The Giant Drop Refurbishment 2022

[Slick]

36 minutes ago, themagician said:

Anyone know what this yellow thing is?

It's a cable holder. As the cable car moves up and down the tower, a bunch of these fold out to prevent the winch cables from flying about. This design is pretty old school - Intamin now use a passive holder that the cable car collects on its journey.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

I've never noticed these before!

Looking back it looks like they were always painted black and I can't believe I've never seen them!

[New display name]

When the Drop first opened there was at least one instance (but rumoured many more) one of the cable guides didn't lock up correctly and the gondola took it out on the way down.  They were modified to fix the issue.

[STRAWS]

I wonder if the Lights are solar powered as I don't think they could do it any other way.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

1 hour ago, STRAWS said:

I wonder if the Lights are solar powered as I don't think they could do it any other way.

You don't think they could run a conduit down either the outside, or the inside of the tower???

[STRAWS]

Just now, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

You don't think they could run a conduit down either the outside, or the inside of the tower???

I mean technically they probably could however it would require more work I'm pretty sure if they did run a conduit down the tower, it would be inside it. 

[Slick]

I think you can safely assume they're not solar-powered. If they can run power to an entire plant room 115m+ into the air, they can get power to the letters on the way up.

Edited April 20, 2023 by Slick

[New display name]

2 hours ago, STRAWS said:

I wonder if the Lights are solar powered as I don't think they could do it any other way.

It's already been confirmed, the lights are to be powered by the new wind farm and Space X rockets will be launched from the side of it.  (do I need to put a /s)  

[Naazon]

2 hours ago, STRAWS said:

I wonder if the Lights are solar powered as I don't think they could do it any other way.

Please stick around. I want to see more of this out of box thinking.

[STRAWS]

14 minutes ago, New display name said:

It's already been confirmed, the lights are to be powered by the new wind farm and Space X rockets will be launched from the side of it.  (do I need to put a /s)  

🤣 Defiantly the best power source for the tower lights. 

Edited April 20, 2023 by STRAWS
grammar mistake

[Brad2912]

If only they still had the turbine from Cyclone, they could have used that to power the letters….

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

2 hours ago, New display name said:

It's already been confirmed, the lights are to be powered by the new wind farm and Space X rockets will be launched from the side of it.  (do I need to put a /s)  

As you can all see from this photo, taken 5 years in the future after the advent of time travel, Dreamworld has removed Steel Taipan for the terrible ride that it is and rebuilt thunder river rapids. Hydroelectric electricity will be generated from the flowing waters to power the letters.

/god this joke is already getting on in years.

[New display name]

So at "night time" when DW closes and the Rapids are turned off, the lights go out?

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

18 hours ago, New display name said:

So at "night time" when DW closes and the Rapids are turned off, the lights go out?

Nope. New pumps are so fail-proof, they never shut down!

[Tricoart]

1 hour ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

Nope. New pumps are so fail-proof, they never shut down!

World’s first perpetual motion device in a Rapids ride.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

...and no need for E-stops either!

[Smol bean]

R and M have been installed on the tower leaving only W to be put up 

Edited April 30, 2023 by Smol bean

[REGIE]

Have the letters that have been put up been turned on at night?

Edited April 30, 2023 by REGIE

[Brad2912]

1 hour ago, REGIE said:

Have the letters that have been put up been turned on at night?

No 

[themagician]

The final letter was installed overnight 

[Dean Barnett]

Apparently the reason for nearly 12 month referb time was a mix up where the received a m instead of a w 

/s

Edited May 1, 2023 by Dean Barnett

[TBoy]

2 hours ago, themagician said:

The final letter was installed overnight 

Image (thanks to Jaggs Journeys). You can see that the W is an upside-down M (most likely an M was accidentally ordered instead of a W)

[themagician]

This is the W in the ground yesterday before it was lifted into place. It does indeed look like an upside M, but I don’t think I’d a mistake, I think it’s just the style of font they went with

[gumb00t]

looks great!

[franky]

4 hours ago, themagician said:

This is the W in the ground yesterday before it was lifted into place. It does indeed look like an upside M, but I don’t think I’d a mistake, I think it’s just the style of font they went with

Not to nitpick here, but it looks like a W in the proposal image, not an upside down M.

Maybe an actual W as per the render was too wide? Or indeed it's also just a different font (render was a mock up only).