Ride Availability/Operations 2022-25

[Bowser]

Disney do have essential maintenance closures all the time every month there's at least one ride under going maintenance.

Despite being an off peak month and a 365 park there are currently no ride closures at Disney Studio Park nor any scheduled for the remainder of the month

Admittedly there aren't that many rides to begin with.

 

[flyingguitar]

I have seen complaints that disney have rides go into essential maitanence unexpectedly (for instance areosmith dose it often).

Universal I also understand also have rides going down for a few days.

Part of the problem is the types of rides AT have, it has what 4 prototype/first of its type rides and a notoriously unreliable type of launch coaster, in addition AT are much smaller than disney or universal and likely have a much smaller tech crew.

There are also additional factors, for instance the scale of disney, universal and sea world with the amount they run their rides means they can buy more spair parts with out it wasting as much money (as parts are run more they wear quicker meaning the spair parts may be required more often meaning disney may go through multiple lift motors in 10 years for instance but ATs rides may only go through one in its life time) meaning they have more spair parts and don't have to wait for parts to be made.

In addition disney and sea world opperate a lot of rides from one company (vekoma and b&m) likely adding a lot of part commonality

 

[Bowser]

There always seems to be an excuse.

"This park is bigger so they have more money"
"Merlin has lots of money"
"But it's hard to get engineers here"
"Well what about this smaller park that's open longer?"
"They don't have prototypes"
"How about this park that has similar attractions..."
"From similar manufacturers so they can share parts"
"How about this comparable European park?"
"Something something Brexit"

Poor Merlin, the plucky underdogs who are simply victims of their circumstances.

 

[flyingguitar]

There always seems to be an excuse.

"This park is bigger so they have more money"
"Merlin has lots of money"
"But it's hard to get engineers here"
"Well what about this smaller park that's open longer?"
"They don't have prototypes"
"How about this park that has similar attractions..."
"From similar manufacturers so they can share parts"
"How about this comparable European park?"
"Something something Brexit"

Poor Merlin, the plucky underdogs who are simply victims of their circumstances.

I was more arguing they aren't really comparable to disney / universal / sea world interms of maitanence and logistics, probably similar to six flags / cedar who have prototype rides and do have rides go down for unexpected maitanence frequently (although unlike six flags AT dosnt leave them closed)

Disney, universal and sea world have massive numbers of rides and large throughput meaning they go through a lot of parts, meaning it makes more sence to store spares for parts which don't break too often as they wear quicker, and they have a lot of similar rides (vekomas, b&m, intamin, etc) reducing the number of differnt rides.