Sea World Maintenance Schedule 2024

[STRAWS]

Great day to vist Maintenance World. Sorry I meant Seaworld.

Edited September 5 by STRAWS

[New display name]

You don't like maintenance? @STRAWS 

[STRAWS]

2 minutes ago, New display name said:

You don't like maintenance? @STRAWS 

Nah im actully a huge fan of it. What about you? @New display name

[New display name]

F$%k maintenance.  Parks should do whatever they like..  When we service our cars, we should all ignore the mechanic, when they tell us, the brakes need replacing.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

i mean, shit happens, but its pretty pathetic that the entire new land you built is completely closed. Nobody would schedule maintenance that way deliberately, so obviously unanticipated issues happen... but for all three? sad.

[New display name]

@DaptoFunlandGuy Since the gates opened today, Vortex has been showing as open.  Whatever reason it was showing to be down, looks like to of been rectified before opening.  People need to give the parks, a sec, to fix the problem.

[TV15]

With the whole Trident situation being discussed frequently on this forum and across social media, I still can’t quite understand what went wrong. It’s been tried and tested at the same park, in a very similar location. Originally, there was a Funtime Mobile StarFlyer, introduced at Sea World in 2018, and that rollout was extensively covered here:

Now, the new Sky Flyer Trident appears to be in exact same location, opening in December 2022 as a permanent model rather than a traveling one. The main difference this time is that it’s built by SBF Visa, not Funtime.

Does anyone have more of an idea as to why Trident still seems to be facing issues, especially since we were promised a reopening date would be announced soon? It’s now been 14 weeks with no updates. Or was there perhaps a deal too good for VRTP to pass up, like a heavy discount on Marvin the Martian: Cosmic Boom, that factored into the situation?

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

If I remember correctly, they were originally in talks to purchase a permanent model from Funtime. somewhere along the way they switched to SBF Visa. I have no information as to why they did that but if I had to guess, i'd assume it was price.

 

[New display name]

MONEY.  I don't know who was making the original SF Sea World said they were building, but the one we ended up with, is a fraction of the size, shown in the original concept.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Yeah i'm not gonna pull out a ruler on their concept art - we know the concepts and models utilised a lot of artistic licence...

Otherwise Trident would have fountains and there'd be a giant rock wall waterfall around the front of the coaster...

[New display name]

I don't know.  Maybe you can't read and just looked at the picture.

 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Oh I read where they said 52 metres. I also read where they said April 2020.

[Spotty]

The Star Flyer that Sea World originally had was not built by Funtime either, but a Czech Republic company called Funlight, either way it was a much more reliable ride than the SBF junk they ended up with. Honestly, the only decent star flyer's around are the ones built by Funtime, Zamperla, ARM and Funlight (in that order).

Really think they are wishing they spent that bit extra and went with a reliable model now...

[New display name]

Covid happened and SW had to make cuts I guess.

 

https://www.parkz.com.au/article/2020/03/20/683-Dreamworld_and_Sea_Worlds_new_roller_coasters_thrown_into_doubt_amid_coronavirus_financial_chaos.html

[TV15]

6 hours ago, Spotty said:

not built by Funtime either, but a Czech Republic company called Funlight

Ahh right, reading that topic got a bit confusing, but upon closer inspection, it turns out the Trident is actually the Funlight model. The tops of the towers are different, matching this exact model: https://www.funlight.cz/en/product/04-swing-tower-40m 

8 hours ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

Yeah i'm not gonna pull out a ruler on their concept art - we know the concepts and models utilised a lot of artistic licence...

Looking back at the Blue Sky concepts, they weren’t too far off from what we actually got. Leviathan was mirrored (so where you were supposed to go left in the concept, you went right in real life), the tiered grass area in front of Trident is there, and even some statues, just to name a few. Did we really expect a mountain to be built?

8 hours ago, New display name said:

The one we currently have is only 10m shorter

[Tricoart]

49 minutes ago, TV15 said:

it turns out the Trident is actually the Funlight model.

Trident isn't, it's an SBF (https://sbfrides.com/products/swing-tower-42-m/). The shorter 'Sky Flyer' that Sea World had before Trident was a Funlight.

Edited October 16 by Tricoart

[TV15]

38 minutes ago, TV15 said:

it turns out the Trident is actually the Funlight model.

CORRECTION: Trident is the SBF, StarFlyer was Funlight. How did I mess that up

[Ashley Jeffery]

6 hours ago, New display name said:

Covid happened and SW had to make cuts I guess.

 

https://www.parkz.com.au/article/2020/03/20/683-Dreamworld_and_Sea_Worlds_new_roller_coasters_thrown_into_doubt_amid_coronavirus_financial_chaos.html

Ahh so it's OK but if DW had done the same I'm sure it would be a different story with you.

[New display name]

4 minutes ago, Ashley Jeffery said:

Ahh so it's OK but if DW had done the same I'm sure it would be a different story with you.

 

On 20/12/2023 at 10:28 AM, New display name said:

The Trident became a bad idea, the day SW cheaped-out and went a fair model.

 

[TV15]

New Maintenance Closure

[Tricoart]

11 minutes ago, New display name said:

  On 20/12/2023 at 10:28 AM, New display name said:

The Trident became a bad idea, the day SW cheaped-out and went a fair model.

If it's any consolation, assuming that the ride was initially going to be 52m & it's not just an error in the initial reporting, it probably would have ended up being a Zamperla. 

Edited October 16 by Tricoart

[Brad2912]

1 hour ago, TV15 said:

New Maintenance Closure

F**k. Was totally looking forward to riding a penguin next week… 

Edited October 16 by Brad2912

[Naazon]

3 hours ago, TV15 said:

The one we currently have is only 10m shorter

that 10m is 20% though. If I was 20% shorter I would be my childs height.

[New display name]

@TricoartI would say it had a good chance.

[Spotty]

18 hours ago, Tricoart said:

If it's any consolation, assuming that the ride was initially going to be 52m & it's not just an error in the initial reporting, it probably would have ended up being a Zamperla. 

At least Zamperla makes reliable rides for the most part (Lets not talk about Top Thrill 2...) and likely would have been a much better attraction than the hunk of scrap metal we got.