Update: Project 2007

The pictures are great (thanks Walt). Has anyone combined or overlayed an over head picture of the site with the footers we see today, to possibly gain some insight into a layout?

I'm curious if the footer placements are confined in one area (like a 4D would be) or are they spread out - the footers appear to be in an "L" shape looking at them while I sit in Boston (visiting the point on 5/19).

Does this ride appear to be similar to MF, with a possible lift next to the water?

When I was there yesturday, I couldnt believe the size of some of those footers. They were huge!! And looking from Mean Streak, it looked as if there was some sind of "S" pattern of big footers in the middle. Just a little curious.:)

i'm sure the land looks smaller in person because there's nothing on it. you probably would've said the same thing about skyhawk's land before it went in. CP has a way of squeezing big things into small spaces!!

We also have to take into account that we have no idea what will happen during the off season. The area walled off for Dragster during the season was not even close to the full size of the ride area. I am curious if we will see other rides (Antique Cars) go by the wayside during the off-season.

It's not that the land isn't big, it's just that the way it was, with all the trees, you lost your sense of perception, and with them gone, you realize how big things are and how far things are apart.

that's very true josh. i was just looking at all the pictures again and i think those small square footings are for something besides ride supports. they look too small to be track supports. i know no idea what they'd be, but i don't think they're track supports. or, maybe they're track supports, but a different kind of track.

the other thing that is interesting is the shape of WWL's station. IF they use this as the station and keep it in-tact, you'd have to load whatever this is on a circle. and, that would say to me that they're individual cars. i don't see them loading a train on a curve like that. i guess they could, but i don't know that its been done before. i guess that would point to an aquatrax. but, like josh said, this thing could get way bigger than we're looking at now.

The Intamin Ball Coaster is interesting because it manages to get twice as much coaster in a given amount of land compared to conventional designs - so it would allow for a great coaster (or two) in the area of WWL. Plus it seems to fulfill most of the clues and is consistent with what seems to be double footers in the pictures.

http://coastersandmore.de/rides/eas05/eas1.shtml

-- Harley

I can't read the German or whatever that is in the article, but that Intamin Ball looks like it has a couple things in common with an Arrow 4D

I think it is interesting and most likely telling that not only is the WWL station still there, but the queue is intact as well. I wasn't so sure about them re-using that building as a station, but now I'd be surprised if that weren't the case.

The design on the intamin ball coaster's cars (at least the prototype) do not allow the car to turn. Look at the photos in that link. The wheel assemblies only permit rotation around the XY axis and not the Z. The prototype and all of the designs presented on that page are for vertical travel only. I highly doubt this will be a ball coaster unless it itself has a prototype train. Also, the ball coaster freely spins like a wild mouse, not controlled like a 4-D.

As far as everyone thinking the double footers mean that is a double track, if you look at the footers in the swan boat pond, you will see at one point the double footers are spaced far apart and get closer together and then spread out again, I would be willing to bet that where they are spread farther the track will be higher and where the converge to a single footer the track will be lower. It is simply double footers and single footers because of the structure. The higher an A-frame support is, the wider the footers are spaced.
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I was thinking the same thing about the swan boat pond footers.

Not to mention that they quite obviously merge back into a single row of footers on each side of the double row.

I noticed the huge foundations by the WWL building that run in a straight line to TC. I think that will be where the lift(s) will be. Also, if you look off the top of MF, you can see that the footers in the pond form a 270* circle. I see an intense helix in the future...

In some of the pictures on the project 2007 set #2 page some blue tube type things mixed in with the footers. Could these be used to pump some sort of fluid up pehaps? I mean, they don't look like any footers ive ever seen..

I think they're molds or something...

The blue tubes are footer molds.

alright. That thought hit my head after I posted.

^^^They were pumping something(I think water) into the newly poured footers on Saturday. It was quite interesting...

It may just be me but did anyone else notice that the new footers look very much like the footers on the first overbanked turn of Millennium Force? I thought it was interesting.

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Cory Marshall

that's called concrete!! :-) they use a pumper truck to pour the concrete.