Dreamworld's i-Ride: Ardent Leisure registers 'SkyRyder' trademark

Following an abortive attempt to register the name Flyover, Dreamworld owners borrow the name of an American pornographic film star for the latest apparent move in naming their forthcoming flight simulator attraction.

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Oh dear!

I'd love to see the process they went through to come up with this one (and the previous attempt).

It can't be that hard surely! 

 

 

Be a good name for a tunnel of love though.

If they need help with ride signage, I know a guy...

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many will remember this name from their rushed VR addition

Are you sure? "Many" as in, many people on Parkz? Or "Many" as in "many" general punters. Because i'll be honest - i don't even think many on Parkz remember that in that much detail - I knew MDMC had VR trialled, but I never knew it had a name...

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Blow Me Sandwich 14

I'm curious as to how many of her supposed 92 titles the mod team at Parkz went through before deciding to lead with that one...

Funny as it is, this story is a little more low brow than usual Parkz standards...

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A Google search for Sky Ryder this time doesn't bring up any similar attractions around the world, but it does prominently display the profile of Ryder Skye

I don't really think you're being fair here. Sure - getting the right combination into google produced a porn star. hahahah thats funny! make fun of Dreamworld everyone!

The problem here is that everything else is so particular when it comes to trademark. As Parkz rightly points out at the start of the article, the name registered is SkyRyder. No space, uppercase R.

The google search you did was "Sky Ryder" with a space. When I click your link, all the results I get are for the Ryder cup golf tournament (on Sky Sports channel).

Interestingly enough, and again on YOUR google search link, the front page also links to the Sky Ryder zipline at 'The Waterfront, Okoboji (that's in Iowa).

Nothing on this first page of results returns a porn star for me - and that's with 'safe search' switched off.

As a matter of fact, try as I might, I can't get google to bring that particular personality up without spelling her name correctly... with an 'e'.

When I try googling the actual registered trademark "SkyRyder" without a space, the results returned include a Metal band by that name... but even in that search, google assumes I spelled it incorrectly, and suggests "SkyRider" which - when you click through, then links to the Sky Rider at Luna Park Melbourne.

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but considering Ms Skye isn't buried in the depths of the search results but rather prominently displayed at the top of the first page – photo and all – it's hard to see how they missed it.

Spare a thought for Dreamworld... they really do make it too easy for us.

As easily as I could have - with safe search off, and using your search terms, I still couldn't find it without the 'e'.

 

I'm sorry guys - but i think you really missed the mark this time.

9 minutes ago, AlexB said:

I'm curious as to how many of her supposed 92 titles the mod team at Parkz went through before deciding to lead with that one...

It was either that or 'Star Trix: The Deep Penetration'

You made the better choice.

And to actually put the porn star as the cover of the article ...

 @AlexB Summed up what I was thinking. The only thing I have to add is it was a shit read and should be buried with the parkz news forum thread. That way no one else has to read it.

Edited September 25, 20188 yr by TomiJ

40 minutes ago, AlexB said:

I don't really think you're being fair here. Sure - getting the right combination into google produced a porn star.

Yeah some real manipulation of searches for it to appear right up top for a search for "sky ryder". Like all things Google it'll vary user to user but it was the first thing that came up for me and I figured it was funny enough point to write a few words about. 

I've had quite the offline discussion about this. I've tried firefox, explorer, firefox nightly incognito, safari, and the ios google app - not one of them returns this result.

I've asked quite a few people if they could get it to happen - so far, nobody outside of Parkz staff has told me they got it that way.

let me be clear - i'm not suggesting its shopped, faked or otherwise not real. I believe you got it to happen that way, and i believe other parkz staff could too (one could suggest perhaps the google profiles of Parkz staff could do with a cleanout, but one won't because a. it'd be a poor taste joke, and b. thats below the belt) I'm just saying it seems to be a very small group that could get that particular result, which leads me to my view that its probably an overly reaching statement to base a headline on "park names ride after porn star" if i may paraphrase.

"Writing a few words on it" and "lambasting the park for another misstep in a series of missteps" is a far cry, especially when, in all likelihood, nobody within Ardent or Dreamworld could reproduce the search results you've gotten, and therefore they weren't to know, because there are more than 60 Million search hits for your search alone, and since its spelled differently, they probably wouldn't have found it - and nor would their target (family) market.

 

Edit: i found someone outside of parkz staff able to replicate it - although the porn star is below the sky sports headlines instead of above.

Edited September 25, 20188 yr by AlexB
found someone!

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I mean I could have faked this screen capture in the last couple of minutes too...

A few words.  🤣

Hardly, and it was the bait used on Facebook.  Looks like parkz staff spend to much time in porn sites because I couldn't get it up.

Skeeta search Superman Escape =

Parkz search Superman Escape =

 

Edited September 25, 20188 yr by Skeeta

After watching Richard's capture - i tried to replicate and did indeed get the same.

 

The fact that the article says 'first result' is technically true, but when you have to scroll past a page of news feed results first, you don't see it on anything smaller than an iphone plus without scrolling.

Its still funny, but I think its still a long bow to criticise the park.

5 minutes ago, Skeeta said:

I couldn't get it up.

 

@AlexB it’s desktop viewing vs mobile viewing 

Can confirm I got it via Knowledge Graph both standard and incognito.

And we all thought DC Rivals HyperCoaster was a mouthful.

3 minutes ago, Slick said:

And we all thought DC Rivals HyperCoaster was a mouthful.

But not as much as Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster Next Generation! 

So could the trademark be for the VR returning?? Or is it for sure the flying theatre because I remember DW fb saying something about it possibly returning

I agree with AlexB here but the main thing I had an issue with was, did you really need to name some of her works? Just pointing out that a ride is named after her is one thing but I really wasn't ever expecting to see the words "Blow Me Sandwich 14" or anything similar in a Parkz article.

 

No point doing an article if it isn't properly researched

We never expected Dreamworld to spell Ryder the same way as a porn star. It's funny how life works out.

 

Not every article needs to be the most serious thing. This topic lends itself to being more light hearted in tone. There's a reason the funny titles were given rather than the straight up pornographic. I get that Blow me Sandwich 14 is an odd series of words to encounter in a Parkz article but such is life I guess.

Ok fair enough. I understand the play on words and that it was a joke. However it still felt like you were bashing on Dreamworld and kicking them when there already down. I know there is nothing positive noteworthy to write about Dreamworld. After seeing some of the comments on Facebook it is obvious people enjoyed the read but I didn't nor did I find it that funny. 

@joz I appreciate the effort in mixing up the articles and agree not every article needs to be serious. 

Lols sorry to go all... https://media.giphy.com/media/hmzZkvOJPLQti/200.gif

 

Edited September 25, 20188 yr by TomiJ

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• "getting on in years"
• "Scooby fire eyes"
• "fuschia"
• "themeing... lolz"
• "darkride walkthrough monorails"
• "sea screw cork viper"

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>If "new ride name" = "announced"

>then *google* "new ride name" + "porn"

>if *google result* = "porn star"

>then *display* "pornstar name and acting credits" + "lulz"

I predict every newly announced ride name will now be checked for Porn connections when posted to these forums.