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They shouldn't go and rip out a production worthy auditorium like that for a ride. They should put money back into decent shows and reopen the show stage as it was intended and finally do something decent with the HSD area. This is what the park really needs. Somewhere to soak up 1000+ people a few times a day. Allows guests to get out of the sun and cool off in the air conditioning during the hottest part of the day. The amount of money spent on set and theming in those calibre of a ride exceeds the full budget village have ever had available for an entire ride. Can they do a lot better? hell yes. But you have to be realistic. You aren't going to see hundred million dollar expenditure. They just don't have the turnover to match.

I reckon i'ts really aimed more at people booking functions at the park than it is for day guests. Opens them up to being able to offer bigger packages, book your 500 seat catered function and your guests can stay in the hotel sort of deals. Can't see it being themed or pretty much anything other than corporate hotel. Not saying it can't be used for day guests, but there is literally nothing they can package together at the moment that doesn't include transporting people to seaworld resort. Given movie world actually has bigger conference/function facilities than seaworld resort (about double), it's a massive amount of money going out the door.

Not exactly a maintenance item, but it looks like village are planning to contract out their games to an external company. I wonder if that means both parks will see some upgrades/new games. Games Operators (multiple positions) Job in Main Beach, Gold Coast QLD - SEEK Homepage | HB Leisure

You know DJPower is TOPCAT right?

It's like saying a piece of glass can start a fire. They are considered safe for indoor use, especially in a commercial setting if you follow the hazard warnings. If you take one, load it with the biggest granules it can use and direct it at a flammable source, you are asking for trouble. The sparks are still generated at over 600 degrees celsius, so shoot enough of them at a close flammable source and they will likely set fire to it. What makes them "safe" compared to other traditional pyrofx is not if they can set fire to things, but that they have no fuel source, or stored potential energy source. The powder is not flammable, there is no accelerant or oxidiser that will fuel flames. This is the big difference. Especially when Joe average purchases one for $12 from china without training or a licence. You can follow the instructions, understand the hazard warnings, and you aren't going to set fire to your neighbourhood.

It's a reimaged scene based on an old movie called The Treasure of Sierra Madre. It's made it into a bunch of different movies/pop culture since it was released in the 40's. The bandits at the top are actually saying; Badges?! we don't need no stinking badges!! You don't belong here. Now, give us your gold.

Forgot to say, the problem with spark machines is they are all designed with time intervals based on the size/type of granules you are using. How they work is, refill pouches come with NFC tags (in a card) you swipe on the machine when you fill it from a pouch each time. It sets the run time on the machine automatically and will ONLY run for this interval, regardless of how much powder is left in the machine. This means once the time limit is over, the machine switches off and won't run until a new swipe card is used. The cards are one use only, the data is erased on the tag rendering it useless when it is used, so you can't just keep swiping it on. What you have to do is open the machine, remove the remaining unused powder, refill, then swipe on a new card for another run (say for example, 15 mins). It's not just a form of safety control, but its also a design restraint as the powder needs to be kept dry as it will absorb moisture and clump together and block the machine, causing issues. So you can't just fill the machine with a days worth of powder, connect it to a DMX channel and have your show control run it all day. It's why you don't really see them in continuous use/settings.

I love how disney have created their fire/fuse effects starting with a real simple led flame flicker combined with high quality led chasers for the fuses. Shows that it doesn't have to be high tech to look good, you just need to use quality components to start with and MAINTAIN them. They must have entire departments just devoted to repairing/maintaining all the effects they use in their theming. Coldfx aren't all crap now. The technology (and powders) has gotten a lot better and there is nowhere near the residue they used to produce for the volume of sparks. Especially if you are only triggering it in bursts. When you combine them with foggers you can get a pretty decent flame effect too. You could replicate the old spark effect with a spark fall machine. Same effect but directs the sparks down instead of upwards so you can hang them. Personally, I think a few jets up the lift would be better placed. They produce their own cannon/explosion sound when they go off, it's not excessive, but it would be a nice sound effect in an otherwise already noisy lift building anyway. Another cool machine DJpower have is a hybrid fog that combines it with a Co2 jet, so you can actually cannon smoke/fog effects (especially for short intervals) instead of it looking like a spray that builds in volume like normal fog/smokers. You get the blast/range of the Co2 machines, but the volume of smoke/fog machines. Those smoke effects in thunder mountain rail road are Co2 cannons for example. Hybrid ones allow the same density/volume of smoke, but use a lot less Co2.

Awww. Nobody mentioned the sparks effect when going up the second lift. Check it out from 4:32. If anything is worthy of being repaired/restored, it's that. Made sense with the whole, fuses burning, fizzles, sparks, mine is going to explode, get out kind of deal that's happening on the second lift.

