DaptoFunlandGuy

Rumour has it that the train rattles too much in the launch and the train is contacting the launch equipment, which has a pretty narrow margin of clearance. It was rubbing on the the launch modules causing it to slow, and not clearing the tower. No official source, just chit chat amongst different groups i've overheard. take it with a few chips of cedar and some salt.

Look i'd prefer they have more ride specific merch. Heck, last time I went to knott's they had 'new' merch featuring all of their 'former' attractions. For their 30th anniversary, MW released a T-shirt with things like gremlins and stuff on it and i've seen a lot of those shirts around... Here's what i'd like to see (in some semblance of priority): Polo Shirts. Good quality, decent array of sizes, comfortable to wear in a dri-fit fabric or dye-sub design. Full colour artwork\design, or more of a golf-polo with just the small logo. Honestly, i'd buy the whole set if they did one for each ride \ colour. ZIP UP Hoodies. With pockets. Hoodies without zips are a pain in the ass. Hoodies without pockets also. But don't go overboard with designs. one or two in the park is fine - by all means do one a bit more plain \ black \ masculine, and do another that is more colourful or feminine. His and hers are definitely a thing that will sell more than one. Doing one for every DC character is overkill. Release a new one every year, retire an old one. Ride specific products - and not just the same drink bottle or keyring with a different logo on it. Make each thing unique, or something different about it. In the same vein as number 3 - try to tailor your offering. Wild West should have old school curios. metal objects, wood objects. the kind of thing you'd see in the old west. Oz can have kansas-y olden stuff and whimsical colourful oz stuff. Superman is set in metropolis, don't forget it. Importantly though don't over-design it and end up offering a $450 item that will gather dust. It has to fit in the affordable category to move the volume. Never thought i'd be in the camp, but spirit jerseys. Bought one in Hong Kong and i'm a convert. they're lighter than a jumper, loose fitting and comfortable. you can have the same style but release a new design every year and it will keep selling. Yes they are different enough to hoodies that I know I personally would buy both. This one is a long time coming - but a specialty food item or two. To do this, you need a food outlet that produces something popular, that has a signature addition - like a burger with a special sauce. Maybe for Oz they do a Kansas-style chicken wing, and they have Toto's Wing Sauce. custom label it and sell it in the gift shop. Nanocoasters or Cutouts are cool and all. I'd like to see them, but I acknowledge they're pretty niche, but even if they did limited runs of things, or a pre-order or something, I know a lot of fans of the park would order.

Absolutely preposterous. They've all done their training. They've all worked a hard day on a new attraction. The last thing they're going to do is intentionally cause a fault when its time to knock off. Don't be so absurd.

It's a relocation. It was meant to be temporary\filler for scooby. It's opened much later than planned, and probably cost more too. It's not the show-stopping new attraction set to open this year. I'm quite happy for them to go skint on this thing. the best visuals are the fact that superman is all around you too - we finally get to watch SE from inside the helix as well. I don't want a bunch of themed tunnels or some shit blocking the view. If WOz turns out amazing, i'm totally ok with Flash being this way.

Thats a really long pathway to the Dreamworld Wildlife Foundation. I can't even find where it is on the map, but i'm assuming it's somewhere near the Tigers? That's called 'East'. It is apparently quite common to balance things out maintenance wise, but I only ever see West running. First there was blue screen, then there was green screen. Now beige screen is used to hide objects in front of a plain coloured wall. The sign is nice enough but the colour choices are horrible against the background store colour.

it looked really good in 2010. Not so much these days.

Just so we're clear, they aren't cardboard.

I'm hearing the ride is cycling today with passengers. Not sure if they're staff to get the cycle count up for ops or if it has soft opened, but seems like it will be announced as open any day now.

It's a Clayton's Announcement.

Thankyou for announcing the announcement that an announcement was about to be announced.

BGH aren't in it for the long term, they're in it for the money. But they do need a product they can sell to an eventual buyer, and since the land isn't theirs anymore, it won't go the wonderland route, so they're going to need to start rolling this turd in glitter because they sure as shit don't want to polish it. I've been saying this for a while now. The tide is turning.

I mean, it IS Movie World.

And I just pointed out that it wasn't the same complaint every day. These people are in the C-suite. If you're saying that it is more likely that they are incompetent, (as much as I'd like to think they are too) unfortunately you're just very naive. I mean, I'd love nothing more than to slap an image from one of their social media profiles on here in a farcical example of them doing just that, but it wouldn't be realistic, nor would it be fair to them. Unfortunately we don't see them walking the parks, interacting with regular guests and showing that they care about the very poor experiences their guests are having. The park is no doubt doing what they do best - quietly slinging free tickets at people who have complained, but that doesn't fix their image problem. And in the absence of some of the C suite coming out and explaining things, we are left to draw our own imaginative and wild conclusions. Contempt is the very least of it. A few years ago, Dreamworld was in a very similar situation, and the CEO sent out an email to all passholders to explain why things were the way they are, what they were doing to make sure it never happened again, and issued every passholder a free ticket to an after hours event that was normally an extra charge. They didn't have to do that. but they did. And even though we couldn't go to the after hours event, I personally appreciated the gesture. I was far less pissed off with the state of the park because they had made an effort to make it right. Meanwhile at village: Radio Silence.

