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History tells us that creating a culture that pressures people into keeping rides open is a bad idea. Furthermore, there’s a reason why there’s the perception that if you take your car to the car-maker directly to get serviced that it’ll get better maintenance and care. Consider that the mechanics are niche to that particular brand and therefore have more experience and knowledge to do a better job. But some people here think the solution is to take their car to the local grease-monkey equivalent who promises they can do a better job and for cheaper? Crazy. There’s two halves to the downtime problem, both due to the pandemic. On one hand, there’s undoubtedly been a brain drain in the industry. These aren’t simple bits of kit - there are hundreds of thousands of parts, rules, regulations and codes that would take any good maintenance person years to understand in order to realistically anticipate the parts and scheduling requirements to keep a ride operational. So there’s a skill shortage and the industry needs to replace those who have left the industry, and then those maintenance staff remaining are being pulled in two directions - one where they need to upskill new staff, and another where they are required every which way because their niche skills are in short supply in the organisation they’re at. Want to know how you create burn out and further brain drain? Rinse and repeat that last sentence. Then you’ve got part supply issues - if maintenance staff have got plenty of tenure they might be able to anticipate potential shortages, but that’s a big maybe. But if post pandemic budgets are still tight and parts are at a premium because of economic conditions, maintenance staff might be asked to not keep so many spares afoot and have a more ad-hoc approach to consumeables. Suddenly you’ve got a strategic decision infiltrating multiple departments and creating outcomes that are the opposite of what the organisation is after. But yeah, just subcontract out maintenance, that’ll fix the issue. 🫠

Just one correction here - Much as i'm not a fan of the page, in most cases, he just reposts what is sent to him, and truly believes it. Over the years a lot of folk have created fakes and fed it to the page, and a lot of it has gotten through because he believes it.

Actually Dean is (or at least was) completely correct. Luna Park's maintenance team were always part of (and referred to as) Multiplex. They were pretty much always the same team based at the park though, so I wouldn't really call it outsourcing. But I don't know the details of the arrangement. Multiplex, the company, was a major shareholder of Luna Park. They probably still are

Honestly, its disgusting to charge full price for that.

Fully assembled now with fences back (thanks to Theme Park Ogre)

If we learnt anything from the inquiry into the DW is the people caring out the maintenance aren't engineers. Yes, Village have a couple of engineers, but I doubt they do the day-to-day task. Village current job opportunity - Rides Mechanical Tradesperson Your role Your day to day: • Undertake park pre-opening safety checks • Respond to breakdowns on various equipment and partaking in various rebuilds and repairs of property within set timeframes • Stock control and deliveries • Ensure the safety of yourself and others by adhering to OHS procedures • Obtain equipment licenses and undertaking training as required • Complete daily tasks as instructed by the engineering supervisor • Suggest improvements in work procedures in order to increase efficiency within the department Experience • A minimum Engineering Cert III Mechanical Trade - level certificate. • Post trade experience 2 years+ highly desirable • Experience in breakdown maintenance and diagnostics • Ability to read hydraulic and pneumatic schematics • Welding and fabrication skills would be highly regarded • Forklift license and EWP ticket beneficial • Physical fitness to enable the climbing of ladders and stairs and be comfortable working at heights up to 60m • Ability to work autonomously without constant supervision • Experience with Maintenance systems such as SAP or Maximo would be highly regarded A bit over the top here don't you think, when even Qantas outsource. Maintenace on a ride is no different to any other piece of mechanical equipment that has to be maintained.

All the ride technicians are mechanical trades people, and electricians. The parks employ engineers but they typically aren't hands on with the rides, except when doing commissioning or more complex issues arise.

I watch enough Linus Tech Tips to know easy ways to cool things down. Just heat exchange with the filming pool over at the studios! Easy!

Kudos on the well explained concepts at play here with your overall post. Unfortunately it's fact that *some* people will be the duck playing chess with you and... you know how it goes... 🙄 As for this specific quote - I think there's two lines of thought here in the car analogy - while you're under warranty, there's a certain incentive to have the dealership do the work, but once its out of warranty, most local shops can do the work cheaper without compromising the quality of the work - simply because they don't have to pay licencing to have the big badge on the front door... and there's thousands of that specific model out there, so the knowledge, parts and expertise are easily obtained. Amusement devices aren't as wide spread - in some cases it may be the only model in the country so finding the expertise and knowledge for that is a lot harder than your average 2005 Camry. Your local grease monkey can work on your 10 year old car because it isn't a specialised bit of kit. Rides are.

Just seeing this now and I can't believe people believe this on Facebook. TSPN is also trying to convince people bullshit that the top hat will be made double the height, being changed to 80m/260ft so taller than DC Rivals. This is very unrealistic as I said and made most likely for clickbait to get more followers. If they are using LIMs that are slower than hydraulics, how would the train get up the 80m tophat, unless there is a spike (which would ruin the story). I know TPSN makes fake news for followers but this is plain up stupid.

I really hope that you're using a fake name online to be constantly demonstrating this obtuse level of stupidity.

Not even MW is stupid enough to close down another ride long term for an upgrade when SDSC is already going through that process. Especially when the upgrade isn’t out of necessity such as the need to replace the launch system.

I'm just a member of the general public, and it seems logical that eventually this reputational damage is going to hit them where it hurts. There were so many better ways to handle the objective of winding down memberships than jacking the price up exponentially. I'm going to the GC this weekend, mostly because my GF is speaking at a conference. I thought about going to Sea World on Sunday, but I'm not going to bother - why spend all that money when I only want ride Leviathan, and who knows if it will be up. Compounded by Jet Rescue under maintenance, which at least is known. First time I've visited the GC and not gone to at least one of the parks. Definitely did not consider heading up Maintenance World in Oxenford.