DaptoFunlandGuy

I think what you meant to say is that they’ll shoot themselves in the foot if they take the Village Roadshow approach

Now you've gone and done it.

The RNA did this to their own grounds. The Ekka deserves its fate.

Not necessarily. This isn't a refurb. this is an entirely new ride. There's no guarantees it commences testing and they have problems. I'd suggest until Mack hands over to the park they're staying quiet. Once it's handed over, they'll start shouting it loudly - and in the meantime it can have a few weeks of technical rehearsals prior to an official opening to train staff without setting guest expectations too high. At least I hope that's what they do and not have a grand opening on boxing day with minimal staff trained and a line going back to WWF...

Yes, because it's what the camera sees. It doesn't see the studio lighting, and the scaffold holding up the house set (and all the other sets) and the overhead catwalks and rigging (or the mass of cameras, booms, dollies and other filming equipment behind the camera either). The original film set had the benefit of: being 100% indoors not needing to meet practically ANY level of fire safety not needing to adhere to any WH&S requirements. Naturally the park isn't going to be able to recreate an all-weather, all-season, immersive recreation of the original sets. For one - there's too many vandals masquerading as guests who would destroy it inside a week. But it's certainly enough detail to show what they were going for. In a real movie set environment, this would be the facade set up, and then set dressers would come in with all the foliage and flowers and little touches that complete the look. It's like visiting a backlot that isn't currently being used for a production. By all accounts though there is one thing MW was able to get right about the original film sets of WOZ:

Perhaps not but it sure resembles one

They've used that exact phrase since at least February 2023 on the MW website and backed up by this very thread in the same month here:

I mean - there's plenty of solid green walls in film making (but I do know what you mean) But 100% agree with you on the shade...

I couldn't care less.

I mean, I don't like that jarring aspect that comes with leaving these sorts of things untouched, but i've said multiple times in the past that if you're a 'movie studio' park you get a pass on sight lines as the idea is it's only what the camera can see. There's plenty of lights, rigging, booms and other film making devices just outside the lens.

If you had a memory longer than a goldfish you'd have scrolled up. Don't put words in my mouth to start another circular argument.

this isn't the smoking gun you think it is.

I haven't seen WOZ in person, but from what i've seen, the only way to the maze precinct through Woz would be to go via the ride queue pathways? If the rides are closed for the event, either the whole land is, or the rides are closed so that they can use the ride queues for getting guests to the mazes. Not sure how the internal areas of the WOZ queues will stand up to night time fright night shenanigans... so I'm hoping they don't use it.

Looks more like something is definitely down. Anyhow - this doesn't point to anything sinister - regular maintenance on the launch system can include de-tensioning the cables.

Road design is a factor though - SEQ has a lot of hairpin onramps that can't be taken at speed. Additionally, even with long straight onramps, the speed limit sign is at the end of it, so most drivers don't accelerate to highway speeds to merge easily, and end up either stopping at the end of the ramp, blocking the onramp flow, or merge onto the highway at 60-80, stacking up the left hand lane. That said I find a lot of drivers can't merge even when the conditions are favourable, and many people can't roundabout either. They need to teach roundabouts and zipper merging in school.

There is some analysis out there that traffic isn't made better by adding more lanes - the more lanes you have the more traffic you get was the outcome if I recall. Offering an alternate route is definitely a must - one thing shuts down the highway and there's very little alternative - but i'll take 4 new lanes in a connector over no new connector at all...

I thought C4C was just the QLD container scheme. Though funding SWF makes sense. DW would likely use DWF if they established similar, I assume.

Who does Village donate their containers to?

West has been on and off for a while. the old boats had a risk of people exiting them and getting into the surrounding areas. they've used the west theming for premium experiences too. It's also the closest to the rear residential area and while there is a scream shield I think the noise is still an issue for them. I don't see any issues with West being offline TBH. As for WOZ, I think WB would be very protective of their IP here. While there is a great opportunity for flying monkeys or scarecrows, woodsmen and the like, I just don't think such a classic should cross over into horror genre in park - at least not yet. Though it's a shame they won't open the land for capacity reasons I suppose...

Yeah that's fair. It's clear the park is slowly modernising \ refurbishing every section of the park but it does take time... and unlike other parks nearby - I can see that they're actively working on stuff so i'm prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt that something that looks a bit shitty is going to be temporary, and eventually rectified.

I never said the onus was on Dreamworld to fix the problem (though their current driveway arrangements do make it worse). What I said was, I hope they're discussing with relevant authorities options to rectify it. To be honest, I think the roundabout is out-dated, and needs converting to traffic lights, with the main issue being people from the northern end (westfield) queueing across the roundabout preventing DW carpark exit.

While there are some times where SE would have to close due to FSF maintenance and vice versa, the vast majority of the time one ride is able to continue operating even if the other is down. It makes sense to close them together to do whatever work is needed though...

Frequently at park close time, the highway is just as bad as the connector roads surrounding it. If you could at least get out of the carpark you could choose to spend time waiting for the congestion to ease on the highway by visiting other nearby establishments.

Kudos to the designer of those particular items for sure!

Honestly - there's plenty of good reasons to expediate exit from the DW carpark. if you can get past that roundabout you have options before trying to get onto the M1 - dine locally at one of the many dining precincts in and around Coomera, go shopping on certain days, see a movie if you're really keen on avoiding the peak hour traffic - it doesn't all have to be about getting on the M1 - it just has to get you past the roadblock.