Wild West Falls Maintenance Blog

[Rivals]

Movie World has now released its 2nd maintenance blog with Wild West Falls, won’t be surprised if Green Lantern is next but this blog does provide an interesting look into the behind the scenes of the attraction.

https://themeparks.com.au/blog/wild-west-falls-maintenance

[Dean Barnett]

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Layers of Safety: Two hydraulic cylinders per seat can be used for applications of jurisdictions that require redundancy.
 

Straight up copy-pasta?

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Yeah, tailoring that to say something like "two hydraulic cylinders per seat for redundancy to meet even the highest Australian Safety Standards' would have been better.

Overall there's a lot of jargon and technobabble in there like 'NDT Testing' and 'alignment of the ... ARB' shows the person who put this together has no idea who the audience is. 

It isn't a straight copy paste though - there are two different spellings for the word 'integrated'.

Look - it's "nice" that they did this. I'm not really a fan of when theme parks 'pull back the curtain' but at the same time, i'm the kind of person that likes to peek behind it regardless. I think i'd prefer the little videos they used to do to a 'blog post' as consumption of video media tends to be better received (and it helps the people providing the content to understand how it will be heard as they'll hear "ARB" instead of "Anti Roll Back" and they'll reshoot it properly). I suppose its better than nothing and it does help to explain to folks why its closed for so long at one time - although I do suspect the damage has been done to the parks reputation in the peak seasons earlier this year. The comments on social from the masses tend to be 'everything is always closed'.

 

[Naazon]

You're right, media content is great, but a blog is so much cheaper and doesn't get in the way / require re-shoots.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

If only there were some film students that needed some practice and experience in producing film\video media...

[Gazza]

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West boats undergo daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly & annual maintenance

It's funny reading this because "West" is the shorthand used internally when talking about the ride.

 

In a public facing article about the ride I would have fully expected every instance to say Wild West Falls™ or similar.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

I thought the same thing. it's the same argument - the author hasn't identified their audience, and nobody has proofed it to translate into GP speak.

[Levithian]

If they absolutely have to post things like chain dogs and arb's, at the least they should post a labeled photo showing them in position under the boats so people have an idea what they are talking about. Even if you have no idea exactly what it means, you can at least see what they are talking about and where it is. 

[themagician]

I know the new boats and load/unload procedures were required for the ride, but have they got less boats now or are operations on this ride just super slow. Because on a day where the park isn’t too busy and the major rides have a maximum 30 minute wait, why is WWF over an hour?

Id they don’t have enough boats, they need to buy more. If it’s operations, they need to review them to try and make them as efficient as possible. Load/unload is never going to be as quick as it was with the moving platform, but surely it doesn’t need to be this slow?

[Park Addict 93]

I will note since coming back from the most recent maintenance period the boats have a new minimum close and it has been marked on the boats with yellow tape.

The test seat has also been moved.

[red dragin]

5 hours ago, themagician said:

I know the new boats and load/unload procedures were required for the ride, but have they got less boats now or are operations on this ride just super slow.

Last Sunday, we were waiting for friends who were going on the ride, we counted seven boats in circulation (so we knew when they were at the top of the drop to film them). 

Normally staff were keeping everything moving smoothly, but any delay (items dropped in the boat floor for example) very quickly stacked one, sometimes two at the bottom of the belt up to the unload. They'd recover after about 5-7 loadings. 

[STRAWS]

3 hours ago, red dragin said:

Last Sunday, we were waiting for friends who were going on the ride, we counted seven boats in circulation (so we knew when they were at the top of the drop to film them). 

Normally staff were keeping everything moving smoothly, but any delay (items dropped in the boat floor for example) very quickly stacked one, sometimes two at the bottom of the belt up to the unload. They'd recover after about 5-7 loadings. 

Werid question but I notice that some times the converyor belt is superloud on the boat but other times its superquiet and makes no clicking at all. Im pretty sure it doesnt matter what boat it is does anyone know why or have theroies as to why it can be either really queit all really loud.

[Tricoart]

39 minutes ago, STRAWS said:

Werid question but I notice that some times the converyor belt is superloud on the boat but other times its superquiet and makes no clicking at all. Im pretty sure it doesnt matter what boat it is does anyone know why or have theroies as to why it can be either really queit all really loud.

Maybe the chain slips a bit on some cycles & causes the chain and/or chain dog to make a bit of a racket? But from what I can tell, both via not-so-legal POV's on YouTube and from what I remember of my own rides (albeit not super recent ones as I haven't been to the park in a couple months), the loud chain dog was on the older boats, with the newer ones seeming generally quieter.

Edited August 18 by Tricoart

[STRAWS]

1 minute ago, Tricoart said:

Maybe the chain slips a bit on some cycles & causes the chain and/or chain dog to make a bit of a racket? But from what I can tell, both via POV's and from my own rides (albeit not super recent ones as I haven't been to the park in a couple months), the loud chain dog was on the older boats, with the newer ones seeming generally quieter.

genrally the new boats are quiter but there all new now but when its loud its just as loud as the old ones. Isint also a bit concering if it is the chain slipping. 

[Tricoart]

21 minutes ago, STRAWS said:

genrally the new boats are quiter but there all new now but when its loud its just as loud as the old ones. Isint also a bit concering if it is the chain slipping. 

I don't know enough to know if that's the reason or not, it may just be a chain dog being temperamental. But, again as someone that doesn't know enough about engineering to know for sure, I wouldn't consider the chain slipping a little as a major issue, especially on a log flume (though the sound of such would be different to that of the chain dog clacking rhythmically). The issue would come if the chain dog wasn't engaging at all.

Edited August 18 by Tricoart