DaptoFunlandGuy

There's a lot of factors to take into account when you're comparing something 40+ years old. One of them is your labour cost. In 1982 - the average wage in Australia was around $300 a week. Today* it's somewhere around $1600 a week which is more than 5 times an increase. Making a like for like comparison is really hard when you've got apples and helicopters. At the end of the day its puffery in a media release. they can explain those numbers any way they like to make their point. It's a presser, not an AGM.

Your recollection is incorrect, but it is not my place to comment on these matters. Your mark is wrong.

Fairly sure there's enough balanced viewpoints \ counter viewpoints about VRTP on here that anyone with eyes could see you've missed the mark on that one.

You can't market a ride without referencing which hemisphere it's in, can you?

It's still an imposing attraction, off putting to many GP, and still with absurd height requirements. It's very nice of you to speak generally about the entire Australian populations tolerances for G forces based on your extensive research into the population's capacity. /s While we're making broad generalisations based on non-scientific research (AKA opinion) I'd like to share my own in depth research that says less than 30% of riders who physically meet the manufacturer's requirements (ie - they're tall enough) will actually want to ride this. (Source: my family group who didn't want to ride this)

Doesn't it always?

I do find it just a little absurd that today we find it easier to build massive slabs of theming in a foreign country and then ship it and put it together locally, than to bring the skilled artisans and tradespeople to the park and do it onsite. I mean, I guess it's quicker because you can have the walls built before the area is ready for them and it goes up quicker, but it still just feels wrong to be making it all elsewhere.

Pretty sure they're removing things like this in favour of Fast and the Furious Rollercoasters these days...

So you've already answered half the question. The Zacspin \ Freespin style of attraction are incredibly forceful, and a lot of people don't enjoy having their breakfast put through a blender while it's still inside their stomach. I've done one once, and while I didn't mind that it was super forceful, the people I was with came off rather green and would never even consider looking at it again. Movie World needs to increase it's appeal across its attractions and that includes three things: Having more rides that appeal to a wider selection of their current audience Having height requirements a bit lower so that more of the family can ride together Having attractions that by their nature have a higher, not lower capacity. 8 Riders per car isn't big enough for a dispatch and it needs to be increased to get more guests through the ride. As for the SkyRocket - apart from it being so super similar to Buzzsaw that the majority of people will think they bought it off Dreamworld (remember, a lot of folk thought Vortex at Sea World was the old Wipeout), it also has a 54 inch (135cm) height requirement (see point two above), the trains are quite confined and difficult to get into (see also: What's the worst coaster train on the market and why is it the Sky Rocket II? [Ice Breaker] : r/rollercoasters (reddit.com) (and while we're at it, refer back to point number 3 - it's slow to load because of the complicated harness system which you know won't be improved upon at movie world). We visited San Diego last year and I was the only one who wanted to go on Electric Eel. I enjoyed the ride experience (not the load experience) but I know some of the people in my usual group would not have enjoyed it, and for that, i'll refer you back to point 1. In conclusion - You've demonstrated that you know a lot about different ride models, and you've travelled a lot to experience a lot of coasters and turnstiles. The problem with your suggestions is that you're only thinking of what ride you would like to ride, and not what ride is going to work best for the park overall. The big thrill parks like cedar and six flags have these balls to the wall models, but look around - they've also got a great selection of things the whole family can ride together, and a bunch of other attractions just for kids. Our parks are quite lacking in their selection, so what they have can't be polarising, and shouldn't start at 1.35 \ 1.4m height requirements... You've hit it bang on. Like T O T and like X\X2, if you have much the same track, and you just replace the trains, or reprofile a piece here and there, by all means relaunch it as a new 'version' of the same attraction... but don't demolish one ride, build a completely different ride, and then call it the same name. just don't.

On both accounts, just simply - "NO".

that website is garbage, but if you keep hitting refresh, it eventually gets to a point where you can purchase. picked up a couple for some family members to join those of us who overpaid. #swingsandroundabouts

You don't say? The Outrage! Dyslexics Untie!

Looking a bit more closely at the pictures, i'm wondering if it's meant to be "Had No Fucking Train" ?

hard non fungible token? had no free tickets? sorry Gaz, i'm stumped.

eh. the parks all got slammed over the holiday period and lost a butt-ton of revenue. while i'm annoyed at how it went down, its not much more than poor timing and bad luck. The government boosting the tourism sector in recovery can only be a good thing, and history has shown all the way back to 2007 that a cash splash is a popular political move.

There was some sort of diving \ shark exhibit there in 1994. A show of sorts where an audio track played and they had a diving bell, as well as a scuba diver in the tank at various points. I think it might have been getting at the progression of deep sea exploration? Along with a small walk through of small aquariums housing various tropical \ reef fish. I'm probably completely wrong, but I always thought the penguin encounter 'underwater viewing window' was that same tank. The 'ramps' that lead to it are pretty much the same dimensions I remember the old theatre being. ETA: It was the 'world of the sea' theatre, and you can see it at the 4 minute mark of this video (credit @jozparks) Also - wasn't this video a blast from the past!

Saw that earlier - they're now pushing a 2 or 3 day pass, for what seems to be the exact same price. I know it's a government deal and not the park but for those who missed the passes yesterday, or purchased a few days prior to the offer, this just feels like you're being ripped off.

My first visit to the park was 1994, and thrillseeker was exactly where it is in this shot. Surprising to me though is that the pirate ship wasn't near Corkscrew but pretty much in the middle of today's plaza. It is interesting how much has remained, and how much else has been replaced, or in the case of the giant lake - reclaimed.

There's a lot of folk out there who bought passes recently who are going to be a bit bitter about that. I know folk who purchased a new pass literally 3 days ago who have now paid about $80 more than they would have if they waited until today. The park is naturally not open to offering refunds (nor should they - QGOV is copping the hit, not the park) but it unfortunately leaves people with a bit of a bad taste of feeling ripped off.

Please explain how the current works are a disappointment?

Actually, I disagree. The loss of animals in a theme park is normally publicly mourned by the park. This was an act of god, so no blame to assign here, and in their recovery phase, announcing the loss of an animal would have helped some of the sentiment from the public too. Dreamworld mourns the loss of oldest tiger | Triple M Sea World polar bear Liya dies on the Gold Coast - ABC News

It's ok, just wait five minutes.

Yeah I imagine if Village was going to cut a hole in the load station wall facing the old Arkham entrance to have unload occur on the same platform as load, they'd probably get intamin in to do some reprogramming of the PLC. So you'd program out that heart attack as if you're going to stop in unload to undo all the seatbelts you're kinda defeating the purpose.

I think the saving grace for PC is that they have decent paddocks for the majority of the animals and most animals won't just stand there while a tree falls on them. smaller enclosures would have a little more luck involved, but they're also further away from the forests too.

On the coaster? I can't imagine during summer peak that they'd be exposed to the sun long enough to warm up between cycles (plus the benefit of air cooling every cycle too) but I agree it would be nice if the station had some form of shelter over top - which would have the added benefit of rain protection too.