More Feb. 23 construction

hahaha we all love adams Chuck E Cheese suit

OH boy so do I!!111!! It's my all time favorite part of the job!!;)

Tim, most of the actual roof is done. Almost all of it is flat minus the structure they're working on now and the other one that, I think, is the structure that you enter through/under coming out of the queue house.
If that wasnt what you meant, I get where you were going in anycase.
I like how fast they got the siding (that resembles the style on WWL's station) up. With that kind of speed, we could see the whole station up by next week or before the end of March......which is more than I can say about the pull barn my construction class is building which is in its 6th month of construction.

JuggaLotus said:
Now they must get us another tree and place it next to this one so as to get a two level effect with a little path running down the middle.

WOTFLOL!!:)

djDeamon, that is surely what that drawing looks like, and it looks like there will be some large trees.

Dont believe everything you see in that drawing.;)

CP fanatic 2400 said:

JuggaLotus said:
Now they must get us another tree and place it next to this one so as to get a two level effect with a little path running down the middle.

WOTFLOL!!:)

You must appease us, or we shall say NI again to youuuu!

halltd said:
Have they ever not opened a coaster on opening day?

Gemini ran way late. I have photos of the park open, and Gemini pretty much stopping at the first turnaround above Witches Wheel somewhere around here. It probably ran late because of the blizzard of '78.

Wow, they are moving fast with the station and tunnel today. Looks like they're really taking advantage of the good weather. Looks like temperature is gonna drop from 71 degrees to 33 by the end of the week. That's some drop.

There's an excellent update on OnPoint as well as in the Maverick construction gallery. They show pictures of the queueing area and explain where we will enter and exit. Makes me wish it were May. Damn this teaser weather.

It's still difficult to picture what the queue/entrance/exit area will look like.

Vince is right though, this weather today makes me think about one thing, Cedar Point Trip.

Wow, they dug up a lot of the midway. I didn't realize they'd be doing that much midway reconstruction. I guess its quite normal for new coasters though.

Is it just me or does the tunnel look horrific on the outside? Granted, its not done yet, but it looks so industrial compared to the station. The station is probably the nicest one they have so far with all the wood and at least a nice attempt at good theming. (Its no Splash Mountain, but for CP its great!) Then they go and clad the tunnel is awful looking steel panels? I just don't get it.

The rockwork looks really good though. I guess if the tunnel is the only bad part of the ride, they've done a good job. :)

I wish they would put a rock fascade on the outside of the station..imagine the station looking like its atop a cliff...a small one but still a cliff.

^I was thinking the same thing, but it won't be very visible anyway. Who knows if they will or not, but some nice landscaping can hide the tunnel (where visible) very easily.

Before you question the whole visibility of the tunnel, Frontier Inn, the building for Undertaker U., and the ride's station will block the view on the midway side. On the other side (Thunder Canyon, the Railroad, and the midway by Mean Streak) the canyons the rest of the track will be blocking the view.

The only areas that the tunnel will stick out is by the pond and just to the left of where this picture was taken.
http://maverick.cedarpoint.com/_upload/gallery/mvt139.jpg

Yes, I was looking at the pictures on the Mav website and there are openings where the steel panels hug the supports for the ride. How would the cover up these holes?

http://maverick.cedarpoint.com/_upload/gallery/mvt140.jpg
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Neat update, that station is looking sexy!:)

^They'll probably fill them with some kind of.......caulk.....or something.

Vince is right though, this weather today makes me think about one thing, Cedar Point Trip.

My friend and I were thinking the same thing.:)

personally im feeling something like this :)

http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/2537/111yi7.jpg

They have places where the supports will go through the roof of the tunnel too. I've wondered how they were going to fill these areas from the beginning. It needs to be something that flexes a lot since the support columns will move and the tunnel will expand/contract.

I'm sure they made the tunnel metal for longevity, but it just doesn't fit with the ride's theming. Its disappointing.

Wow... and I thought it looked awesome before! :)

I wonder if there will still be a seating/eating area there next to the Frontier Inn.

im feeling now that the back of the park is my favorite. Between Mav, Skyhawk, and The $2.16 tacos...im a happy camper.

^^ I hope so. That was always one of my favorite places in the park, and it was doubly so last year, watching the construction.

i used to always stay around dragster and sometimes maxair, but now i think ima travel back there more often. I go at least twice a week usually.