DaptoFunlandGuy

Personally, I think pulling the opening of a show so that it can be improved, because it wasn't up to the standard that your guests expect to be an absolutely brilliant decision. So, what they mean is..."we aren't about to continue to offer a substandard offering where we recognise it can be improved. We're going to improve it, rather than leave it as a substandard product" (MDMC anyone?)

Doing this? No. Opening at night for hallowe'en? Yes It's no longer for families - its not just a park that is open at night with lots of smoke machines. THey're setting out to be seriously "frightful"... and like Clint, I hope they take this further next year

Stupid question - WHERE was funhouse?

From memory, my comments about wait times included the queueing FOR the mazes, as well as the rides, and we only went on one ride while we were there. Mazes had as much of a queue as the rides did, and we left after three hours having had some fun, and not wanting to ruin it with more and more waiting. My experience at the park in costume backs up the comments about the lack of actors just roaming the park. If a couple cast got done up in some ghoulish (and really effective) costume and makeup, and just wandered the park freely (eg: without a guide) they could have a lot of fun. Many (MANY) people stopped me while I was walking around just asking to take a photo with me, and I had a lot of fun hamming it up in character for the cameras. I actually kept running into one guy who was on mobiles all night doing food\bev, and various different souvenirs (lightup stuff etc). We ran into each other several times, and he commented how he wished he could be doing something like what i was. I'm sure there would be no shortage of staff to volunteer to be done up in costume and makeup (especially considering the SFX staff available to do the work in a MOVIE studio) and given free reign to cause mock havoc (within reason). I know a couple of staff who would have done it for free. My one shout out for best cast member of the night was left out of my original post. It pains me to say I have forgotten his name, but I think it was Michael (Sorry if I got it wrong). Michael was on Scooby, at the front of the queue doing load \ grouping. He had some amazing one liners, and pulled off his character (makeup done well, costume? looked great). He waved a very large bone around. I tried to put him off by shouting out "Michael(?) thats an impressive bone you have there", to which he quickly responded "why thankyou for noticing how impressive my big bone is" and made a suggestive motion with the bone. He did this at the top of his voice, and it elicited a great response from the crowd in the queue. It really helped to set the mood, and was much more entertaining than the usual scooby queue. So Michael (if that is really your name...) you did a great job on saturday night, and in my opinion, you were the the top performing cast member, and my highlight of the entire event.

Having just returned from tonight Fright night, I have to say it is an admirable job. Being my first ever Movie World halloween, I can't really compare it to anything, but i'd say it was a fairly good night. I ran into Michael Croaker early in the night, who was in the middle of main street trying to coordinate a lot of things at once. He mentioned that they had done many new things this year and were still working out some teething problems. Queues were the main issue in my opinion. Bedlam Manor in the Scooby queue obviously had the spillout queues to use, but the main queue for scooby was redirected to the left side, and into the seating area for gotham. Dragon alley had no queue at all, and cast were madly running up and down the line trying to keep the queues hugged around the gardens in the middle of main street, to prevent impeding traffic. Zombie kill zone was the same, but I didn't get near fun house. All the major attractions had quite large queues, and Lethal's queue was closed off well in advance of the 9pm shutdown. While all rides were advertised as being open (and WB Kids did have some running) there were a few attractions which weren't open, which was quite a disappointment - LT River Ride being the main one. The Freestyle MotoX is the same show you've seen at every Ekka and Easter show for years, although Movie World did give it a little twist - Spoiler Ahead... All in all, it was pretty good, but nothing really unseen. All the cameras in the arena are utilised, however in my opinion, the director could have cut to different shots during the jumps to give a better idea of take-off and landing, as the shot that is used while the guys are in the air is from the motorised camera in front of the crowd, and only gives the same perspective we can all see anyway. The lighting and smoke in main street was really great - not overdone, but really set the mood. I didn't see a single white light, except in the shops. It did help to create a real eerie feeling, although WB Kids was lit up like a runway. This is another great reason for the new roof over main street (which isn't exactly new anymore), as they can rig intricate lighting systems without worrying about weather, etc. The crowd was apparently about 6000 according to Mr. Croaker, and in 3 hours, we'd had one ride, one maze, and one show. We didn't spend all our time in lines though, as we both went in costume, and it would seem I had the knack of scaring the crap out of people, or otherwise, being quite popular for people to take photos with. I've attached a photo of the costume. If anyone out there happened to get a photo of me at the park, please send it to me or post it on the site, as I wasn't able to carry a camera around, and I'd really like to see the look I had going in the park. In closing, I'd say it was a great night. For $9.95, it was top value (I probably spent more in petrol to go there and back), and I definitely had a lot of fun - well worth the trip (but please - leave the kids at home... a lot of little kids were present, and were totally freaked out). I had begun to lose faith, and all I can say is Well Done MovieWorld

So I was going to come online and ask what the go is with the channel 7 "whats the password?" VIP pass promo. Then I found the info, and thought it was only for those who were buying new vip passes. Then i realised I was wrong, and was going to post here that if you go to www.myfun.com.au/seven, click "buy now" and you can get access to the special discounts they are offering channel 7 viewers. Then I decided it was easier for everyone if I just posted them on here. For most of us, it probably isn't a big deal, except for the food upgrades and such - but hey - so long as WVTP is in a discounting mood, let's get the word out? 3p0909118_QLDVIP_Channel7_CampaignOffers2.pdf

So out of interest, do folks go in costume on all nights? or only on the 31st?

