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Its pretty common for specialist equipment (like that involved in attractions and theming) to have to be paid for 100% upfront. Suppliers don’t want to be left holding the bag when the builder you hired goes bust all of a sudden (and that is usually who is buying). For the ride itself you’re likely looking at a portion when ordered, a portion when it arrives onsite and the rest when handed over.

All looks pretty good, very lush! I like all the kinetic energy

Sadly I think you’re right and it’s one of the unfortunate limitations we face in terms of immersive theming in Queensland. There is so much government regulation and insurance company hoop jumping that you’ll even see generic handrails inside a themed railing just to satisfy these requirements. It’s a shame but one we just have to live with.

Nowhere in that video does it show anyone using a side door to skip anything. Nobody is skipping the theming and being spat out in the land after.

I was today years old when I learned the Superman shop is no longer a thing.

I feel like WWW doesn’t get the airtime is deserves. It’s a pretty damn solid little park.

They definitely did some form of refurb and Sally were involved… All of the projectors were replaced and the whole gaming system was upgraded. Not sure of the impact on day to day operations thought, I haven’t ridden it in quite some time and this is just forth hand knowledge.

I think that's the point though now isn't it. I just saw these photos on Facebook and thought to myself "oh well guess the lighting package for Flash is revealed...I'll go see what Parkz thinks" and sure enough exactly what I expected. Instead of a happy response to the fact it has lights, it's some post saying how 'oh it's Movie World clearly this is an awful idea and they are going to make it look terrible.' But no actually, it's for a special occasion and that's cool. You want to see terrible, go look at that bloody awful lighting on the Wave Swinger up the street, truely vomit inducing and that's the permanent scheme they've chosen! The last attraction Village Built was Leviathan and I might be biassed, however worldwide knowledgable people have said it's world class level (not just Village marketing dept). So why would their next thing suddenly assumed to be awful? Because everything is automatically bad because you don't like the CEO right? If Leviathan was lit up Rainbow for a special awareness thing I would think that was awesome. From what I understand the Park are doing all the lighting for Flash themselves in house and if this is the result (along with the sign) then how great! This whole Movie World is Evil and Dreamworld is the land of the gods just has to stop, each has good and bad points when you look at them objectively. Funnily enough the first lights for Wizard of Oz arrived in the country today, I look forward to coming back in a few months and finding out why they are awful too 😛

This is hardly the same as having a stage the people attending an event can't access... It's pretty simple really: Women have women only events to get away from having to deal with men behaving poorly. Men have men only events to get away with behaving poorly.

Yeah what moronic sales staff member ever thought booking this event was REMOTELY a good idea. Just wow

And to be fair that was really version 2.5 after Next Gen was terrible, there was a change in GM and some effort was made to make it a bit better.

Parkz will publish press releases that are sent to it… but they do have to be sent by the park for that to happen

Regardless of when it was installed and what it has on it, we can all probably agree its fairly ugly.

Both Gold Coast companies dial up their marketing spin to 11 when advertising new attractions so I think DW get a pass here when it comes to any claims of being their largest ever investment. And to be fair, this is exactly the kind of ride we have been asking them to build and the return to nicely presented lands (remember when we had lands instead of precincts? Weren’t those wonderful times??) we have all wanted. So its hard to criticize much of anything about this new coaster. I’ll call bullshit on any kind of ‘changing the face of family entertainment’ claim or anything like that but that’s only negative thing I could say.

This is definitely the same space and viewing window that is now in the Penguin Encounter exhibit. And nice souvenir video. That’s actually from my VHS tape!

I think it comes down to two things. Firstly, ToT was a bit if a one of a kind OMFG kind of ride. Where as DC Rivals is a solid coaster, but internationally it’s one of many. Its good, maybe even great, but is it “OMFG WHAT WAS THAT?” good? Still why I 100% rate Superman over Rivals any day. Secondly ToT in its hey day was a time when the general masses weren’t as exposed to international attractions both via social media and also through affordable travel. Side note on merch… needs more nice polos

Well it also used to take 25mins to get from Gold Coast airport to Surfers, but now it’s 50. The whole city is bursting with people, its record numbers of people and this flows into the parks. Everything is busier and takes longer on the Gold Coast than it used to. For me the LAST place I’d want to be at this time is the theme parks, but as you can clearly see, many do not feel the same. As pointed out though, having Scooby and Arkham (and Tunes River Ride for that matter) missing doesn’t help. Hopefully next year this makes things a bit better.

Its pretty ridiculous to carry on about Christmas crowds at any of the parks. This has been the case for more than 20 years.

That is very nice that he took time to respond directly, but more importantly agreed with you on the choice of music. These are the subtle unquantifiable items that make a huge subliminal impact on guest experience.

Absolutely right! Which is why it is just such a shame all that whimsy is erased by running that god awful lighting sequence which makes it look like a piece of tacky carnival crap. I just can’t understand why you’d go to all that effort with the extra detailing, lovely buildings, fountain, etc and then balls it at the finish line with those lights.

But the park has always had roaming characters 😛

That's a great find on the 1998 photo! This somewhat peaked my interest given I knew they raised the roof but then I went looking and couldn't find any real evidence of such a thing. Sadly google Earth only went back to 2002 so happy you pulled that above photo. Are there more from other years? I did have a look though over at Movie Park because they had the exact same building setup (apart from roof material) from their Gremlin's ride and in their refit used the same building as original so you can see on this comparison that the buildings there are all one height. Bit of fascinating park trivia and I 100% recon this would have been another one of those ways to make a project more economical back in the day with loopholes and cleaver constructions hacks.

Whist this is being done by one of the best content creation companies in the business I can’t help but feel it’s an odd choice. Surely what the market wants from Luna Park is nostalgia and throwback real world experiences in a world class location. Same same virtual projection worlds that are already everywhere just seem really off brand.

Be interesting to see what theming they have in store and who is designing/implementing it. There’s only a handful of people with the specialised skills to do it properly and haven’t heard a peep of this project from any of them.

For the love of god please don’t let a single one of those hideous colours see the light of day (or night!). The ride will look elegant and spectacular with lighting sequences of all warm white colour mimicking the incandescent festoon globes of old. Hopefully they resist the temptation to put it in Full Kebab Shop mode and run awful colours on it (the above video is just testing so judgement reserved until it is finished).