themagician

I'm certain that they never had orcas. They never built tank of had the room for whales of that size. The largest sea creature I've seen that isn't there anymore is the dugong they used to have

The large steel posts for the greens fencing is starting to be installed

A trench has be dug along the fencline around nearly the whole site for the electrical piping for the power to the lights on top of the posts. More fencing materials arrived More piles of soil around the site And in this shot I think it is pretty clear where the break run, station, maintenance bay, track to lift hill and the lift hill its self will be.

@Theme Park Girl here's a live video from a couple of hours ago. It definitely has reopened

Maybe they haven't posted anything because it is closing again next week for maintence, so it would be disappointing for people who see the post and then go and see that its closed once again. As the ride has only just reopened today and weren't sure how the ride would go and were concerned of issues occurring, so they haven't updated the website just yet

I think they did a good job with list and agree with most of them: The list is: 12 TOT2 11 Polar Bear Shores 10 Arkham Asylum 9 Tiger Island 8 Mammoth Falls 7 Batman Adventure Ride 6 Bermuda Triangle 5 SDSC 4 Affinity 3 Police Academy Stunt Show 2 Giant Drop 1 Superman Escape

I don't think it would rule out the coaster being themed to Aquaman, but I do think we can rule out the sets being used throughout the rides footprint. Unless they are displayed inside, the sets probably wouldn't last very long. Ride theming is designed to withstand all types of weather and climates and human interaction, while I'd say most film sets aren't, as they are old used for a short period of time, and if any wear and tear appears then they can easily fix it up.

I'm with @Theme Park Girl on this one. I don't think Lego Precinct sounds that great, and personally don't think they would be able to use the lego name for the precinct, when lego is only one part and the rest is completely unrelated. 'The Park' may not be the name for the precinct, and it may just be part of the name for the patisserie and grill, but I think it would be much more appropriate. They may have a timber finish to the area and plant some greenery throughout, and then that would make it feel more like a 'park', we'll just have to see. But I'm sure with the finishes the park has done to the new food outlets in the past couple of years, I definitely think this will be of good standard. I'd much rather they take their time and make this part of the park look great, rather than them do a quick job and it look crap.

@Jordan M.

Wipeout went though a full cycle of testing today, so maybe we might see it reopen for a couple of days before going into maintenance.

I know this is in another thread, but will post here and its appropriate. I wasn't expecting this to be the case, but maybe they don't know exactly when the theming will be ready again, so they don't want to put the ride into maintenance to install it all, until they know it's ready. Or they will just install it outside park hours. Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster Closed for scheduled maintenance on Monday 28th August and will re-open Monday 18th September 2017.

Sorry that's what I meant by pipework. The drainage system.

^You say that you 'would have preferred' a Flash theme with a latched lift hill, but we don't know what it is yet, so it very much could be this. I am doubtful for a launched lift hill though, but we will have to wait and see.

A number of the theming elements weren't working, out of time, or would repeat themselves.

Hopefully the WWF maintenance will give them to fix the issues that there are after the refurb

Big trenches for pipe work are dug, first slab has been laid

The whole area hasn't been fenced off GL logo repaint is done

@YLFATEEKS looks like you were right, some trees have got a haircut In other news, new pile of soil, man going along and is trimming the tubbing on top of the posts around the fence, small digger at the turn around point at further away from MW part of site. And there is a large gate there, so I'd say a lot of the track and columns will be moved onto the site from here

April definitely seems like a realistic opening month

You say that, but Kraken started construction around March, and opened early October. And that was a massive, record breaking water slide. I don't think will too Abyss, but will definitely add something good to the park

Doesn't seem to be much progress from when I had a peek through the door back when the Lego store opened. But there were quite a few workmen in there doing stuff at the time. Hopefully it will be ready for the easter holidays

I imagine though that after these two rides reopen, GL would be closing for maintence, also so that construction can continue since 4 footings are within the boundary of the GL

Well my prediction the whole time has been the announcement would be at a similar time as the announcement for the villains area was. So it should be next week based off that.

Or we could be completely overthinking this and they are closing them both at the same time just because and they need maintenance. But I'm hopeful that we are right

So they can fence off that whole part, and just keep a small path to the GL, and because this has only been put up and they are closing in a few days time they've got confirmation for delivery and they had an idea for when these rides would be closed, but they've now moved it closer for the delivery of coaster. So I'm putting my money on coaster parts beginning to arrive next week