Green Lantern incident at MW

[Theme Park Girl]

Hahaha yeah I'm slightly addicted. I love theme parks! You wouldn't think I work 30+ hour weeks in between, would you ??? I spend most of my days off at them. I admit Movieworld has grown on me again too, since renewing our VIP passes. 

Usually we tend to avoid the parks on weekends since they are fairly hectic (yesterday was no exception, 30-45 min waits for most rides, inc. the kiddy ones :/) but I had a friend and her family visiting from out of town, so we put our "bring a friend for free" passes to good use lol  

We spotted the new activity on the Green Lantern from the car park on the way out. 

[Richard]

It's probably safe to assume that the causes of the incident have been determined -- from all the blurry photos and footage from the day of the incident it's reasonably clear that bolts have either worked loose or failed. I'm sure officials had the cause figured out very quickly.

Were it maintenance and nothing else I'd say we'd have seen the ride reopen by now. I'm inclined to think it's a design issue, which means there's a lengthy process of designing, testing and fabricating new parts  -- which could be as simple as replacement bolts, right up to completely rebuilt or brand new cars. Not to mention there's likely legal and insurance discussions taking place as blame/responsibility is assigned.

Edited June 22, 2015 by Richard

[New display name]

A couple of weeks ago the Green Lantern sign was on every night. But now it has been turned off again.

[Levithian]

I doubt police would have any reason to investigate, could be worksafe perhaps. Otherwise it was probably contractors inspecting and checking the track prior to maintenance beginning testing. I'd be keeping an eye out over the next week or so.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

I wasn't suggesting that it was police investigating - just using that description to describe the kind of coveralls I was referring to.

[Theme Park Girl]

It definitely looks like they are currently doing some kind of maintenance work on GL. Lots of hardware, safety things and bits n bobs around the floor of the ride atm. There's even one of those wheelie things that mechanics use to slide under cars...

[downunder196]

There was a train sitting there on Thursday ^

[Theme Park Girl]

Ta da! Test dummies and packaged new parts spotted today  

 

Edited July 4, 2015 by OceanGirl

[Brad2912]

Great news!

[Reanimated35]

Are the dummies blindfolded so it's not too scary for them?

[Theme Park Girl]

Yeah I think it's safe to dismiss the rumours of them demolishing it! I believe there is enough evidence now to suggest they are in fact repairing it in prep for reopening... why else would they be buying new parts and doing test runs? ???

What I am trying to work out now though is if that cart the dummies are sitting in is one of the old original ones, or a new/modified one? Does it look any different to you guys? 

[mba2012]

The train in the picture you took has red wheels, which for some reason looked out of place. So I looked through some earlier photos and they must be new. This photo was taken in 2012 and the wheels are a grey colour, not red.

[Reanimated35]

Logo on the front is missing the green part. Back wheel still looks grey. Wouldn't that just be fairly routine to replace the wheels every now and then anyway?

 

Also I can't be certain, but I think this changed. 

"The GREEN LANTERN Coaster is currently closed, re-opening date to be advised."

I thought it used to say something like "Closed until further notice"

Edited July 4, 2015 by reanimated35

[Theme Park Girl]

Also I can't be certain, but I think this changed. 

"The GREEN LANTERN Coaster is currently closed, re-opening date to be advised."

I thought it used to say something like "Closed until further notice"

Yeah nah, I thought the same thing and posted about it a couple of pages back, but someone said it has apparently always said that.

[Brad2912]

Has always said that

[mba2012]

Logo on the front is missing the green part. Back wheel still looks grey. Wouldn't that just be fairly routine to replace the wheels every now and then anyway?

 

Also I can't be certain, but I think this changed. 

"The GREEN LANTERN Coaster is currently closed, re-opening date to be advised."

I thought it used to say something like "Closed until further notice"

You say the logo on the front is missing the green part. Could it be possible that this detached and fell into the way of the wheels? Was it a separate plastic bit or something similar? Otherwise, why would that piece be missing other than being damaged in maintenance or something?

Scratch that. Looking through some earlier photos and it's still attached. Was just a thought 

Edited July 4, 2015 by mba2012

[Reanimated35]

Anything's "possible" we just have to wait for the report to come out. Maybe a bird flew past an threw a spanner at the wheel to stop it like they do in cartoons. 

 

I don't know why it wouldn't be there though. Maybe it was getting on in years and had to be replaced, maybe someone cracked it in the maintenance bay and took it off. Maybe it was never there to begin with?

[downunder196]

Because they were lights and not just a bit of plastic or whatever is it possible there weighed too much and will be removed? Not saying they added that much weight to the trains but if the accident happened because of the forces on the wheels removing weight could help fix the issue yeah?

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

The train in the picture you took has red wheels, which for some reason looked out of place. So I looked through some earlier photos and they must be new. This photo was taken in 2012 and the wheels are a grey colour, not red.

Coaster trains usually have a mix of Urethane and I think Nylon - they tend to look very different. I can't remember which is which (the Tatsu documentary explained it well) but basically one goes faster than the others, so they tend to use a mix of different materials on the trains to achieve the right speed \ force. 

I don't think Red Wheels are anything to go all crazy conspiracy theories though...

[Levithian]

Are we just guessing of a redesign or was something found out? Only asking because I didn't read all the pages/threads. Old cars could be new cars, just overhauled while the investigation takes place.

[rappa]

Looks to me that car has no side or under wheels currently in place??

[pin142]

Looks to me that car has no side or under wheels currently in place??

Some wheels are better than none!

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Well, they didn't need the side or under wheels that last time it operated...

[lifeofsamage]

I don't know if this has been disused but I've driven past on multiple occasions at night and seen cranes at the ride and in one instance a car was stuck at the top of the drop(before the breaks over the drop). Seems they are doing test runs but running to problems. I was looking today and they have replaced the sensors that where ripped off the track in the accident and there is evidence of track works. Sorry for bad quality, Didnt have my camera

Edited July 6, 2015 by lifeofsamage

[Theme Park Girl]

A friend of a friend (yeah, I know, reliable hahaha) works at Movieworld and told her that GL was supposed to be up and running for the school holidays. Who knows if it's true. But if it is, these problems encountered during testing cycles could explain why it wasn't ?