DaptoFunlandGuy

I think DW has focused more on the 'worlds' rather than the 'dreams' and there is a lot more they can do with the 'world' tag. Anything can be a world... not everything can be a dream. Depending on who you are, you could just as easily consider 'walking with a tiger' to be as much a dream as 'swim with a dolphin'... so the experiences are there... but i think the VRTP group have a better offering overall to the average family. Dreamworld have said for a while that their focus was to refurb a few things before bringing out a big ride... they've done their refurb and i'd say they already have a ride on the cards to be ready before the GCCG... its just whether it will compete with VRTP, and to be honest, to do that - they're going to need to do well. On the flip side - since SoundStage 9 will be on the same lot as the existing studio\theme park complex, there isn't any additional parking... hopefully people aren't 'scared off' from MW\WnW by the lack of parking brought on by the additional visitation....

Cue complaints about wasting water.... lol. You will never please everyone. Personally, I've always found the best thing in a hot queueline was never shade (many shade structures at parks actually make it hotter underneath as the airflow is interrupted \ blocked) - Mark, I know you guys have thrown a lot of extra cash at post-opening improvements to the path, queue and all round - but if i may make just one more... Misting systems \ fan systems. As a former cast member at Wonderland Sydney - I know all too well how how queuelines will make guests. Wonderland's Snowy River Rampage had a long queue (especially on hot days when everyone just wanted to cool down!!!) and it was hemmed in on both sides by log fences to prevent people from entering the flume envelope - this unfortunately prevented air flow. Irrigation pipes (the kind you buy from bunnings for your garden) were fixed along the roofline of the queue, with little misting jets spaced out along the queue. Instant relief! (not to mention - it was almost as good as the ride itself to cool off!!). Other parks i've been to have had fans with mist jets mounted in front of them, oscillating over the queue. Either of these could be done within the queue races fairly cheaply (provided you have a tap up there!), and could also be extended down the hill if you really wanted to go the extra mile (might double as a lawn sprinkler too!). I think this would be the epitome of guest service... just my $0.02

He said the fries looked to be the same as what was sold elsewhere in the park, but were "nothing special and far too much". He was mid-description so i doubt he was talking about the price of the fries, as far too much doesn't suggest an elevated price in this context. I think you're stretching, and at any rate - as you weren't the OP of those comments, you're in no better position than I to judge that context. Ordering food at a counter, bar, touch screen or speaker box, and then going and sitting down to await the delivery of your order is not table service. Table service is where the waiter comes TO your table to take your order... ie: being served AT YOUR TABLE. I offer the following in support of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foodservice#Table_service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_restaurant To be fair - we're both kinda off the mark on this one - not entirely right, but not wrong either. I didn't say it was never the last thing you ate - only few actual cases of food poisoning occur that quickly... \ rarely the last thing you ate. Your articles support the fact that whilst it could be the last thing you ate, it can also be other things. My main issue with what he said was that he stated, unequivocally, that the brand new burger joint gave him food poisoning - however it did not appear that there was any medical evidence for it, and that gastro illnesses are rarely so simply explained as 'must've been the last thing I ate'... I didn't think it was a fair statement to the staff and to the park without at least allowing for alternatives. There's also a really bad gastro bug going around now - and given it's easy transmission on contaminated surfaces - spending a day at a theme park, touching hand rails, safety bars \ grab rails, queue rails, food service countertops - all of these public access surfaces are far more likely to have been the cause of his illness than a rare-cooked burger... especially when gourmet burgers at sit down restaurants can frequently be ordered medium rare...

^I always use the 1% rule - for every complaint posted on social media, there are 99 other people who had a great time. However there is also the bandwagon formula which says: ...for every standalone complaint posted on social media, a further 10 people will claim to have had the exact same experience, despite never raising a complaint previously.

