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2 hours ago, Brad2912 said:

You sound like someone who would have been in charge on maintenance procedures at DW this time last year.

”Just coasters they’ll be fine”  

“A one day quick checkover will do for this year” 

“morning walkthrough is enough”

”was fine last year, it’ll be fine this year”

”nothing has gone wrong before, so why would it now?”

"nothing has gone wrong before, they would have told us about it... right?"

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11 hours ago, themeparkaddict said:

HWSW and MDMC are very reliable rides, and have required little maintenance over the last couple years.

Mick Doohan had a massive hydronic fluid “spray out” last year and needed the hydronic launch lines to be reinstalled. Also can’t say I have seen every seat open on each train in the last few years, there is always harnesses out of use.

As for HWSW they only really need to pull the train apart and re-grease the lift chain when they do manual maintenance and maby check the brakes lock properly.

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5 hours ago, joel said:

Mick Doohan had a massive hydronic fluid “spray out” last year and needed the hydronic launch lines to be reinstalled. Also can’t say I have seen every seat open on each train in the last few years, there is always harnesses out of use.

As for HWSW they only really need to pull the train apart and re-grease the lift chain when they do manual maintenance and maby check the brakes lock properly.

I may be getting this totally wrong, but MDMC doesn't use a Hydraulic launch system? It's a tyre launch..

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Damn the maintenance schedule of dreamworld is really hard to follow. I booked a quick trip up last month and was happy to see that the TOT2 wouldn't be down when I was there cause I haven't been able to ride it for almost 5 years now. I kinda wish they would have a date and not change it around to much as they have been 

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  • 2 weeks later...

DREAMWORLD UPDATE

BUZZSAW

As I have precisely mentioned it remains closed for access to the new I-ride currently under construction.

GIANT DROP

EAST is back and looks ready for operation apart from some rags and a bucket of grease left behind.

MOTO COASTER

closed at around 4:20 for emergency training. Pitt and sherry were on site and so was someone is a red shirt but could not read business name. 

TOWER OF TERROR

Remains closed with a test every now and again.

TAIL SPIN

Due to people spinning to fast, they have limited the wing angles in the front few rows.

HOT WHEELS SIDE WINDER

due to the coaster running to slowly the engeniers came up and changed some of the ‘soft’ Tyers to the ‘hard’ Tyers to increase the speed.

CLAW

the claw seems to be the new tower of terror. Every single ride it has to be repositioned just like the tower has been doing.

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2 hours ago, Evie said:

That's not why Buzzsaw is closed.

Why is it really closed then?

I'm calling BS on the whole "Buzzsaw is closed because of i-ride" thing - checkout the screenshot below - there's more than enough space to put hoarding up that would allow for guests to access Buzzsaw & truck access for i-ride etc. It's 100% a convenient excuse while they figure out what to do next with Buzzsaw. Realistically, if they had a plan for Buzzsaw there'd be an end date for it's temporary closure.

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Any other park in the word gets equipment in before park operating hours or escorts equipment through the park if need be (which is exactly what they did when they were building Tailpsin, just to add). All of this is contemptuous to the guests and their day to day experience.

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7 minutes ago, joel said:

If a truck wanted to get in or out they need to remove all the que lines so they can drive through to the gate. Come on it’s dreamworld, do you think they are going to spend 10 minutes dissembling and reassembling the Que line every day??? I think not.

One thought @joel - the original exit pathway (and its fences) are all concreted in and could easily be re-purposed as the queue line (exactly like what Dreamworld did with Sidewinder) thus you could take out all of the queue line switchbacks to allow for easy temporary access during operating hours with all the typical trimmings of equipment being escorted etc. (like what they did building Tailspin.)

Another thought - everything to the right of that ride has been levelled - if you're smart, while you're demolishing acres of the park then you'd leverage the tools and expertise on hand to raise a secondary pathway for equipment that's not too heavy for the bridge that runs over River Rapids.

Even if either option was just somehow unfathomable by Dreamworld and the only access was at night and as you say, Dreamworld would have to "spend 10 minutes dissembling and reassembling the Que line every day" then jesus they should do exactly that if that's all it takes to keep a staple attraction open.

You know the bar's set astonishingly low for Dreamworld when an idea that maintains guest satisfaction at a minimum bar of "we  keep the rides you pay for open" is debated because of its fiscal impact to Weiss' bank account.

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They could very well easily use the exit by putting temporary barrier down the middle to split it in two. Also the exit path also has an access point at the rear of the station on the load side, so they could still use the auto gates.

 

and yes they could just build a cheap gravel road to the bridge.

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Although its been a while, I don't think the bridge over rapids is rated to more than 2t - I remember walking past there thinking that some of the maintenance vehicles we had at Wonderland wouldn't have made it over there.

I still don't buy that as the reason for the current closure, but even if it were - you can't just redirect traffic over that bridge when most construction vehicles would be too heavy.

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This is still the offical published reasoning for its closure

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@AlexB you’re right with that bridge wait being a max of 2 tonne. But they wouldn’t need to go over that bridge if they were wanting to access the Dreamworld cinema with machinery. BuzzSaws entrance is before that bridge

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22 hours ago, joel said:

They could very well easily use the exit by putting temporary barrier down the middle to split it in two. Also the exit path also has an access point at the rear of the station on the load side, so they could still use the auto gates.

 

and yes they could just build a cheap gravel road to the bridge.

Option 1 (ORANGE): Use the exit as the entry and exit of the ride and use the entry as site access.

Option 2 (GREEN): Build a Cheap Gravel road and cross at the bridge.

Option 3 (YELLOW): Follow the gravel road, fill the whole in near the bridge and then cross to the Buzzsaw entry. this way if a vehicle needs to get In or out they only have to close a 5x10m area for less then 5 minutes.

 

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TOTTING HELL YOU'RE FRUSTRATING. YOU CAN'T DRIVE ON THE BRIDGE FOR CONSTRUCTION AS 90% OF VEHICLES ACCESSING THE SITE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO CROSS IT DUE TO WEIGHT.

Since the flume channel will likely not be used for a flume again, they could probably fill it in, but until such time as the rest of the channel is dealt with, that isn't easy - because any rainfall captured into the top of the channel will flow down hill, and filling in the bridge prevents it from draining to the reservoir.

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