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The thing with the pre show, is if they are loading properly and running the attraction to its full capacity, i’d Prefer to sit through the pre show than to be standing outside in the bullpen with not

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Soarin has better presentation (queue area, preshow) but personally feel as though the ride experience they are both great especially given both parks respective budgets. Between the two you're essent

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Agree wholeheartedly here mate. At the end of the day we have to ask ourselves- now that Sky Voyager has finally opened, has it been worth the wait?, will it be successful?, and will it be the st

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29 minutes ago, dylan_oregan said:

@Slick what do you think of the facade?

It's fine I guess - it doesn't at all hold a candle to the old facade - I dunno who thought white panels was going to trump a Disneyland facsimile facade - the facades they demolished still appear in many of their photos and it's as iconic as the entrance plaza - but there you go, not my business I guess.

The shade design is the best bit - it should be the icing on the cake but right now with the white panelling I think it looks like it's missing something. As a theme park, white walls is just not good enough, as a building design, it's just not good enough, as something that's going to remembered as a potentially iconic turning point for a company, it's not good enough.

Recently I visited New Plymouth in NZ to checkout Mt Taranaki and the Len Lye Centre. In regards to the Len Lye Centre, my thought there is that if a regional town over the ditch can create an iconic aesthetic to their museum's facade then a multi-million dollar company like Ardent should be striving to do better. Especially if the benchmark's already "it used to look like a Disney facade" who are basically the defacto global standard in theme park quality, and especially if every shopping centre's dining precinct (like the one across the road at Westfield) does it better.

My advice if someone from Ardent is reading? I'd actually take inspiration from the Len Lye Museum and replace or treat the white panelling with a very thin sheet of coated aluminium mirror sheeting. Instead of bland white facades, they'd have a mirror finish which would reflect the sky and thus tying the "soaring over the sky" subtext  of the ride experience much more closely to the real world design. It'd be a relatively minor design change that wouldn't be too expensive to implement and would bring up the look of the ride to something very, very premium and iconic. It'd also make the design look more like the original concept artwork.

 

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Len Lye Centre above.

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Other mirror-finish facades.

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As I said - you can get the aluminium cladding down to a fraction of a millimetre thick and delivered on a spool.

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A few of the white panels are slightly dented. Presumably done during construction to force them to fit when they were not quite the right size.

It's not a huge deal but it is easy to spot. Not sure if Dreamworld will be demanding the contractor rectify this but I think they should. 

If the metallic finish was applied though the imperfections would likely be unnoticeable. 

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A few of the white panels are slightly dented. Presumably done during construction to force them to fit when they were not quite the right size.

It's not a huge deal but it is easy to spot. Not sure if Dreamworld will be demanding the contractor rectify this but I think they should. 

If the metallic finish was applied though the imperfections would likely be unnoticeable. 

I'd say that was due to the recent storms.

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Are we days or weeks away from opening? 

Every day closed is a missed opportunity. The 26th-30th of December are historically the busiest days with crowds up to 5 times that of a low season day. I wonder how many Holiday makers will visit DW only if Skyvoyager is open?

They should have thrown everything (short of putting a roll cage!) to get this thing ready on time. 

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3 minutes ago, MickeyD said:

Are we days or weeks away from opening? 

Every day closed is a missed opportunity. The 26th-30th of December are historically the busiest days with crowds up to 5 times that of a low season day. I wonder how many Holiday makers will visit DW only if Skyvoyager is open?

They should have thrown everything (short of putting a roll cage!) to get this thing ready on time. 

My crystal ball says days - they're definitely burning the midnight oil to get this running.

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55 minutes ago, MickeyD said:

Yeah bullshit mate. How many times have you been on one if these rides?

Personally I have ridden Soarin version 1 more times than Rivals. And I am not alone

Let's all calm our farms - i've had to hide a few posts which weren't necessary.

The key will be just how good the film is, I think. If it's not up to scratch that's really going to hurt chances of wanting to re-ride.

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