Fun at Movie World

True to my word, whilst Nicole slumbered today I took Eloise to Movie World, a ghastly theme park down at the Gold Coast.

For one not particularly familiar with the whole concept of movies, it took a bit of explanation to make the difference clear between Movie World and Sea World... and I'm not sure that I really succeeded in that.

Bereft of a map, we wandered aimless as clouds. We watched the Lethal Weapon rollercoaster for a bit. That's one of those Nemesis type thingies. Eloise wanted to go but she was too short.

The first real spectacle we witnessed was a Batman show wherein some strange bloke with a sack on his head, accompanied by armoured dancing Ninjas attempted to blow up Gotham City. Batman as expected turned up in quite an impressive Batmobile and indulged in a large amount of mock violence before foiling the caper.

It was pretty awful. Eloise enjoyed it in kind of a bemused way.

Then we went and watched the log flume. Eloise thought it looked like a lot of fun but didn't want to get wet, instead insisting that we get chicken nuggets.

The nearest we could manage was a "Calamity Jane Chicken Pack" of outrageously priced junk chicken crap and chips. I ate some of the chips. Eloise sampled the chicken before declaring it inedible.

We had a look at a few rides but Eloise was too short for all of them. She still comes in at 99cm, and 100cm is the minimum for most things there.

We found the kiddies section soon thereafter and the carousel, Tweety-pie Cages and Sylvester's Lift-a-tron were popular.

We queued for another rollercoaster, mysteriously named the River Ride, which we could get on without fear of height-realted discrimination before discovering that it wasn't a rollercoaster at all but a dark indoor ride in boats. Hence the name I suppose.

For all that it was pretty tacky and all that, it was good fun. And with our Q150 pass, totally free. So that was something.