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I think the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ride ship has sailed. It might have been a decent enough idea when it was a new movie, but the movie came out in 2005. Really, what I'm saying is why make a ride whose subject matter is already out of date? That's not even going into the "would a CATCF ride would even suit being in Looney Tunes Village" thing. Besides, Looney Tunes River Ride is, despite its age, one of the most solid attractions anywhere. OK its not thrilling, but its not meant to be. It gets pretty healthy queues, has a good capacity, and is pretty reliable. I'm not totally against changing the ride one day, but its not as if it urgently needs to be changed, and so don't think now is the time to change River Ride. Also, lets assume that people who come to MW want to actually park their cars near the park and not screw around with shuttles.

Ok thats one pretty cool looking ride ever. One question though, what sort of hourly counts does the splash battle get?

I'm with Gazza and GoGoBoy on this one (bout time we all agreed again ). I don't think when attendance is up and you have a new attraction it is the right time to offer a cheap pass. If people are going to visit, its when you have a new attraction, and MW have 3 good new attractions within the past year and a half. Now is not the time when you give the gate away.

I don't recall quoting you. I do recall pointing out why an EE style (train type, scale) ride would not work on Eureka's site. I don't see how that means I quoted/misquoted you.

Gazza: The ride you've linked to is just another Wild Mouse, but with banked turns. I don't think most people would notice the difference between the "Old" and "New" Eureka. If its going to be so similar, a MACK e-motion coaster might be better, since the cars tilt around the corners. Throw in a vertical lift themed to a mine shaft, and you've got the ride that Eureka always wanted to be What it comes down to for me though, is if your thinking of taking the mountain down to put the replacement ride in, it has to be more different then just another mouse. And everyone, enough with this Expedition Everest talk. Puting a train on the track instead of a single car would require it to either be trimmed to all crawl for the entire ride, or every turn would need to have a wide radius, and there isn't really room for wide turns on the Eureka site.

The main reason I like the Eurofighter as a possible ride replacemant to Eureka is that its a small footprint kind of ride, and thats whats going to be needed. Remember, Eureka (footprint wise) is a tiny ride, and if anything replaces it, it'd have to be pretty small. Besides, just because other Eurofighters have inversions, doesn't mean a DW ride would have to as well. If Eureka has proven nothing, tight turns through tunnels are pretty thrilling in their own right. Besides, you know me and how much I like to talk about capacity; most custom Eurofighters have an estimated capacity of 800-1000. Yummy!

If Eureka gets the chop, then my money is with Gazza's idea: A themed Eurofighter. Have the past 90degrees drop outside, everything else inside the Mountain, and I suspect you'd have a real winner on your hands. Plus the rides themselves are pretty cheap, at only $5million with no themeing. At that price you could probably gut the Mountain, install the new ride and have it looking nice for around the same price of Scooby.

Hey, I can totally understand where GoGoboy, Gazza & Co. are coming from, and they are making some very valid points. To be honest, I'm kinda coming around to what they're saying, but I still don't have a problem with the way the ride has been themed. It's well presented, has gardens, the control room looks decent enough, and there are little spikes here and there, the various movie props, and it all works well together. True there could be more of a "Backdrop" to the ride, and Gazza's sketch would look pretty cool if actually built, but like I said, it looks fine as is to me. Is there room for improvement? Sure, but that's the same with every ride though. I mean Scooby could have a proper ceiling, Wild West could have the back of the mountain done, Sherek's preshow could make sense, Superman could have a decent dark ride element. So sure, you can make it better, but it fine and 'works' as is (with the possible exception of the side of Batman Adventure).

I know I sound like a fan boy, but I'm really just glad they didn't got to overboard on the scenery with the ride. I really don't think these types of rides lend themselves to being themed all that well, so I'm glad they just kept it simple and looking nice. I'm pretty sure I said something to that effect when the ride was under construction; just keep it simple and well presented, and make it easy to reride. It would appear they did this, so I voted that they did enough. Having said that, I would LOVE to see something done to the side of the Batman Adventure building, those studio style buildings are sooo ugly.

