Surely with the next stunt show they could theme it to movies again. Maybe Gangsters? Even a weak tie would be better than the hot mess that they are showing now.

No different from Sea World's dreadful excuse for a ski show. These contracted shows must be a pretty good deal for the parks... they're after all giving year-round business that would help these companies retain staff, as well as decent training facilities.

The latest dolphin show proves that there is simply no writing talent within VRTP anymore. I don't know what perplexes me more: that they think that these are even vaguely worthy replacements for their predecessors, or that VIP pass holders actually line up for this crap on repeat visits.

Here's a troubling thought... Fish Detectives is now the best produced show at an Australian theme park.

Fish detectives is the only thing worth being called a "show"

MW have now remvoed the bike ramps from the show and added a police car. I went a saw the show for the first time last Saturday and it was pretty rubbish really. Yes the stunts are great, and the training they've had is good, but it is really just 10 minutes of driving around and burning rubber. They don't have the stunt man (catching on fire and falling from the scaffolding). There isn't a story at all, the theming of being in America and France doesn't make sense. MW really need to either bring in a new show, or fix this one up.

(photos from The theme park social network)

EDIT: Also, the park has really dropped some of the shows that they had a couple of years ago when I last went, besides the stunt show, Rio 4D and parade, there is no where near as many shows as there used to be. Throughout the day they have the character meet and greets and batman comes out and saves the day, but thats it. I do hope MW add a few more scheduled shows in mainstreet, or even better add a new arena show in another location (As mentioned many times, when in Wild West area).

Edited March 20, 201511 yr by themagician

EDIT: Also, the park has really dropped some of the shows that they had a couple of years ago when I last went, besides the stunt show, Rio 4D and parade, there is no where near as many shows as there used to be. Throughout the day they have the character meet and greets and batman comes out and saves the day, but thats it. I do hope MW add a few more scheduled shows in mainstreet, or even better add a new arena show in another location (As mentioned many times, when in Wild West area).

I've noticed that MW has preferred to do almost spontaneous showings (at least to guests anyway). For instance, the Great Gatsby show and meet doesn't appear on the showtimes, it just occurs around lunch time.

I've got the feeling that the next show Movie World do may involve a man in a leather jacket water ski jumping over a shark in a pond.

FWIW, I always thought this show was pretty poor.

There's a fantastic car show at Mirabilandia that other parks would do well to learn from.

The new version of the show is undoubtedly the worst show I've seen at any theme park. It is now primarily two utes, some sort of buggy and a couple of hot rods that don't do much other than to distract the audience from the fact that nothing is really happening. The trailer at the end is so bad that you actually believe it was shot and cut during the 9 minute show.

The original HWSD is miles and miles ahead of this.

While I'm on my VRTP rant - JL was closed for a good chunk of the day with no one out front, just chained off with a closed sign. Scooby was also down. When it opened, zero fog in the main room and barely audible music. Horrid operations on Superman again.

At Sea World, painfully slow operations on Jet Rescue. Have to wonder if this is questionable procedures or just operators that are over their job, but on multiple occasions the train sat in unload for a long time and grouping wouldn't be done until the train was in load, despite having more than enough staff.

Edited April 27, 201511 yr by Flea

Movie World on Facebook has responded to someone asking why the motobikes were removed from the show. they stated that Showtime FMX and Movie World have suspend the motorbikes for awhile they investigate the incident

The set of HSD2 has got a few more new additions. Hopefully once the changes are finished the updated show will be a lot better than what they've got going now

Edited May 6, 201511 yr by themagician

Wow - so the 'garage' looks as though they've knocked out the front facade of the building and set up the inside of it to look like a mechanic type shop... interesting twist.

Of course, it'd look better if the old 'jewellry display case' on the left wall wasn't still there, but cut in half...

Then again it'd also look better (in line with the apparent 'brisbane' based smash repairer next door) if the entire set wasn't italian themed. Is it really that hard to hit the buildings with some cement render to do away with the now fatigued italian buildings and make them look more believeable? Heck - the 'bridge' in the middle could easily be themed to look like a local rail bridge instead of the current 'cobblestone' look they've got.

I guess we have to be thankful the park is at least TRYING to make things look a bit better instead of those giant motorcycle jumps with the fake brick wall wraps.

The sooner they get a proper replacement, the better

I agree, but they may still be doing upgrades to the themeing for a couple of months. They aren't rushing into it all, but hopefully once they have finished the update it will all make sense, and the show will have a decent story to it. The new vehicle will help out with the themeing as well I think:

Edited May 6, 201511 yr by themagician

They're selling ad space to local businesses now? If that's theming, then you should check out my local football club...

That's honestly one of the tackiest things I've ever seen.

Have to agree with Richard. The product placement is as subtle as it is in Talladega Nights - The Legend of Ricky Bobby. Being a service station would have made more sense for a petrol company to be the paid ad space.

So we have an Italian village, with shops sponsored by selling out to Australian companies, a petrol station from the 50's, a big ass table in the middle nowhere, posters for a show by Houdini, Australian cars and Japanese bikes. What a drawcard! Why isn't this the parks leading advertisement?!!?!

They can't find anyone to sponsor the advertisement yet?

Head & Shoulders? They've already got a movie tie-in. They'd fit right in.

More change have been made

Holy shit! Subtle and everything!

Looks like they're actually going to go with it being part of a race... i can see that working... it also does away with the italian facades on that side of the arena too which is good...

Progress is at least something...

Is this their answer to Dreamworld's V8 attractions?

I've seen a few pictures of the new building designs and I definitely think they missed a great opportunity to do some commercial brand tie-ins during the re-theme. Surely there'd be heaps of brands willing to pay to put their logos up on the buildings!

Oh well, maybe next time...

Edited May 15, 201511 yr by ash.1111

People nearly killed on roller coaster, motorcycle rider nearly killed in stunt show, stunt show vehicle rolled onto roof...

These are some of the reasons why 'major sponsors' may not want to put their name on the arena right now.

Good points Alex, but I was actually kidding! There are tons of sponsors - including an actual car rental hire "shop" featured in one of the updated facades.

Another behind the scenes photo from theme park social network: