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Going next week, can’t believe I’m excited to see a pathway. And it’s not even completely done, there’s still temporary construction barriers blocking off the castle.

The mention of animatronics, & a story w/ characters & animals (‘creatures’), has me very optimistic. Really hope that it delivers.

Maybe, just maybe, a men-only event isn’t a great idea? Seems pretty obvious to me that that’d lead to a big increase in workplace harassment. Free counselling is step one, but the workers affected should at least get a hefty settlement from Jamberoo &/or ASWJ, and know that the event will by no means be held again, as well as stricter rules against similar behaviour in general (banned from the park should be the minimum). Oh, especially so when the organisation running it openly spouts [word I hesitate to say here] rhetoric like this. That isn’t even a ‘warning sign’, that’s a bright red warning barrier made of solid concrete.

That doesn’t say it’s not coming back, only that the trains reached their end of life, and they’re uncertain about what to do with it. That much has been known pretty much since it closed, or at least definitely since they scrapped all but one train & left it to rust. Have I been misinterpreting, or when people say ‘coming back’, do they mean ‘refurbished w/ new trains’?

“We’re millionaires who got lucky once, but we also are really smart and make great decisions, except for when we don’t ’cause we have flaws as we’re human just like you. [River Rapids mention]. New company bought most of us, but we’re friends & it’s okay (apart from our cinemas, those suck lol. Also, if we don’t make money in the next 3-5 years, we’re kinda screwed. But that’s fiiiiiiiiine, cause we’re friends!). Anyway, $50m Ghost of New Atlantis Past, $100m Ghost of WoO Present, $??? Ghost of Hotels Future. Also, I have children, as a byproduct of being human, just like you.” Snippet about hotels:

The fact it says ‘rooms and surrounds’ doesn’t seem to me like they’ll be connected accomodation, as well as there not really being much need/space for another VRTP example of that post-MW’s hotel. Maybe, instead, there’s a plan for something similar to a Paradise Resort, various Disney hotels, things like that, in which it’s a family-oriented hotel/resort, centred around an IP that VRTP has the rights to (Nickelodeon, DC, etc), that’s got enough self-contained activities for park visits to not be a necessity (but, ofc, offering shuttles to & fro). They have experience with similar, though less self-contained, locations with Sea World Resort. Though, granted, they didn’t construct it, experience with it’s operations could mean they have ideas as to how it could be improved if they were to construct one themselves. As to if anything comes from it, we’ll have to wait and see, but I’m guessing that’s moreso what’s being eluded towards.

That’s a weird thing to put on a dippin’ dots receipt

The only real place an Atlantis station could go is adjacent to that concrete slab they poured recently, but that’s apparently just going to be for a BoH warehouse (though I choose to not believe that til it’s built, ‘cause that’s a colossal waste of space if so, especially for a landlocked park). In general, though, the consensus with the monorail seems not to be that it’s never coming back, nor that it’s very likely to, moreso just that nobody knows (including the park themselves) what to do with it. But, the longer they let it rust, and the more BoH stuff they put underneath it (aforementioned slab near Levi), the less likely it seems that there’ll be a replacement.

maybe the same could be happening here?

Honestly, with Village being so incredibly slow at everything recently, it wouldn’t surprise me if Jungle Rush opens before that pathway at SW does. It took ‘em months just to give a store a coat of paint & move a few shelves out.

