Tailspin keeps breaking down at DW?

[Theme Park Girl]

So the Tailspin was closed for over a week recently due to "technical difficulties", then was reopened again on Wednesday. However I went to DW again today and the ride is closed again for the same reason.

Apparently this ride is causing Dreamworld a few headaches lately? Seems to have more downtime than uptime of late :/ Wonder what the problem with it is....

[Brad2912]

How do you know it's the same problem this time?

[Theme Park Girl]

I don't. But obviously it has issues, otherwise it wouldn't keep closing down lol

[Rabbit2014]

I was at dreamworld for a week end of January and no problems with tail spin for whole week. So this is new

[Theme Park Girl]

Lol Rabbit, maybe the Xmas demand burnt it out? XD I took this random photo the first time round... exact same story again today despite being back in action a few days ago :/ Hopefully won't be another week before it's fixed again.

[bladex]

it was running on thursday i finally got it to spin...but i wish i hadn't was THIS -- close to hurling when i got off i was spinning faster than everyone else dunno why

Edited February 15, 2015 by bladex

[AUSTHEMEPARKS]

Yay two rides are closed now!

[Jay Jay The Jet Plane]

Yay two rides are closed now!

actually there's three rides down at Dreamworld at the moment

Shockwave is down

Buzzsaw is down

Tail Spin is down

[AUSTHEMEPARKS]

actually there's three rides down at Dreamworld at the moment

Shockwave is down

Buzzsaw is down

Tail Spin is down

Even Shockwave? Good job Dreamworld.

[Brad2912]

1 scheduled maintenance and 2 unexpected and presumably major/detailed maintenance concerns

I'd call that unlucky and wouldn't be lambasting the park for it

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

The average park goer would though. They wouldn't consider unexpected maintenance to occur. "Why would the park close 3 rides at once" would be the only question they would ask, and for them it would ruin their day.

[Theme Park Girl]

Well, when you take into account that some of the other rides are also operating on a restricted schedule, you can't really blame them. Especially those who have purchased day passes only.

[Theme Park Girl]

So it looks like the ongoing issues with the Tailspin has now led to extended downtime. The official website is now listing the ride as being closed until the 28th February?

Not good, esp when the Wipeout is due for annual maintenance next week until March 15th. That and of course the Buzzsaw being offline until around the same time.

So soon it WILL be three of the "Big 9" all closed simultaneously until the end of the month....

Edited February 18, 2015 by OceanGirl

[westical]

They could always delay Wipeout, shouldn't be screaming out for maintenance after the refurb.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

^But that's just it - your average car service is 10-15,000kms, but take a brand new car from a dealership - and you've got to take it back at 1500kms. When you do such major overhaul work to machinery - you don't go "as good as new - she can run twice as long without maintenance!"... you go "All these new, untested parts... better have a look at it after it's done a little work and make sure everything is tight!"

[Theme Park Girl]

True, Alex. At this stage there is nothing to say that the Wipeout maintenance is being delayed. See what happens, though?

And now with all this heavy rain expected from the cyclone over the new 2-3 days, it looks like there's a good chance their rescheduled Screamworld event may get postponed/cancelled again.

Dreamworld isn't having a good run atm. Starting to feel a bit bad for them :/

[The Claw]

Yes this is definitely a bit of bad luck for them to have two of their biggest rides in the last five years basically poop themselves at the same time. It's funny this has happened to Tailspin though because I had only ridden it just the other week, it must've been the day before it broke down. At the same I'm personally not too surprised. Most new rides have teething problems not long after they have opened, mainly due to the riggorous testing they put the ride through before opening it to the public. What is surprising is that it has lasted as long as it has until it's had a major breakdown. I trust the engineers can rectify the issues on both of these rides soon though.

[Spotty]

WipeOut's maintenance has been pushed back to April now. 20/4/15 - 10/5/15

BuzzSaw is now closed until the 22nd of March and Tailspin is down till the 28th of Feb.

[westical]

Snap AlexB.

[Reanimated35]

Doesn't mean it's going to do the ride any favours. I wouldn't be too surprised if it broke down before maintenance. Seems in line with the run of luck they're having.

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[Theme Park Girl]

Tailspin is back up an running again, a few days ahead of schedule. Although it seems they were having some harness issues when I was in the area before O_o

[WipeoutDreamworldFan]

I hope when Wipeout reopens from maintanence that they change the program back to the longer one. Don't get me wrong the one that is currently running is thrilling but imo it is too short.