Movie World Maintenance Schedule 2025

[Ash]

So just did a formal school drop off tonight at MovieWorld, joker head is missing heaps of LED lighting plus flickering, also I thought they were painting the rest of the coaster? Lift hill, drop and first air time hill is still untouched but the ride is operational. 

[TV15]

Can second this. Went by on the bus earlier this week and saw Rivals testing the whole time we were stuck in the carpark. Checking the maintenance schedule it seems Superman Escape has shit the bed again and is now closed, hence why they tried to get Rivals reopen sooner.

[themagician]

The Flash was meant to reopen tomorrow; but it’s been pushed back by a week. So school holidays starting and Superman, Flash, WWF and Scooby are closed.

[Ash]

Superman will be the next on the chopping block, nearly all hydraulic launches are disappearing. They were testing green lantern until 7 tonight when I left the formal. Not once did I see Flight of the wicked witch in operation from 430-5 

[MickeyD]

1 hour ago, Ash said:

So just did a formal school drop off tonight at MovieWorld, joker head is missing heaps of LED lighting plus flickering, also I thought they were painting the rest of the coaster? Lift hill, drop and first air time hill is still untouched but the ride is operational. 

I hear that's intentional 🙄 evidently it hasn't worked out as planned 

[themagician]

Here is where they have repainted DC Rivals up too

I believe they have painted the lift hill too

And if you zoom in on this image you can see all of the dead bulbs

 

Maybe they were never intending to replace the bulbs or finish repainting the track this year, but it is a shame too see when it’s closed for so long and they went to all that effort to remove the joker head.

[New display name]

You don't pull it down without the intention to fix it.  I don't know what happened but you don't install it again before it's fixed.  Sometimes MW makes me question, do they really give a f$%k anymore.

[themagician]

@New display name someone had shared some close up photos of the framing having rusting, so I’m thinking they removed it purely to do some repairs on the structure.

But yes, why they didn’t go and get new bulbs to replace the few hundred that aren’t working baffles me. There’s a Bunnings within a 5 minute drive from the park, it can’t be that hard (I know the bulbs might not be standard, etc etc)!

[rappa]

That Joker head is not made of ‘bulbs’, just the same as Green Lantern. 
 

It’s essentially a big custom shaped LED Screen (think concerts or stadiums) made of millions of tiny high powered LEDs which are prone to failure over time. You can’t just replace a few on something like this. 
 

FWIW I drove past last night and it looked totally fine at night which is it’s intention at the end of the day. 
 

Of all the low hanging fruit I’ll leave this one on the tree. 

[themagician]

@rappa I’m not expert in this area, but looking at this close up photo from @Theme Park Girl to me they look like individual bulbs (but if I’m wrong, good to know they are actually LEDs).

 

[rappa]

Yes so what you see there is an LED chip (the rectangle part) and then a lens in front (the dome portion). 
 

The Joker head is a bit more simplistic than GL because they are higher powered, spaced apart chips, theoretically can be changed out, but tricky and specialized. 
 

GL is more like a traditional LED wall, made up individual cabinets, with smaller bare chips located within ‘shaders’ that keep the sun off and make them brighter in the daylight. 
- fun fact, the GL logo would be capable of displaying full video content (albeit only green) but at the time of it’s install it was not desired to implement that capability. 

[New display name]

Durring the day it looks horrible.  (when all guest enter the park)

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Yeah it's not like screwing in a new lightbulb \ lamp into an edison mount - but it is repairable.

 

I figure you could technically just replace the broken ones - but it's circuit board level repairs - like replacing a processing chip on a motherboard x 100 and not worth the labour compared to just replacing the entire board when it's time to do so.

[Dean Barnett]

Maybe they skimped out on the LED when the head was on the ground and the weather has already destroyed it 

[Levithian]

Each one of those "bulbs" are a 3 in 1 SMD. Both displays are custom Vuepix LED screens developed for ULA. The joker head is a custom GM series LED screen. It's still made up of a bunch of modules that connect together, but it was designed with greater LED pitch as it's purely signage, there's no infill panel it's completely open.

Obviously more a bespoke design/shape, but they had a lot of problems with the GL panels over the years too, including water damage. Even if you don't lose a panel, you can lose a signal or power module that will take out an entire group and you're just left with a big portion of your sign missing. Wanted to get away from these sorts of issues. 

Not sure if cost comes into it a lot when you are building a custom 130sqm sign. Thats coverage about half the size of an average house. When you think of it that way, it starts to really drive home how large the sign is. 

Edited 19 hours ago by Levithian