Theme Park Maintenance Schedules 2017

[Park Addict 93]

Probably going to fix up the bridge too...

 

 

[emmakiwi]

Anyone know why the Giant Drop is only operating one side - facing towards the sea? (Unless I am mistaken and it only happens when I am there!?)

Also Batwing is sad! I was here in November and it was shut for maintenance then... now again in March!!!?

[Park Addict 93]

Generally that is just offpeak operations, but also could potentially be maintenance is occurring on one side.

[themagician]

As he western side faces the park, and where the river Rapids is, fhey aren't running it. They've hidden that part of the park in every way they can, so opening that side of GD would undo that work.

[emmakiwi]

9 hours ago, themagician said:

As he western side faces the park, and where the river Rapids is, fhey aren't running it. They've hidden that part of the park in every way they can, so opening that side of GD would undo that work.

Ohh you know what, I actually said that could be the reason but we sort of just shrugged it off. That's very sad but I absolutely respect that. It's not even a big deal as the park is so quiet at this time of year the queue hardly ever reaches the door anyway so we're not waiting long. Thanks very much for that response. Off to Dreamworld today!

[themagician]

Don't know if it has reopened, or they may be planning to soon, but I saw the western side of GD in testing this morning. It went up at normal speed, and then dropped and being up the top for the usual time. This was before the park opened.

[themagician]

The refurbishment of the exterior of the department store is coming along nicely.

And Batwing still hasn't reopened despite being scheduled to yesterday. The path around the back of the ride is being repainted though

And it has been scheduled for maintenance again from Monday 4th September to Saturday 9th September 2017.

[New display name]

Is JL open again?

[themagician]

@YLFATEEKS Sure has

[WalleyWorld]

Visited today and Batwing Spaceshot is still down. The website does not state an updated maintenance schedule. My guess is that they are keeping it closed until the start of easter school holidays, when patronage picks up. Perhaps they thought they'd save a little $$$ and keep it closed till then. No one was working on it today.

[Brad2912]

I seriously doubt that's the case.

we've had terrible weather for almost the entirety of the downtime, so maintenance works were likely delayed 

[themagician]

It's still closed because they were respraying the path around the ride 

[themagician]

Maintenance page has been updated and the ride is scheduled to reopen tomorrow 

[Twilight Zone]

Not sure if mentioned but has anyone seen the DW mainatnce page It shows the following rides shut on weekdays:

• Mick Doohan's Motocoaster
• Dorothy's Rosy Tea Cup Ride
• The Green Room

Anyone know why?

[Theme Park Girl]

My guess would be cost cutting. Apon arriving at the park last week in the morning the Buzzsaw wasn't operating, we initially suspected it had gone down for unscheduled maintenance. Then found out that it was actually because its operating hours had been restricted to 1pm-5pm.

Reducing ride operation hours has been a common practice for Dream in the past few years as a form of cost cutting, and obviously the park has a lot of financial recovery to make after last year's events. So it's not surprising to me to see them going to more extreme methods of this during off-peak periods. 

That said, does the website state that those rides will be back running on normal hours next week for the Easter Hols? 

[Tim Dasco]

@Theme Park Girl It just says closed for weekdays. It does not give any dates to it.

[Theme Park Girl]

Weird. Will be interesting to see if things change after the weekend! 

[Tim Dasco]

Or if it had anything to do with the rains.

[Twilight Zone]

3 hours ago, Theme Park Girl said:

My guess would be cost cutting. Apon arriving at the park last week in the morning the Buzzsaw wasn't operating, we initially suspected it had gone down for unscheduled maintenance. Then found out that it was actually because its operating hours had been restricted to 1pm-5pm.

Reducing ride operation hours has been a common practice for Dream in the past few years as a form of cost cutting, and obviously the park has a lot of financial recovery to make after last year's events. So it's not surprising to me to see them going to more extreme methods of this during off-peak periods. 

That said, does the website state that those rides will be back running on normal hours next week for the Easter Hols? 

They will be operating at full time on the School Holidays (So Far).

[Santa07]

5 hours ago, Twilight Zone said:

Not sure if mentioned but has anyone seen the DW mainatnce page It shows the following rides shut on weekdays:

• Mick Doohan's Motocoaster
• Dorothy's Rosy Tea Cup Ride
• The Green Room

Anyone know why?

Because it's Dreamworld?

5 hours ago, Twilight Zone said:

Mick Doohan's Motocoaster

Well at least they've got their priorities set straight.

[WalleyWorld]

I visited DW & WWW on both Monday and Friday last week. Motocoaster, Green Room & Dorothy's teacups were down on both those days. Yesterday the BRO's octopus shade sail had been half ripped off - presumably because of the strong winds and rain on thursday. So that slide was closed as well yesterday. Not sure if the structure holding up the shade sail had been affected as well.

[themagician]

Here's what tha BRO looks like currently 

[Aimsley81]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Buzz Saw originally scheduled for annual maintenance towards the end of April for about a month? Like from the 24th? It's just the dates have been completely removed from the website. 

[themagician]

Yeah you're right @Aimsley81 it was scheduled from 24th April to 29th May.

[Twilight Zone]

14 hours ago, Aimsley81 said:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Buzz Saw originally scheduled for annual maintenance towards the end of April for about a month? Like from the 24th? It's just the dates have been completely removed from the website. 

It was down a couple days ago for maintenance.