15 hours ago, MickeyD said:

Amazing how much we criticize DW and SW huh

Strip Scooby Doo of all it's thematic elements and I still think it's a really fun coaster, in fact it's in my top 3 for Movie World rides. The raw ride itself is thrilling and has an awesomely long ride time which makes it epic even without the theming. Have a think.. if you had never been on the ride before and went on it for the first time you would probably be more worried about the sharp corners and drops rather than the effects.

And this is the problem.

We all know that ALL of our Gold Coast theme parks have seen better days. But if you had never visited any before, I'm sure you could have an awesome time at all of them.

Apart from Sea World.

Sea World is the problem. Not Movie World, Dreamworld, WhiteWater World or WetNWild. While all of them could have some touch ups, Sea World is bare. If you're not a kid, you won't be able to have a good time at Sea World. At least I couldn't. 2 thrill rides, 0 family rides, and a few kids rides. This is our problem!

I know, and we all know that both Village and Ardent have a lot of work to do, however Movie World is not far off to become the ultimate theme park.

I really don't see the need to complain about it.

Why dont you? The complaints are pretty spot on. They started doing some restorative works a few years ago, what with facade work and new toilet blocks and stuff, but thats all stopped instead of continuing. So it does look run down.

The kids area is a joke compared to every other park, in perhaps australia. Old fair style rides, nothing for kids that arent tall enough or brave enough for the thrill rides. Its in desperate need of renovation and seems to be overlooked every year. 

Edited April 28, 20187 yr by Levithian

Strip the themeing and you have a basic and boring mad mouse coaster with a weird slow section of track. 

The themeing is what helps make that ride something great and is what has helped the ride become a “legend” as such. Mention Movie World to anyone that doesn’t regularly visit the parks, and they will probably recall the Scooby ride and Superman.

The ride is in an extremely poor state right now, and for a park that calls itself Hollywood on the Gold Coast, it’s certainly lacking anything that makes it memorable. 

 

If I rock up an hour late to a meeting, the expectation is that i'll let the organiser know in advance - it's when communication is sparse about my tardiness, why i'm late or when i'll finally rock up is when people get annoyed, and that's exactly what's happening here with VRTP's communication.

Luckily @Richard has a good rapport with the team there and was able to snag that interview with the CEO who gave us a timeline as to when they'd go to work on Scooby Doo, otherwise we'd know nothing at all.

My ride on Scooby today was probably the worst it's ever been. The disco room was very dark with just 1 laser on the ground. I think Movie World knows it's bad since the gift shop was closed.

Everything at Village parks scream we have run out of money to do anything meaningful.

Did i miss something? When did the gift shop close?

Not permanently, just closes on some off peak days.

Gift Store was open on Saturday, 

Defiantly not a permeant closure 

7 hours ago, Skeeta said:

Everything at Village parks scream we have run out of money to do anything meaningful.

 

Not exactly the kind of look any business wants on their books. What's worse is it's the every day Guest - not Theme Park Enthusiast that is forming this opinion at the moment.

Oh dear, seems like Village are attending Ardent Leisure's "How to run a theme park" seminars... 

On 24/02/2018 at 9:40 AM, MickeyD said:

According to recent Parkz interview with Mr Kirby, MW are looking at introducing Projection Mapping effects for the Dark Section of the ride but that process is being dragged through the licensing and approval process at WBs in the US. Interesting that the ride continues to Operate in this hollowed-out state with barely an end in sight?

Sorry to bring up an old post but if the projection mapping is anything like the projections on white night in Melbourne I can totally see why they are taking their time and have gutted the decor while they do it. Those things look like they would take forever to create and they're on a canvas that does not have any moving elements to account for. Part of me wonders if it will be fully projected or if it will be like the Alice in Wonderland ride in the U.S. only incorporating the speed, sudden jerks and dips into jump scares. Either way hearing that they are considering projections has got me excited once again for what used to be my favourite ride.

Some photos of what I presume to be new theming for the ride from John Cox’s Creature Workshop website  http://www.johncox.net/showcase/theme-parks/warner-brothers-movie-world-2/

Are those ham steaks and chickens? 😂

Looks like they are recreating ‘the dinner show’ scene from the film.

Check out from the 45 second mark.

That's an interesting idea if it is true, mostly interesting because the movie is quite old now I really thought they would go for something newer and potentially cheaper.

I am hoping that this is for the queue area something to take the themeing of the ride to the next level... remove the fountain and have the psychotic table of killer food in the middle, have the robots all around....  and the rest of the ride writes itself

I am a Scooby apologist so i'm happy either way, any excuse to watch Scooby Doo... 

I don’t ever remember this theming being in the queue before, but maybe these are older photos from when it was originally opening. I’m sure someon  in berthe can confirm that.

 

But if it is new, good to see something is happening. 

The photos look old to me also. 

If somebody knows how to get information off the photo correctly it would be a help.

I'm getting

But skeet doesn’t know what his doing.

Their Credit List page (http://www.johncox.net/showcase/credit-list/) lists the Scooby Doo Ride credit as 2003, so this must be from when the ride was originally built and not recent work:

I did think it a bit odd when I saw the character in the second photo, as there is already one almost exactly the same at the point where you get on the ride  (except it's looking much older and dirtier).

John Cox workedon the original movie, so them listing the ride is not surprising as some of the props from that film were reused on the ride.

Also, heads up the SD store was closed today when I went to the park. 3pm DC Rivals wasn't even loading a full train of guests, it was that quiet.

This Scooby shop closed things is pretty damn piss poor. 

Exit past the closed roller door and out a fire exit hardly aligns with promises we heard of outlets being open longer and always does it...

Can confirm shop was closed today, wonder if it will be stripped like Jet Rescue’s was.

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