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Wow heaven forbid they ruin an ATM location.

I was going through all.the rides at Village and aside from a few needing a paint, most of them are decent enough. Then you look at DW and really the only ride that couldn't use some effort thrown at it is Claw and DreamWorks stuff. Log Ride would be my first pick, new logs which can allow the removal of the cages, re-introduction of a cave (a 'Rocky Hollow' as it were). For low hanging fruit, the train. Bring back the steam train, close Billabong station, and dont needlessly stop the train at the top of the hill for 10mins every lap.

The problem with a well themed superman queue is that train stations aren't pleasant places to be, so you can have the best themeing in the world, it'll still feel like you're somewhere you don't want to be. "Let's make the Superman queue more realistic, let's add the deep urine smell that train stations have!' Buzzsaw's original queue was car parts in an old hot crampt shed. Actually juat thinking about it, the queues at DW are all pretty ordinary. Rocky Hollow's queue has a bit of charm to it is really all that can be said. The best queue in DW is probably Pandamonium, based purely off the fact that despite having little to no themeing, it does provide good views of the ride you're about to go on and it's not as slow as something like tailspin. With MW I think most of the rides except Superman have decent enough queues. Even Green Lantern, as phoned in and in the sun as it is has the good views of the ride thing that Pandamonium has.

Who honestly thinks Superman's queue is well themed though? It's a square room with a couple signs. Wild West's queue is probably the Gold Standard in Australia. The attraction was called 'Movie Classics & Gremlins' (or something like that, doesn't really matter). Given the preshow was part of the name of the ride I would argue it's part of it.

Pre-shows for the sake of pre-shows are awful. I don't know why anyone would think what they've done on SV is good. It doesn't set up a scene or a story. It's just stuff on a screen. How about this, instead of queuing outside in switchbacks, you queue inside in a climate controlled room and watch content that's vaugely distracting and leave the switchbacks as an overflow option. The front of the queue could just be at the bottom of the stairs. There, I've just fixed 70% of what's wrong with SV's preshow set up in one go.

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For some reason, in both versions of the artwork, Vortex looks like it's a ride that lives at a resort rather than a theme park. 🤔 Other than that, the location is still horrible, Vortex is still an abstract name rather something that adds to an actual Atlantian theme, and the ride seems like it was selected purely as an 'F you' to DW rather than based off being a good fit for the park. Is there anything else to really say?

None because they'll be asleep by the time that part of the ad comes on.

It looks like a video they play to new staff on their first day rather than something that makes me want to go spend a day at a theme park.

What's good about it?

TBH I'd take complaining over shaded seating area jokes.

There's a poll option missing: Do you care? Answer is a firm no.

Just on that the bloke from MACK needs to stop saying 'Free spinning'. We're also assuming that this ride gets them back to an attendance level where queues and capacity are a problem. I don't think it will. I think attendance will be noticeably up, but it alone won't get them to preaccident levels. Between that and the fact the spinning car has 4 seats, it should end up being a lot cheaper than backwards Rivals.

Parkz is really going out on a limb with this stuff isn't it? Fair point you know, no one has really said anything about the spinning car. I'll be keen to give it a go, no idea what it'll be like so curious about it. At the rate I'm going I'll probably end up doing spinning car before I do backwards Rivals.

Thing is what are you going to get from Proslide? Another funnel/whirlpool thing or one of those crappy slides where the turns are a disk? WWW sort of feels like visiting a Proslide catalogue from the early 2010s. I think some generic body slides that aren't big headliners will actually do really good things in terms of balancing the park out. Everything in WWW feels like it's meant to be a headline, even Temple of Huey is on the high end of small water slides. I think having smaller slides that are just solid fun is a good move. The other thing is normally a body slide isn't that interesting but given there are 6 of them you kind of get that critical mass for it to be something that works as a drawcard, you know more than the sum of their parts. It's the same thing as how adding a new kiddie Ferris wheel isn't going to increase attendance, but adding 6 new kiddie rides all together will. I've said in other threads that WWW needs 'Literally any new slide'. This is surprisingly spot on, and while the reasons for buying what they have might turn out to be price or lead times rather than whats the best slide for the park, I actually think what they've gone with might work out better than something like a Proslide wave thing. It's fun and basic with the critical mass to make it a thing.

There isn't anything wrong with a Facebook post which says 'Tom & Jerry are at Movie World from the school holidays. Hell Facebook is exactly the correct level to pitch that at. The problem is that even in presentations to the share market they talk about it like it's a big deal when it's really a total nothing.

^ I don't think the video is legally binding

Meanwhile unverified sauces have been tomato.

RE Parkz sources: We're legit up to about 4 completely different and independent sources at this point.

Not totally sure, but some rides require power for restraints to be unlocked. I'd asumme that would be a power pack so the restraints can be manually unlocked out of the station.

Parkz has been saying for a while that it's not got long left. It looks a lot to me like it's being nursed through so they can make the inevitable closing date as far off as they can. I've said it before, announce the date it's going to close so peiple can visit and have their last rides, and announce that on closing day plans for the future will be announced. Announce new coaster, point out that new coaster has a feature which renders tot2 obsolete, and start building hype for the future.

He's equally likely to have had a hand in this nice run of weather we've been having.

That run out pool is going to.be pure mayhem on a busy day. Love that one of the slides comes in at a 90degree angle to the rest

Nothing wrong with being lazy. As a design though it looks kinda stupid. Much as I'm not a fan of Supertubes, why not just that but starting at ground level without the need for the big coaster arms of death thing?

Findings come out later in the year.