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  1. Gosh, don't the kids/parents look thrilled in that social media photo!
  2. To be fair, given you know Google pretty well you probably also found this link: https://www.sitepoint.com/most-popular-frontend-frameworks-compared/ ...which is the top result on Google for "bootstrap framework popularity". From their notes: "The main strength of Bootstrap is its huge popularity. Technically, it’s not necessarily better than the others in the list, but it offers many more resources (articles and tutorials, third-party plug-ins and extensions, theme builders, and so on) than the other four frameworks combined. In short, Bootstrap is everywhere. And this is the main reason people continue to choose it." Although, you've been having a tough week here so I'm not going to rub it in. Some of what you've been saying I've agreed with, but now it's just turning into a bit of a shit-fight. Just giving you a stir on the Google thing.
  3. We were last at SW just over a year ago, and AFAIK there's not much doing there since. The thinking on DW is that there's enough there to also keep mum and dad's interest as required, whereas at SW he doesn't recognize much in the way of their licenses and if he's in a bit of a mood and therefore decides no rides then it's a pretty ordinary day ahead. MW has rivals, and the little bloke is Batman-obsessed, but outside of a chance encounter with a character on main street there's not a lot doing for him.
  4. You got me - I was being unnecessarily vague to avoid asking you the question directly about Dreamworld in case you didn't want to be that specific. So, I have a family and will be visiting the region in under a month's time. We had planned on visiting Dreamworld because we felt their ride offering better targets my 3-year-old kid, rather than visiting Movie World (mostly because mum and dad want to ride Rivals). Would your advice as someone who has claimed previously (and credibly) to have access to inside information be that we reconsider our travel to Dreamworld at this time?
  5. Fair call, happy to admit I just Googled it. I was not aware the site had stepped back from it, although it would have been interesting at the time if you'd been as public in doing so as you were in starting the campaign. Can understand why you wouldn't. Would you still stand by the claim that the parks are safe and responsible today?
  6. In light of Alex's spirited response to the article I found it interesting to reflect upon that text and wonder if this marks a departure from that campaign.
  7. Our theme park industry is under attack by the media and fringe groups. The media is misrepresenting normal procedures, generating alarmist content for the sake of clickbait. Fringe activist groups are spreading misinformation and pseudoscience in an irrational vendetta against world-class animal exhibits and facilities. The constant, dishonest media coverage and social campaigns are hurting our theme parks. Our theme parks are safe. They are responsible. Help us spread the truth!
  8. Looks cool. Video could do with a bit of an audio/video sync though!
  9. Agreed fellas, I'm just clutching at straws like most to try and understand the thinking on this.
  10. I was thinking the Geelong -> Melbourne -> Lakes Entrance day was... aspirational
  11. Maybe something like Artvo (http://artvo.com.au/)?
  12. It's interesting to see that a lot of the feedback on their social media accounts at this stage are about it being too expensive. I wonder if that's a function of the dollars, or because there's scant information on what there is to do in the park?
  13. Quite true. But when you bought a Hyundai Excel in 1995, managed to drive it for ten years, and then parked it because the check engine light was on you probably shouldn't expect it to be a cheap fix in 2018. (preaching to the choir)
  14. I think he lost credibility with me last month on the "at this stage we believe it is" line. It defied belief.
  15. Draculas in Melbourne announced closure not long ago, citing lack of interest from the punters. They said in the release that the GC locations would remain open.
  16. JDS was right up my kid's alley when I last visited, but there was simply no way known I was going to line up for something that was such poorly-done crap, when we could be just as happy on something else.
  17. That's some fascinating profiling there, but the notion that the average consumer is asking for a higher price for an identical product is rather far-fetched, as is the assumption that a consumer that sees better value in a lower ticket price is somehow going to be more trouble than they are worth. If, on the other hand, this is an admission that the idea of charging a lower entry fee and ultimately generating more revenue through incremental selling has failed then that's something you could properly read into. Although, reading between the lines here it would seem like you're somehow hoping that this will price out those who you say are more pain than they were worth. That's an interesting one, because it would suggest that those with better financial resources would not be priced out. Do those of means not care about value or something? That would seem strange given in many cases they didn't become of means by not caring about value.
  18. It tends to be, yes. In an environment where your customer has been conditioned at a particular price-point for many years it's indeed foolhardy to increase the price for no incremental benefit in the thought that any customer that doesn't want to go along with it is no longer the customer you want. It is suggestive of the idea that price in isolation is the only determinant of value - which anyone even passingly familiar with consumer behaviour knows is far from the case. There's plenty of models for this; ranging from the simple value = benefit/cost, through the functional/monetary/social/psychological value model, and beyond. There's an oft-repeated mantra in many businesses that when you start allowing the type of thinking that customer x is the not the type of customer you want you're letting the accountants run the show (and yes; there are some exceptions, and no; theme parks are not usually among them). I can see why you'd be inclined to believe this decision was made after exhaustive market research and external consultation - these are after all very large businesses presumably operated by "serious people" (my air-quotes). Is that really borne out in reality, though? After all, these very forums and wider site are littered with extensive documentation of the many ongoing pain points of the market; many of which are relatively trivial to rectify. We've seen these parks make countless missteps over the journey that even some of the most glass-half-full users here could see a mile off was poor business. I guess what I'm asking is; can we really take it as a given that these parks are relying heavily on exhaustive market research and external consultation? I wouldn't bet on it. At the very least you can make market research support practically any change you'd like to make...
  19. It's a foolhardy business that allows that type of thinking to creep into the business.
  20. Hmm... interesting. Faced with a trip up there soon, and I had thought the choice would be simply to go with VRTP over DW. This makes the decision a bit more interesting again it would seem.
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