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Yeah this doesn’t belong in theme park discussion.

I would say 15-30mins (max) waits on quiet days are acceptable and expected. And 60-90min waits on the busy days are also acceptable. I base that upon the ‘payoff’ that Australian rides offer (this is not Radiator Springs Racers or Pirates after all), comparable wait times of similar (say Magic Mountain or Knott’s) parks overseas, and historic wait times for Gold Coast parks up until several years ago. Now I think 40min waits are fairly common on quiet days and obviously 3 times that or more on busy days. I don’t think that is the mark that should be being aimed for. As Dapto Guy says above ‘he hasn’t felt that product (guest satisfaction) in a long time’. And this is my point and why change is needed. You need to he planning for worst case, not apologizing when it happens.

It really depends what price you put on guest satisfaction (which is really the only product a theme park sells). For me, I’d certainly value that at 1 million for an extra train. And I really think its a long perpetrated myth that ‘locals spend nothing’ in the parks. The majority of guests are ‘locals’ these days.

Another big mistake for an Australian park only getting 2 trains. So reduced capacity in peak times, and 1 train ops most of the rest of the time due to maintenance. You’d think people would learn from the 3 hour waits of a few weeks ago.

I think Batman certainly is the best, and probably Gremlins and Tunes after that. Burmuda also get's a nod in that it was done very well, but probably not as elaborate as the others above. Shrek was great, but the fact it was just a clone from Universal kinda doesn't count for me. Tower of Terror (original) get's my vote as the worst haha.

Having visited with a little one I can certainly say the Sea World splash pad was the highlight of their trip. So could certainly see them adding one. Especially if you have parents who are minding multiple age groups and the older kids want to ride the H2O stuff

I think you HAVE to be looking at a water ride for the park. It’s in desperate need now and it has to he as far away in public opinion from the two home made rides they had, so go super modern. The two other things the park needs is weenies and restoration of theming to OCEAN parade. So I really feel they need a nice big splash boat ride, obviously with the theming tweaked for the Ocean Parade theme but Intamin makes an off the shelf model that not only fits but ticks the boxes. Plus the vertical lift is a nice gimmick.

Lol it it used to be you had to train your kids to lie that they were younger at the front gate (“No Mummy I’m 6 remember!” Anyone?). Now you’ve to teach them the opposite.

Im sure it annoys the park also

It's not the fact there is tourists... its the type of tourists that I'm happy to see go elsewhere 😛

Its not just the parks. The whole Gold Coast is just nuts right now. God I miss cheap family holidays to Bali being a thing.

Stuck in a canal

Do you climb hypercoaster now instead?

Yes and it still has plenty of quiet spots you can still sit for a drink, get away from crazy crowds and has a bit of a rural feel. Its homely I guess. I’d hate to see it go the way of Sydney’s showground.

After attending the Sydney Easter Show yesterday in the ‘new’ Showground. Please never move the Ekka. God what a soulless crap hole of no shade and no atmosphere the Sydney event is. I had forgotten.

So Dreamworlds is $99 and MW $199... is one cheap or the other too expensive?

WOW

This is the stupidest thread I’ve ever read. Countless enlightened people have answered why it cost so much. You came to a forum to ask a question and then state that no one who could know the answer would post it on a forum. Anyone who has any involvement in any kind of themed entertainment knows how quickly things get expensive. If you thing Universal Singapore has the same level of theming detail as Hong Kong Disney then you are wrong. Its not subjective, its fact. And that’s why it costs so much more. The fact that for you that detail means little is irrelevant, you are entitled to have a preference for the Universal park and like it more. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t more detail at Disney, it just means it doesn’t interest you.

OMG yay for a billboard that doesn’t put a keyword in cursive font in a non contrasting colour to the background! 👏🏻 Good job

I mean let’s not question or knock them for doing what they should do. Probably they approved the budget for this project to do it properly and get rid of an unsightly closed ride. Getting money approved to remove other crap that should have been removed by previous bad decision makers years ago is likely harder to do.

Given the Gold Coast light rail can run on a 7 minute ‘timetable’ rather than scheduled runs I think a theme park train can manage. If you’re at a theme park you probably aren’t fussed about waiting for 10 mins or so for a train. Its not like there’s a lot of scheduled entertainment to be in a hurry for 😛

It’ll work for a few weeks and then they’ll just shine some flashing lights at it.

Cept the 'yank' attitude was to reinvest In the ride and give it upgrades to keep running at it's peak for years to come where as DW cheaped out and ultimately had to kill the ride... I hate a little bit that I'm shoving the knife in on DW here because I really doh't want to be the 'shit on DW guy' all the time but in a pissing contest of who is better between DW and SFMM it's hard to see this coming out in DWs favour.

Well I certainly got THAT joke 👏🏻

Anymore... WnW did start doing this for a while. And same for Blue Lagoon