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TAR 18 Locations/Destinations **spoilers**
Plaidmoon:
--- Quote from: theschnauzers on January 07, 2011, 09:08:56 PM ---It is entirely possible that the delays encountered by the one flight that diverted to Hawaii on the way could have thrown the timeline for the Oz legs off. That makes sense to me on the one hand, and I'm doubtful we'll ever know from the episode on the other.
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That's a good point. The rest of the race was so well hidden (aside from China and perhaps the Florida Keys) that we know little about what happened. To have this first leg in such a heavily traveled and public location strikes me as a last second change. Perhaps when teams got delayed (by a day?) on the way to Hawaii, a location that had been planned as the sign up area was not available and the square next to the Town Hall was the best that could be arranged on short notice. Then again, the aquarium at Manly and the public beach they used were bound to attraction attention, so maybe TAR just figured they were going to be seen and word would get out anyway, so it didn't make any difference. Did the teams spend the whole afternoon and overnight waiting period in the area next to the Town Hall or did they eventually get taken to a hotel for the night? If so, why didn't they do so as soon as they arrived to minimize the time they were in view of the public? While teams have spent the night camped out in public in the past, I don't think it's been done in a country where TAR is so widely viewed. When it was done in the past, the teams weren't All-Star teams that people would recognize. If things in Sydney were rearranged at the last minute, I suppose it's possible that TAR couldn't get 20 or 25 hotel rooms and thus the teams got to hang outdoors and wait. That whole turn of events in Sydney is puzzling. It could have hardly been set up better for us to get maximum spoilage.
This looks like it will be the season known for travel delays. We've got the plane diverted to Hawaii, the suggestion that planes into Europe were delayed due to bad weather, the possibility that trains were used in Europe rather than flying for the same reason and the delayed flight either into or out of Brazil (I forget which it was) due to pilot illness. Have we seen that many flight problemss in the past? I can't remember a season with that many issues.
BayBay:
Although we did experience a diversion it only set some teams back 4 hours?? at most. Not enough time to stuff up a whole leg!
According to the Manly Local Council's website: "If filming relates to a private property, then at least five working days notice is required."
Also: "The Filming Production Company shall be subject to a further 75% of the application fee, should alterations to an issued filming permit subsequently be requested."
Additionally: "In the event of cancellation due to bad weather and/or change of filming/photography dates, rescheduling must be sought a minimum of one day prior to the new date."
I'm not sure of the costs but I doubt that WRP just has extra money to throw around.
SOURCE: http://www.manly.nsw.gov.au/IgnitionSuite/uploads/docs/2010.2011%20Film%20%20Application.pdf
Basically there MUST have been some wisdom between using Town Hall as the rest stop. They might have assumed that teams would have checked in by 1pm?? And having known that they would be staying overnight, they would have moved to somewhere more comfortable?? I am not sure TBH.
Coutzy:
--- Quote from: BayBay on January 08, 2011, 02:09:04 AM ---Basically there MUST have been some wisdom between using Town Hall as the rest stop. They might have assumed that teams would have checked in by 1pm?? And having known that they would be staying overnight, they would have moved to somewhere more comfortable?? I am not sure TBH.
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The sign at Oceanworld had them closed until 2 PM, so I think they thought the last team would be out by roughly1 PM
DrRox:
It could be something as simple as the rooms were not ready at the hotel yet. They do monitor this site, so maybe they knew it was already spoiled....so why get in a hurry to get the teams off to their hotel.
Coutzy:
Its possible that they wanted to film some shots of the teams milling and chatting as well.
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