Are you complaining that you received TOO MANY FRIES? Do you mean that you get to sit at a table, or do you mean that wait staff bring your food to your table (which is the correct definition of 'Table Service') and if so - which bloody Maccas are you dining at to receive actual table service??? Drama much? Sounds like you had this as an early dinner yesterday, and you posted about this mid-morning today. Few actual cases of food poisoning occur that quickly - it is rarely the last thing that you ate. If the dreamworld burger legitimately gave you food poisoning, you should have seen a doctor by now, so that the health department could be notified and an inspection of the food prep areas done immediately. I'll bet you've done none of that, which will indicate it wasn't that bad, and\or it wasn't that that caused it. Burgers are only grey at fast food joints. Proper burgers should be cooked a bit more on the rarer side to be juicy and succulent. Its probably the first time you've seen a gourmet burger cooked properly, as McDonalds "gourmet" burgers are always grey. In the future, you should indicate whether you have proof of this sort of allegation, or whether it is just an opinion. Short of a health department inspection, i'm going to assume you're just being a DQ.

At least Wiki makes it easy to trace his tracks to see what he fucks up... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Totta3

These days, World Best can be defined many different ways. It can just be a good marketing angle, or it can be something really special. You don't need to blow your wad for something to be world best. Kraken is a perfect example - take a standard attraction model, and stretch it further than anyone else ever has - and you have longest, tallest, fastest all wrapped up. I would like to see VRTP drop a bundle on something really special, but MW has long craved an assortment of well themed flats to round out the park, and in my experience, most movie parks don't do this, as flats are not the best to theme to the movie experience and most people are looking for just that - the movie experience. Even USH and USS are mostly E-ticket attractions, supported by less than a handful of smaller flats. Although this opinion is likely unpopular - i'd like to see them go with several well done flats to thicken the parks lineup - TailSpin is a good example of the kind of thing they should be looking for (although i'm not suggesting they buy an Air Race - two parks with near identical attractions would be just a waste). Whilst it's definitely possible that this new attraction will be a flat, i'm confident we'll see a blockbuster... the park is well overdue, and it needs something else to pull people back after the publicity that GL received. I only hope that whatever it is - its a capacity monster. The park cannot suffer another addition without greatly improving either its capacity or its operations.

I have faith that the theming for this one is going to be something any one of us could be happy with.

Does that mean with your limited finances, you won't be getting a VRTP pass?

You're comparing prices with California, and doing it very badly. The $1000+ price point you quote is for the top level, unrestricted pass with no blockouts, and passholder benefits. Try the deluxe passport, which is only $599 - which gets you TWO Disney parks (DL and DCA) - so about $300 each... So bingo - you're at your price point. The blockouts are reasonable too - two weeks over christmas, and the two days around valentines day is all you're missing out on in the next three months. You also get up to 10% off food, and 10% off select merchandise. Also - Passholders get passholder only events, and there are also many other benefits (like limited edition collector pins and other souvenirs) that ONLY passholders can get. Already you're getting more than our three park pass, and for a price point (per park) that you consider reasonable. However, if you want to make a comparison to a Disney Park suitable for Australia - look at Hong Kong as your first stop. Annual passports there start from $1078HKD - which according to google currently is about $192AUD. Remember also, that that is for a single park... which is what we're talking here... Finally (as has been said already) - if a pass pricing is required to take into account your particular financial circumstances, then we'll never have passes again... but note that in the case of California - you can choose to pay your pass off over 12 months just like VRTP do - in the case of the deluxe passport it'll set you back $99 upfront, and a further $41.67 per month. Although it is pricey - its unlikely to send you bankrupt, and for me - i consider that to be well worth the money. https://ticketstore.disney.go.com/Webstore/shop/ViewItems.aspx?merchant=APWS&categoryGroupExternalID=NAP01&categoryExternalID=NAP03 As mentioned, you could settle for the $600 option and pay it off, but i'm quite happy for Disney to set a price point on an annual pass that kind of ensures that the park won't be overrun with teens on school holidays who go because its basically free. I've been a passholder on the coast for several years until recently, and I would avoid the coast like the plague in the christmas \ new year period for that reason... so if their price point means some people would 'never fork out' for their passes - that makes me a happy guy. And thats quite reasonable... especially for Singapore - which I would argue is a similar market to HKDL. The USA Disney parks are just something special - they obviously have enough people willing to pay that much money to be a passholder. Can you imagine how full the park would be if the californian annual passes were cheaper?

