Brad2912

Yeah credit where it's due, I've had some great staff interactions in recent times at DW, and on two occasions have been impressed to the point of messaging them on FB to commend the staff member, and I haven't done that ever after a visit to a VTP park. I guess my comment about having something extra to offer at DW was more In relation to those people who don't have both sets of annual passes at the same time. I have had both for the past 5 or so years, but know financially come July I won't have the upfront costs for 3 new DW passes. I wouldn't have back in December either so I am benefiting and thankful for my extra 6 months of access! I'm certainly not lost to DW, I love the park, and it's my most visited park given it offers the most for my son, but with the hyper coming, and the novelty value of the Cubs which my son will like, it's a no brainer for me on whether I continue with my VTP membership or renew with DW. I believe a lot of people who are making or will soon be making the decision on which pass the purchase for their family, will be making a similar decision, and I see that as an opportunity for DW to try and work on

All I know if they need something, and Stage 2 of TI isn't nearly enough. Dont forget a heap (maybe 50% of more) of their pass holders are currently running on 'free' time due to the 6 month extension we received. In 8 weeks time, all those passes will expire and without some sort of strategy for the future, a lot (myself included) won't be renewing straight away...

So I guess now it's over to DW... they are still in 'recovery mode' and will be for a while longer. their two major competitions will have large attraction pullers coming in September in terms of both thrills and animal offerings. Will DW sit on their hands? Or will they announce something of their own? It's too late for a ride instalment unless it's been already contracted and stayed on the down low. So what will they do to arrest some visitor numbers from VTP?? "Don't worry about the country's best Coaster and the polar bears Cubs, come to DW, we have jelly beans and breakfast from 9am" won't cut it....

Great news for SW today with the birth of 2 polar bear Cubs. Will no doubt be a big draw card in a couple of months when they go on show to the public

Loving the new turfed area at DW Perfect for picnics

Probably miscalculated how many maps they'd go through before the changeover, ran out of the old ones so had no choice but to roll out the new ones.

That's not a Supergirl cape (she wears a red cape) it's just a hot pink (not magenta) cape with a superman logo on it.. and if it's a hint, it is only pure coincidence, the marketing department have shown themselves to have no ability to create hype or build up. We'll get all the info we need in one big press dump whenever they get around to it

Stupid timing if true if you're going to relaunch it, do it as we are coming into the warmer months. September school holidays maybe (so there is some attraction for people to come to the park when MW opens the hyper and everyone heads there). It may not get 'cold' cold on the GC in winter, but it still gets to the "I don't wanna be walking around dripping wet in this cool brisk breeze" cold.

Not many people would buy an annual pass when Day passes are $25/$35. 10+ visits to get your money's worth? A lot of people may not commit to 10 visits a year, so will take their chance with day passes, even locals. I remember when the VTP annual pass was $250, and I was happy to pay that, but I wouldn't have if day passes were only $35.

He printed it out too but the dog ate it

As Pin said, the majority of JB's have sold white goods, vacuums, kitchen appliances for years now. There is zero point of difference between them and the good guys

Can't see any reason why the ACCC would have much of an issue. They had no issue with JB Hifi acquiring The Good Guys and owning 80%+ of the electronics market

Probably trying to stay on track with all these damn public holidays in the last few weeks with another on Monday

They'll only be working mon-Fri I believe unless it gets closer to the opening date and they are running behind

It only has two wheels, they sold the other two for petrol money...

He forgot to mention he travels by ride-on mower...

Was more a cultural centre/precinct than a theme park..

You'll talk yourself into a job with VTP if you keep making so much sense...

Re the 2 points above... Westworld might be HBO's most popular series, but it's also in its infancy. In Australia it was only available on subscription tv, it's not on free to air, nor on any of Netflix/Stan etc. Until it gets a wider audience in Australia is a useless property to base a new area on WWF was never 'themed' to the Wild Wild West movie. The queue house played rotating scenes and the theme song and they had a giant poster for the movie in the area, but the physical ride itself as no ties to the film, portrays no scenes from the film. It's a generic western Coaster.

@wikiverse why would they re-build storage facilities to function in the same manner the repurposed sound staged were adequately doing? Why not just build a new maze/multipurpose area? Oh that's right, they just did that a year ago. also, it's not about the 1 month that FN runs that makes the stages unavailable to production, it's the prior 2-3 months whilst the maze sets are built, and the month after whilst it's pulled apart, case in point the Dodgems area that is closed 4-5 months of the year purely for the use of 8 nights of fright nights..

@wikiverse on the subject of Studio usage.. there is no access to the studios anytime soon... Aquaman has the entire studios locked down until the back end of the year, at which point the studios are then closed down in prep for the commonwealth games that are utilising a couple of sound stages, so no production can happen during that period. From what I've heard, Disney was super impressed by the capabilities, ease of production and financial benefits of filming on the coast, its safe to say the days of sound stages sitting dormant for half a year are over, I doubt we'll ever see a FN maze in that location again.

Guess we will find out on May 2 (given May 1 is another public holiday here)

I enjoy Ricks and Billabong. I'd love to see some seasonal adjustments to menu's (they've both offered the exact same dishes for the last 12 months). But they are good value, often have kids eat free, and desserts. Tiger Island has zero seating 6 months ago, and I've never seen it more than 50% full since re-opening, must have been crazy busy on your visit but no extra seating is part of stage 2 to my awareness. Hard to disagree with much else!

Look, for all of us who (where possible) will be there with bells on in the first days of operation, the botched marketing will be forgotten the minute the harness is locked in and we start to roll. My concern is for the missed opportunity for the market outside of us, and locals who already have VIP passes. Nothing short of a sharp increase in visitation and pass sales will justify the expenditure that has gone into this project, and I don't see VTP as having helped themselves in this scenario

99.9% of people in Australia would have zero clue of a single ride in China, who Mack Rides is, or that there is Flash Coaster somewhere else. 99.9% of people in Australia also have f**k all idea the best ride in the history of the country is being built either...