DaptoFunlandGuy

Hopefully they've seen benefits in extending the offer and will make it part of their regular pass offering into the future. When the mob down the road is offering passholder discounts at $99 ($89), surely they can afford to offer their loyal passholders something.

It seems closing a waterpark during quiet periods doesn't really impact your attendance much after all...

Even talking them up you still find opportunity to shit on them.

Rider comfort is a bigger concern than financial commitment though. Don't get me wrong, Cyclone is special for me - but it's too rough, and it's only getting worse. If they don't do something to fix the comfort issue, it won't be worth continuing to operate it regardless of how much they've spent upgrading it... the ridership just won't be there to warrant it.

Yeah, hilarious. Except the same applies to Village down the road too. 20 years ago, annual passes to SW, MW and WnW would set you back $450. Today you get that plus Paradise Country and the 3 night events for half that at $229. It's almost like both parks realised they could make more money selling $7 pizzas than $30 pizzas...

They already are - that $99 is now $124 and $169 (albeit they do go on sale for $99 quite often) :

What he doesn't realise is that I don't respond to him for his benefit - I respond for the benefit of everyone reading his garbage so that they have a counter argument and a balanced perspective from both sides.

Assuming a sustainable profit margin either way, is it better to price a pizza at $7 each, and sell 100 of them, or price them at $30 each and only sell 10? A $7 pizza is seen as good value, and many people will happily pay that price, even if it might be slightly smaller, or have a few less toppings. Buying 4 of these with various toppings is great bang for buck and ensures those partaking leave satiated. On the flip side, a $30 pizza would be seen as a premium product. Some people will keep buying the $30 pizzas because they like the particular toppings, or because they want to splurge, but it's less likely the same buyer would order 4 of these and drop $120 - the value proposition isn't quite there... A lot of parks don't really push their single day tickets and want guests to buy passes as this gives them much more data about buying habits and usage, and increases the per cap spend. Passholders are likely to visit a few times wherein someone with a day ticket is unlikely to repeat visit without substantial reasoning. Village certainly don't emphasise single day tickets. They actively push guests - even those who are only on the coast for a short term - to buy a bigger \ longer pass - be that 7-14 day passes or their annual product. Calling out the lack of traction on single day tickets as being a poor performance indicator of behalf of Coast is also a very unbalanced opinion since the other other provider you can compare to doesn't report on this metric in any meaningful way - for all you know Coast's single day ticket performance could be exceeding Village's... It feels like you were Can you explain to me what a calm turnstile is?

Full disclosure - i'm not a shareholder, and I have more important things to do than read through annual reports and such - so I'll take the article at face value: More people, and more money... doesn't sound like the gate has been given away to me...

Just because they have licenced the character for in-park appearance, doesn't mean that they've got carte blanche to use it however they wish. The licencing agreements are usually very specific on what is and isn't allowed for the price paid - and any change to that would need renegotiation.

I'll start... AFL Hook turns More public holidays than any other state Poor COVID lockdown management resulting in mass-post-covid migration to QLD ...

I love this idea but I feel this is a bigger risk than a big thrill ride simply because the investment doesn't stop at buying the ride infrastructure - you need to hire the right people to host, they need the right personality and drive, and you need enough that sick calls don't shut down the ride because you can't just swap another random ride op in to run them. A script is good but allowing your skipper's the ability to ad-lib within acceptable limits is how the attraction grows and stays fresh... Without fostering this sort of Skipper culture (which is very different to Operations generally) the attraction wouldn't be popular long term and therefore not worth the investment. Dreamworld was planned to be the Disneyland of Australia by John Longhurst - and this step would be absolutely chefs kiss if they do it right - but they have to go all in with an idea like that.

Way too many acronyms in there for me - you lost me.

I've been on the Kookaburra queen and can assure you it is significantly larger than the Sturt. It would dwarf the river and not really suited to anything other than a dining venue. it would cost more to move it into the park than it would to built a new purpose built vessel on site.

10,000 riders per week ( /7 ) 1,428.5 riders per day ( /8 ) 178.5 riders per hour ( /60 ) 2.9 riders per minute ( /60 ) 1 dispatch every 20 seconds for 8 solid hours per day. This number sounds more like the theoretical ride capacity rather than the actual ridership. That just doesn't seem feasible when you account for downtime periods, opening hours where little to nobody turns up (like our experience where just 8 people were present in the first 30 minutes of opening) - They'd have to be dispatching at a higher rate than once every 20 seconds to achieve the average quoted and the way the dispatch system works (the system requires the operator to instruct the rider to move the controls between full brake and full speed to enable dispatch) the explanation alone takes around 20 seconds each ride.

Nobody said it came in purple! /s

I think early on we saw an image of them scanning the disco room - and I don't know about anyone else but it lead me to make the assumption that projection in the entire disco room was going to happen... naturally disappointing when 'next gen' was revealed.

To be fair, a lot of us have been saying the same things for years. nothing is going to change.

ExperienceOz ran a sponsored piece on News.com.au today where the headline was that prices were SLASHED on theme park passes. Clicking through the link showed village passes offered at a 'discounted rate' ...which is great if you're looking for a bargain... except It's absolutely nothing special, and the prices are identical to the usual 'buy online to save $10' standard pricing. Not exactly what i'd call 'slashed' that's for sure. For balance, ExperienceOz also has an offer for Dreamworld, marketed as "Family passes into Dreamworld have also been given the chop with entry down to $74.25 (was $99) per person when you buy four tickets." which is another way of saying 'buy 3 get one free'. They also mark this in their header banner as 'last chance' despite the offer page reading "limited time offer valid until October 12!"

So TL:DR -

I've no idea where I read it but I recently saw discussion of the possibility of DW returning a boat ride to the Murrisippi. The island could pose environmental concerns given it has been essentially an untouched eco system for many years - I could see them developing it for use but it would come at the expense of the river \ boat ride, which in my opinion would be the better usage over a walkthrough area. As for the sheep shearing area - if they are to develop the boat ride concept - i'd rather that land area be given over to the boat experience.

circling back to the topic at hand though - Haze\Fog in scooby. Seems too convenient a cop out to say 'we can't do that because of fire safety' and sacrifice show when it most likely could be achieved by way of different equipment \ additional expense.

The issue is that you're only capturing those who are due for renewal, or those who don't already have a pass. Increasing the number of passholders when you're already suffering a capacity crisis is a shortsighted move. A long term plan would see whatever perks you want to offer given to all passholders current and future, on an ongoing basis - and then assess the success of the additional perks based on your retention \ renewal rates. This just screams short term cash grab - probably because holiday numbers aren't as high as they forecast and they're trying to bump them up by enticing people to visit before the end of the month.

Park management have already flagged their future intention to retheme motocoaster to fit into Rivertown, so it's not getting removed. The park also has the former sites of Rocky Hollow and the BB Studios to expand onto without impacting the current DA allocations. Trolls Village and the former Thunderbolt site are also an option, acknowledging the recent usage of trolls by BB.

Early entry used to be a perk for VIP Gold passes, so not the first time it's ever happened. Absolute garbage offer to start spruiking one week into the month. "Buy an annual pass and we'll give you perks for the next 3 weeks during our busiest time of the year!" Nah. Up the road offers year long discounts on food and merch and they charge less. It's a step in the right direction, but 3 weeks of 'extra perks' isn't enough. It's an indication that things aren't perfect over there though.... they'd have been better off pushing out a better black friday sale if they wanted to bump the numbers.