Sea World Maintenance Schedule 2024

[TV15]

15 hours ago, themagician said:

It’s been like this for a while, but Trident doesn’t have a reopening date and has been under maintenance (I believe) since early Feb.

Both of VRTPs SBF Visa rides are under maintenance, Trident and Martian the Marvin: Cosmic Boom. Tridents scheduled maintenance was from 12 Feb - 14 Mar 2024 and yet it is still under maintenance. Same with Martian the Marvin: Cosmic Boom, it was scheduled originally for 12 Feb - 22 Mar 2024 and it's been extended until 20 May, 2024.

Seems like they deliberately grouped the rides maintenance periods together, but it seems to've bitten them in the ass. What did they do to both of rides that has lead to these delays in reopening (M&M:CB) and the other one (Trident) not certain when it will reopen.

I was at Sea World on the long weekend and I tried my best to get a photo of Tridents maintenance but it's just awkward to do but here's my best description of what's happening. The whole ride gondola section (the thing that climbs the tower) is still being reassembled?  The panels are off on the sides and you can see all the inner working of it. Lots of ladders around but no work actively happening disappointing to see but clearly there are some issues? It does look like it's closer to reopening as it from what I could see all of the chairs were attached.

To my surprise they were actually working on Jet Rescues' Maintenance on a weekend! Very hard to get a photo of as they've put up a black mesh material that just doesn't let you take a decent picture but you can look through it in person. Most of the track is covered in scaffolding with white parts all throughout the track, possible repainting or smoothing of joints of the track? I'm not sure. I could also see maintenance staff working on what I assumed was the train as it was the load station part from the lift hill of Storm.

On another note I've never been able to find what happened to the 2nd train for Jet Rescue? Are the using it for parts, or the fact that the ride never seems to have a queue longer than 10 minutes deeming 2 train operations not necessary. If they want a new train for it, buy it from the SBNO clone of the ride at Wonderland Eurasia.

[REGIE]

On 9/5/2024 at 12:54 PM, TV15 said:

On another note I've never been able to find what happened to the 2nd train for Jet Rescue?

It's usually always in the extra bit of track on the right of the unload area. Never seen it used though so I guess they just use one of them while the other gets worked on. I know other people have said they have seen both operating but no for ages.

bit late now but with the coaster cut outs I think part of it's possible* under selling (which could be wrong maybe it sold well) is because it's so darn expensive! Apart from coaster enthusiasts and the odd tourist not many people can fork out $50 for some cardboard cut outs. It's priced way too high. I love leviathan and cutouts but I have not bought it. $50 is just too much. 

[TV15]

1 minute ago, REGIE said:

It's usually always in the extra bit of track on the right of the unload area. Never seen it used though so I guess they just use one of them while the other gets worked on. I know other people have said they have seen both operating but no for ages.

 

Haven't seen it in years, and I do visit the park frequently enough. Not even over the peak summer period they had the 2nd train in the storage bay, so it must be used for parts ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

[Tricoart]

50 minutes ago, REGIE said:

It's usually always in the extra bit of track on the right of the unload area. Never seen it used though so I guess they just use one of them while the other gets worked on. I know other people have said they have seen both operating but no for ages.

Hasn’t been there for a while now.

[TV15]

9 minutes ago, Tricoart said:

Hasn’t been there for a while now.

Thought I was tripping with @REGIEs response… But no it’s just not there. Anyone know what actually happened to the 2nd train?

Edited May 12 by TV15

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

10 hours ago, REGIE said:

not many people can fork out $50 for some cardboard cut outs

Just so we're clear, they aren't cardboard.

 

[Tricoart]

Hopefully they trim the vines around Trident during this extended maintenance period, ‘cause they’re already getting a bit out of hand.

Also, don’t know how common it is to see JR with scaffolding around it like this during a maintenance period (I guess every time it’s repainted), but this is the first time I remember seeing it & thought it was interesting. 

Edited May 23 by Tricoart

[themagician]

1 hour ago, Tricoart said:

don’t know how common it is to see JR with scaffolding around it like this during a maintenance period

I’m pretty sure they do this every year so they can inspect the track a lot easier

[TV15]

Jaggs Journeys posted a Sea World update, here are a few interesting maintenance screenshots. https://youtu.be/t3x5tJWbhwc

Trident - Reopening ? 

Looks done... (I thought it had panels on the rides gondola that covered the inside of it.) I wonder when it'll start testing and if it will reopen for the upcoming school holidays. As of today, it's been 111 days since it was last open.

