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What theme park rides are allowed?
crystalribbon01-PGO
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Hi, I live in a town with a theme park. There's various portals attached to rides at the theme park in my town. I've nominated various rides in the park. I've got some through, but a couple got declined.
The portals that got declined had these reasons:
- nomination does not appear to permanent/ seasonal display
- nomination does not meet acceptance criteria
- real-world location of the nomination appears to represent a generic store or restaurant
I know that some of the rides in the park have been around nearly 2 decades, so they're definitely permanent. The ones I tried to add but were declined are: an orbiter ride, go-kart area and a kiddies flying carpet ride. The ones I had accepted were 2 roller coasters and a water ride.
Can this be added to the next Niantic Wayfarer Clarifications list?
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Mind posting some of the examples? It's likely that the reviewers were not doing their job correctly, though there's always little things that can improve the nominations and make them more likely to get approved.
IMO Rides inside theme parks are perfectly good nominations. A good example of a theme park with wayspots done well is Dollywood in Tennessee, which has a pretty good mix of POI for rides, artwork, historic buildings, and performance venues...
Things that might help: try to get a sign that shows the name of the ride, make sure there are no people visible in the photo, and if you have multiple features to choose from in a small area, pick the one that's most visually distinct.
These are some of them that failed.
I think the go kart should pass easy but if the orbiter and fluong carpet are anything oone the ones I've seen they have the misfortune of being made to look temporary. Maybe if you could find s list of rides on the park that might help your case for those 2?
They do have a official site for the theme park. When I submitted these, I added links to the specific ride on their site. But the official site doesn't mention any history about them. The only history I could find for them were from Wikipedia.
I would say that all theme park rides should be good. Is there satellite view of the park? Then if the rides have been in the same place since early 2000's as stated they should be kinda viewable on there.
I've yet to see a theme park with most, if not all of their rides being wayspots.
If you haven't added the links about the ride's history from wikipedia, try that. Sometimes nominations take a few tries to actually get approved because of the reviewers you end up getting.
I would say try to add photospheres for visibility, but COVID-19 :/