DaptoFunlandGuy

Well, you really don't know what they're discussing. They could be chatting about the awesome pub crawl that they just had, or they could be receiving instructions from the supervisor that they need to remember to follow a certain safety procedure, because something was just missed. Again Devil's advocate - we know the village procedures aren't the fastest and maybe one of those is a regular checkin between supervisors and station staff to ensure everyone is on the ball. My experience at USJ in Summer is a little different. As far as flying dinosaur went: 4 people were at the entrance to the queue line. Some were checking express pass entries, some were directing guests to the test seat, and all of them were waving frantically as if their lives depended on it. Another worker was at the end of queue merge before the lockers directing people to the 'briefing' spaces 4 workers occupied the briefing spaces, holding laminated cards with instructions in multiple languages informing people to remove everything from their pockets, and then issuing them with locker barcodes An additional 2 workers patrolled the lockers to assist with locker issues 4 more workers manned the handheld metal detectors prior to the final queue line. Even with this many cast, short queues formed in front of each worker to be permitted into the final queue line. Then one grouper, and two restraint ops per station I should add that they allowed the piece of paper used to unlock the locker to be kept in a pocket, but a slightly larger piece of paper with an express pass barcode had to be placed in the locker. Naturally it wasn't metal so on subsequent trips we didn't bother to put it in a locker and it never fell out because it was inside of the fall-resistant locker paper. Yes ok, blah blah, USJ gets more people than MW so not as many staff required - but MW still gets similar wait times to USJ and TDR so I think its a fair comparison on the numbe of staff required.

Just being devils advocate here, but not all stacking is the fault of the crew. Guests constantly board the ride with things in their pockets, or dally around with their loose items. I absolutely agree Village's standard operating procedures don't really allow the Ops crew to be 'fast' but station delays are inevitably caused by guests a lot of the time. Why do you think the Ops spiel at the top of their lungs to the queue repeatedly about things in pockets, etc?

8 years since the incident? or 4 years since the start of covid? How long since covid 'ended' ? And are you making allowances for the botched management decisions that only set them further back? like the adventure river? or the ampitheatre? what about the stupid effort they wasted seeing if mine ride could be reopened? The last management made a lot of dumb decisions. The current management are being sensible - and you aren't. Well, they did get down to 0.18 in March of 2020, and that was when they owned Main Event - so congratulations on more than doubling your share price AND getting an additional 94c per share payout! No, google doesn't show me back that far. Do you know how much they were right before covid? (spoiler - $1.63 January 2020) And $1.41 right before they sold main event and paid you out. See you want to point at how much money you lost in 2016. What you're not taking into account at that point is that your shares were worth so much because the management at the time were prioritising profits over safety and human life. They had engineering reports in their hands, and historic records of multiple incidents that occurred almost in the exact same way as October 2016 - and despite all that, they were actually petitioning the government for less regulation and more self inspections because they were such a safe operation. The inquest uncovered just how poorly that place was run, so when you complain about how much the share price has dropped since the incident, what you're actually saying is you'd rather kill people for profit. All your whining about how they're running the park makes so much more sense now.

Perhaps just a short memory. They've had limited hours in their "off peak" times for quite some time. If I were a theme park social media employee, i'd tell you to 'make sure you check the website before visiting!' https://www.parkz.com.au/forums/topic/8514-dreamworld-reduces-operating-hours/?do=findComment&comment=169206

I disagree. They've put it in a holding pattern and are concentrating on their flagship operation before distracting themselves with other factors. He did say that - With some authority I would suggest, given he held executive level responsibilities for both WNW GC and Sydney, as well as the foreign waterparks for a period of time. I've not seen anything in his history that suggests he doesn't know how to successfully run a water park. You can't give someone the keys and let them have at it. Their desires and ideas are going to be competing with the desires and ideas over at Dreamworld for the same capital to implement them. You're taking a very small bucket of money and tipping it into two even smaller buckets. If they succeed over at Dreamworld, there's going to be many buckets to share with the waterpark. if they fail, the waterpark is dead too. But nobody is going to be building this company up with waterslides. If you need to run a theme park group, you call a guy who knows how to run theme park groups and you let him run the theme park group. You don't go on a forum and tell him how to run it. *mic drop*

Dreamworld has had a waterpark as far back as 1983. Back then they ran seasonally as well, albeit without a separate gate and ticketing. The two gates have always operated similarly to how they do today, albeit a return to seasonal operations. You really seem like you have a bee in your bonnet about this. Greg's words are quite telling "balance in what they can economically do" and we can all bang on the table and demand they open 7 days a week, or employ another CEO to run the water park, or build new attractions at the same time as the dry park (village has historically cycled new attractions to its three parks and rarely opens new attractions in multiple parks at the same time either) but if they do all that and go broke before it's financially sustainable to do then its all gone and turned into housing development.

