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King Claw went out for tender today. Images from public tender.

@Tricoart good job. Your guess of the ride rotating, turned out to be correct.

There's nowhere else in the ride that has sloped red walls like this, so I'm not sure of the reason for denying the doors being there. I can see the doors have a seam at the edge so im presuming its like the doors on Test Track where they normally slide apart, but if they fail to open there are spring loaded hinges so they function like old ghost train school crash doors.

May as well demolish and start from scratch at that age

This is a much better implementation than even I was expecting. After the big spend on Rivertown, I thought DW might go for the lowest-cost option and preserve the existing station/queue. I still thought they'd do a good job, but I'm really pleased to see them re-working the entire area to create a better impression. I'm also really glad to see that the theming ties in much more with Tail Spin. It seems like they've now decided on a unified aesthetic for Ocean Parade which has been a total mess for the last 15 years containing motorsports, trolls, turbines, monsters, seaplanes, and Kevil Hill. It definitely feels like Ocean Parade will be the next big area to get some love. Unrelated - Gold Coaster turns 30 next year. It's time for a replacement, and there is a lot of land from the Wipeout plot to Kevil Hill (Including GC and Thunderbolt plots) that could be used for an amazing Ocean Parade development.

DW have a great opportunity to light the creature up on top of the ride so it can stand out from the highway. Lasers shoot from out of the eyes, blowing up cars on the highway, during peak hour, is also acceptable.

Be quite a sight from outside the park too, so tall and imposing over the old buildings. Be interesting to see it from the motorway/carpark

I was thinking of saying that, but I refrained from it, because although the feet aren't there, I'm sure there will be many more thematic elements considering what they've been doing recently with the likes of Jungle Rush and Rivertown.

Dissappointed about the feet not returning though.

So they do seem to have used the same platform location, and rotated it to face Main Street rather than swing adjacent to it. Should create an even better effect from there, especially with the queue entrance being framed directly underneath the swing, also facing Main St. Big fan of its presentation so far.

Which is ok too - they've been coasting their success, jacking prices while delivering less across the board for some time and i've been screaming for people to vote with their wallets, and yet people still turn out in droves to feed at the trough. Finally, some fans are saying "i won't go this year because they haven't invested in the right stuff" and this might be the wakeup call that they need. I do think the park's marketing team have probably woefully under-marketed the new additions though. So it's a big double whammy, but ultimately it might be the turning point for them to realise people won't just queue up for the same crap...

More vehicles on tracks means more block braking systems, but one thing Scoobs already has, is a tone of brakes. I'm hoping they don't require extra block sections for the extra vehicles. I'm having thoughts but, the the new doors might be to hide a new block section.

Some more evidence to your point