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Does the salt air and higher winds not also contribute?

Like ROTR? JC? HM? MMRW?

@Theme Park Girl 2 days away from 9 years since your last post here. Great to see you back, bad to see it's to defend yourself. That would be @docoaster.

If we keep with the general biomes idea they have going, They can either extend the Outback theming from the [Insert current wildlife area name here], or go Rainforest or Snow. And much like the Hunger Games, i see Snow losing here. Any degree of Western theming they run with here would be arguably too close to RT, and depending on how it's implemented, Rainforest could be close to TI and RT. My money is on something Rainforest adjacent, provided they lean into the fern heavy aesthetic like Taronga has for Blue Mountains Bushwalk, And it lends itself really well for basically anything. Woodie? Water Ride? Dinosaurs? A water based woodie hybrid centred around dinosaurs? It just works.

I meant that portal you could log into that also gave you discounts on Redballoon, Sixt, Cinemas etc.

Allright, so as i thought, everything Sky Safari has been levelled. Both upper platforms and lower ones, and all the poles removed. The upper station has a pit dug and the turn around tubestructure getting ready, the first pole which was just next to the entrance is gone and the Macaque/Tamarin exhibit has been blocked off for some months next to it. The last pole going down to the ferry wharf (other picture) is also gone, but has the most amount of work done and is the most obvious. The immediate path and part of the park surrounding it is also blocked off. The lower station is just a massive pile of dirt now and you can't walk all the way from Little Sirius through to the ferry now. There appeared to be some work also being done around the Rhino exhibit's gardens (Formerly the Elephants) which looks like land clearing for a possible tower.

I'd say it's more like the membership perks VRTP had/has.

So i'm in the zoo right now and the old station building has been totally demolished, with active works being done on site now. I'll try get a better photo when i leave, but this is what i got on my way in today

I also noticed when i remembered it last month, but the gamification thing went away too. There's a joke for those that don't know, about how long the Confederacy lasted (4 years, 3 months, 21 days). The entire joke is about things lasting longer than it, yet I don't think anything the park has trialed since Covid started has outlasted the Confederacy. Fairly sure some of VRTP's bad ideas have outlasted LPS' good ones.

Swung by today and noticed that the chairs were all gone. They were there back in December when i last swung through. Also, the Ferris Wheel has shed all of its gondolas. The park also needs a major makeover. There were incomplete panels on the back of the face, most of the stars on the ground near the ticketing botth were almost completely gone, the building opposite was not just faded, but some of the panels were peeling, almost every facade is faded bar the wall where the bathrooms are, only half of the steps outside Coney Island have the black edge grips on them, and all of the older games on the inside were out of order. Plus the gift shop keeps getting worse. They once won a Brass Ring for a deck of cards, and now the shop only takes up 1/3rd of the space there with most of it being old merch- and most of that being last years Halloween stuff. The only non-generic thing in there is a 50c postcard for the 90th. There was so much more in December, including the pin sets which is now just The Bug. They're really making it hard to want to continue going there to test the colours on any new camera i buy. Also if anyone was wondering how Hot Racer track comes together...

The only problem there is we all know they would go out of their way to mess it up. It would need to be done cleanly and contained, but they would make it loud and obnoxious like the games in WW. It should be more Japanese Machiya style, and less San Francisco merch cart outside Pier 39. I feel some strategic bubble generators around the area would be perfect. One high above the arches, and another on the 3 walls of the area, but high up to disperse correctly.

Being the one thing that's lit up at 5am when i drive past, i can confirm that it still stands. Since i'm local, is there anything anyone wants me to try and check out before i get down there hopefully opening day?

It's also open for those like me who still have their Membership.

Not going to lie, I want that on a park map. And as a Panthers supporter, i would not be opposed to a magnet either.

Unless they axed the Carnival games and brought the town facades out a bit more, replaced the open space with something to bridge it. It can be done, it's just a question of throwing brainpower and manpower at the problem. And by putting the gang in say that area, people might actually go out there warranting the eatery to open.