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Hopefully, once the ride teardown gets underway, DW uncover something so seriously wrong that repairing it simply isn't economically viable and the ride, goes straight to the scrap metal pile!

Thanks for the clarification, completely clueless as to what crushed rock was used for up until now and same with the different types of construction machinery lol.

This is movie world; they'll have the entire SE building be float storage instead rather than any sort of new ride /s

Crushed up rock will be to provide a base layer for heavy machinery to access the site without tearing up the ground or sinking into it in wet weather. The scissor lift* is a high-reach tool. it goes straight up and down, and doesn't reach out like a cherry picker or man basket. This will be to access the roof area, or fixtures above ground \ on the station itself. They have a tracked version, which could be unremarkable, or could be intended to work on rough ground areas too.

float storage. /s

My guess would be to create a solid base for White Christmas and Fright Njghts props as they’ve been set up on this area in recent years instead of in front of the Superman logo

Construction is starting to pick up on site with a long line of crushed up rocks in place to the left of the station which I am unsure what it's for as of now. A cherry picker is also in place inside the extended queue area presumably for dismantling of the queue structure itself. (Credit to Adventures of Theme Park Girl)

This will probably be nothing major, but a new concrete slab has been poured on a part of the grass adjacent to the SE Entrance with some materials particularly a few in black staged on it as of now. I'm Curious to see what this'll become. (Credit to Adventures of Theme Park Girl)

Did the comment attached to the picture sneak past you, or did you just skip that bit?

Well that’s very misleading, you should’ve specified that!

Correct, this is just a mock-up! Wishful thinking! I'm sure Greg will be open to doing something similar!

Pretty sure @Spectrumco mocked that up as something they could do that looks great. This is how it looked at park close yesterday

I wasn't far off. Is it just me, or is that not centred in the cutouts?

Well that has shut us up, that looks great!

A Victorian style signboard similar to the new Emporium and Surf Shop signs would do the trick. Put it behind the new 3D globe. Also a throwback to the original sign design.

I feel like the support is the old support, and they've reused it, which is unfortunate. The cutouts in the front edging of the building, and the scale of the support makes me think the current version is undersized. Greg should go out and get a bigger one made - keep everything the same, just enlarge it to fill the gap in the themed edging.

Good thing they didn't have to pay a real artist to do it then. Would have been a real waste of money.

I've been to several tourist attractions featuring old stonework and the like that was rigged with netting or other structures to keep visitors safe walking below. When looking at these pictures, it strikes me as not too dissimilar. Now, that's not me advocating for DW just leaving it as is - far from it - but I don't think it looks out of place. The patch holes where they've had to drill into the subframe do stand out though, and they need to get on repainting \ theming that appropriately - though I imagine its a work in progress given some panels are done and not others, so i'm sure they'll come back and paint it all once all the drilling \ patching work is completed.

Even with the water back on the temple looks so sad. Hopefully DW can sort what ever is going on soon.

It's a concept you could get AI to do while sitting on the dunny.

What's really letting it down is the support. They've clearly spent a fair bit of money on the sign, so it's surprising they went with something that I could knock up in the back shed on a Saturday afternoon while drinking a six pack of beer.

Thanks for sharing more photos. I do like that they’ve updated it, but I still think it needed to be at least 20% larger so it proportionally felt right

Considering where this is being considered, and considering the new DW logo, whatever they do they will need to be very careful about the skyline from the carpark/M1. Blocking off ST will certainly affect that, as it and the tower are really the two that have the most visibility. The rendering done by the LLM botched the scale terribly. The hotel compared to ST is laughable. Yeah I know it is just a mood board, but geez - there's actual concept artists that would have done a much better job of it.

Here’s some more photos of the new sign that I took during my visit today.

The water features are back!