Update: July 23 and July 22

Good find steve, I think that if there is still rebarb around than they are not done pouring footers. And, that the coaster is at least longer, if not taller.

Keith 2005 said:
That series of supports that gradualy get taller interest me. Those look like supports that would connect to the two railed (no back bone) track pieces.

The 8 million dollar question of the week is:

Do those supports gradually(sp?) get taller, or are they getting shorter!!!

If they are getting shorter than I would venture a guess to say it is a brake run into the station, or trim brakes midway through.

If they are getting taller than I would imagine they would be for a launch.

Either way the station must be next to the WWL station, where all the footers are.
*** Edited 7/25/2006 4:22:59 AM UTC by Mikeybo2004***

Honestly, I will be absolutely floored if this ride is over 200 ft tall.

I agree on the station, i think its almost for sure the station is somewhere in that long straight run behind WWL station. Its the only place in the whole layout with the square footers that Intamin regularly uses in its stations.

I honestly think that long, straight run has 3 different functions. Lift hill, brake run, and launch. There are 3 sets of footers, you know :).

The footers they're pouring now, makes sense that they could be for the station. *** Edited 7/25/2006 4:51:15 AM UTC by e x i t english***

Yeah there's an insane amount of small square footers going up in that HUGE slab.http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=4412

I was there today and another support was added to the "launch" and 2 weird looking supports went up by Perimeter Road that looked like "Y"'s. AND another footer was added before this one (the small one on the far right)http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=4414 excpet the new one is taller(almost by a foot) than those smaller ones. We figure we might have something thought out.....but they throw curveball after curveball at us.:)

e x i t english said:

There are 3 sets of footers, you know :).

It's strange that no one mentioned that before...

I am sure ya'll have figured on this anyway, but the small square footer with only 4 pieces of rebarb sticking out of it (located in the foreground of that last picture) must be for a light post or a lighting effect. Although, now that I think about it. It could also be for a fence, low zone barrier.

Mikey

*** Edited 7/25/2006 5:46:10 AM UTC by Mikeybo2004***

As manny footers as there are all over the place, i would guess that a larger support right next to a smaller one would indicate the coaster passing through itself. From the looks of even just the footers i saw when we had our last aerial pictures, we can probably expect this coaster to cross through itself many many times.

I could be wrong, but look at hte middle of this miday pic. Doesn't it look like box track? track couldn't stand like that if it were still 3 sided.

http://www.pointbuzz.com/midwayvision/project2007mv30.jpg

but then again, maybe everyone already saw it haha.

It's the camara angle, it's one triangle piece infront of the other, I thought it was Box Track, but if you look really hard, you notice it's just an illusion.

Rebarb is not the word you guys are looking for.

Rhubarb

Rebar

Rhubarb - HA! Good one.

Nice updates everyone.

Mmmm... Strawberry Rhubarb Pie *drooling*

oh man, i LOVE rhubarb pie. rebar pie definitely would NOT be good. :)

hahaha...defintely put a smile on my face, but yea the definition about the rebar kinda makes one scared to ride roller coasters. They keep talking about how all these things could go wrong!!!

I just looked at the Midwayvision of the staging area...how much track in length do you guys think we have so far?

Based on my estimates, somewhere between 1000 and 6000 feet.

:)

Great updates onxe again, keep up the good work.

Oh really my guess was somewhere between 1001ft and 6001ft.;)

Well, it's getting harder and harder to count the track, but based on the pictures I took, I think there is at least 60 pieces of track. It seems to me that these pieces are about 30' long. I'll have to take a Tape Measure with me next time.

60x30'=1800' (This is just an educated guess of course)

That's assuming that all the pieces have arrived. Isn't there a possiblity that all the pieces have not arrived or maybe CP is storing some of the track elsewhere to keep the media in the dark? I'm just spitballin here.