What gave it away @Brad2912?

Yeah - the question is pretty wide open, so i'm not surprised with the first few answers as they're just as widely open. More detail is needed to be able to give you better answers.

Wow - it seems so obvious I don't know why nobody has said it before!

Of course it did - they're hoping to scare people that it's "still broken". the big question is whether it made the mnews?

They do have maps where the roof is a 'ghost' over the street, which is fine for general operations - but in FN where there are multiple attractions under the roof I can imagine it would be easier to not show it at all... i mean it's not like people are gonna look at the map and say 'nah this isn't the spot - this place has a roof over it!'

Don't be ridiculous! Why would they do that?

forget GL.... CHINATOWN is open again??? or is it JUST during WC? Certainly a space they should be utilising all the time - especially for crowd control at events.

Loose items are unlikely to cause mechanical issues - most loose items policies are either: designed to raise revenue from locker fees to prevent injury to spectators walking under \ around the ride to reduce issues where numbnuts drop their hat \ phone \ wallet inside the ride envelope, requiring ride shutdown to retrieve them. to increase loading speed as people don't need to stow belongings when they sit down Final destination style incidents aren't likely.

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Oh Please. the ship has long ago sailed on those kinds of discussions, but in short, try this as a starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorsport_in_Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_motor_racing_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V8_Supercars#Gold_Coast_600 It makes sense when motorsport is such a large industry within Australia, and one of the biggest V8 events (arguably the V8 events are the epitome of 'Australian' motorsport) is hosted on the coast not far from the park itself - i should think it would stand to reason that Motorsport as a theme would work really well. For further information - see all the previous posts made about this subject somewhere in the last 50 pages of this thread.

Many moons ago, Lethal Weapon was repainted by these guys: http://www.performancepaintingco.com.au/projects/hospitality/movieworld-lethal-weapon/ The website info has changed, but I do remember there was some info about how long it took and the machinery they used. I'm pretty sure it took about 8 weeks or more... and they had an entirely closed envelope to work in - they didn't have to contend with waterslides, and public access areas. Plus - last thing you want to do is put up a brand new paint job and then have a new train that isn't properly calibrated grind it all off with an improperly aligned bogey. Given the difficulty of it surrounding WWW, i'm not sure they'll bother unless absolutely necessary. Many moons ago, Lethal Weapon was repainted by these guys: http://www.performancepaintingco.com.au/projects/hospitality/movieworld-lethal-weapon/ The website info has changed, but I do remember there was some info about how long it took and the machinery they used. I'm pretty sure it took about 8 weeks or more... and they had an entirely closed envelope to work in - they didn't have to contend with waterslides, and public access areas. Plus - last thing you want to do is put up a brand new paint job and then have a new train that isn't properly calibrated grind it all off with an improperly aligned bogey. Given the difficulty of it surrounding WWW, i'm not sure they'll bother unless absolutely necessary.

I'm going to assume this is another of Totta's paint shop creations that did not come from Dreamworld, and as usual, has been posted with no source or explanation. Totta - this doesn't help.

I rather enjoyed the take on Disney, whilst at the same time appalled and shocked that anyone would go to Orlando and spend only a single day on Disney property. i took the humor, disregarded the negatives. Many TRs I flick through on a TL:DR basis, but i decided to read the disney one and am now interested in going back over the rest. I can sorta agree with what Rappa is saying, but the style of writing is still interesting.