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Do people think the State Government should be subsidising the construction of both company's coasters, as a way to stimulate both construction and tourism? Obviously if one of the companies were to hypothetically receive a large fine for some bad shit they did years ago they'd still have to pay that, but outside of that the State Government could kick in say $10million to each. Thoughts?

Twilight Zone?

Yeah cheers. It makes sense that because of how quickly they've had to rush it out that there going to be a lot of undefined terms or 1 in 10,000 cases that haven't been specifically dealt with. For example here I know someone who works for the parks but legit only works for them once every few months (if that), and as far as I know doesn't have another job.

@AlexB What does regular employment mean? That you did shifts every fortnight or that you've just been on the books for a year?

Seas the night.

I think I now know the difference between 'Precinct' and 'Themed land'. Themed land is an immersive world, precinct is non themed but with the odd decoration related to an abstract theme. I already know which one I like more, and it isn't Precinct.

I just hope he quit because he wanted to do his own thing not fleeing a sinking ship.

The problem is that I don't have enough on the sidelines right now. Webjet is rapidly approaching bargain territory, BHP and Rio are dropping like a rock. QANTAS has more than halved. These are companies that 100% will survivor, and give it 3 years they'll be back to where they were. Ardent are looking like a good speculative bet, but there's so many other sure things out there right now, and we're not even at the bottom yet!

I wouldn't be in any great rush, that's not going to come online for a few years yet and I can't see anything pushing them up in the meantime. On the upside it will be right next to a brand new train station when it does open.

Who said anything about rushing. I said worth looking at. 47 cents its still worth looking at. Also I don't think I've ever bought anything that didn't go down in value the second after I bought it. Investing is a longer game than that though. I own shares in Star Casino because I think their project in Brisbane will do good, but bugger me I'd love if more people went to the casino because the Chinese aren't and those share prices not looking good lol

Gee I dunno at 52cents I reckon its worth a look. Assuming they get through the next 2 years there's a lot of potential upside at that price. It's a pretty decent sized 'If' though.

Why would you think that? FWIW I don't really rate the all cars different colours thing going on. I get it for the theme of toy cars and it's not the absolute worst out there, but I don't really rate it. I'd be pleased if they did give the train a consistent colour scheme, but it doesn't massively matter to me.

Why would you assume that?

There's probably less people there when the park is open

As much as that's true, everything from the inquest points more to disorganization and incompetence. I think a culture of trying to not spend money which probably came from the top exacerbated the situation, but with a competent engineer employing good practices you don't get the results you get. Ultimately the people in charge didn't have a clue what they were doing. Ardent are by no means innocent, but nor are those who administered the park.

15 years what have we been doing with our lives

One of the things reading the report is jist how set up to fail the ops were. Their workload was pretty well maxed out when things were working properly, add to that a situation where there are multiple ways to respond so you have to diagnose the ride and keep it safe as well as do everything else. It wouldn't be so bad but DW knew that the ride ops were their control measure for a number of things. The chat in here is about being cheap, while I've no doubt they were, to me the whole thing seems more like pure incompetence. The engineering let the ride ops down something fierce, and it's actually really disgusting that at the start of the inquest the park's lawyers tried to blame them.

Holy shit. Nothing surprising in here but still.

Alright I feel we're all across what is happening in Movie World this month

Do you think they don't already do this?

Year round operations V Seasonal operations.

I don't know why but it's nice to hear people as cynical as members of this page can be do something enthusiast like. Warms the heart really ❤ Also MW's problem is that 3 quaters of their rides are the big rides. So close any 2 and you're probably closing 2 big ones. Superman/Rivals at the same (and probably Scooby/Wild West at the same time) is just asking for trouble. They may not care about the guest experience but they should realise it will affect their Net Promoter Score.

Not related to anything, but the S-bend and helix are the best bits of the ride. Got bored reading and wanted to chime in something

Police Academy and Gremlins and Batman all closed TO be replaced with something though. Like I'll give you Tunes because it just closed with no idea of a replacement, but if the game is just to list things that have closed, then a full list is on the database.

Good to see you're ahead of the curve with your avatar