Movie World Maintenance 2019

[pushbutton]

During one of the extended maintenance periods before the TRR incident, I had a chat with a Dreamworld employee  (not a senior one but he still seemed like he was being genuine in what he told me, and certainly had no reason to make stuff up).

He said WWF was closed for so long because "the ride experience is being completely transformed into something revolutionary"!

When it did, numerous things that had worked quite well previously no longer did. 

It certainly does have a lot of potential though. 

 

[MickeyD]

What would a DW Employee know about WWF maintenance @pushbutton?

 

[themagician]

MWs maintenance is looking pretty good right now and half of the kids rides are closed 

[Slick]

11 hours ago, Flynn_Smith said:

I think push is referring to the fact that the geysers have been completely empty holes with exposed piping for the last few months, regardless of the fact that the ride has gone in and out of maintenance. Much of the audio is out of time, and many effects in the old town portion of the ride aren't working.

I was pretty clearly referencing the last line there in regards to the extended downtime, which Wild West Falls went through post Thunder River Rapids incident. Suffice to say, most of the changes during that extended downtime aren't guest-facing and were in light of the incident, hence why @pushbutton would be confused.

Agreed though, West is in desperate need of love - now that Scooby has been defiled changed, West is easily the front-runner for the country's best themed ride.

 

[StingRay]

On 26/07/2019 at 9:49 AM, Slick said:

Agreed though, West is in desperate need of love - now that Scooby has been defiled changed, West is easily the front-runner for the country's best themed ride.

It does need some TLC. Would be great if the effects would constantly work.

[pushbutton]

On 26/07/2019 at 8:32 AM, MickeyD said:

What would a DW Employee know about WWF maintenance @pushbutton?

 

Whoops! Obviously I meant Movie World. 

[Edward_marker]

Anyone know what is happening with Wild West Falls doesn't have an opening date on it? 

[themagician]

Nothing visibly happening at WWF

Work has moved into the other half of the Gotham City Hall

 

And the carousel has completely gone

[themagician]

If anyone is planning on visiting MW between August 12 and 18 for rides, probably best not too as 7 rides will be closed for maintenance 

[Edward_marker]

Is it the end for Wild West Falls? No opening date still?

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Just noticed this on the MW maintenance page - something wrong with Speedy?

[themagician]

And GLs maintenance has been postponed by a week 

[themagician]

They've fixed that double up of the Taxis and now its just the second maintenance period

[Edward_marker]

Has Wild West Falls been retired? 😏

[Brad2912]

1 hour ago, Edward_marker said:

Has Wild West Falls been retired? 😏

Wtf is with the influx of stupid comments from people lately? 

[Jdude95]

On 12/08/2019 at 9:49 AM, AlexB said:

Just noticed this on the MW maintenance page - something wrong with Speedy?

Speedy is currently detained at the Mexican border

[MickeyD]

2 hours ago, Jdude95 said:

Speedy is currently detained at the Mexican border

Speaking on behalf of absolutely any CM that ever worked that terrible ride, here's  hoping Speedy's been done for Trafficking and his day's are numbered.

[New display name]

Here's hoping the whole kids area days are numbered.

[red dragin]

12 hours ago, MickeyD said:

Speaking on behalf of absolutely any CM that ever worked that terrible ride, here's  hoping Speedy's been done for Trafficking and his day's are numbered.

Yeah, none of them ever seemed super excited to be rostered on that ride

[Spotty]

On 14/08/2019 at 10:23 AM, red dragin said:

Yeah, none of them ever seemed super excited to be rostered on that ride

AMEN! The only ride that I think was worse was either Taz Cars or Sam Train (those damn ropes gave you rope burn... and it was a cow to park when it was fully loaded and the extra carriage on it)

[themagician]

Here I was thinking they were going to refurbish the right side of Gotham Hall, but it doesn’t seem like they will be. Personally I think they should have continue the look because now it looks out of place

Edited August 17, 2019 by themagician

[MickeyD]

I wish they would remove that facade to the right. It conceals the Alleyway thoroughfare and removing that part of the facade would open up the area and balance crowd flow.

[Baconjack]

Kids area needs a refurb. Give it all a new coat of paint and some theming updates with the same IP in mind. They havent added all that much in 20 years. It all looks so old now, in desperate need of a refresh.

[themagician]

WWF now has a reopening date 

 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

On 17/08/2019 at 11:22 PM, Baconjack said:

Kids area needs a refurb. Give it all a new coat of paint and some theming updates with the same IP in mind. They havent added all that much in 20 years. It all looks so old now, in desperate need of a refresh.

+1 to this.

Visited on the weekend with my 3 year old.

The increased height requirement on RRRC to 110cm (when every other Vekoma Junior in the world is 90 +/- means he isn't tall enough yet.

Closed:

• Carousel
• Tweety Cages
• Sam Train

Open:

• Driving School
• Speedy Taxis
• Pounce n Bounce
• (RRRC)

Removed since open:

• Marvin Rocket
• Taz Cars

So the kids area was, at best, underwhelming. I'd go so far as to say disappointing. I know its the off season, and all rides need maintenance, but to have so many of the kids attractions closed is really poor form. We knew of the closures before we went, so we went in eyes open, but its still shitty. 2 driving attractions (one of which is woeful for capacity), and a low capacity ride that is quite daunting for the smaller kids, plus a coaster that really shouldn't be 110cm.

I mean: he can't ride this:

but he can ride these:

 

Movie world needs to lift their game in WB Kids. Dreamworld has 2 kids areas and so does WhiteWaterWorld, and here, Movie World is struggling to have enough to count...