100%. The queue line could have formed away from the entrance to the kids area and the exit could have been on the opposite side towards carousel, splash zone, etc so guests can walk either side of the attraction without issue. It certainly wouldn't be any worse than what happens when characters were there for photo ops. Cuts off part of the entrance into the area and blocks off access to the pathway to the train. Would have given a great view over the whole area for sure. You really want that type of ride as central as possible, away from walls, buildings, etc as its kind of boring for kids to look at, plus you really don't want your guests looking at what is going on in back of house areas. To be honest, it was never probably in the cards but the whole kids area probably needed a redesign to fix access/make better use of available space. Some rides could go, others could be relocated and the converted parents retreat/timeout demolished with a new toilet block being built somewhere in the area that offers proper change areas/room.

You really wouldn't want to put it where the old ride was. 2/3 of the view would be looking at back of house and the driving school roof. Ideal spot would have been where the big tree and stage is. But it would be a huge shame to have removed the tree, so Im glad that hasn't happened.

It's not just a generator that has been added. It looks like they poured more concrete in the area and there is now a new/different lift motor in place. Anyone visiting over the next week and can take a photo? It's pretty huge. can't miss it. Id 100% say it is an upgrade, new lift drive and backup generator to be able to run the lift and send any cars over into the brake zone. Much safer to evac people from there, especially when the stairs go in. Also, @Ashley I always new where they moved some of the grave stones from. That wasn't the point (and its only actually just an imitation of it's former self that had sound effects and animated stones).

Exactly. Which means if the OP wants to talk about maintaining proper park layout, boot hill needs to go and doomsday should be in its place.

You guys are showing your age. Where was boot hill located? what is currently in it's place?

I love how you aren't even getting the slightest discount on tickets when it's bundled with a yearly pass. A side note, looks like everything has increased dramatically. White Christmas is $79 too.

That's just a boom lift. The cranes aren't there anymore but the carpark has a big area closed off again, so looks like something else might be happening at the end of this week.

Picked out arkham in the kids driving school but didnt mention boot hill cemetary or doomsday?

Better solution than a complex system in a really difficult place to access..... Don't operate in adverse weather.

Yeah. Rip it off. Don't contact the manufacturer and use their advice and expertise in developing a plan or anything. Just wing it.

If a couple of them were shut because of unexpected issues like the past week with DC rivals, Scooby Doo and Superman, yeah. If you were holidaying for a week or so and you found out the hard way (closures once you were in the park), it might take the sting out of it if you could return again. Other thing is it's exactly that busy during the holidays, people only getting the chance to visit maybe 3 rides in a day. Cheap return pass might take some of that pressure off and allow the people complaining the ticket price is way too expensive for what they were able to ride to get a second chance at riding what they missed out on. These have always worked at aussie parks when available. Especially when the yearly passes were closer to $300 where they should be. Hell, more people might be enticed to go as for a number of people a casual visit once every few years is about all they manage, so yearly passes aren't even thought about. Id even say it would be worth looking at the cost and seeing if it could be transferred to other parks so you could split the visit between say movieworld and seaworld, or seaworld and wet n wild or something. Goes double for lots of seniors who would love to take their grand kids (who have passes) to the parks, but have zero interest in going on any rides, they are just there to supervise and pay for everything else, yet they don't have discounted entry available, so it puts them off visiting. Only make the return able to be purchased with a full fare to avoid multiple return passes being purchased so you don't collapse your 3 day pass ticket.

An alternative they could look at maybe bringing back is the readmission ticket like all the parks have done at one stage. You know the one you can buy a second return ticket for like $10 and have a month to use it or something. Useless for locals with passes, but out of state people buying day tickets might be happy being able to return for very little if things didn't go as planned/happy with the day they visited/want to come back again.

If it didnt make the loop i dont think it could be towed, so the latter I guess.

How about starting by building a set of stairs and viewing platform to check the lift drive from underneath that incorporates a fall protection system consisting of a safety line, fall restraint lanyards that limit the amount of movement away from the railing, and make ANYONE that is on the lift wear a harness? Also, a safe motorised platform like that would be perfect for inspecting the lift. One of the first components of risk assessments is removing the risk. You don't have your workers climbing out over the track every day, because sure enough, at some point someone is going to slip. People don't seem to realise having a harness and protection system in place is designed to save your life from a fall. It's not designed to prevent you from suffering any injury. You can hit things, get trapped, still fall unconscious, even be hanging from your harness and require rescue (which is actually life threatening in itself). You understand how gravity works right? how do people die from falling down vastly smaller stair cases in their house? Ivana Trump Died of Blunt Force Injuries After Falling Down Stairs - Bloomberg ‘Hard-working’ builder, 21, died after falling down flight of stairs following night out to celebrate pay rise | NationalWorld