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Official Goliath Thread
Has the construction process started yet?
As soon as it starts, someone will tell us.
Plus the park isn't open to the public until Fright Fest so we would have no idea if construction was going on unless the park put a photo on Facebook or said something about it.
Construction started a few weeks ago with land clearing. Ride should start going vertical in Late Oct/Early Nov according to the park.
Favorite Wood Coasters: The Voyage, Ravine Flyer II, Thunderhead, Balder
Favorite Steel: Voltron Nevera, Steel Vengeance, Expedition GeForce, Olympia Looping Parks visited: 232, Coasters Ridden: Steel: 894, Wood: 179, Total: 1073
The park is still working on the clearing stage. they still have yet to tear down a pavilion in the Picnic grove. Sorry, but the ride isn't going vertical any time soon.
 When you get to the top, and you hear that click, you better hang on, because your coming down quick!
Are they also planning on removing Wilderness Theatre
No.
Have they started laying down supports or are they still clearing land?
I really don't want to be a jerk, but if they had started laying down supports, don't you think somebody would have previously mentioned it in this thread? Nobody is out there holding exciting news until somebody decides to ask about it.
From my understanding They took out pavilion 6 from the Grove and are not taking out any part of Wilderness.
When you get to the top, and you hear that click, you better hang on, because your coming down quick!
Wilderness Theater will remain the same and they've already removed a pavilion from the Picnic Grove.
I'm hypothesizing that they'll finish the station modifications first and then we'll begin to see the support wood and prefab track on site in around late November. That sounds like an appropriate time frame to me. "Remove this man before I commit an act of violence against him."
-Ron Swanson
I've got a question......When are the supports going in?.......lol....just kidding. I may look like a n00b, but my account got deleted somehow so I had to create a new one, this is the same screen name by the way.
I'm not an engineer or carpenter, but do know a thing or two about wood. I know that American Eagle, Viper, and Little dipper have survived the winters. But, how is this curved stuff going to survive? How is the wood treated? Okay that's two questions lol.
Well the wood is highly supported by steel. Check out the pics in the wood v steel poll thread.
When I went to Silver Dollar City's Coaster Christmas last year the owner of RMC was there and talked about the special processes they sue for the wood that they do. They use a special chemical process on trees cut down in Georgia, they apparently hold the chemical process better and preserve better. They transport all that wood to idaho and do their business, then out to the job site.
My only experience with wooden coasters is Mean Streak at Cedar Point. I sat in the very back seat and I literally was aching after I got off. I was a little turned off by wooden coasters, but now, I'm seeing lots of people who say woodies are their favorite coasters. I'm a little nervous for Goliath, but it does look pretty cool because it goes upside down. I'll definitely ride it!
Well with the topper track on Goliath it should be a smooth ride. Anyone who has ridden topper track coasters: how smooth are they?
I have yet to be on a topper track coaster also, and was wondering whether it significantly improves the ride experience.
Sit upright, hold on tight and enjoy your ride!
At Silverwood on the parts of Timber Terror/Tremors that have Topper Track, it's about the same roughness as Viper, maybe just a little more.
Favorite Wood Coasters: The Voyage, Ravine Flyer II, Thunderhead, Balder
Favorite Steel: Voltron Nevera, Steel Vengeance, Expedition GeForce, Olympia Looping Parks visited: 232, Coasters Ridden: Steel: 894, Wood: 179, Total: 1073
Dang. Is Outlaw Run the same? 943 Coasters around the World! Countdown to 1000!
http://sfgamworld.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=15272 Runner Up of the 2017 SFGAmWorld Elimination Thread
Does the Goliath site look any different for those who have gone to Fright Fest already?
Kings Island needs to teach Six Flags a few things about building coasters. Banshee's lift is already done. 943 Coasters around the World! Countdown to 1000!
http://sfgamworld.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=15272 Runner Up of the 2017 SFGAmWorld Elimination Thread
Concerning the Mporium, I saw a sign today in Seven Sins Cemetery advertising Mporium. From my understanding, Tweety and Friends will be changed into the new Mporium, making a 2 in 1 store with Bugs Bunny and Company
Topper Track is exceptionally smooth, but it still feels like a wooden coaster. It's not gonna ride like a B&M, it'll still rattle a bit, but it's not anywhere near Viper or American Eagle.
The inversions and airtime hills are all glass smooth on Outlaw, though, so the only part I would really "worry" about on Goliath is the twist-'n'-shout. "Remove this man before I commit an act of violence against him."
-Ron Swanson
The only thing they could "teach" us is to start construction earlier, which will never happen. The new SF management doesn't want new rides ready on opening day and actually seems to make an effort to push opening back as far as possible.
 The Mule has moved for Goliath construction     Not much new stuff. Just close up pictures of the Picnic Grove work.
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