Heading to the Gold Coast next week and Saturday is the only day I can get to Movieworld. What can I expect for wait times? Do they only run 2 trains in school holidays or do they run the 2nd train on weekends?  
 

Worried about a massive line for rivals seem superman and Scooby are both down at the moment. 

It's based off of projected attendance. I don't know what the threshold is these days, or if they may change it based off of capacity available, but I would expect that no days in Feb would have the kind of attendance that normally warrents a second train.

 

I've also not kept up with the train maintenance, so don't quote me on this, but it's quite plausible that a train rebuild may already be underway. It takes longer than you may think to redo a train, and the goal tends to be to have both trains and all thrill rides available for September school holidays, Fright Nights, White Christmas, Christmas holidays. Hence why you get a few thrill rides down now in the quietest months of the year, West and something else in Winter, and Scooby in November between the two night events to have the appropriate rides working for the various peaks. The issues arise when stuff takes longer than expected or something else goes down, which sucks, but not much you can really do.

Edited February 28, 20232 yr by joz

^Everything he said.

To add - recently some weekends have been quieter than weekdays.

If you can only go on the way day, then don't worry about whether times will be bad or good and just go along expecting busier times and be pleasantly surprised if it isnt.

Make sure you have the app downloaded and set up properly so you can take advantage of VQ, and - if you absolutely cannot miss out - bring your wallet for one-shots.

I wouldn't currently buy a one-day ticket, with MW only having 3 rides I would go on.

What even is a 1 day ticket?

17 minutes ago, joz said:

What even is a 1 day ticket?

Coming back in fashion.

I was going to say 'So are mullets and weird creepy moustaches' then I remembered they aren't coming back in, they ARE in fashion and I became sad.

I see kids coming out at (primary) school pickup with a full-blown Warwick Capper level mullet - only to link up with their more-than-warwick-level parent, and I can only wonder about how long these parents have kept the trend going so that their kid will follow in their footsteps.

I can't wait for Mohawks and then the boy-band-bleach-blonde tips trend to follow in a few years.

If you hang around Nerang, you would know, mullets never went out of fashion @joz.   With Village seasonal passes price increases, it makes sense more people than previously would do the single day entry over the season pass.   I for one didn't purchase my lady a village pass this year because she would only go to the special events.  I just got her a ticket to Carnival.

5 hours ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

boy-band-bleach-blonde tips trend

Up in Murwillumbah there’s a bunch of them. They look hilarious but they think they are super cool. The trend is already trending. I see them everywhere 

You'd think the NRL was having a competition for who has the most feral mullet.

2 train operation seems like a bonus. The instability of operations is really making members the general public like myself very wary of visiting the GC parks. Even knowing the maintenance schedules and observed operation patterns, it's still a gamble. 

 

On 28/02/2023 at 3:35 AM, joz said:

I was going to say 'So are mullets and weird creepy moustaches' then I remembered they aren't coming back in, they ARE in fashion and I became sad.

Yes, I was astonished by how many mullets I saw in Australia. My condolences to all at this difficult time.

It's getting worse - I saw something yesterday talking about a 'Skullet' and...

i'll just let you google it.

Every 4-8 yr old around this way has one of those. 🤮 

6 hours ago, Noxegon said:

Yes, I was astonished by how many mullets I saw in Australia. My condolences to all at this difficult time.

Condolences appreciated. Though it does make me sad to know this is something we're doing as a nation that is unique to us.

@jozAmerica has an USA Mullet Championship which didn't begin to 2020.  With people unable to get a haircut during covid, the mullet was reborn. 

Aussies will mostly, unfortunately, jump at the chance to grow a mullet and strut around in a pair of stubbies 

DC rivals dispatches were painfully slow today. One train operations and it spent an average of around 5-7 minutes just sitting in the station. They are pretty understaffed at the moment (they were only operating one side of mammoth falls today). But there’s gotta be a more efficient method.  The park was busy today it was surprising. But there was a lot of disappointed people when they found out so many rides were closed (the maintenance page needs to be easier to find on the website) I feel like when so many rides are in maintenance they should run 2 trains on DCR to compensate.  All the staff at MW and WNW were really friendly and chirpy. I feel bad for them though as a lot of people were blaming and taking their frustration out on the innocent staff which is not cool. 

Edited March 16, 20232 yr by REGIE

2 hours ago, REGIE said:

they were only operating one side of mammoth falls today

Didn't see 2 sides running all summer 

2 minutes ago, Brad2912 said:

Didn't see 2 sides running all summer 

Mustn't have looked very often. I work in the area and rarely noticed it not running both sides.

52 minutes ago, joz said:

Mustn't have looked very often. I work in the area and rarely noticed it not running both sides.

Admittedly didn’t visit as many times there this summer, opted for WWW, but we probably had 4-5 visits. Only ever had one side going, must have just lucked out 

Btw is there any reason why WWW’s slides operate with 2 person tubes and 1 person tubes on most slides while WNW mainly only has 2 person tubes? 

Because people who go to WWW, have no friends.

 

 

 

After last weekend's experience - I'm convinced VRTP purposely slows down park operations to reduce ride cycles.

 

 

Rival's queue was pretty much up to the split in the queue - and they were still running one train. 

The queue for backwards (at $30+ each?) was 15 cycles long, and the dispatch time was about 5 mins per train.. so the wait was well over an hour. 

I really hope the other train is broken.. but again there's not really an excuse when the rides down for a month now.

I'll just add this here too because I don't want to reserruct another thread - but Superman ops were really bad too... 4-6 min cycles. The same person securing the train was doing the grouping... so the train completed the unload, rolled into the load station empty - THEN it got grouped. There were also a few seats on the trains that were running.. so I reckon it was running at 270rph when the theoretical output is 820rph.. about 1/3rd.   At least the aircon is better in the (really boring) queue

29 minutes ago, Dean Barnett said:

I really hope the other train is broken.. but again there's not really an excuse when the rides down for a month now.

Just for comparison, when we went last easter break, there was only 1 train on Rivals and a 3+ hour queue. There was a sign up at the ride entry however saying something along the lines of 'due to circumstances outside our control this ride is running at reduced capacity'.

That wait time sign could use a spit'n'polish, at least try and remove some of the rust stains.

31 minutes ago, Dean Barnett said:

I'll just add this here too because I don't want to reserruct another thread - but Superman ops were really bad too... 4-6 min cycles

It's always been around 6 minutes in my very limited experience (compared to others)

31 minutes ago, Dean Barnett said:

At least the aircon is better in the (really boring) queue

Is that an addition? I didn't think there was any aircon, just some dusty-ass fans.