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Now it says the price rise is coming Dec 10th, nothing like false urgency to drum up sales. Edit - probably should have read the first page...

Couldn't see it mentioned elsewhere, but in an email I received today trying to get me to renew, it mentions the Locals One Pass is getting a price rise on 11 November 2024. Gotta pay for the new Oz expansion somehow I guess.

Mods are MIA too.

Tarzan is public domain.

All I see is a post about WhiteWater World closing after this weekend and a story about the lolly shop. What am I missing?

They could make one now based on the books.

Depends if they still want to attract the Chinese tour groups.

source: ABC News

Who could have seen this coming... https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-22/sunshine-coast-water-park-surf-pool-administration/103255338

Because they’re cashed up after selling Main Event.

It does.

I can only think of Cyborg.

Greg Yong posted some footage of it singing. Best animatronic on the GC?

So RRRC is an adult ride but not Justice League? Got it.

What was wrong with Justice League?

A $333 million hotel development at Movie World next to the Gold Coast’s film studios is recommended for approval by council officers. Councillors at a planning committee meeting on Thursday will vote on the project with officers in a report backing the plans by Village Roadshow Theme Parks. The 22-storey, 600 room hotel will feature a “panoramic sky deck”, infinity pool, bar and restaurants on its 21st level. Council received 22 objections with residents concerned about building height and scale, the impact on traffic and localised flooding. Four other submitters wrote of their support. The mega development on the theme park’s existing car park, fronting Entertainment Road at Oxenford, will include stand-alone entertainment and function facilities. “The development footprint is located primarily within existing carparking areas, which are proposed to be modified to accommodate the proposal,” officers said. “Additional carparking spaces and internal road networks are proposed to service the development as well as Movie World.” Planning officers after a detailed assessment found: • the building height and scale will directly support and enhance the city’s tourism and film making industries by providing for a modern, large scale short-term accommodation and function facility within a major tourism and film studio precinct. • approving the height would not spark adverse development due to the unique nature and location of the subject site. • the building is located centrally within the site, significantly setback from property boundaries and adjoining uses, to reduce any visual impacts and any direct amenity concerns. • the development provides for an excellent standard of architectural design. The development application was impact assessable because the proposed 79m building height exceeds the level identified on an overlay map of 27m. Officers reviewed potential traffic impacts from the development on the busy surrounding road network. Residents have warned the hotel will “choke Oxenford traffic even worse than Exit 57 M1 traffic does now”. But officers believe there will not be any adverse impacts due to the short-term accommodation check in and check out times. Functions would be staged outside of existing peak hour traffic periods of weekday mornings and afternoons, they said. A nine-storey development was approved for the site but an increase was sought “to better serve the current and growing needs of Gold Coast’s tourism sector”. “The proposed development directly supports and enhances the Village Roadshow site and its three major theme parks and attractions — Movie World, Wet’n’Wild and Outback Spectacular,” officers said. The hotel would deliver an integrated and consolidated tourism node in the theme park precinct in the north of the Coast. It also would serve as a much needed accommodation option for the film studios, including travelling staff and crew to further boost the city’s movie industry.

Very late to the party, first ride today. Impressions the same as the consensus so won’t go over old ground, but I did notice the frame rate on the screens was struggling on my second go. There’s an A-Frame sign near the entry to Atlantis advising of an alternate path to Leviathan, but it neglects to mention the main entry is currently a dead end, so the alternate path is actually the only path.

On this point, annual passes are recognised on a straight line basis over the 12 month validity period. So they will have little impact to earnings this financial year. It will make cash look better, but there will be a near-corresponding unearned revenue liability.

Better answer than “our T&Cs changed”.

Seems to be a $30 discount (renewal price) on the Locals One Pass via the link. https://themeparks.com.au/Membership-updates

Apparently this is open now, anyone checked out what the benefits are?

Source: https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/gold-coast/sea-world-helicopter-collision-serious-incident-on-broadwater-near-theme-park/news-story/8310cdd6954c701887427d191a7d26b5

VR and WB haven’t exactly been on friendly terms lately. https://deadline.com/2022/05/warner-bros-slapped-by-village-roadshow-suit-matrix-streaming-1234927842/amp/

Maybe the big park in the sky, otherwise only speculation/wishful thinking.

I assume it's the big round white thing on the top right.