Everything posted by DaptoFunlandGuy
- Fright Nights 2023
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Movie World Scheduled Maintenance 2024
Yeah that hasn't really improved since the closure board I posted a few months back. Interesting this board says carousel is closed, but the app says its open too. As for GL and Superman, are these planned maintenance periods? Scooby I understand, but there's never an excuse for them to PLAN to have three coasters down at the same time. Knowing full well scooby is down for so long they should have shuffled things around a bit to ensure only one of the other major coasters was out. How long can you keep blaming 'covid supply chain' on things before that supply chain becomes normal, and you should just be planning for that sort of delay?
- Fright Nights 2023
- Dreamworld’s Ocean Parade Expansion 2023
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Dreamworld’s Ocean Parade Expansion 2023
The other eye does, you just can't see it. They've been doing a lot of things in stages, the first step usually to get the ride reopened after the theme, with many other non-essential items like theming coming in when it's ready or available, without keeping the ride closed for months waiting for it...
- Village Key
- Wonderland History has the potential to be an awesome site
- Wonderland History has the potential to be an awesome site
- Luna parks wooden wild mouse future
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Why do village not offer a unlimited fast track pass at any of their parks?
This is good though. I mentioned on a recent trip to SW that they took down additional details about a kid's height wristband such as name, age and physical description, as apparently parents were swapping the wristbands onto other kids. I'm sure fasttrack wristband abuse was just as lucrative a scam, so forcing the app means it's less likely open for abuse (and gives the park much greater metrics over usage to get the price point right too)
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Luna parks wooden wild mouse future
Agree, much as most thoosies won't like it - the park is getting really coaster top-heavy and needs more filler. We said this when they announced Doomsday and sadly that's not helped the way we'd hoped, but there was a time when this park was a full day park even on the quietest of days, because the shows and attractions literally took you all day to do. These days the park is jammed with people, and most attractions take less than 2 minutes to experience, so if everything was a walkon you could be out by lunchtime. Here's the park I remember and love:
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Dreamworld Flyer
Depends on how you classify it, but in it's later years, Wonderland's gates were moved beyond the retail plaza, and halfway up the hill into international village. While I can't seem to find a photo that shows it during operation, Bounty's Revenge was immediately inside the gates and impossible to miss if it were operating as you entered. Sure, it's a little further back, but there really wasn't anything else in front of you except this giant swinging ship.
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Walt Disney Studios - 18/19th of July 2023
Hong Kong Disneyland makes an effort. Not quite as fully catered as it sounds like DLP is, but HK offers Jungle Cruise in three languages. The golden mickeys presentation was done in Mandarin with english subtitles, but the rest of the park's offering was in english, with many on-screen elements subtitled in mandarin \ cantonese. It sounds like DLP is a great non-US option for english speaking disney fans.
- Wonderland History has the potential to be an awesome site
- Dreamworld’s Ocean Parade Expansion 2023
- Removal of virtual queue at VRTP?
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Dreamworld Flyer
This is where I get to say 'called it' right? I hadn't realised that there'd be so many tall structures surrounding the ride. All this roof trussing and block wall looks pretty high up - seems like there'll be a great view for riders, but main street is losing a lot of it's openness and sightlines by all these structures. #sadface
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Removal of virtual queue at VRTP?
An overnight update of the VRTP theme parks app states in the version history for version 1.238.5: Not sure if this means virtual queue has been completely eliminated from the park, or if it is simply a rebrand to refer to VQ as FT? Ironically the update may have removed all references to VQ from the app, but the App store listing still mentions it in several places, including an app update only 2 months ago where they enhanced the VQ system... Pictures to come...
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Wonderland History has the potential to be an awesome site
Yeah, the site has been a labour of love for the group involved. The site was critical in the early days, but facebook took over a large proportion of the fan base and it was far easier to utilise the facebook platform to share and interact with fans of the park. The site has moved servers at least once or twice and things have broken over the years, and it'd be great to get it up to a modern website standard - but it is a labour of love and that all takes time - which in some cases, folks just don't have. I know I spend far less time these days on pursuits that used to take up large parts of my free time - it's just life. As for the footage, so many people have contributed to the group over the years with home VHS tapes, searches of Australian Television Archives and the like. That particular video was uploaded to youtube over 9 years ago, so whether any of their team know the exact source of every piece they've collected is unlikely - though they do tend to provide credit where they can. For example, I know all the media titled 'Wonderbuzz' came from a former employee who is still an admin for their group.
- Village Key
- Fright Nights 2023
- Village Key
- Village Key
- Dreamworld Flyer
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Dreamworld Flyer
Surprisingly, considering its one of the only active in-park constructions going on, it's been four weeks without an update here. I've heard a whisper from a little birdy @Jay Jay The Jet Plane that a crane is onsite at Dreamworld this morning and is currently operating right behind town hall. Presumably, this is lifting in components for the flyer, so we might have our first vertical construction pics coming very soon...