DaptoFunlandGuy

Yeah, what is going on with the village marketing team? sounds pretty incompetent...

I don't see one either. Either they know something from the inside they're not explaining, or... actually I have no idea what the motivation could be.

I'm ok with first aid given the on-site needs for the park, but they should not be taking up more on-stage real estate for back of house space \ offices. such bullshit. i noticed this earlier but didn't think too hard on it. The 48 hour expiry on tokens is a bit shithouse. While holiday makers are likely to visit and use up all their tokens in one visit, having a longer expiry might encourage more regular visitors to spend bigger on their packages, knowing if they don't use it all they can come back another time to finish it off. Saving up tickets earned for bigger prizes is also a motivator. It's a huge part of the timezone formula to encourage more play - seems a really boneheaded move not to keep cards alive - even for say, 6 months - or 6 months since last play, or something like that.

the one thing that sticks in my mind is that the intencity building is right next to the parade entry, which essentially means big vehicles (like fire trucks and ambulances) would enter the park there. The old first aid building was landlocked. there's no way to get a patient out of the park without wheeling them back through guests, or admitting an ambulance into the park. Neither of these are a good idea, so it kinda makes sense to put first aid there. The rest of the building could still have stayed an arcade. Probably doesn't get the foot traffic that main street \ wb kids does though...

Prize and ticket games are programmable. there's rarely luck involved. each machine is cailbrated to pay out a certain amount of prize or ticket based on how many plays, or how much it costs to play. the value of what you win will always be covered by the cost to play. No story games kind of makes sense - you can typically play these in any arcade. Having prizes that are 'exclusive' to the park means the experience (even if its the same type of game you see on Cavill) is something you can only get in the park.

Presumably when you're standing in the arcade, that will be a bit more obvious - but anyone familiar with Timezones in the past decade would understand the card readers are different colours - usually games that have actual prizes in them (like claw machines) will be a different colour to games that spit out "tickets" and again different to those that are just an experience like racing car games. When selling an 'unlimited' package, you don't really want people to be able to play the shit out of your claw machines which are typically geared to pay out every X number of plays, so those packages only include a limited number of plays, so you can't essentially 'brute force' a prize by playing it non stop without actually covering the cost of the prize inside. yeah see I think this is the option many parents would opt for with multiple kids. Drop $50, give 4 kids a card each and off they go, thinking "shit, 36 tokens should keep them busy for a while" only to have them back inside of 5 minutes with all their money gone. I think there's going to be a lot of pissed off parents when they find out those 36 tokens only bought 3 games. Yes, for the price you'd expect somewhere around 4-5 games for that price, and it is a theme park so its not ludicrous for the price to be bumped a little - I just think the '12 credits per game' price is a bit misleading. The $35 bugs bundle seems like it'd be a good middle ground, and 120 tokens sounds like the kids will run off some steam - then you figure out its only 10 plays and you feel a little ripped off. The psychology is understandable - it'd be a bit crap to advertise "3 games for $12!" but at least it's honest. I feel like for many people this will leave a bitter taste in the mouths of families. What was wrong with the arcade building they already had? /s

Just got a text advertising fright night tickets selling out for this weekend. Just checked online and you can still buy GA tickets for all 5 remaining dates It blows my mind that only a few years ago we used to pay that price for an annual pass with fright nights (and other events) included. I can't imagine buying a season pass either - imagine logging on and buying a season pass for $499 today - which is actually more expensive than buying 5 individual tickets to the remaining 5 events! I'm a little late to the upgrade options, but just having a look and the fast track add-on for mazes (+$130) and the maze+rides fast track (+$190) are still available too. The only other upgrades are food or midway games, so no premium experience offered either. By all accounts the event has still been well received by the punters, and it sounds like a good experience for most folk who went there - but I really hope they're seeing this "we didn't sell out" metric and realising their missteps...

It would be mildly amusing if, after all these years of Village planning 'some sort of hotel' at Oxenford, if Dreamworld did beat them to the punch. (I still say they still should have built the animal kingdom style resort on top of the mountain overlooking WNW and AOS instead of plonking a glass box in the flooded carpark) Technically Paradise Country takes the Northern Gold Coast Theme Park crown of being first with short-term accommodation though...?

Why do we have WOZ alongside Doomsday and HWSD? You're off your rocker. Nah you can't use Disney as an example to him. He's just gonna play pigeon chess with you - and he's the pigeon.

Oh I read where they said 52 metres. I also read where they said April 2020.

the thing is they're still in the rebuilding phase and their night events are primarily geared towards convincing people to come back to a safe, friendly local park. but they're clearly working on tight budgets and projects with set allocations are much easier to plus with a figure to spend in mind than an event budget that you're obligated to hold because you sold it as part of your annual pass offering. (now where have I heard that before?)

Yeah i'm not gonna pull out a ruler on their concept art - we know the concepts and models utilised a lot of artistic licence... Otherwise Trident would have fountains and there'd be a giant rock wall waterfall around the front of the coaster...

I'm not sure they need to advertise, given they frequently hit capacity during the season... https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1cGnVggUvfPKoZew/

If I remember correctly, they were originally in talks to purchase a permanent model from Funtime. somewhere along the way they switched to SBF Visa. I have no information as to why they did that but if I had to guess, i'd assume it was price.

Definitely potential when they have a functioning train line again. the shuttle service probably doesn't work very well... You have a really funny way of showing that.

Ohhh, right. gotcha. You must have missed the reply that I quoted when I said the thing. ONE THREE DOUBLE-O!

Holy fuck I remember that debacle. that was an unmitigated disaster. TBH I feel like that, and the management of capacity in their first year was the death knell for WNWS. Palace has managed to revive the park somewhat, but it doomed village from the outset.

I mean, if you listen to some folk here, so did Movie World, so i'm not sure why Dreamworld is being decried for it.

The only source of information so far is from TPSN. TPSN's track record is patchy at best - (the very reason we used to have the fountain of improbability) Claims it's going to be "over 18" Event date is apparently November 1 There is only two weeks until the event The park haven't announced anything, let alone commenced selling tickets.

It still doesn't make sense why they put all the track pieces in if they knew they were going to need to remove them... why not just leave them off until all the work inside the track was done?

it makes one wonder why they didn't get the plane in place before the track pieces went in - why put the track up only to pull it down again - this isn't village and the ride isn't the flash.

I would have thought they'd just be blending the weathering between panels. doesn't look like any filler...

Settle down, this isn't the new atlantis precinct we're talking about, you can't just go moving the goalposts and changing opening dates on a regular basis if it isn't a world class precinct you know...

Thanks. So by my reading, construction hoarding would meet the requirements under the regs provided it was suitably signposted?