DaptoFunlandGuy

I think Joz's second comment there was spot on the money of what i was trying to say. Yes, attractions does get the abuse when you can't ride and such, but so long as you're within the restrictions, and obeying the rules, the only time you heard from your ride operator was when they were spieling at the start and end of the ride. As Joz said, im not talking about the burger flippers, but the service people. the same as the games staff, and the retail staff...... their entire job is face to face with a guest, not just if they're annoyed with a ride. I was stating that half of an ops job was behind a panel, pushing buttons, as opposed to food and retail that are face to face all the time. there was no main switch for the microphone, the only off switch was on the microphone, in his hand.

Pic Requests - Disney- Any Internals of Space Mountain or Haunted Mansion (i know they frown on photography, but the truly creative of us can sometimes work wonders) Universal- Any interesting ones... Silver Bullet X Montezoooma Viper Ninja Colossus Goliath

Ill get shouted down for this, but RetailPark ServicesF+B staff had more face to face contact with guests than Operations(Rides) Staff. The most contact most ops staff had were opening a gate, then sitting behind a panel and spieling the safety act (yes i know some were different, but for the most part...). The others had more face to face verbal interaction. A lot of the teenagers in the park DID know their rights, and loved to flaunt it, but while i was always in the mood and the theme of the park, if I got a smarta$$, he got taken down quick smart. After my incident at SpeedPitch, I either had a phone or a radio at any location I worked at. The first hint of trouble, security got called in... We had a lot of trouble on our games with theft. If we had more than 1 attendant, I'd call it in, and follow them.... BUSTED! the funny thing is most of those prizes cost less than 10 bucks, and these guys, and their group, got kicked out. goodbye to a couple hundred bucks worth of entry tickets... and if they were wonderpass holders, they lost their wonderpass... over a ten dollar piece of fabric, and some styrofoam beans.... pattieboi, your immaturity shows through every time you post. if you had of said "i didnt do it, it was that guy..." no problems. but you swear at me.... i'd get Janice onto you...

Joz, im pretty sure the guidelines allow links to be posted where that link is relevant to the topic, and pertinent to the discussion. Why did Paul have to ask permission?

I was on SpeedPitch, a game between bounty's and dodgems, where you had to throw a ball down a tunnel, and guess the speed of your throw. It was union day, in the hot sun, and the sun was beating down directly onto my location. I had a group of about 40 middle-eastern teens, all hassling me out, for more than an hour straight. Now Speedpitch had no phone, no radio, no line of sight communication to any location with a phone or any other method of communication, and I was stuck. There was a small hole in the building, conveniently in the right place that if you threw the ball a bit skewed, it would go into the hole, and require retrieval... Which is no easy task - standing in a tunnel that people throw balls down as hard as they can. After the 30th time this happened, and getting balls chucked at me all the way, one of the smart-guys picked up the microphone, and started swearing and shouting into it as loud as he could. I lost it. I threw the ball down, walked up to him, ripped the microphone out of his hand and told him off. He grabbed me by the throat and held me up against a wall.... **how's that for cast-guest relations??** Conveniently, our head of security was walking by, heard the commotion, grabbed the guy who had me by the throat, and put him into a choke hold until he passed out. I never worked that game again... lol.

Relations? Ok.... im not touching that one.....

I used to work down in Goldrush, and I would go into the old time photos shop, and borrow some of the outfits, including a pretty authentic looking rifle, and i would "hold up" the train as it came through. The train driver and I would usually discuss when I was going to do it, and generally when we got a train of packed tourists. I played the bushranger to a tee, which is something the likes that you would have seen around 1985. I was keeping in theme, the guests loved it, and I also did not neglect my "real" duties while I was doing it... and I was written up for it. Another time I was working the games cluster up in Botany Bay, on High Striker - something they loved putting me on, and I absolutely hated. We had a young girl come through. She had recently been discharged from hospital for chemotherapy - i mean seriously with like - no hair and everything. Her mother had been taking her from game to game, through the whole park, trying to win something better than the crap plastic consolation prizes they gave out, so I activated the game on the setting that basically guaranteed she could not lose. She chose a hammer, whacked the crap out of it, and won. three muscled up "middle-eastern-appearance" style guys in their late teens saw this, thought there was no way to lose, and paid their money and lost. they complained, and i was written up for allowing the little girl to win.... how gay is that?

i think that is where we got that impression.

