^ Yeah track work is what I meant to say. At this point I’m going say the caster will open either the first or second weekend in June but a Memorial Day weekend opening is still possible but very slim.
Tardis1972 wrote:^ Yeah track work is what I meant to say. At this point I’m going say the caster will open either the first or second weekend in June but a Memorial Day weekend opening is still possible but very slim.
I'm pretty sure that Memorial Day is completely out of the realm of possibility. There is still work on the track to be done and who knows how much of the system itself, wiring, whatever else. Then when it's all done, I'd expect at least two weeks if not more of testing. I think Friday June 7th would be the absolute soonest but more likely a week or two later than that.
I would say that most certainly the track will be done by the 24th, likely sooner. Considering what is left, I don’t see them opening HH if they are still hoisting track so close to the water park. Testing can be done while queue and store are being completed.
Here is a picture from Saturday 5/11 of the column being put in place. This was about 1:15pm. In the parking lot they were loading up the another column onto the dolly-bed to be transported to the location.
Final support is going up now They’re loading the final piece of track onto a flatbed in the lot. The track may be finished today as long as the rain doesn’t get too heavy. I see 3 final pieces of track on site.
UnclePennybags wrote:How are they going to route the exit ramp for this ride?
I think they said it exits through Carousel Plaza.
What I meant was, how are they going to route the exit coming out of the station? I assume it'll exit out of the back side of the station, but then it'll have to route under the tracks somehow. In the picture, the ramp on the Carousel Plaza side of the station looks pretty wide. I wonder if the entry and exit ramps will be on the same side of the station.
Got rained out today but I did manage to capture some things. The last support is going up today.
Edit: Here's what I got: https://imgur.com/a/tIcM8qr Most of them came out blurry because I had the shutter too slow with the aperture too high so....whoops.
"I've been told that some part of every wish will be heard but lately I lost sight of the truth in those words."
SFGAM_Hog wrote:And the exit path will go under the final inversion.
redrobinround wrote:left side: entry for line and flash pass and single rider if there is one right side: exit to go under missing piece of track in brake run
I just took another look at Maxx's structure from the Sky Trek POV. Looking at the guy at the base of the brake run, I can see that I misjudged the size of the ride. An exit path could be run here without issue.
There's something about this ride that makes me repeatedly forget about how big it is.
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