Movieworld 30 Year Anniversary Celebration Predictions

[themagician]

The car park was pretty empty considering it’s school holidays. Main Street was attracting the crowds the most. The biggest ride queue I saw was Scooby at 45 minutes 

[Vidgamer]

Was there this morning, agree the vibe is amazing, always something happening. The app has updated so you need to be in park to VQ, that seems to have improved the VQ wait times, at 11 hypercoaster was only 10 minutes, green lantern was empty ! 
 

It’s a great event 

[themagician]

 

While the Yosemite Sam’s Diner isn’t open, we have got some sort of version of it

[Im Hungry]

After a very nice visit to Movieworld today, must I say, it was probably the best visit I've had so far. Entertainment everywhere. Movie magic all over Main Street...

The rides were sooo good too, with Rivals having low physical and Virtual Queue times (with a few 30 mins waits). Superman was a walk-on in the morning while also running 2 trains. Green Lantern was a walk-on and dead all day with 4 carriages on-track (with a 5th cling wrapped and duct taped down to the storage/maintenance track 🤨). Scooby... well you had better chances getting on by using Virtual Queue (10 mins VQ wait time most of the day). Doomsday was closed in the morning then opened later on with minimal physical and Virtual Queue waiting times.

So yeah... Nice day indeed.

[Ogre]

Also had a great day at MW. The atmosphere was amazing. Characters everywhere. Happy guests. Good operations on the rides by Movie World standards, too!

Seeing Marvin 3D again was a great throwback and a lot of fun. The crowd in my showing were absolutely loving it - replace Yogi with this please!

Parade was surprisingly good. Lots of character both old and new, with the new Gremlin float being my personal highlight.

Great stuff! 👍

 

Edited June 26, 2021 by OgreMagic

[Naazon]

On 25/06/2021 at 5:54 PM, Brad2912 said:

New Ricks menu 

I actually find this kinda hilarious since QLD only just relaxed the buffet COVID rules allowing buffets again.

 

Also chiming in with everyone else. MW was great today, lots of staff and characters and low ride wait times.

 

Some Nathan dude in a suit was walking around watching all the main street shows then chatting to his staff after them also, and noticed a lot of filming going on, some seemed professional too.

Edited June 26, 2021 by Naazon

[themagician]

@Naazon I’d say it’s was the parks media team capturing content to share over the next couple weeks. They usually get all the content on the first day 

[Naazon]

6 hours ago, themagician said:

@Naazon I’d say it’s was the parks media team capturing content to share over the next couple weeks. They usually get all the content on the first day 

I assumed as much. Would have added difficulty with low crowd numbers and somber skies.

[Rabbit2014]

That superman comic from Earlier post is the gremlins for the main parade. There are moving gremlins in bowl, oven and cupboard

Edited June 27, 2021 by Rabbit2014

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

On 27/06/2021 at 12:34 AM, Naazon said:

Some Nathan dude in a suit

Assuming it's who I think it is, my goodness he's come along way - and if he still lurks - well done to him.

[westical]

So the lockdown couldn’t have come at a worse time. Expect cheap merch. 

[Naazon]

They may extend it over a number of weekends

[MWgirl247365]

3 hours ago, Naazon said:

They may extend it over a number of weekends

I would LOVE to see that happen but sadly I doubt it, BUT I’ll keep everything crossed 🤞🏻 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Pretty sure they've taken on a lot of temporary entertainment staff for this event. Being able to extend it would only be possible if the bulk of those temps were able to extend their contract - this will likely come down to whether anyone had the foresight to include an extension clause in their agreements rather than a fixed term. 

It'd be nice if they were able to. Honestly for a 30th anniversary it would have been nice if they'd done something that ran all year, even if it had an 'off peak' mode rather than a limited couple-week run during the coldest months of the year.

[themagician]

I was also surprised they didn’t bring some of the other iconic Looney Tunes characters they used to have, such as Taz. Are there any other Looney Tunes characters that they’ve had at the park that I can’t remember?

[SnowyRiverSam]

23 hours ago, themagician said:

I was also surprised they didn’t bring some of the other iconic Looney Tunes characters they used to have, such as Taz. Are there any other Looney Tunes characters that they’ve had at the park that I can’t remember?

Granny, Witch Hazel and Pepe Le Pew.

[themagician]

Witch Hazel, really? When was that?

And was there ever Elmer Fudd?

[SnowyRiverSam]

Just now, themagician said:

Witch Hazel, really? When was that?

And was there ever Elmer Fudd?

Witch Hazel made an appearance at the Halloween Family Fun Nights event in 2007. I don’t think Elmer has ever appeared as a meet and greet character. 

[jjuttp]

23 hours ago, themagician said:

I was also surprised they didn’t bring some of the other iconic Looney Tunes characters they used to have, such as Taz. Are there any other Looney Tunes characters that they’ve had at the park that I can’t remember?

IIRC they may have also had a Marvin.

[Brad2912]

3 hours ago, SnowyRiverSam said:

Pepe Le Pew.

You’ll never see him again, he’s been #cancelled

3 hours ago, jjuttp said:

IIRC they may have also had a Marvin.

Marvin is there currently, along with porky and Foghorn which are not part of the usual lineup 

[themagician]

6 hours ago, Brad2912 said:

You’ll never see him again, he’s been #cancelled

Why’s that? He always used to make an appearance on Valentines Day

[Gazza]

2 hours ago, themagician said:

Why’s that? He always used to make an appearance on Valentines Day

Has he been seen on Valentines day after he was cancelled?

[themagician]

43 minutes ago, Gazza said:

Has he been seen on Valentines day after he was cancelled?

When was he cancelled?

[jjuttp]

38 minutes ago, themagician said:

When was he cancelled?

Heres your backstory

https://deadline.com/2021/03/pepe-le-pew-space-jam-2-new-york-times-rape-culture-controversy-1234708688/

[Park Addict 93]

Event has been extended to July 18.