Its also funny the comments made about persons in the industry not visiting this site, when the person making the statements is an ex-industry worker, who does consider himself to be quite in the know about the park he worked for.... he should know the levels of management who were at the park he worked for that visited this site regularly during its trading periods....

it will come in good time. WBMW has already made announcements on the type of ride, the theme of the ride, the height, a vague storyline, and the location within the park. They don't have a massive billboard posted out front, but have made it quite plain as to their intention. The rest will come closer to the release date. Many a park have published imagery way before the ride opened, only to find the ride is delayed, or there is a difficulty in getting the ride to "be" what was in the picture.... meaning many disappointed fans. Keeping the "final" ride under wraps until such time as it's bolted to the ground is good for keeping up the suspense.... IMHO.

well then since you have a fear of the unknown, you should be aware that there are absolutely NO backwards drops, sharp turns, flashing lights or tilting elevators on SDSC.... lol..... no... there are all of those things... lol.

lol. and my questions were in relation to the footprints out the front... so while there was a dinosaur exhibition at HBL... they were not related to the footprints out the front of the ticket booths...

flycoaster in goldcoast looks to be about the same as skyscreamer, and i saw a travelling version of this slingshot at the easter show about 3 years ago...

taz did have electronic release of the lapbars... and wonderland used to run tazzie backwards, back in the day it also had an exit and entrance on opposite sides of the ride. I'm pretty confident I can assume this was axed to improve capacity and cut down ride time. As posted elsewhere on this site, Management eventually put all the rides on Automatic operation, where possible, so they did not need to train their operators as intensely, saving money, and possible screw ups...

Commonwealth Bank also took park in these pre opening op-tests. My Father was one of the financial team who handled all the pre-opening finances...

1/2 a point. they were dinosaur footprints, but they were white. try 1991 WRONG - it was an exhibition of dinosauria - life size models and animatronics on display in the park WRONG - the exhibition took place in the sundowner theatre area. Correct! Yogi's picnic Park Yes - the theme was right - it was something to do with Yogi... but the name was what was asked for. well done on pulling out the park map and checking it out. The HBL Faces were cemented into the walls of gardens in several places in the park, and they were covered up with the Blue W, or other nondescript cartoonery. Still waiting for someone to give a reasonable answer on this one...

From : Blacktown Advocate Wednesday June 1st - 2005

lol ... Joz i think you mean fan BOY. i dont believe there was more than 1 seriously DW oriented member..... and who says he left?

or Paul, you could get him to email them to you like he wants to do, and either resize and post them on R-C, or post them on DPA..

See? I told you...

Most parks across the world utilise codewords for all sorts of things, and Protein Spill is one of them. When you are "escaping from everydayland," you dont want to overhear someone go "someone just hurled" or "i gotta clean vomit out of that ride" or something like that... particularly if you're feeling a bit nauseous yourself... Variations on the codewords include: Bravo Protein Spill Code 'P' or Signal 'P', as well as the letters V and S (for Vomit and Sick) I know that the last time I was in Disneyland I overheard "Code P" on Space Mountain.

this has been asked before. Someone (i think it was Huss) posted an image of the internal gears inside the tower, however, absent the image, its basically a network of gears that turn around the central shaft, to keep the seating upright. basically one motor turns the central pivot, and the gearing does most of the rest. I'll wait for Huss to post the image... because I know he will have it.

I think Gazza just said he would email the owners.... looking at what i can see, and the description, I think it is safe to say that that is BooBoo's Balloon Race. It may also be Dick Dastardly's Flying Circus. We shall see..

Well.... the door wasn't open when i started... but it was when I finished...

Honestly... tell me.... what happened to that door? it either: still stands in the same position was moved so other people could get more stuff out of there, and then put back has been bulldozed. Besides.... you told me to break in!.... just because the door broke before the lock did... not my fault eddie didnt have the right keys....