Topgolf Gold Coast Construction

[New display name]

I’m starting to see applications to build the cabins inside of Paradise Country.  I don't know the timeline and when the work will begin but it’s good to know Village are still working on it. 

I’ve attached a couple of pictures, for anybody who doesn’t remember the cabins I’m talking about but if it all goes ahead they will be built up on the side of the hill behind the parks.

 

[MaxxTheMonster]

Been waiting to know more about these...  Can't wait to see them in action and hopefully find out a lot more in the coming weeks  

[themagician]

Couple of construction update photos, quality isn't the best because of the sunsetting. 

And because these are apparently a part of TG, I'll post these here:

[Theme Park Girl]

Took a couple of quickies driving past yesterday of the Topgolf site... nothing really exciting to report, although they are making the giant wall blue:

[themagician]

That'll make the blue screen for the filming that takes place in the tank.

Or they just liked the colour.

[New display name]

Come on @Theme Park Girl you don't sound excited. 

You can see in your pictures that they have started the construction of the TopGolf building in the background.

[Brad2912]

4 hours ago, themagician said:

That'll make the blue screen for the filming that takes place in the tank.

Or they just liked the colour.

A blue screen would more useful being on the same side of the wall The tank is on. 

[themagician]

@Brad2912 but it is. You can see the water through those small windows at the bottom. That is the tank in front of the wall 

[Brad2912]

My bad. That different angle on the photo through me off entirely. Guess it will be used for future productions, given Aquaman won't be utilising the tank 

[themagician]

[Whombex]

A lot of ground works still going on. How much subterranean work needs to be done? Obviously there's ball retrieval, but what else regarding the attraction? Not meaning power, drainage etc.

[New display name]

8 minutes ago, Glubbo said:

A lot of ground works still going on. How much subterranean work needs to be done? Obviously there's ball retrieval, but what else regarding the attraction? Not meaning power, drainage etc.

What else do they do with subterranean work besides drainage and services?

[Whombex]

Looking at pics of the venue, it appears that there's a fair amount of underground infrastructure.

[New display name]

@Glubbo You said not including the ball retrieval, power and drainage what is going on underground.  What is this underground infrastructure you talk about that you haven't ruled out?  Do you think the are building a cave for Batman under TopGolf?

[Reanimated35]

Lights, music?, Maintenance tunnels?, Electronic tracking devices?

 

Not sure just guessing here. 

[New display name]

@Reanimated35 Now I don't know if you are stirring the pot.  This has been a frustrating day. 

He said not including the underground power.  Why do you want lights underground?  Are you looking for worms?

Music underground?  I get it, if the worms have lights they need music too.

No maintenance tunnels.

I don't know about the electronic tracking devices but they probably need only power to operate and I assume send a signal back in the way of radio waves.  (Truthfully I have no idea on how they communicate the information back).

If my assuming is correct, power would be the answer and again he didn't want to talk about that.

 

[Reanimated35]

I was thinking more the lights in the targets, potential for speakers in the targets too but I doubt it. Wasn't there photos of those big silver metal tunnels before? Are they not maintenance tunnels? 

Afaik the tracking is in the ball but there has to be some electronic stuff in the target to register doesn't there? 

[Whombex]

9 minutes ago, Reanimated35 said:

I was thinking more the lights in the targets, potential for speakers in the targets too but I doubt it. Wasn't there photos of those big silver metal tunnels before? Are they not maintenance tunnels? 

Afaik the tracking is in the ball but there has to be some electronic stuff in the target to register doesn't there? 

^^^ I meant this. Thanks @Reanimated35 - sorry if I wasn't clear enough in my enquiry, @Skeeta.

[New display name]

@Glubbo No major tunnels. The target structure is very simple.  Picture a corrugated water tank with its top cut off & placed into the ground.

 

A hatch/lid access point is located next to each target and to get the balls back a persons opens the hatch and climbs down the ladder.

(I imagine that it will go together like this- The hatch that you see open in the picture above will be pointing toward the sky and at finished ground level.  The opening that you are looking into once it is turned to the correct position it will be the bottom.  All they do once it is in place is fill the opening with concrete making it the floor of the hatch.  The bit on the side is the way you walk into the target)

(Sorry I did hand sketch it but my scanner just died)

No special system besides a person picking the balls up and placing them in a bucket. (My take on it)

 

Each target has lights in it and whatever it uses to score.

Some of the land being reclaimed for TopGolf was part of the swamp and turning a swamp into usable ground takes time.  Somewhere in this topic I said how many loads of soil will be required to do this.

 

 

 

Edited May 10, 2017 by Skeeta

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

I would presume that the balls simply have an RFID chip with a unique ID built into them, and probably near field or beam technology to pick up the RFID position on the field.

As far as I knew, it wasn't just the targets capable of registering the ball location, but anywhere within the range - so the entire grounds will have some form of detection equipment to identify exactly which ball went where.

...and then I googled:

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I waved my club over the ball dispenser and it released a golf ball. The ball dispensers are equipped with RFID readers that can tell when you wave a club over the sensor. The ball also contains an RFID chip that tells the Topgolf system that it's you who's about to hit.

"We know that you're the one playing because that ball is tagged to you," Macaulay says. "Once you hit it, we wait for it show up somewhere in the field."

 

After a few practice swings, I hit the ball and looked up to see where it landed. Again, Topgolf isn't your ordinary driving range, and it doesn't have signs to mark the yardage. Instead, there are 500 RFID readers in the field that form various zones. Each zone is a circular net with sections, and the closer your ball gets to the center of the zone, and the further the zone is in the field (240 yards), the more points you earn. When your ball falls into a zone, the readers scan its RFID chip, and the data is passed back to the Topgolf system to register the score.

 

And.... then this:

I can't seem to find a date on the article, but it looks as though they're converting to UHF RFID detectors instead of LF:

http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?9083/2

 

[New display name]

In some games, not only do you need to hit a target but each section within the target is like a large dartboard.   That is well above my paygrade of golfing.  I will stick to I hope to get it into any hole game.

[Reanimated35]

6 minutes ago, Skeeta said:

I will stick to I hope to get it into any hole game

We've all been there. 

[ThemeTendo]

More vertical construction on the main building

New marker-things (weren't there last weekend) have appeared outside the temp fencing

and looks like the studios are preparing to utilise the pool/tank

[Theme Park Girl]

Here's a pic I took of the Topgolf construction site today:

Also looks like filming for Aquaman is in full swing now! They are clearly putting that swimming tank to good use today

[themagician]