Patrick's Jellyfish Frenzy - 

Boots' Banana Boogie

Removed completely, I'd assume its at Movie World being worked on /s 

Jet Rescue

All scaffolding down, the reopening was pushed back by a day... no sign of the 2nd train in the storage bay.

Former Vikings Revenge Station

Definitely looks like they're connecting that food court up to Storm Coaster/JR tunnel. They've started painting the VRTP Signature Timber near the food court. Jaggs predicts a potential flat ride could go in the space. I'd like to think that but doubt it.

Looks like markings for utilities, there are orange lines coming out of the silver box a few seconds later in his video. 

Castaway Bay - Battle Boats

Anyone know what's with all the tape markings on the rides trough?

Edited June 2 by TV15

[TV15]

Sea World has pushed the maintenance end date of Jet Rescue to now finish on the 12th of June and reopen on the 13th.

Leviathan has also now had a temporary closure added, 12th to the 13th.

So... that means that on the 12th of June, Vortex & Storm Coaster will be the only thrill rides operating. Any thoughts about these? 

At least for the Levithan closure there was originally a closure from the 10th to the 20th of June, maybe they realised they fkd up and do actually need the closure or is this VRTP trying to cut operating costs as much as possible.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

On 02/06/2024 at 8:00 PM, TV15 said:

Anyone know what's with all the tape markings on the rides trough?

Looking at the trough barriers, they're in the middle of painting it. The paint does look like it's in spots they've touched up, and painters usually mark defects or items requiring special treatment with a bit of tape so they can see it when needed. I don't think it's anything more than that.

[Coasterjoe]

I can’t find the answer anywhere to this but does Leviathan operate in the rain? 

[TV15]

4 minutes ago, Coasterjoe said:

I can’t find the answer anywhere to this but does Leviathan operate in the rain? 

Yesn’t. Good day yes, bad day no. I’ve had it open in light rain some days other days closed because of heavy rain. Lightning also plays a part in the heavy rain mix.

[Brad2912]

21 hours ago, Coasterjoe said:

I can’t find the answer anywhere to this but does Leviathan operate in the rain? 

light drizzle/rain - yeah 

[Tricoart]

Sea World has released a video about Trident's extended closure, and what they've done in that time. According to the video, these include:
     - A secondary maintenance platform on/above the ride gondola, as to negate the need for cherry pickers during ride inspections.
     - Updated circuitry/software for the rides' sensors to hopefully lessen downtime caused by them.
     - Updated seatbelts.

(From Sea World's Instagram)

Edited July 4 by Tricoart

[Narra]

Fingers crossed it ends up being more reliable. I still have yet to ride it despite wanting to every time I've been to Sea World

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Fuck me i'm loving this transparency from Village. Very cool to hear all the things they're doing to try and bring it back up reliably.

[Naazon]

I appreciate it too, but it does scream "you bought the wrong ride"

[Park Addict 93]

11 minutes ago, Naazon said:

I appreciate it too, but it does scream "you bought the wrong ride"

This was my take too, if you didn’t “cheap out” initially you wouldn’t be dealing with these issues now. But yes credit for the transparency. 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

From what is said in the video, a single sensor out of tolerance is causing a complete shutdown. This isn't standard in the industry and usually when there's multiple sensors to agree on things, most across the industry accept if all agree except one, the one disagreeing is discarded. 

You'd expect SBF VISA, given their time in the industry, would do this, but it sounds like they didn't. Not really Village's fault but we all know what happens when you assume. I still think Funtime should have been the direction but we can't know all their reasons - but I do know SBF shouldhave known better.

[GoGoBoy]

I agree - it's awesome seeing VRTP being so transparent and informative when it comes to both the construction of their upcoming attractions and maintenance/updates relating to their existing attractions. Such a refreshing change. Wish more parks would do this! The social videos are 👌🏻

[themagician]

Quite a few rides are closed from today for maintenance, but interestingly there’s a couple that seem to be just closed for today.

There are also a couple of attractions closing from tomorrow and then a few in August. Going to be a busy maintenance period for Sea World during this school term!

 

[TV15]

Looks like Trident might reopen any day now. All the fencing has been removed and the ride looks reassembled. I'm thinking sometime next month but Jaggs said end of this year... 

Credit: Jaggs Journeys

[themagician]

4 hours ago, TV15 said:

Jaggs said end of this year... 

If it is going to be closed for most of the year, I’m glad they’ve taken the fencing down because it looks terrible.

[Narra]

Wouldn't surprise me if we didn't see it open until the end of the year, updates to the circuitry/software for the sensors aren't a simple change and I doubt Sea World are at the front of the SBF Visa's priority list