Movie World Maintenance Schedule 2025

[Ash]

Credit to MovieWorld for actually acknowledging and explaining the situation, they very rarely do that. Hopefully they don’t pull a Six Flags KingDa Ka moment on us though. 

[webslave]

It's strange how you can complete maintenance of GL ahead of schedule when you're in a situation where another ride has gone down and presumably also requires people to spend time investigating it too.

[themagician]

To be fair, the coaster did close almost a month early because a car valleying, however if Superman and Flash didn’t close as well, I definitely wouldn’t have thought they would be opening the coaster almost a month early

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

With all the other accelerators around the world going down or getting retrofitted, I'm wondering how long Superman has left.

[ShakeShack]

On 31/8/2025 at 8:18 AM, webslave said:

It's strange how you can complete maintenance of GL ahead of schedule when you're in a situation where another ride has gone down and presumably also requires people to spend time investigating it too.

Or... they've investigated the issue, now have to sit and wait for the manufacturer to sort it out. Meaning you now have more crew with nothing to do.

[New display name]

On 31/08/2025 at 9:14 AM, themagician said:

To be fair, the coaster did close almost a month early because a car valleying, however if Superman and Flash didn’t close as well, I definitely wouldn’t have thought they would be opening the coaster almost a month early

GL valleyed on the 20th of July and maintenance schedule was due to start on the 23rd of July.  MW has shown us before they can maintain a ride a lot quicker then MW currently do and why I believe, maintenance is dragged out to reduce ruining cost.

[franky]

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With all the other accelerators around the world going down or getting retrofitted, I'm wondering how long Superman has left.

I'm of two minds about SE's future.

Positive Thoughts:
While the accelerators aren't sold anymore, outside of TTD/Kinga Ka we haven't really seen any permanently removed yet (others have been relocated). Xcelerator has had a recent lengthy downtime, but was returned to service, and has now had KK's parts sent over to be used.

Negative Thoughts:
The ride is 20 years old this year, it's not going to last forever. MW has demonstrated in the past that they plan to keep things open and operational, until they don't, and the ride gets quietly shuttered and demolished.

Future Thoughts:
Intamin LSM launches are 'good enough' in that you'll have a thrilling ride still if they were to retrofit it somehow or replace it with something like a blitz model (like Maverick but with newer more comfortable trains). It won't be punchy as the hydraulic launch but it will be cheaper to maintain.

The cost of maintaining vs the cost of replacing will be the main driver for Superman's longevity.

[Levi]

i could see them replacing the launch with LSM’s and replacing the trains with new gen blitz trains. 

I wonder what’s going on with Flash, it’s meant to be open for fright nights still but it has been closed alongside Superman, with the trains removed from the tracks.

[Baconjack]

Both lsm retrofits so far (zamperla) by all accounts have had a lot of bugs since opening. Intamin can do these retrofits themselves as well not just zamperla so there’s a few options.

Superman launch track is quite short and for a conversion to be on the table it needs to fit within the existing track layout (ie not require a swing launch), I’ll leave that up to Intamin or zamperla to figure that out.

Of course with new vehicles that means new clearances so a lot more work would have to be done to adjust the envelope inside the building and when the ride goes in and out of the building during the course so that needs to be considered as well.

Superman is the only ride at the park that in my view is worth retrofitting (along with scooby which has been done already). Everyone loves it even 20 years later, it always gets a massive line whenever it is open. Village would be fools not to look at it as an option and see if a conversion is possible, otherwise work out a replacement straight away and get the ground running because movie world cannot depend on rivals & green lantern as its only major thrill coasters for 3-4 years.

Like a few other comments a new Intamin launch coaster would be perfect, but I’m aware space is a bit limited on that site so I wouldn’t mind a tilt coaster or a dive coaster.

I could probably see superman running for another 3 years at least before any of this happens. The new parts should keep it running for a bit longer

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[wikiverse]

5 minutes ago, Baconjack said:

Superman launch track is quite short and for a conversion to be on the table it needs to fit within the existing track layout

Red Force can accelerate a train from 0-100kph in 2 seconds, which is the same as Superman, so the current track length is enough if MW were to invest in the same super-capacitors.  Regardless, modern LSMs can be placed on curved track and vertical track, so the launch could just continue up the top hat.

S&S also do compressed air launches which are still being produced.  So there are more options than just an LSM conversion.

[TBoy]

If Superman does close I can't see them removing it. I reckon it's arguably the second most well-known ride at the park behind DC Rivals (with Scooby and WWF close behind) but I can see a lot of angry people if it does get removed.

Considering both Scooby and WWF got major refurbishments, I can see Superman getting the same treatment. Replace the launch track with LSMs and redo the pre-show and queue, keeping the ride layout the same whilst offering a different experience from the previous one. The only problem is if Zamperla rather than Intamin redoes it as TT2 is very unreliable.

Otherwise if not I can see them replacing Superman with something similar. I would love to see an Intamin Blitz themed to Batman continue to have the top hat and pre-show element, but change the layout to one that uses the grass area between Superman's current layout and the studios. Something similar to Gotham City Escape at Parque Warner Madrid with a similar queue area and vibe.

Edited 2 hours ago by TBoy