parks seem to do it, and they never used to. So it could be a cash saver or it could be the post-TRRR consequence of modern regulation and maintenance. But long term maintenance periods that occur at the same time ARE a problem. Scooby is down long term. By all accounts, unavoidable. necessary. shit happens. Doomsday is down - probably for good. it's been shit pretty much since open, unreliable so even if it were to reopen it isn't likely to stay that way. Superman - down, for maintenance but apparently also to pour some concrete and get the rest of Flash ready to go. Ok, fair enough if its necessary, but concrete surfacing in an area that is normally guest accessible during ride operation doesn't prevent SE from running. Flash's area in the helix is also going to be guest accessible when opened, so some level of work could continue whilst Superman ran too. If the ride maintenance itself is done, getting SE back online should be a priority when the park is where it is. If it means closing it again later (When less other things in park are offline) then so be it. Batwing - down, allegedly for maintenance and also apparently for Flash, though I'm not sure I understand how Batwing is impacted by Flash construction?