DaptoFunlandGuy

I like those Milo cups so i think i'll stick with Sea World...

What idiot got LEDs with no dimmers?

Visitation up 18%, ticket sales (value) up 61%, revenue up 37%. (And a $2Million Koala grant) 🤣 Yeah, since Ardent only HAS a themeparks group now, it makes sense to make the theme park CEO... THE CEO... @Richard used to do really indepth financial analysis on the end of year park results. I'd be keen to hear your analysis this time around as it seems like the park has really turned the corner and started to climb the hill...

I'd dispute "most days" but I do believe the park capacity is more than double the 5k figure - however, WB kids will effectively be closed, and West likely will be too. Additional floor space is also lost to maze queues and paths, precincts also occupy space, and the park is dark and poorly lit. So for a reduced footprint, and increased hazards (including the continued need to pay lip service to social distancing measures) and 5,500 sounds about right. Looking at the wiki, and it doesn't seem too far off when you compare to pre-covid numbers either:

My interpretation of "new" in the post is that the ride is "new" to that particular event. I think Matterhorn is a Flying Bobs \ Thunderbolt variant, no? Ultimate Party Machine sounds like its a Music Trip.

Yeah 50,000 sounds like the total number of people they expect across all nights.

I heard this last night too. Very grainy nighttime video shows what looks like trident operating with lights on the bottom of each gondola\seatpair. No idea of the source.

There wasn't, and I didn't. We're all happy to talk about Big Bad Dreamworld and how their reputation had taken a hit and they had much more work to do to regain that reputation. As I said (above) in my original post, it was an opportunity to plus the day for very little effort. It's very much a 'them' issue though - because it's not doing their reputation any favours when its the last experience you have in the park before you leave. Imagine being the average punter who checks their brain at the door, who sees the trains running, with people hooting and hollering on it, not understanding why some got to ride and others didn't (to be clear, some GA seats were loaded, some were empty). You'd potentially assume some sort of premium experience but there was no signage nor staff at the entrance to explain what was happening and Average Joe is left to make his own assumptions. Absolutely agree - and the extra memories are sorely needed in Coomera right now.

Then stop overselling the spinner?

As I mentioned previously, this is based on having tailwhip seats to fill. I don't think a quasi-ERT situation would occur, as if it were occurring too often, they could simply stop selling tailwhip earlier (or record the sales better to avoid the situation). My original post didn't assume this would be common - just that when it happened, whats the harm in allowing others to keep loading. Fair points made about the time taken to unload and load if there was more than a train's worth, and that's probably the only answer needed TBH, but on a quiet day if you've got a handful of folks, let them ride while you clear the tailwhips you clearly oversold.

^I too remember the jingle fondly. Not sure exactly when they switched to 'Action' park, but I feel it was around the time the maze was removed...

*cringe*

Does this change things for this thread then?

Except adventure world perth.... Seriously though - this has been debated endlessly. Jamberoo themselves call it an 'Action park' and the wiki description is a water theme park. Honestly the park themes things better than other stuff we've got in Aus - but I think "Action Park" is still an apt description.

"Saving face" is 100% characteristic of the culture.

Honestly all our parks seem to do that.

Possibly not, but actually opening the ride might.

Nice thought in theory. In practice it might show them that people will willingly pay astronomically inflated pricing for a lacklustre phoned-in event (if that's what it turns out to be) and if that's the case, it won't encourage them to do better next year. I'm sure they'll release more dates if the current ones sell out. Drifting off topic a little - but I wonder if there's any ability for them to take advantage of WOO once constructed with a 'Twisted Land of Oz' themed precinct or maze. A cornfield \ Haybale maze seems pretty easy to put together and Scarecrow seems like a no brainer.

Didn't they turn off the water effects ages ago? Surely that isn't still contributing to it's woes?

Expect WB Kids to be closed. WWF has been closed in the past - likely will this year too unless the upgrades changed anything. Most of the big thrills at the front of the park are open, and scooby. Expect ride queues to be stupidly long - including Scooby for some weird reason.

Absolutely agree the park probably won't reduce the number of tickets available unless forced to by covid or other requirements (unlikely), but you're spot on - I am saying the higher price might reduce the number of people. Fright Nights is no longer included as a freebie in the annual passes (Memberships still get this though), so it will be interesting to see if they continue to sell out, or if they struggle and drop their prices...

I'm ok with the price increase. I've always felt FN was far too oversubscribed and it was difficult to 'do everything' in a night without paying premiums for fast track etc. They can always reduce the price later if they don't get the uptake they wanted, but the very affordable season passes of previous years cheapened the event, IMO.

I mean, it's been said before - apparently if you want the international market, you should build a Koala research centre. 100% this. I'm not enthusicyclopedic. I don't follow non-local parks that closely until its time to book a holiday so when I see something overseas, unless it made headlines for some reason, I don't know where it is, or what its called, and a lot of the content farm channels don't say it, so I then have to spend time googling or reading the comments to find out. Ironically the worst offender for this is TPR - because they know what it is, you're an idiot if you don't know, and if you ask, prepare to be flamed.

I'm not sure ABC Kids would go for that angle.

They've still got vehicles on the site, but it has the makings of an awesome area. Given what they've done with previous installs, I feel confident that they'll plus this beyond what is shown in the video, and i'll wait to see what it looks like on launch day.