I think if DW gets into competition against MW, then it really will have lost its way. IMHO, the reason DW is doing so well right now is because new rides were added no matter what the competition was doing. DW was for a time, adding attractions like the skys the limit, which given the constant increase in attendance, seems like the way to go. WVTPs on the other hand, was growing SW and MW alternatly, so at any one time, one park would be getting 1.4mill, and the other would be giving away the gate at half price. If DW kept doing what they were doing, I suspect they would be looking at cracking the magic 2mill vistors a year in not much more then 10 years. They were looking red hot, but in the last couple of years have really let themselves go, and I don't think the reputation will save them if they go another year or two without something big. MW on the other hand is giving itself a really good reputation, by adding quality ride after quality ride and running them well. Now Village has outright control of the parks, they are starting to be the company acting like the skys the limit and growing all their parks at the same time and making them more profitable. Still, to say DW hasn't done much in 25 years is a laugh. I challenge you to go to DW and only go on the rides or attractions they opened with. They haven't closed that many rides since they opened and nearly everything that makes the park good was added after opening. Ok, thats true of everypark on the Coast, it does prove how much better they were.

Easiest way is to send a resume, either via e-mail or regular mail, to the theme park company your wanting to work for. WVTPs at least do their own hiring, so you've got to deal directly with them, either by mail, e-mail or in person. If you want to know if they're jobs going, check www.seek.com.au for latest listings.

You do realise that Thunderbolt was crap (and damn rusty at that) and both it and the Skylink had low ridership and (most likely) cost heaps to insure? Seriously, the park is better having removed both of those attractions, Thunderbolt particularly. The Mine Ride is probably the best of the rides to be removed, if that is in fact what's going on here It probably had its fair share of complaints for its roughness, which I thought were unfounded since I know I loved the ride, but I also know many who won't ride it again, and I can imagine the clearance issues wouldn't have been cheap to insure against either. If a bigger issue has arisen, then removal from the park really isn't that surprising. Its a shame though, I can't imagine a plot of land that size would be easy to use for something different, at least not anything nearly as good. Interestingly though, the ride is still listed on the park's website, again though it comes with a note that seemingly brings attention to the fact that its a potentially dangerous ride: .

Wouldn't be the first time a Warner bros. license was used at SW. Happy Feet probably would be quite a good fit, though it does rasies quite a good question: Should a theme park attraction based around a sea themed movie be at Seaworld or Movieworld? I suspect we may never know

Happy Feet as a ride? Even though its a blockbuster I don't think it lends itself to a ride very well. It would be pretty easy to turn into a stage show given all the singing and dancing in the movie, or maybe even a good 3D movie, but not a ride.

At MW its a bit of both; you are issued the black pants and coloured shirt (your choice of colour), and some ride specific unforms (I believe the module attendant uniform on Batride is a take home). Loader and Unloader on Looney Tunes, some of the Bat ride uniforms and pretty much anything else that isn't a coloured shirt over black pants have to picked up on the day from Wardrobe. The only one's I'm not sure about though are Lethal and Wild West, where staff have to provide their own jeans, can't recall what the story with the shirts is though. As a side note, Bermuda has a take home uniform. DW still does have some specific uniforms though don't they?

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All rides are different, though generally it goes like this: 1. Make sure that Maintenance have already checked the ride and indicated that its working. 2. Do a check to make sure that it is indeed working properly 3. Admit guests, checking for things like height requirements, injuries, and making sure guests are wearing footwear. 4. Make sure guests are seated correctly ("Sir you may want to sit UNDER that restraint. Just a suggestion though" ) then check any restraints that need checking. 5. Check that the ride area is clear of guests, entry gates are closed, and dispatch. 6. Watch ride, make sure that everyone is behaving themselves, and that the ride area is staying clear. 7. When ride cycle stops, unload guests. Repeat steps 2 through 7 till you think you'll go insane. 8. Go on a break, or (if its the right time of day) turn off ride, go home. Forget preceding day with a few beers. There's not much too it, which is probably one of the main drawbacks; its not the most mentally stimulating job out there. There are perks to the job (free theme park tickets mostly, plus a few others that local pubs kick in), but for the most part, its a good lifestyle. Its not the sort of job you have to "take home" with you, in that even the most stressful busy day can be left at work and you don't go home stressed. Its also a pretty social sort of job, generally speaking the crews are young and almost always the people are cool to hang out with.

Which ONE? WnW, easily. Ok, so BRO is an aqua racer with a helix and the Green room is the Tornado with an extra half helix. I'm sure with the Tornado it doesn't make much difference given that both are probably designed to drop riders into the funnel at the same speed. BRO has the helix over aqua racer, but aqua racer does have the timers which really make that ride what it is. Pro's and Con's on both sides. That leaves the Rip and Hydro coaster on the WWW side as rides with no WnW Equivalent. Now even by all accounts they are both good rides, on the WnW side there's still all the speed slides (3 total), black hole and terror canyons (4 slides), Mammoth Falls (2 slides, even if they are the same), Calypso Beach, White Water Mountain (4 more slides) and twister with no WWW equivalent. If you've only got the chance to visit one, go to WnW, its by far the better park, and extended trading means your assured to get a ride on everything even if you don't rock up till 5pm. On the other hand, if you've already been to WnW before, give WWW a try, its something new and different.

