DaptoFunlandGuy

@New display name calling @ShakeShack wise...

I assume you meant to say they never announced the reopening? And hopefully at some point in your life you will learn that just because you didn't see it, doesn't mean it didn't happen. (and in the alternative, maybe just double check their socials before running your mouth?) To be fair the video they put up explaining why DCR was reopening early \ why Superman was down, they did say "we look forward to sharing the reopening day of the DC Rivals Hypercoaster on our website and right here on our socials in the coming days" - so the expectation that they would announce it was set by the park, and they did exactly what they said they would. His expertise is limited to being behind a keyboard.

There's always going to be things that happen after a ride is officially opened. Check out TT2... The other thing to bear in mind is that we rarely have ride grand openings in cold and flu season either. Chances are they're working on opening crew and haven't had a chance to upskill other operators yet. One critical person gets sick and the whole thing can fall over. What they have learned from Levi is that grand opening in a less-peak period means the impacts are not felt as hard, and they've got plenty of time to iron out the kinks before the next school holiday period starts.

I'd love to hear where exactly you heard this. it sounds like you just made it up. (for all the reasons already explained in the thread) Intamin are quite a large company. They have different 'classes' or 'grades' of rides. They don't just have one technician that knows everything about every ride they've ever made. The team that would need to work on Doomsday would be unlikely to know anything about Superman, etc etc. Also they're multi million dollar rides. A return flight from Europe to Aus is a drop in the maintenance ocean. Yes. Because the maintenance team working on the ride may not have been able to give a firm date when they'd be ready to sign off? Because they've been told 'get it open as fast as you can' and they've done that, but promising a date that they miss because something isn't ready looks bad, and saying it'll open on May 29th is stupid if its ready a week earlier? They frequently run two trains, and as a matter of fact were running two trains on the weekend. As for scooby, as has been pointed out numerous times - it was a forced closure and their time in the build pipeline is not yet here. There is no point gutting the ride now only to let the stage sit empty for x months. When the new parts arrive, bring in the machines, do it all in one go and save some cash. I tell you what - for someone who claims to be such an expert in how to run a theme park you have no fucking idea about how anything in a theme park actually works. You really aren't. What exactly are you referring to? Everything in this thread has made perfect sense except your whinging.

Lol. Which one of you are brave enough to admit being so, so wrong?

A friend sent me this on the weekend, and I lol'd.

Which is funny, given the reaction the locals had to the VRTP proposal, can you imagine their reaction to a bigger player? Truthfully, Disney would never be possible due to the government funding that Disney would ask for. I do think Universal would be willing to partner on a project if there were a local willing to pay for it - ala Resorts World. So if someone like Gina Reinhart lobbied to build a 'precinct' that included a casino, entertainment precinct, hotels and a Universal park, I reckon she'd get the gaming licence and permission to build and boom. but thats a lot of big 'if's Sydney-born here. It's a Harbour. And plenty of people care, but Sydney as it stands is built out. Your options right now are either next to the second airport (and land has become stupidly expensive out there for obvious reasons) or you have to leave the basin - cross the mountains, or head down or up the coast. All of those options are very poor choices. Sydney had the makings. Wonderland was part government owned at one time, but the Taft split ultimately forced the sale and the rest is history. There is no longer an opportunity to build ground-up. that ship has sailed.

This area is wholly surrounded - between tiger island, the ToT building etc - the entire area is a construction site, so its probably not 'as' easy to get a random marketing person with a camera into all the various different angles, though granted MW even had a camera mounted on their crane. It's lower effort, but then, they probably can't afford the dedicated marketing team given their rides are actually running at the moment...

After the removal of Buzzsaw, the whole area between the fairy shop and the taipan entrance signage is a dead zone. Whatever they're doing, I hope they make it more relevant again.

And not a single collar amongst them. The issue with your samples here is they wouldn't work on a polo as vinyl print. (You could Dye Sub them, and they wouldn't look too bad) but I just couldn't wear the bottom one as it simply wouldn't breathe.

Because everyone watched the video except you. If only you sought to educate yourself a bit more. Someone who actually understands the message! Bang on. I'm usually one of the first to bring out the pitchforks when the park fucks up. The locker upgrade is general trades work. they could do this pretty much any time of year. There's no specialised skills (by this I mean like ride engineering, etc) so it could literally slot in whenever there was an opportunity. If there is a mechanical fault with the launch - which of course is completely understandable given the likes of TT2 and XCelerator, (the ride is getting on in years), and Intamin have said its going to take X period of time to fix \ ship parts \ send techs out to look at it - if you already had this in your back pocket for, say - once Oz was open - why wouldn't you bring it forward?

They've literally painted a section of the ride every year for the past several years in the downtime. After the first year, we were all like - what? it's not finished. then they did another section in the second year and we were like 'ohhhh, they're doing a bit every year'. So on that alone its fair to assume they were planning on painting it again this year.

