StingRay

The off topic would have been fine. I get everyone is entitled to opinion also.

So why make this its own topic then?. People make mistakes. It wouldn't be like DW is trying to personally annoy you. Although you might think that.

bigger problems exist in the world than this.

and we can now resume normal broadcasting again.

I only know of three funnel slides that have a conveyor. One at RWS (Raging Waters Sydney), Jamberoo for the perfect storm and the green room. I am sure Kraken has one also. @AlexB is right tho. It is indeed a poor design here at WnW GC. The modifications would cost way too much.

Not for much longer possibly.

I could always head down to Luna Park Sydney, They got a high striker also. I suppose a plunger is much better for the kids tho so maybe that's the good bonus. It is always nice to frighten the people sitting on those steps when you get a high score and the smoke goes off.

I am going to miss that big old whack hammer.

should I get the popcorn?

You have to take the hit for sure. Wonderland used to close the beach down over winter and I am sure not all staff were retained in other areas of the park. WnW GC does the same thing. They hire some extra staff for the peak period but they usually are on a temp contract only and dropped after said date. The work elsewhere is a very true statement. People can't hang around waiting for a company to decide what they'll do. I have seen this first hand as @AlexB has mentioned. Usually, senior management and staff are the only acceptions to the rule. Continuity. God this is something that is hard. Every season you struggle right at the beginning. New rules, new staff etc just make things hard. It is in fact how many overseas seasonal parks reacts to such a same issue. You need to keep a group of core workers but trying to keep them happy is hard also. Because they become to continuity season to season. Staff cutbacks are better. Running at minimal is better than say shutting down slides to work on a rotating basis That never works and always causes the guest to be terribly upset and annoyed. Also gives a bad reputation to any park.

Was pretty sh Apparently, it is structural issues. God knows when the demolition works would begin. It has already been a fair while since they stopped operating.

Ohm!

It is going to be a long and electrifying thread methinks. But if it all fails then it is going to MEGAHERTZ.

Kids these days.

Seems like this topic was either arching or suffering from a short circuit. It is indeed good to know that the topic will be back up to full power within no time.

Someone might need to check that we are all earthed properly.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/village-roadshow-appoints-clark-kirby-chief-executive-as-chair-steps-aside-20190613-p51xc9.html

Five Amps?

Thanks for generating that powerboard @AlexB. I sure do hope no ones starts to discharge or consequently start to pull too many amps. Then again it is hard to resist posting here now.

I sure do hope this topic has the capacity to contain itself.

AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW › Annotations Village Roadshow investor day sends stock crashing MYRIAM ROBIN JUNE 11, 2019 Village Roadshow fell 9.1 per cent on Friday afternoon, despite an initially muted reaction to an uncontroversial strategy presentation it posted in the morning. The falls coincided with a 2pm sit-down Q&A theme parks boss Clark Kirby held for two dozen of the company's large holders and analysts. For many, it their first substantive interaction with the executive. Combining the share price reaction with our other sources of intelligence suggests he didn't exactly impress. Kirby is the presumptive CEO, anointed by outgoing chief Graham Burkeas his "preferred candidate" when he announced his own retirement after 30 years in February (Burke was absent from the investor day). Kirby is also the son of the company's chairman Robert Kirby, and grandson of its late founder Roscoe. For Village Roadshow – a company that discloses its purchases of bikinis from Burke's daughter Lisa and decorates its offices with artwork rented on company dime from the Kirby family – this is more or less par for the course. Village Roadshow heir Clark Kirby's first major investor briefing was accompanied by a 9 per cent share price plunge. AFR But the company – 42 per cent owned by the Kirby family and its allies – still saw fit to hire top-tier recruiters Egon Zehnder to conduct an extensive if probably redundant CEO search. Asked how much the company was paying, the response given to investors on Friday was that "Egon Zehnder doesn't come cheap". Well, of course they don't. And neither do the stretch white limousines the company hired to ferry said investors around. If any were unsure why the company spends so much on corporate overhead, now they know!

Now that won't create a bright spark.

Now I must admit AlexB makes a very powerpoint message when it comes to this topic. Time to up the charge on this topic?.

Watt is going on with everyone still. It is like everyone is all charged up and cannot figure out how to discharge this topic.

These where taken around 31-5-2019