DaptoFunlandGuy

Yeah - call me when you get CC Freestyle!

That'd be worth $800,000 today!

To be clear - Superman's "maintenance bay" slash transfer track, visible halfway through the dark-ride section is primarily a storage and inspection area you can clearly see while on the ride. What @Im Hungry referred to was not the superman storage area - but the area next to the launch track as has been mentioned. If you're on the left side of the train, and you look to your left - and down - during launch, you can see them. This area was used for the Green Lantern cars a few months ago too. I have seen Superman trains in the maintenance sheds behind WB Kids, and its quite a tight space, it must be nice to have such a roomy workshop below Superman to work on all the coaster trains. They have dollies. I think in most cases this is how they are shipped from the manufacturer, so its kind of like keeping the original packaging for when you move house... Depending on the design, the dolly is lined up and the car is slid onto it, or they remove the upstop wheels and crane it across. Some dollies are designed for forklifts (the below one has slots for forks on the other side) and others are on their own castor wheels to be rolled around.

Quoted for truth. I am hopeful they do have something nice cooked up though. Its a big year, and a nice time to start enticing people to travel locally. Hopefully Luna Park style announcements have shown them how to capture their audience. ...or maybe they just wanted to grab the microphone for a bit after Greg had it earlier in the week.

That'd be worth $4 million today!

I'm surprised you'd even know what the mid-2000's looked like. Luna Park is very much retro-focussed, with classics like the Rotor, the Wild Mouse and Coney Island. Ultra modern and edgy just doesn't fit the theme they've got going to begin with, so if you're picking up retro vibes from it, they've probably hit it on the head.

I was about to reply to this to explain why that might be best avoided, and then you nailed it yourself. Scooby is great, but the Gremlins adventure was a real 'movie magic' experience. Superman is awesome, but it took away the last bastion of 'movie making' in the park. Heck, young einstein gravity homestead shit all over dodgem cars. There aren't many examples today though of a replacement being better than what it replaced, and sadly, reminding everyone of such a classic as say - police academy - and then showing them what they replaced it with... sadly thats not the image you want to give to guests.

Real blokes don't use brakes.

Seriously? You wanna get us the Saturday lotto numbers from 1987 while you're at it?

Toot! Toot!

I'm not sure why there'd be a problem with weight after all these years - it may or may not have something to do with the supplemental seatbelts on the harnesses, which are INCREDIBLY short (like Claw). I find there are quite a few rides at Dreamworld I used to be able to ride without an issue, that I now can't even get the seatbelt into since the straps were shortened.

You're right. Wet n Wild has a rollercoaster, so why does Movie World need one?

...such a white elephant.

November 2020 is the last image - so no. It's quite an intimidating water ride though.

I was checking out the blue fire entry on Coasterpedia and saw this: The restraints feature a heart rate monitor which is connected to the holding grips. Do any other clones have this feature?

Yes, they most certainly could - however, they risk losing the revenue from those people currently paying. Without incentive to switch onto an alternative product, many customers may re-evaluate whether to take up the new product and many may opt not to continue because they haven't used it much and don't consider the new pricing structure to be worth their time. So long as the memberships generate enough profit to pay for the costs of running a separate program (which at this point would just be the ongoing fees payable to debit success) they'll continue to do it until it becomes non-viable. But in the meantime - chipping away at the previous benefits is doing them no favours. *sigh*. When memberships were available, other, cheaper pass types were also still available for purchase. Both could be paid by lump sum, membership was the only option to pay by the month. Memberships paid monthly continue to be debited every month. Lump sum payment passholders are required to re-evaluate their purchase every year. There is potential customer loss here - especially from those who (as has been said on her previously) vary which chain they hold passes to each year as they can only pick one - so this year it's village, next year it's dreamworld... Retention is loyalty though. And you're right - businesses that do auto renewal, pay by the month, etc etc are more likely to retain their customers. Remaining a customer is, in fact, loyalty. Even if it is the case that they forgot to cancel, that's still loyalty. But in the case of a monthly charge such as the memberships are, even if you do forget one month - the next month's charge tends to be a big reminder. You're not going to remain a customer for long if you aren't choosing to stay (loyal) to the brand. Especially not for the more-than-two-years-since-memberships-were-withdrawn kind of forgetfulness. As has already been mentioned above - Annual, user-renews style services have half the retention of auto-renewed debit style services. It's been a long time since my days in retail management, and while I can't remember the figures, I do remember that it cost more than double to sign up a new customer as it did to retain an existing one. Regardless, the loyalty arguments are a straw man argument - whether you consider members are more or less loyal, the fact remains that members were previously a premium product - and despite nothing (including the price point) changing, Village have eroded those benefits, continuing to treat members as second class post-onepass introduction. My conclusions on these erosions are that they have contempt for the members, or that they want to enourage them to switch to the more modern, less convenient one-pass, and, in my opinion only, I believe that they'd attract more flies with honey by offering members more of an incentive (beyond the standard Joe Public offering) to switch over to the new ticketing system, rather than continuing to show them contempt by reducing benefits, excluding members from special offers and events, etc etc.