Altogether, ST was $32 mil. They wouldn’t exclude the money they repurposed from the government grant in that quoted cost. Seeing as there’s no exact direct comparison, I only doubled that number to overestimate the likely margin at which coaster price has increased above that of general inflation, and I must say that it seems well within the realm of plausibility after converting it to USD solely for comparison’s sake (the doubled number is ~$17-18mil USD in 2024) & comparing older examples of Vekomas & Arrows (Corkscrew @ Alton Towers was £1.25mil GBP in 1980/~$9-10mil USD in 2024, Loch Ness Monster @ Busch Gardens Williamsburg was $5mil USD in 1978/~$23-25mil USD in 2024) to similar current Vekoma models (Lech Coaster @ Legendia was €12mil EUR in 2017/~$16mil USD in 2024, Fønix @ Fårup Sommerland was 100mil DKK/~$15mil USD in 2022), and both to it. And, to be clear, the only fudging/‘pulling out my bum’ of those numbers was rounding them to the nearest mil USD, again solely for easier comparison. As such, they’re by no means completely accurate, hence the use of ranges & ‘~’, to make it abundantly clear that the altered numbers are merely estimations instead of facts, as that doesn’t seem to have gotten through the first time around. Point being, them saying it’s their largest investment in a singular attraction yet does mean something, not necessarily a game-changing amount but it’s a factual & easy way to portray that there’s effort going into making the attraction the best it can be. At the end of the day, it is marketing though, so it’s purpose is undeniably still to flaunt it’s good sides, but it’s not doing it in an objectively untruthful or manipulative way like you seem to believe, and like certain other projects have done recently.

Exactly why I doubled the inflated cost in the sentence I wrote above said cost, as a very large margin of error/difference.

Assuming the cost of amusement park rides has risen at double the rate of that which regular inflation has, it would still be $6 million cheaper than Steel Taipan was.

Jungle Rush itself cost $35 million (per Dreamworld’s Instagram)

Maybe I’ve just looked past it, then, that does tend to happen w/ me. What used to be on it?

So, just before WWF/Doomsday’s path, with the It Maze building façade in the background? If so, that’s an interesting location if Superman were to indeed be the main entrance & not the assumed ‘secondary’ one near Scooby. Still, billboard could be better. At least painting the frame in a less bright/clashy colour.

If only they had switched it to say ‘Coming Soon’, instead of sticking with their previously announced opening date.

Where’s the location of that billboard? ‘Cause if that’s on Main St (beside Superman’s entrance & facing the fountain), they really could’ve served to make it look a bit better than that.

A second Flash movie doesn’t exist, does it? Aside from the whole first one being a flop that was doomed from the start with their casting choice & horrible direction, making a sequel an obviously horrible decision, I haven’t seen anything being announced about it.

Don’t remember where I heard it, but I someone mentioned last year that Arkham’s replacement was planned to be themed as ‘Joker’s Madhouse’, so that it’d be more of a spiritual successor to Arkham than WoO. I’ll see if I can find it. Edit: So either it was gonna be a Joker’s Madhouse raptor, or a Joker’s Madhouse theme for the 3 coasters that we’re still getting. Either way, they’ve at least had 2 separate plans for a new ‘Joker’s Madhouse’ themed ride/s & for an RMC Raptor. So, if GL’s really on the chopping block, digging up those plans & doing as such is probably the best use that plot could get. That said, I think Doomsday’s are numbered much more than GL’s are, & maybe they chuck a Joker-themed thing there instead (hopefully not, though).

Wonder Woman, Catwoman, or they could reuse the plan they had for WoO & have it be Joker (especially since it’d assumedly still be located opposite Batwing, it’d lend to much more cohesion & a chance to make that pathway actually have a decent theme by starting with Joker to the left & Batman to the right, then Justice League slightly ahead, and ending with Rivals as a culmination)

Seeing as Green Lantern (the problematic coaster that, hypothetically, is in need of replacing) is an S&S, they probably wouldn’t want replace it with another S&S. What I said earlier was referring to a Raptor clone, as they’re probably the only likely model that could fit in that plot & be an appealing purchase to VRTP, but they too have their own set of operational problems. It’d be nice to have a coaster there, but if GL were to close it mightn’t be given a direct replacement in the same plot of land.

they’d just start to say that DCR’s NIL counts

i can think of one, and only one, cloned compact thrilling coaster layout with inversions, and that one would probably end up having similar issues.