ETR posted saying last night he is speculating TT2 could reopen as early as today - theorising that Zamperla \ CP are just going to increase the frequency of maintenance replacement for the part impacted. So assuming its a wheel, just replacing it every 1000-2000 cycles instead of every 5000. I assume its short term while they redesign because long term that gets very expensive, but at least in the short term they get the ride re-opened, albeit at an increased expense.

I feel confident that the zamperla track added to the ride was made to copy in every possible way the existing track of intamin such that there would be little noticeable differences between them. I don't think the track is in play here. All i've seen so far suggests that components are wearing out quicker than anticipated. Everything is pointing to the wheels reacting differently to expectations (maybe weight balancing with the non-uniform guests loaded into it is causing uneven issues to develop not picked up in water dummy testing?) Maybe the running surface of the wheel is wearing out too fast? Maybe the wheel itself is heating up and not dissipating the heat of the launch fast enough? Maybe a combination - heating up the compound causing the running surface to fail? The statements made by the park suggest they're redesigning something on the train. My money is somewhere in this ballpark.

Yeah absolutely. I think a lot of the media they've been putting out lately (especially the flash BTS stuff) is probably a proving ground prior to Woz. I keep saying it - and i'm getting really excited to see what they put out for that. You know what, at least now I know why the box is empty which is better than the previous situation where you had to return to the restaurant, park your car, go inside, get the manager, and have them tell you it's your fault you didn't check their website for chicken shortages before ordering.

I don't mind giving credit where it's due. Their optics have been terrible these last couple of weeks. this doesn't make up for it, but the transparency is refreshing after years of them just saying 'check the website'. They need to do this more. I'm sure given the details involved, this had to be scripted, shot, edited, and either at the start, the end, or both, it had to go through multiple approval levels in the C-suite and potentially run by Intamin, Mack and WB. Honestly I'm surprised there's nothing mentioned about Flash to 'offset' the 'damage' - especially since its been operating all week. Given all of that, getting it out sooner with this level of polish is probably very difficult. We've all seen recently what happens when you do a social media video with extremely low effort.

I saw a discussion online about the main arena shows over the years at Movie World. Some differing opinions were shared, but a moderator shut down the conversation because they didn't like what was being said. I am keen to get an enthusiast's viewpoint on the MW Arena shows, namely: Police Academy Stunt Show Hollywood Stunt Driver (Mitsubishi Evo Edition) Hollywood Stunt Driver 2 (Showtime Ute Edition) I'm not a big fan of polls, but in this case i've made an exception. Share your thoughts below too?

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When you say the first style, are you judging it based on a google search, or based off of the dreamworld t-shirt I gave as an example? The point about dye sub shirts is that you can create whatever you want. So what i'm reading about the 'messy' and 'ugly' sounds like it comes down to your taste about the dreamworld artwork specifically? And these concepts - which were available in Universal: (I own one of these nintendo shirts and wish it had a collar). The point is - with Dye Sublimation, you can pretty much put whatever you want on the shirt, and they're far cooler than the vinyl print shirts, where the entire fabric is coated with a layer of vinyl that doesn't breathe and just makes you sweat - like these:

I'm not ignoring your message.

They're out there if you look around....

I didn't realise we were being so pedantic, but in the case of two dimensional space, X & Y are the commonly used labels. You wouldn't skip over Y to refer to something as X & Z unless a third dimension was possible. (And given the artwork and intent of the ride description, a third dimension wasn't seen as applicable). You are correct that Z is traditionally drawn as the vertical axis, but this also depends on your perspective, doesn't it?

There's two directions you can go with these. Both of which you will find with a little google image search. Try the following searches: dye sub polo shirt These are full colour, and can be as simple or as detailed of a design as you like. There really isn't much of a limit when it comes to dye sublimation printing. Dreamworld almost got it right when they produced a dye-sub t-shirt. If it'd had a collar, it would have been perfect! (This is the first result I could find on google when searching for it, as this style of shirt is no longer sold on their online merch store) dri-fit polo shirt This is a much simpler design. Searching this on google will return numerous results of simplistic styled and comfortable polo shirts in a dri-fit fabric (also known as 'wick-away') which keeps the wearer cool. Nike and Under Armour are big producers of shirts like this and they're worn by lots of sportspeople. Tiger Woods for example has his own shirts produced by Under Armour. A lot of golfers wear this style also The important thing about these shirts is the style of fabric. They're not cotton, or a cotton-poly blend. They tend to have stretchy, breathable fabric containing a percentage of elastane or other flexible fabric. (The wicking fabric and breathability is certainly welcomed in the climate of SEQ) Check out the description of this one, for example - Men's UA Matchplay Polo | Under Armour AU As another example - Disney produced merchandise for World of Avatar which was co-branded by Nike, and the shirt was so comfortable! Disney Men's Shirt - Nike Performance Polo - ACE - Pandora World of Avatar (yourwdwstore.net)

I mean, the gondolas spin, so riders do experience movement on the Z axis...