The Flash: Speed Force coming to Movie World

[STRAWS]

14 minutes ago, Rabbit2014 said:

Movie world have posted photos of the installation of the statues

This might sound stupid but to me these looks to artificial and the colors are too bright if that makes sense. 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

38 minutes ago, STRAWS said:

This might sound stupid but to me these looks to artificial and the colors are too bright if that makes sense. 

It's queensland. Wait a while.

 

[STRAWS]

2 hours ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

It's queensland. Wait a while.

 

The sooner the better 🤣🤣.

Edited April 15 by STRAWS

[themagician]

3 hours ago, STRAWS said:

these looks to artificial

My guess is the photo has been over saturated. I’ve seen photos of the statues on fan pages and they definitely are bright, but not this bright 

[Naazon]

I mean, the concrete is glowing white in the second photo

[Ash]

Give it a couple of months the the GC sun will do what it does best

[Brad2912]

Great transparency by MW

[wikiverse]

[Narra]

36 minutes ago, Brad2912 said:

"All the latest technologies" except new restraints apparently 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

^and they didn't actually answer the original question.

[Tricoart]

58 minutes ago, Narra said:

"All the latest technologies" except new restraints apparently 

By ‘latest technologies’, they must mean the latest technologies for Village rather than Intamin (delays/mishaps during construction, rare showy & vague press posts over actual communication to guests, and spending the bare minimum amount possible).

Edited April 16 by Tricoart

[Baconjack]

52 minutes ago, Tricoart said:

By ‘latest technologies’, they must mean the latest technologies for Village rather than Intamin (delays/mishaps during construction, rare showy & vague press posts over actual communication to guests, and spending the bare minimum amount possible).

I mean they are somewhat right. The ride was done up at wet n wild not long ago

Edited April 16 by Baconjack

[Ashley Jeffery]

Will it make the April opening? 

[aaronm]

38 minutes ago, Ashley Jeffery said:

Will it make the April opening? 

Missed school holidays, might as well aim for July now.

[themagician]

1 hour ago, Ashley Jeffery said:

April opening

I think so! I’d say they were definitely pushing for the QLD holidays, but NSW is still on holidays for a couple weeks.

My guess is they’ll be officially opening it Friday April 26.

[CR4ZE]

1 hour ago, aaronm said:

Missed school holidays, might as well aim for July now.

There's literally no point in arbitrarily delaying the opening if it's ready to go within the next couple of weeks (at most).

45 minutes ago, themagician said:

My guess is they’ll be officially opening it Friday April 26.

That would be leaving it quite late as NSW students are back at school the following Monday. Then again, there's not much to be gained from getting in just before Anzac Day either...

... If they'd had their shit together, early April would've served both QLD and NSW holiday visitors. Now, they're placed to open with great fanfare and nobody able to visit.

[aaronm]

2 hours ago, CR4ZE said:

There's literally no point in arbitrarily delaying the opening if it's ready to go within the next couple of weeks (at most).

Would reduce operational costs, I imagine that’s important to VRTP execs right now.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

13 hours ago, CR4ZE said:

Now, they're placed to open with great fanfare and nobody able to visit.

In all honesty, I don't know why parks target openings to occur bang on peak periods. There are inevitably teething issues and the ride's reputation is made or broken in that first peak rush. 

Open it in the off season, give your operators time to bed down the processes without a 3 hour queue of angry families behind them, and iron out the kinks. Advertise the hell out of it and get soundbytes and reviews from real actual guests, rather than stupid rhetoric from the C Suite for your marketing - anyone planning a last minute trip for the next holidays might see that and decide to go as a result.

[wikiverse]

16 hours ago, aaronm said:

Would reduce operational costs, I imagine that’s important to VRTP execs right now.

Operating costs aren't that important if you're attracting enough guests, which you won't do if you keep rides closed.

[Levram__]

Its unlikely to open by the 26th. Your looking at possibly early May, the attraction hasn't been handed to Operations yet which will involve quite a bit of training and commissioning to establish an opening roster. 

[STRAWS]

6 hours ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

In all honesty, I don't know why parks target openings to occur bang on peak periods. There are inevitably teething issues and the ride's reputation is made or broken in that first peak rush. 

Open it in the off season, give your operators time to bed down the processes without a 3 hour queue of angry families behind them, and iron out the kinks. Advertise the hell out of it and get soundbytes and reviews from real actual guests, rather than stupid rhetoric from the C Suite for your marketing - anyone planning a last minute trip for the next holidays might see that and decide to go as a result.

I agree with this fully. The main issue with the way the parks does it now is that it almost never opens in time for when it was marketed for and then throw in the issues and kinks every new ride has makes it a bad look for guest to see it closed during peak times when the extra capacity is needed. 

Lethithan  is a perfect example of this the delays and the constant down time of construction killed the buzz and hype of its opening. Ultimately when it did open it was having constant issues with extended periods of downtime and the media had a frenzy talking about the disappointment of people flying from other parts of the country to ride it for it to be closed.

 

 Try telling this to BGH @wikiverse

58 minutes ago, wikiverse said:

Operating costs aren't that important if you're attracting enough guests, which you won't do if you keep rides closed.

 

Edited April 17 by STRAWS

[Tricoart]

Seats are on.

[RobMac]

MW would hype an s-bend in a new block of toilets!

[Jokes_on_you]

2 hours ago, RobMac said:

MW would hype an s-bend in a new block of toilets!

What are you going on about? The only thing related to a toilet is the 💩 you just said. 

[themagician]

Movie World have shown off the attraction signs lighting package at night. Kudos to the park because this is the best attraction sign they’ve done in a long time