I mean you're both mis-reading the statement "another reason to not renew my pass" which suggests there are already other reasons contributing to the decision. In that lens, possibly reasonable. I stand by my view that the key holders received the value that they paid for, although not everything was promised, they haven't been ripped off or under-delivered on. It was a nice concept with a very flawed delivery and the company cannibalised its potential customers by having the paid TikTok program provide far more benefits with far less formality. At this point the only thing that interests me at Village is WOZ, and that isn't enough for me to consider purchasing a new OnePass (even with a shiny Oz coin and beating the price rise). We called for years for them to lift the prices because they were giving away the gate and capacity was terrible. It seems though that the thousands of cheap passes weren't the issue - it was the park's poor capacity, as we continue to see long queue times and poor experiences despite many people saying they no longer visit. For the past 15 years, i've held passes to both parks, renewed them annually when the time came, often not visiting for months at a time, but renewing was cheap enough that it didn't bother me if I only got there a few times a year. I happily let my membership renew with Village and didn't even use most of the night event tickets that were included with it some years (especially the years we had a young kid). Village have systematically alienated our family - long queues, poor service, high prices and ever increasing upcharges and i'm just done.

In the Dane Podcast, CEO Greg Yong confirmed that WWW is absolutely crucial, and that they have many ideas on what their next step is - "it will get it's due attention in a little while" but "need to find a balance in what they can economically do" so they are prioritising "where they can deliver the most value".

Greg Yong confirmed in a podcast that the cars will not be electric. Although planned to be originally, he mentioned after riding an *unnamed* ride in Singapore, they didn't like the experience and preferred petrol engines to the new electric tech he observed in Singapore. He also said that the cars currently running around on track are not the finished product (though the disability accessible vehicles will be electric). All the petrol engines have been rebuilt. Additionally, he confirmed that EarthStory (the infamous AI folk) were told what the concept was to be, and the coaster was purchased already. So fair to say that the theme was not borne out of the AI concepts - it was just visualising what they'd been briefed. He was asked about Motocoaster. He confirmed they're not ready to do (or talk) about anything yet, but that it is on their minds. He did say it makes sense to integrate it into Rivertown, "in time", but ensuring the park has a sustainable future is a priority, so not yet.

I love that @Habitat Waterford is still such a meme here.

Did you forget to add something to your post?

Come on man, he said the TREE gets dragged out in December. This story isn't due for a bump for another year.

It would seem that renewals get it also Now we know why they had to put up the prices...

that is interesting. The sales portal does highlight that WWW is seasonal, and links to the calendar, but the headline ad shouldn't say that unless the park is open all year round.

They didn't even have station brakes - just a lever connected to the accelerator for the operator to control in station to prevent accidental acceleration. These look like the same chassis, but upgraded. Hard to tell from this angle but i'm assuming they've been converted to an electric drive train. There's a sizeable wad of electronics by the looks of that rear 'seat' box. Cable going up the back of the seat is ugly, leads to a receptacle on the left side of the car by the looks of things, presumably in-station overnight charging? (Note: I'm aware the image i've used is of a plug socket (female) and is not what would be used as a vehicle mount, I just CBA finding a male receiver, but you still get the idea and only electrical folk are really going to identify the issues - but i know there's always one here that does)

Objection your honor, this question has been asked and answered. It's a 'movie set'. Nobody in a cinema can see whats behind the camera. You're BEHIND THE SCENES!

On the contrary, it was a fairly reasonable assumption given your stance on this and many previous issues.

I've no idea, but you'd assume most park operators would have been approached by the selling agent to gauge their interest. That would be enough for the "journo" to write "they showed interest"

You let me know how you get on with the ACCC. All of the phases were all couched in appropriate terms and weasel words. I've no doubt those who go and whinge privately to guest services will get some sort of freebie to shut them up, but they got their value out of the program and its demonstrable by your own words that while you may not have gotten all the features you were promised, you were more than adequately compensated for it already - which is why no further compensation was given.

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This thing cost $25. The platform offered plenty of discounts and offers that were worth the money you paid. You said so yourself I don't see why they should have to offer you even more value just to end the program. And given what they did to memberships, you shouldn't have expected them to.

It's probably staff costs and keeping the wage bill low. It's probably staff costs and keeping the wage bill low. It's probably staff costs and keeping the wage bill low. It's probably staff costs and keeping the wage bill low. It's probably staff costs and keeping the wage bill low. I feel like we've pretty much been saying this for a while. they might be missing some business, but how much would have contributed towards extra revenue if many of those folk are passholders anyway? Pool and plant operating costs go up, staff costs go up. you need more cleaners, more gate staff, more F&B and Retail staff, plus the lifeguards and other team members that go with operating the park 7 days a week. On days where attendance isn't assured, that's expensive. I think they've taken the view that they can afford to not compete with WNW in the offseason, and while the school dates are a bit of a misstep, overall, there is no guarantee they'd make money this week opening the park up, once all costs are accounted for. I agree with you but

Now that you mention it, I seem to recall Flying Dinosaur had this type of mechanical secondary restraint whereby a pin locked into the restraint after the restraint was checked.