It's that pesky 3pm pickup with a 5pm park closure that gets in the way though, am I right?

It's a bit rich to consider Green Lantern to be 'working' at the best of times.

No but workers who are parents have impacts to their availability during school term too.

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept. Just because older \ other sites are poorly designed for those with disabilities, doesn't mean it should be allowed to continue when a new site is developed.

I mean to be fair, their staffing numbers do drop outside of school holidays because some staff have schooling obligations... but its still ridiculous to suggest all the rides are closed because they don't have the staff.

Way back when we saw this: I assumed this is what the lethal weapon building was being used for. There is a doorway on each side of 'the great and powerful oz' and I assumed one door lead to each attraction. I assume that leads to the pathways you can see scattered throughout the land.

I'd love to know yours. Just to recap - you said: The lack of staff was a significant reason The reason why there was a lack of staff is because noone wanted to work and be abused (and paid minimum wage) That was why they are doing recruitment - due to 'mass turnover' Consider the following points: Other than the stalwarts, the workforce skews younger The younger workforce tends to have other commitments including (tertiary) education The younger generation also tend to prioritise their own mental health and are more likely to call out if they aren't 'in the game'. This is actually a good thing as in the past, people have been killed because someone was distracted \ tired \ pre-occupied with other things - it is better to put your hand up and say 'i'm not good enough today' If you're familiar with Ops, you'll know there are many *social* activities, official and unofficial Many of those include the consumption of alcohol It's better to call out sick if you're intoxicated for many many obvious reasons much of the workforce are not full time this provides flexibility in both directions, including for staff who wish to stay on the roster while also working elsewhere The part time and casual employment does increase your turnover, but this is the nature of that style of employment rather than specifically the working conditions The park does several mass-intakes each year, usually leading into a holiday period They've actually done this for years Just because they're advertising for operators, doesn't mean they're desperately low in staff. The time it takes to train operators means they need to be recruiting well in advance of when they actually need them. Guests can be a real pain in the ass, but they're also the reason for their employment. You have bad guests, and good guests, and it does tend to skew a little negative, but that is the nature of working in a customer facing role. People who take that very personally don't last in service related work. Those who succeed learn to deal with it and it flows like water of a duck's back. They are the ones who last, who become stalwarts and heroes in the industry, sticking around to train the next generation. But this is normal. It's been the case for years. It certainly was the case more than 20 years ago when I worked in the industry - so it's not something groundbreakingly new that suddenly explains a 70% shutdown of the park.

I don't think it's fair to point to the concept art and claim anything less than that is a disappointment. If you were expecting the concept art to be delivered in its entirety after Atlantis, you had rocks in your head.

Agree. They've listed every possible thing as an attraction so the site can say "7 are closed but 14 are open!" but when you look closer, the 14 includes: HWSD HWSD paid upcharge experience Batmobile paid upcharge photo experience The 3:30 parade "meet and greets" Like, if they're going to list the star parade, let's go ahead and list the wonder woman show, the marilyn show, the 'shall we dance' show, the looney tunes dance party, and the Dorothy show? Then we can say that there are NINETEEN open! While i'm being picky, the 'full attraction list' on the website includes all of the above things, but also includes the WB Kids Fun Zone as a precinct, but it is the only precinct on the website, and also it is despite all the attractions INSIDE the WB Kids area being listed separately. And lastly while i'm being ultra pedantic, 'meet and greets' lists a bunch of (but not every) characters - from the 10 different DC Superhero\villain characters, 4 looney tunes characters, plus scooby, shaggy and marilyn. But there is no suggestion of where you might find them, or at what times they might appear. Apart from the missed opportunity of adding an additional 17 attractions to the maintenance page if they'd listed them all separately, it would have been nice if they'd indicated perhaps where the characters would appear at minimum, and perhaps what times they would normally appear too (the showtimes function is great and lists the entire schedule for today - surely it wouldn't be hard to schedule in when certain characters would appear too, no?

I think it looks good. I like some of the new features, however the new maintenance function, while nice, should compliment the existing calendar, not replace it entirely. I said it in the other thread but i'll say it again here, nobody has considered site accessibility for PWD. Since my reply in the other thread I spent 5 minutes googling and there's a handful of free accessibility checkers online you can just drop your URL into and it gives you a report in less than two minutes. I can't believe not one person in the design process for this site bothered to check it. https://userway.org/accessibility-checker/?url=www.movieworld.com.au Audit (accessibilitychecker.org) WAVE Report of UNTITLED (webaim.org) accessScan - Website Accessibility Checker - Free & Instant - accessiBe

I think the site looks nice. clearly they've put some effort into it. I question some of the colour choices though - there's a lot that doesn't pass accessibility standards and is low contrast though.

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