@Jamberoo Fan I think you need to attend the show before making these sort of comments/judgements on it. “outback” is still the best world to use for the overall feel of the evening. Changing it to just “Australian Spectacular” is way too broad, and “Australian Cattle Station Spectacular” doesn’t have the same ring to it. 

I agree @rac2703. I know, for example, though that the venue is themed to, I assume, an outback farm building and have seen the inside of AOS (minus the arena) through Google Street View. I was just saying, at a minimum, with the word 'Outback' in the overall title and having known the names of all their shows, it gave me the impression that the outback is heavily featured in all their shows.

58 minutes ago, pushbutton said:

But there's a large shop full of souvenirs which you walk through as you enter,  and a long bar serving all sorts of drinks right at the front of the pre-show room.

Don't those count?

Oh, and photos they take as you enter, which they encourage you to buy during the show.

I'm assuming you are referring to me saying "and there aren't many of those at AOS" but yes, they count. Compared to the average theme park, which would have heaps of souvenir shops and a few bars, there is only 1 souvenir shop and 1 bar at AOS I believe. There aren't many things at AOS you can adjust when trying to just break-even without affecting the experience somewhat. At least at a theme park you can close a few attractions and still seem like it's fully open (like closing a water park portion of the park during winter. Come to think of it, how much would have DW saved during last winter by closing Whitewater World instead of closing most of their other attractions for "maintenance" (not saying maintenance is a lower priority - in fact, that's the highest priority)? But that question is for another topic.)

Edited December 1, 20187 yr by Jamberoo Fan