If you don't get it... you need to educate yourself.

*WHOOSH*

River Country motoGP!

I am completely unfamiliar with this term. What does a block brake do?

Not really, no. There's a reason there are still quite a few people around that hold memberships, who haven't migrated to One Pass. There's several actually - and although the OnePass is more expensive, it isn't the cost - because when OnePass originally came out, it was CHEAPER than a Membership. Memberships included much the same benefits as a OnePass - entry to certain night events, entry to all four parks, but memberships also get entry to fright nights - a benefit not included in the one pass. Discounts were also offered at some outlets, stores and experiences in each park, as well as whale watching cruises, and even room discounts for sea world resort. Source Now its been a while since I checked what parts of these benefits are still valid. I'm fairly certain Fright nights is still an inclusion, but I don't believe the discounts are offered anymore. This leaves us (after all the pricing and structure changes) with essentially an identical pass (save for one or two night event changes), except you can pay by the month, and its now cheaper. Village have continued to erode the benefits offered to those who showed their loyalty. They used to send out offers like the above to both onepass and memberships alike. Now they're only sending to onepass holders - another exclusion for members - and you think that by offering them the same product as what everyone else can get, for more money than they're currently paying, with a less convenient lump-sum-each-year payment option (or afterpay which doesn't compare to debitsuccess), no auto renewal, and lose access to fright nights without paying extra, for the chance, maybe, to get once-off invites to attend filming days, is a carrot? What I meant was - if Village wants to end the memberships, which they've shown a lot of contempt for, they should offer members a REAL incentive to swap over so that they can consolidate their ticketing system, not have to pay commissions to debit success every month, and keep those loyal membership fans happy to continue forking out for annual passes when they're no longer under any obligation to keep renewing.

Glad it went so wonderfully and the cast were great Phoebe - my only thought is perhaps you missed out on Green Lantern unnecessarily - as you say above - don't be afraid to try, and i'm not sure the 'lady out the front' could be relied upon. As has been said (and by your own experience) cast are more than happy to help give you an opportunity to test out the harness discreetly, and there's no other experience on the coast like Green Lantern. give it a try!

I think you need to declare your bias. Both SV and Arkham share a common person behind the scenes. I think they both strike a nice balance between funny, corny, useful to the theme and informative to riders awaiting their turn to ride about what to do. Whilst I have my own bias - I think Probe's ORIGINAL channel 7 produced video was great - and lightyears ahead of its time in terms of production values (thanks Channel 7), but the pre-show video for probe was just that - a pre-show. It didn't try to be anything more than 'here's the story'. Sky Voyager certainly does have the flavours of soarin - including the playlist - but isn't imitation the greatest form of flattery? Wasn't the very building that stood on the site of the now-sky voyager attraction modelled after one of the most iconic disney park buildings in main street USA? I think it was very deliberate to imitate the attraction, and it works. You wash your mouth! Does your arm ever get sore from patting yourself on the back so much? ;) 🍻

Local's passes are about $25 more, but that shouldn't matter - they've created their own 'different classes' of membership systems instead of just upping the price of the existing tiers. I don't really care about the invites - its highly unlikely i'll ever have so little to do that I could attend these things and wait around for hours, but its a little disappointing that they treat folks who are clearly loyal and willing to support the parks paying monthly (and its been a few years since Memberships ended so there's longevity there). The point is the premier memberships were meant to be the 'top shelf' item. They've stripped certain benefits away, added nothing, not reduced the price, and introduced another pass over the top that is less convenient, more expensive, and offers nothing more. There's no incentive to switch, save for missing out on a few media invites - which appears to be petty to exclude those loyal members. I feel like they'd be better off using the carrot than the stick if they want to switch people off memberships rather than to continue to regard them as second class when they were a premium product.