My favorite part of the dog ads is the tiny line of text at the bottom of the screen that says "No dogs allowed, except those shown in this commercial". The story starts to unravel I'm with GoGoBoy, more combo ads, Whitewater World is at its strongest when Dreamworld is involved.

Well for those playing along at home, Seaworld's first major ride in over 11 years is now open!

OK guys, here's the long and short of it. If you do misbehave on rides, wet or dry, one of three things will happen: 1. You'll get away with it, nothing will happen. If you happen to achieve this result, then thank you're lucky stars that your able to tell your friends about your idiotic behavior. 2. You will be caught, and evicted from the park, without refund. 3. You will be injured, and possibly killed as a result of acting like an idiot. One such story is easily found on Ride Accidents, and should serve as a reminder of the dangers of breaking park rules: I recommend that site for anyone who is thinking about breaking park rules. More quick highlights reveal: We here at roller-coaster.com.au take violating park rules seriously, and in no way encourage others to break the rules, they are there for your safety after all. This one isn't up for debate, breaking rules and misbehaving is simply not on. Closed.

Village steps up with Happy Feet (Source Gold Coast Bulletin. Ok, my thoughts on this are quite involved, so proceed past this point with caution; I'm pretty sure that if you look through some old posts on this site, your bound to come up with some anti Village Roadshow sentiment. Hell, a couple of years ago it wasn't just on this site, it was everywhere, Village seemed as if it completely lost the plot on everything they'd been doing. Well, in the last month or so they have come out and highlighted just what went wrong with the cinema operation expansion. Basically, in many markets there weren't many screens, and Village (like others) figured that if you increase the number of screens you would increase the number of cinema goers. Sadly that idea pretty much bombed everywhere (Australia, Greece and Singapore are listed as exceptions) and instead of growing the number of customers in these new markets, it was just same critical mass divided over more screens. The company sustained substantial losses on its cinema operation division. That was a couple of years ago, and things as they stand now have progressed quite a way; the company sold off its under performing cinema's, and re-structured many of their own divisions, and most recently, bought out Warner and Nara's share of the theme park business, and now have 100% control there, and for a change, have what look like a string of hits. Even better then the Gold Coast Bulletin claims, according to the USA Today dated December 6, Happy Feet has topped the US box office for the third consecutive week, and has now netted more then US$140million. Where is this all going you ask? Well since buying out Warner's share of the theme parks, Village have really been doing a good job on the Gold Coast. The number of shows at AOS is going to 2 a night over Xmas, there are night events at MW and SW, as well as different events for WnW besides the Dive in Movies, and even the ticketing has been improved since Village's rule. Add to that the different new attractions opening this year, and various improvements in the way the parks are run behind the scenes, then its hard not to get excited about the way the Gold Coast parks will go in the future. But there's a catch, Village is now looking at expanding its theme parks business into Europe and possibly Singapore. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't expanding one of the businesses overseas exactly what got them into trouble in the first place? I don't doubt they are a better theme park company then they received credit for, and the positive changes in the past few months are testament to that, but given the poor performance of the cinema expansion overseas, will a theme park expansion overseas net the same results? All I'm saying, is that if they do expand into Singapore and Greece (two of the sites indicated by the company, which also happen to be where they had the most success with the cinema expansion) they had want to know what they're doing.

The building is used by the "Looney Tunes Musical Revue", and since there was no mention of the stage show on the map, many guests had difficulty finding it, even with directions.

I don't think it really needs an extra tower, so long as you can keep cycles short that queue should move relativly quickly. Besides, on a double tower the the view sucks on half the seats.

Alright kids, chill out. DW_rulz, no need to jump down his throat (I mean, why do the digging for someone if you're just going to be short with them?) and there's no need for any follow up. Besides, people often read these forums to research the parks and it wouldn't surprise me one bit if someone came into this topic wondering the same thing (can APs be used for the Xmas event?) and now the answer is there, and people know that they can't. Still, for $35 (or $80 for a family of 4? Can you say bargin!) I don't think not being able to use your annual pass should be a good enough excuse for not attending.