Brad2912

Don’t have an issue with paid lockers at water parks. You don’t have an option to keep your valuables on you for parts of the day. If you don’t want to pay for lockers, bring a backpack and put everything in it and leave it on a chair with a towel over it. It’s a risk, but a small one. I’ve never had anything stolen from a backpack at a water park in my 18+ years of visiting them

I get that at $200 a pop, a large family is going to find it tough to stump up $1000+ upfront, but in saying that, that’s assuming they are not locals, and are obviously holidaying on the GC more than once a year (or else why buy an annual when shorter terms are available), so I guess if you can afford to holiday interstate 2-3 times a year, you need to factor your entertainment requirements into your holiday budgets.

Yet neither are examples of a traditional coaster. Jet Rescue is great for what it is, and Storm is an ok family-friendly water ride for summer months.

That’s my take on it...

The park is discussion was SW, which is certainly not coaster-saturated...

You can’t buy vip magic passes from VTP. They don’t exist anymore, it seems they only apply/exist to a few promotional re-sellers, and I imagine that will only be for a limited time whilst existing contacts are seen through..

Just a little Tid-bit of info that’s not really news as such... currently at the Studio Village Xmas Carols that are run in the MW overflow Carpark/grassed area, and have been held here for near on 2 decades. They just announced that this is the final year the Carols will be located here, as next year MW is expanding and the space will no longer be available. I believe this is the site earmarked for the hotel, so whether that’s going ahead or it’s a case of the Carpark expanding and this area being asphalted I’m not sure.

Depends if they take exclusive rights or allow other productions in. The studios have been basically booked solid for 3 years now, so you’d argue they couldn’t really make it any bigger unless they look to expand

Read that this Arvo too. Definitely a strange situation, but with a land sale contract stipulation that the theme park land will be retained on a 60 year lease, I don’t think it would Mean anything for MW. Quite the weird occurrence though potentially having a permanent ‘Marvel Studios’ located next to a DC-centric theme park with a Joker head laughing at all the Marvel guys down below...

Memberships no longer exist, except for those currently on them, who will retain their prices and benefits. The membership centre was for signing up new members and taking photos - so no longer necessary

Why do the operators need to see the riders If they are in a cage anyway?

That’s not been their strategy in any other holiday season, I personally don’t feel that’s the case. An annual pass whether bought today or in February still gives you access to 1 Xmas holiday period so either way the value remains the same

Wipes out too many teens (target demographix) being able to utilise if you need a card

Whilst I don’t know the official answer on that, I’d like to think there is some form of override available based on the max queue wait time on the given day.

It was a tongue in cheek comment but also laced with some truth. we’ve got a park with only one ride suited to people over the age of 7, and we’re blowing $$$ on what appears to be scenery theming. If the volcano was in the centre of the area and was functional as some sort of water spray/dump feature then it would be fine...

With you on that one @Skeeta we battled the schoolies and private school crowds (already finished school for the year) for visits this week knowing outside of a visit for White Christmas we probably won’t hit the VTP parks again until mid-late January. DW will depend on how busy it actually gets, last holidays it was still quiet

It’s pretty apparent that no, that isn’t part of their pricing strategy going forward anymore. And because of the increased visitation from locals - you have more opportunity to WOW them, get more social media check ins/photos (ie Free publicity!) and then better referral business when friends & family visit the coast! Locals are your bread & butter - tourists are you extras on top

So does my wallet.... updated: and just confirmed to be the case!

Interested to see how this impacts current Membership pass holders. Will there be a nominal increase per month? Or will they be ceased and members forced to go onto these new passes?

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It’s taken over a decade, but well done MW! Free locker hire on Superman Escape! credit to TPG for the photo

Haha... I knew someone would pull me up on this. Was also pretty sure it would be you! I used the example as it’s a colloquial saying for a useless feature

It was down for quite a while, but I’d say the last 6 or so visits over the last few months (prior to yesterday) it was working really well

The thing is it wouldn’t really even matter if they did, unless there was a failure of the primary safety system at the same time being the overhead restraints. I don’t know whether you are trying to be argumentative or a plank... there is a reason rollercoasters the world over don’t have “push incase of an emergency buttons” available to the public that release all safety systems, and it’s kinda the same reason helicopters don’t have ejector seats...

It’s easier to prevent electrical fires than prevent kids and/or idiots from pressing the ‘harness release button’ for shits and giggles