Movie World - The Next Few Years

[themagician]

WB Studio Showcase @Whombex

[WalleyWorld]

On 26/10/2019 at 5:19 PM, Ash said:

Kids area is overdue, took my 5 year old today and he was bored after an hour, lines were pretty short, 2 hours in the park we were gone

On 27/10/2019 at 8:27 PM, MacPark said:

The need to put some money into the kids area. It used to be a such a great part of the park and its really old and average now. It never recovered from the looney tunes river ride being taken away.

On 27/10/2019 at 12:17 AM, Baconjack said:

Kids area should be the first thing MW needs to pay attention to.

^Agree completely.

Movieworld didn't need Doomsday and the villains unleashed precinct. Instead they should have used that money to completely overhaul the Kids WB land, and add a much needed major family attraction to that area.

The whole villains unleashed area was a bizarre investment IMO.  It is completely separate from all other DC attractions. The area was designed for kids/tweens, but then the anchor ride is too intimidating for most kids and has a 140cm height requirement (thus restricting many kids from riding). And on top of that, let's make the area's interactive games an up-charge experience to piss everyone off 😂

Edited November 2, 2019 by Luke

[Brad2912]

The villains unleashed area is fantastically themed, the best cohesive themed area they’ve put together and caters for a wide demographic. Yes DD is too intense to be considered a family ride but the area as a whole is well executed, popular and fun for all. 

It wasn’t long after opening that the payment to activate the interactive elements was removed. It’s been free for well over a year. 

[themagician]

I definitely think the park needed a ride like DD and having the villains area just adds to the ride as a whole. That area of the park had no use and the park was lacking a flat ride. It lacked that ‘filling’ attraction. And the villains area as a whole, is great and adds to the whole ride experience and theming. Yes the park definitely needs to invest in an overhaul of the kids area, but DD was a definite must 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

On 02/11/2019 at 3:49 PM, Luke said:

Movieworld didn't need Doomsday and the villains unleashed precinct.

It did. Blazing saddles was tired AF, and the park - in addition to needing to upgrade the kids area - also needed a flat ride to pad the park out.

[RobMac]

An old LA Trolley Car style ride around the park - a nice balance to the Thrill Rides the park has, rightly so, heavily invested in.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

9 hours ago, RobMac said:

An old LA Trolley Car style ride around the park - a nice balance to the Thrill Rides the park has, rightly so, heavily invested in.

This is actually a really good suggestion. Main street would look great with a set of tracks running down, similar to Main St USA. Easy turning circles around the fountain, and at the top, either a circle around the 'green', or otherwise take it all the way up to intencity and circle the game outlet up there.

Great kinetic energy for the park, a different way for people to get from one end to the other...

Of course, in our modern safety conscious society, they'd probably need a person to walk in front of it to clear people out of the way, and we'd no doubt get idiots tripping on the tracks and trying to sue...

[joz]

If try it with a trackless bus or something first before you put rails down. My suspicion is that Main Street at MW is too narrow to run a ride up it most of the time.

[Richard]

As it stands they can't move a buggy carrying tensa barriers two metres down Main Street without half a dozen attendants passive aggressively shooing anyone in a 50 metre radius. Good luck with a permanent ride.

By any observable metric, Doomsday and surrounds was wasted capital. It was a very well executed concept that was... doomed... from the start because it was all wrong. It was meant to draw guests away from the front of the park but the attraction they chose was simply not strong enough to be able to do that. Then throw in the interactive elements that are aimed at a totally different audience from the ride. What we have is a ~$10 million spend on something that looks nice but doesn't achieve what they wanted it to. You only need to look at how quiet this area is even at peak times to see that this is the case.

[webslave]

39 minutes ago, Richard said:

What we have is a ~$10 million spend on something that looks nice but doesn't achieve what they wanted it to. You only need to look at how quiet this area is even at peak times to see that this is the case.

Also not helped by how it presents to the pathway.  Easy for many to pass it by without even realizing it's something to see.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

56 minutes ago, Richard said:

As it stands they can't move a buggy carrying tensa barriers two metres down Main Street without half a dozen attendants passive aggressively shooing anyone in a 50 metre radius. Good luck with a permanent ride.

By any observable metric, Doomsday and surrounds was wasted capital. It was a very well executed concept that was... doomed... from the start because it was all wrong. It was meant to draw guests away from the front of the park but the attraction they chose was simply not strong enough to be able to do that. Then throw in the interactive elements that are aimed at a totally different audience from the ride. What we have is a ~$10 million spend on something that looks nice but doesn't achieve what they wanted it to. You only need to look at how quiet this area is even at peak times to see that this is the case.

A solid VRTP critique for the attention of @CaptainLazerGuns

[WalleyWorld]

4 hours ago, Richard said:

By any observable metric, Doomsday and surrounds was wasted capital. It was a very well executed concept that was... doomed... from the start because it was all wrong.

Nice to know i'm not the only one with this opinion. Also nice pun.

4 hours ago, webslave said:

Also not helped by how it presents to the pathway.  Easy for many to pass it by without even realizing it's something to see.

100% agree. The Doomsday Destroyer attraction sign is fantastic. It's probably the best attraction entrance sign in aus. But they decided to hide it and face it towards the showstage? It should have been facing the main pathway, and the little shop moved to the back of the area.

Edited November 12, 2019 by Luke

[New display name]

11 minutes ago, Luke said:

Nice to know i'm not the only one with this opinion.

Anybody with a brain has this opinion.  The sign is facing the wrong way and the ride does the big sucko.  A lot of hohah for a subpar ride.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

I really don't understand the logic for that. Was it to encourage people to walk past all the interactive elements?

[themagician]

I would say so @AlexB and they probably wanted the store and it’s theming to be the front focus for the area and then for guests to become immersed into the precinct before entering the rides queue. I agree that this attraction definitely has one of the best themed entrances of any other ride on the GC. Arkham or Storm would probably be second. I don’t like it when they decide to close off those main entry gates and it ‘forces’ you to walk through the store. This gates should both always be left open.

[Gazza]

It's the Wonderland thing, it was basically to get everyone passing in and out through the shop.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

16 hours ago, Gazza said:

It's the Wonderland thing, it was basically to get everyone passing in and out through the shop.

Yeah but the wonderland plaza was huge, and didn't impede flow - there were large pathways that went straight through, with merch on either side. The doomsday shop is tiny, with sharp turn angles through the store, and many places only one person could fit through at a time (especially with a stroller). It just becomes an annoyance.

[Gazza]

Yeah i know, hence the open pathway next to Lex Luthors substation.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

...Yeah, but since its past the shop, and isn't obviously an access point until you have walked past it, most people wanting to get to doomsday will be forced through the shop when the 'park gates' are shut. It was stupid all around, and the only thing that makes sense is to open the gates - which then starves the shop of visitation.

the classic 'exit through the gift shop' was done so well at Green Lantern and Wild West Falls (although it failed at Superman for obvious reasons) the smartest thing would have been to simply exit the ride through the shop. period.