Theme Park Maintenance 2018

[themagician]

The first ride closure for maintenance for this year has been posted:

Justice League 3D -  Closed for scheduled maintenance on Monday 19th February and will re-open on Monday 12th March 2018

Edited October 1, 2018 by Slick

[Minions!]

Can anyone confirm that The BRO was closed today?

[Jay Jay The Jet Plane]

Maintenance page says it was 

just for today only though

[Naazon]

On 11/01/2018 at 9:15 PM, Adventures With JWorld said:

Maintenance page says it was 

just for today only though

And today apparently.

 

Giant Drop also has 4 days booked out in Feb. Assuming to fix the west side.

[themagician]

GD has had that 4 day maintenance period there was months now, even before the issues with the west side 

[themeparkaddict]

Wipeout has reopened! (according to the website anyway)

[themagician]

Can confirm from DW that the Wipeout has reopened 

[Rollercoaster_Lover]

1 hour ago, themagician said:

Can confirm from DW that the Wipeout has reopened 

Have you been on it?? Are the water cannons working?

[Slick]

23 minutes ago, Rollercoaster_Lover said:

Have you been on it?? Are the water cannons working?

From what i've seen on Facebook it's operating sans longboards on each end of the ride and no water canons. I'll have to drop in over the next few days and check it out.

[themagician]

 

[Mc coaster]

Great to see wipeout back in action!!👍🏻👍🏻

[westical]

So good. 

[Ryno]

I cant believe it. I hadn't been to Dreamworld in 10 years and was in Qld for a week from the 9th jan and went to the park last Thursday, Saturday and two days ago on Monday. I saw them testing on Monday. Im disappointed i missed riding it by two days as im back home now on the NSW Central Coast but its great to see it back, my favourite ride at the park. I sacrificed not going to movieworld and riding DC Rivals because the kids wanted to do DW and WWW this time. Them the breaks i suppose. I love the slow rolling double flip the best.

[WipeoutDreamworldFan]

Some things I’ve noticed since the reopening today:

- Water canons missing

- Surfboards missing (doubt they will be back) 

- Wipeout logo under the gondola missing

- Still making groaning noises, but to be expected with brand new parts in operation.

Maybe they just wanted the ride reopened finally after such a long period of time and in the next maintenance period they will add them back in. Not too sure about the surfboards, maybe the safety audits told Dreamworld to get rid of them as well with the water canons. 

Really wish they would change Wipeout back to the original cycle, the one in use now and since the 2014 refurb is just too short, but thats my opinion. Great to finally have it back!

[Rollercoaster_Lover]

37 minutes ago, WipeoutDreamworldFan said:

Some things I’ve noticed since the reopening today:

- Water canons missing

- Surfboards missing (doubt they will be back) 

- Wipeout logo under the gondola missing

- Still making groaning noises, but to be expected with brand new parts in operation.

Maybe they just wanted the ride reopened finally after such a long period of time and in the next maintenance period they will add them back in. Not too sure about the surfboards, maybe the safety audits told Dreamworld to get rid of them as well with the water canons. 

Really wish they would change Wipeout back to the original cycle, the one in use now and since the 2014 refurb is just too short, but thats my opinion. Great to finally have it back!

The surfboards are definetly coming back, there is new surfboards out the pack of white water world ith a fresh coat of paint, you would probably find that they just wanted to get it opened before holidays finished, you would probably find that they will be adding all that stuff after park hours

[joel]

I remember when the wipeout reopened at the start of last year, the first month there was no water or cannons spraying you. About 1-2 month before it closed, they filed the pool and started spraying people.

[Mc coaster]

Does anybody know what is happening to the BRO, the maintenance page says it still closed.

[joel]

appears that the wipeout has already broken down😒

 

[Jay Jay The Jet Plane]

WNW

Mach 5

Closed for scheduled maintenance from Monday 30th April and will re-open on Monday 10th December 2018.

Edited January 19, 2018 by Adventures With JWorld

[Rollercoaster_Lover]

43 minutes ago, Adventures With JWorld said:

WNW

Mach 5

Closed for scheduled maintenance from Monday 30th April and will re-open on Monday 10th December 2018.

Why would it need to be close for 8 months??

[Guest 239]

14 minutes ago, Rollercoaster_Lover said:

Why would it need to be close for 8 months??

Structural issues perhaps? Haven't been to WNW in a very long time so I can't provide a first hand experience of how it's holding up.

[themagician]

The jetstreams still remain closed and have been for several months now, so it could be to do with that 

[Guest 239]

5 minutes ago, themagician said:

The jetstreams still remain closed and have been for several months now, so it could be to do with that 

Jetstreams within the actual ride itself? What affect do they have on the ride itself?

[themagician]

@CaptainLazerGuns Jetstreams is a part of Mach 5. 

[themeparkaddict]

The chance that Sidewinders OR Jetstreams are currently experiencing a structural issue is quite hard to believe in my opinion.

Match 5 is less than 13 years old. Structural issues on  hydroslides are normally either caused by a design flaw or corrosion. Believe me, if WnW or any company or person associated with the park knew that Jetstreams had a structural issue now, or even a very small structural issue, match 5 would not be operating NOW, as a problem with Jetstreams structure also poses a risk to Match 5, as it is on the same slide tower. Think of it this way, WWW closed all slides on the bro's tower for a day when they installed a shade sail. Though operating RIP and Triple Vortex could be operated during this time, it still poses a risk to these slides which is why they were closed.

A slide, even one which is situated by the waterfront (not that one in Helensvale really is), should last a good 25 years if it is engineered properly, without experiencing structural issues such as corrosion.

Like Wipeout, we are probably needing something major, such as new pumps. Or who knows, we could even be seeing a major refurbishment in some way, shape or form.

Let's not forget, the sign which is located by match 5 entrance says "Jetstreams are currently undergoing refurbishment".