Jack_TPW said:The girl on RMT didnt look older than 15
the full article is at http://www.salfordonline.com/entertainm ... ails=36973Lucky winner, Sarah Manton, 14, was visiting Alton Towers Resort from Salford on a school trip with St Ambrose Barlow School
EuroSatch said:When I was working there, studios quoted £6k to repaint Oblivion.
It may well be a tiny amount for a marketing budget, but it could be used for so much good in so many other budgets (maintenance and staffing being the obvious choices). For example, it could pay for over 1,000 staffing hours. Satch suggests that £6k will paint Oblivion, and even with inflation I won't believe it would cost much more than £8k now (certainly find it hard to believe that £8k wouldn't even paint the drop).mrbrightside said:£8000 is an absolutely tiny amount of the marketing budget ... The amount truly is trivial. Why people are focussing on it so much I don't know.
Rupert said:EuroSatch said:When I was working there, studios quoted £6k to repaint Oblivion.
£6000?!!!
I am absolutely staggered this hasn't been done. Completely blown away. They spend £8000 on nothing, they spend countless millions on absolutely gash marketing stunts, they waste thousands of pounds on new stalls that don't open, and they won't spend £6000 to repaint Oblivion?! The most iconic ride in the park, that currently looks like it's being left to fall apart. It's ridiculous how much better and less run down the entirety of X Sector would look if Oblivion was it's imposing, completely matt jet black self again. Aaarrrgghhh.
Regardless of whether we agree or not on how the budgets should be used, each area of the park clearly has a different budget. Namely there appears to be one for marketing and one for the general running of the park (which I assume is split down into maintenance, staffing, etc).Islander said:It may well be a tiny amount for a marketing budget, but it could be used for so much good in so many other budgets (maintenance and staffing being the obvious choices). For example, it could pay for over 1,000 staffing hours. Satch suggests that £6k will paint Oblivion, and even with inflation I won't believe it would cost much more than £8k now (certainly find it hard to believe that £8k wouldn't even paint the drop).mrbrightside said:£8000 is an absolutely tiny amount of the marketing budget ... The amount truly is trivial. Why people are focussing on it so much I don't know.
As a large supermarket keeps saying, 'Every Little Helps', and I just feel this money could be better spent. As Rupert asks, why are the budgets so ring-fenced? If £8k is a 'drop in the ocean' for marketing, then they won't miss it, surely...
EuroSatch said:Whether it is £6k or £6m, however Merlin Studios and Towers are all part of the same group, and the cost would effectively be nil on the balance sheets as it would be considered money owed/due to subsidiary undertakings. I personally feel there is no excuse for not using intergroup services to maintain the park
The Psychoaster said:Imagine the time it would take to repaint the entirety of Oblivion though?! The track is huge, it would need many layers to make it weatherproof as it was from '98, and a lot of it is underground which surely makes the job even more difficult!
It just can't be £6k, otherwise it surely would have been done?
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