From MyFun last night... I guess I just made up my mind to go along...

Lol - not even a Carn' the Cats? lol.

Getting off-topic, Gazza, i'm surprised to not have any comment from you about the game on the weekend - it's been a while has it not? Although i suppose there aren't many AFL fans around these boards...

well - Ours did worse than blowing off, it got blown over itself (twice) so it was a quarter the size of the pool, and floating dead in the middle of it, with a mountain of dust piled into the middle of it.

But even if there was a rotating roster, that would be several hundred staff, and they would likely be the ones to do the busy weekend shifts on fri and saturday night.

Have been hit by the dust 4 times now - once earlier in the week in Brisbane, then hit on fri\sat at Coffs coast, then another on the way back north earlier today, and arrived home to a dust blanket on everything we had cleaned from earlier in the week. Our BLUE pool blanket is ORANGE (and it was a hell of a job lifting it off the pool without letting all the scungy water fall into the pool).

Yep, can't think of a WVTP property that has performers, technicians, chefs, ticketing staff, security, as well as food and beverage staff that can serve a meal in less than 5 minutes to several hundred (several thousand?) people...

Bring back the Ski Stars, let them create a new show while the lake is "closed" and open it up for christmas - let them come up with stuff other than just skiing, get the stunt guys in from the old PASS to come and work with them, and create something that involves the ship - does anyone remember the swashbuckling show done lakeside at wonderland? THAT is a worthwhile show (although some additional guys running around on jetskis and ski-boats would modernise it) We've all seen the news stories about modern pirates hijacking cruise ships etc... why not modernise it?

I know what you mean. I know what you mean. But for a personal pizza - IN A THEME PARK, and considering what the other stuff costs you, this is about the same pricing as any other meal combo in the park, so it's not unreasonable, nor overpriced. It's just another menu option. simple as that.

No, can't say that I have, but is there a real need to quote post the entire trip report just to reply? it's not like the bits you were responding to were 50 posts back and hard to find, and you didn't single out the individual parts you responded to either - it's just one big block of the exact same thing we saw moment earlier, above your own post... what a waste!

Sounds like the potential for a rehash of the Big Brother Studios and friday night live or similar. Bet you any money its channel 10.

I was aware that they don't have a store in Minchinbury, Bussy, however, their Sargents rd head office has been there since 2003. My sister works in their buying department, and I had presumed that Minchinbury was where they had started out. It turns out we are both mistaken, as the original registered place of business for Aldi was actually SHOP 206 661 GEORGE ST SYDNEY, followed shortly thereafter by 326 FOREST RD HURSTVILLE NSW 2220. I will stress that this is only the principal place of business, and there were likely other retail locations out there, but the addresses above are the first and principal places of registered business, in April 1999. But my original point, as far as the demographics that they go after, with the exception of the george st location, is that they primarily target that demographic. Substitute the word minchinbury up there with Bankstown, or Hurstville or fairfield (another principal location on a later application) and it still all fits with that demographic. Sure, they are in more affluent areas now, but that is because the affluent areas demanded the same offerings that were available in the less affluent areas.

Joz, with august gone, and september almost there, You're running out of time to come up with September's quote of the month....

I think DW security has been watching too much Law and Order..... And how many guys do they need anyway? Would have been a great time to go and rip off the merch stores - all the guards are in one place, and response time would be pretty pathetic.

I'm inclined, since the skate park is for the skate heads, the council may have allowed them to tag it as they wished. Our local council did the same thing a while back - Created a skate park that had walls around the outside, and the council opened it up to freely tag where it wasn't clearly visible from the outside. It doesn't stop all graffiti, but when you give taggers a place to do it, it does minimise the damage done elsewhere. Personally, I like the idea that some of the business owners back in Penrith had - on the railway lines, they had concrete walls facing out, with their business logo and contact details on it, but lower (head height or so) they got professional graffiti artists to come out, and do murals and such. FOr some stupid reason, while taggers will deface anything and everything, they won't spray over another person's graffiti... and those walls have stayed relatively pristine since the work was done...

I was just reading the fine print on the VIP ticket issued by MyFun.com.au. I've bolded the interesting bit: I'm curious, as nowhere on this ticket does it say "The standard terms and conditions of entry, as varied from time to time are available at the gate, and also apply to this ticket" or something to that effect. So essentially - I have purchased a ticket that says the conditions or purchase and entry prohibit commercial quantities, and commercially prepared food. Nowhere does it say that if they subsequently change their mind on their food policy, that it affects the ticket that I bought. Also, this ticket was purchased AFTER the announcement of the new food policy... So it's not my problem if they didn't amend the terms when they changed their policy... I will be bringing whatever I please in terms of "home made", and if they try to tell me I can't, their own terms and conditions are against them.

Oh geez Rappa, now you're past the halfway point, 26 is now just a mad rush blur downhill from here - You old SOB. Hope its a good one, and don't get too plastered (until after 9am anyway)

Broader entertainment experience at Dreamworld? what drugs are you on?