Update - 5/17

Big thanks to Michael McCormack (BirdOfPrey00) for these pictures.

http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?a=452

Awesome pics Michael!

What are the PVC pipes for?

How did you get into the site?

I didn't. I'm 6'4'', and I can easily see over the wall. My camera is small enough to fit through the peep holes as well to catch different angles. If you didn't know, the wall only stretches from the WWL entrance to the train station. The other areas are still easily visible.

Ahh. It just seemed that you had some pretty close up pics there.

Regardless, excellent work!

The power of Zoom lenses. :)

This pic.. http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=3659

Is kind of interesting. It could just be for pipes, but it looks kind of wide for that. It could be a trench for the new ride to travel thrue.

the PVC pipes coming out of the footings are most likely for electrical work. that support will probably have a sensor or something above it on the track. so, that conduit is poured in the footing to pull cable through later.

that trench is just to pour a bunch of footings in. check out the big footing picture. there is a huge hole there. but, after the concrete sets up a bit, they backfill, and there's only the cylindrical footings above ground.

It's interesting to see how many electrical conduits are sticking up out of the ground in this picture. Many more than in your typical roller coaster.

It intertains the idea that it MIGHT just be some sort of launched coaster.

Actually, I bet the spot where are those electrical lines are sticking up is where the station is going to be. There are a lot of sensors in the station. Plus you need the drive wheels for the station along with lights and the control panel.

It's intresting that nobody noticed that there are footers there now that are made for the same bolt circumfrence as TTD's. 12 bolts. So either something really tall, or something heavy to support like alot of track or heavy trains. Put 2 and 2 together...:)

Will we have wings of 2 and 2?

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*** Edited 5/18/2006 7:42:04 PM UTC by Big D***

Big D said:

Will we have wings of 2 and 2?

What doed that mean???

And my observation has been that those electrical conduit pipes are in a lot of the footers all over the place, not just in one area as would be the case with a station platform, the condits are on one side and the other, in lines and around curves, so it could be a launched coaster or some other energy-demanding feature, or it could just be for the wiring for sensors... we will find out in a month or two.. (either when they announce or the build enough for us to figure it out..)
*** Edited 5/18/2006 8:09:51 PM UTC by Andrew VanAtta***

Energy demanding feature...like a switch track? That goes in a NEW direction? :)

haha i love this
*** Edited 5/18/2006 8:21:53 PM UTC by Big D***

Wings of 2 AND 2 means a switch track? I never heard it before.

or, a logical reason for electrical conduit being in a footing would be for a light. LOL!! its only one piece of conduit. its not like you can run a lot of wires in that.

I doubt it is a ball coaster but those coasters use magnets to control the spin. The magnets probably require electricity to function. However, I doubt that this is a ball coaster. Just a thought.

LOL!!!1111oneoneone

PVC also can carry water.

I agree that many of these could just be for lights. The area is somewhat dark, and it would take many lights to make a coaster bright in all of its sections.