DC Rivals HyperCoaster construction discussion

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

I'm waiting for Nearmap. lol... that could be a while.

[New display name]

^ Good luck picking the pegs up.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

^You'd be surprised Skeet.

Image below:

top - random housing estate my wife's company built. You can clearly make out the plumbing points (missed the site pegs by a few weeks).

Second pics - your pics of the pegs.

bottom - original image posted by TPG (i think).

I know they've scraped the block since TPGs image, but we should see some of the marker pegs return after the initial groundwork (assumption only).

hopefully, Nearmap gets a shot whilst the marker stakes are in, casting a shadow and making it easier to see.

[New display name]

Come on Alex fair crack of the whip.  The nearmap is picking up drainage pipes which are a lot bigger than a peg.  To add to that how are you going to identify what the peg is for from a spaceship.  I would be waiting on all the foundations going in before using nearmap.

If you know the difference between the pegs, then go for it.

 

Edited September 6, 2016 by YLFATEEKS

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Not a spaceship... a Cessna.

Quote

A unique exclusive process of imagery capturing, processing and publishing is used. Traditionally, high resolution aerial imagery has to be captured by a low altitude flying aircraft, then the data is manually processed and stitched together digitally to create a PhotoMap, a slow process which can take months to complete. Nearmap speeds up this process by using their own engineered camera capture equipment, named a 'HyperPod', which is attached to Cessna 210 light aircraft, which fly at a high altitude, enabling entire cities to be captured in a day or two. Once the imagery is captured, it is processed through super computers which run software known as 'HyperVision' which automatically processes and stitches together the many individual photographs captured into one virtually seamless PhotoMap. These PhotoMaps are then hosted on Nearmap's end user web portal, known as 'MapBrowser'. Along with traditional top-down photography, the HyperPod is also able to capture oblique aerial photographs from 4 different angles and digital elevation model data at the same time.

The provider currently covers 2.26 per cent of Australia's landmass, with coverage primarily for capital cities and major regional towns. Special imagery may be flown for events such as natural disasters, for example, 2 cm resolution coverage of Brisbane and Ipswich during the 2010–2011 Queensland floods. Imagery is normally updated for 60% of Australia's population regularly (6+ times per year for metropolitan ares) at a 7.5 cm (3.0 in) average resolution and an additional 15% every three months at a 10 cm (3.9 in) resolution.

Although they don't deploy their 2cm resolution just for the hell of it - this will give you an idea of the resolution. This is my SES depot during the 2011 floods. The roof is used for training roof repair crews. The detail you can pick up is pretty impressive.

Also - oblique imagery from sides - you may not be able to identify a peg if it's only an inch or two above ground from directly above, but the multiview option allows you to look at it from 4 different angles as well....

[mba2012]

No photos again sorry, only driving past on the highway. 

There seems to be a fair bit of earthworks going on now, a small portion of the swamp might be being filled in. There's a few pile drivers working away, but you can't really see where (and if) they've actually done anything. 

[Smeg]

Someone needs to get some photos

[Santa07]

@Theme Park Girl @Theme Park Ninja You have been summoned to take photos of the earthworks.

[Jay Jay The Jet Plane]

@Santa07 I will be at the park either tomorrow or Sunday depending on the weather, will let you know what I day I will go tomorrow

[Santa07]

@Smeg You have a saviour in TPN.

[Jamberoo Fan]

I don't know if anyone noticed but as you all know, Village Roadshow built a new sound stage as part of the Studios for the Commonwealth Games but did anyone noticed this other development application for another sound stage that was approved in March?

Could this be a new sound stage for a dark ride component of the new roller coaster? Or is it for another new ride? Or is it actually another sound stage for the Studios or for other miscellaneous uses by either the Studios or MW?

I had to do a bit of research to make sure I wasn't been confused with the Commonwealth Games sound stage especially as there seems to be no room at the roller coaster construction site for a new sound stage unless it is small, built into the Justice League: Alien Invasion 3D ride sound stage or the swamp gets filled in like how @mba2012 suggests is occurring as we speak. But after finding separate development applications & confirming the Commonwealth Games sound stage was nearly fully built around the time this new sound stage development application was submitted for approval, I'm very confident it is for a newer sound stage but for what purpose and where?

[New display name]

^no

[Theme Park Girl]

2 hours ago, Santa07 said:

@Theme Park Girl @Theme Park Ninja You have been summoned to take photos of the earthworks.

If you insist... but I took them from a moving car, so not the best quality. But they are from today. 

[Reanimated35]

2 hours ago, Jamberoo Fan said:

I don't know if anyone noticed but as you all know, Village Roadshow built a new sound stage as part of the Studios for the Commonwealth Games but did anyone noticed this other development application for another sound stage that was approved in March?

Could this be a new sound stage for a dark ride component of the new roller coaster? Or is it for another new ride? Or is it actually another sound stage for the Studios or for other miscellaneous uses by either the Studios or MW?

I had to do a bit of research to make sure I wasn't been confused with the Commonwealth Games sound stage especially as there seems to be no room at the roller coaster construction site for a new sound stage unless it is small, built into the Justice League: Alien Invasion 3D ride sound stage or the swamp gets filled in like how @mba2012 suggests is occurring as we speak. But after finding separate development applications & confirming the Commonwealth Games sound stage was nearly fully built around the time this new sound stage development application was submitted for approval, I'm very confident it is for a newer sound stage but for what purpose and where?

I "think" the top 2 are the sheds being used for the hero mazes this fright nights, and obviously we know what SS9 is. 

[JaggedJanine]

A sound stage is not a shed they are using for a maze.

[pin142]

Noticed on the way into the car park yesterday markers being hammered in heading towards Green Lantern. This looks like it is going to be big whatever it is assuming those markers are for it. As shown in the photos by TPG they seem to have a bit of a gopher problem as there are quite a few holes and piles of dirt around the place especially in the front corner near the traffic lights.

The overflow car park grass area has a heap of pipes and some holes being dug too alongside the exit road. I didn't get any photos but sure someone probably will over the weekend.

Edited September 9, 2016 by pin142
Didn't English good enough

[Jay Jay The Jet Plane]

spoke to an MW employee just a minute ago regrading to a some news about the park, this new roller coaster 's ride time is apparently going to be 8 minutes long, hearing this is making me excited knowing it's not going to be a one trick pony ride like Buzzsaw ?

[rappa]

There is no way it will be 8 minutes!

Thats ridiculous 

[strop]

Maybe he was talking dispatch times. ?

[red dragin]

Maybe they got confused and where thinking of AA load times 

[Reanimated35]

8 minutes?! 

"I want to get off roller coaster 1"

[themagician]

8 minutes.... That just doesn't seem right at all. Unless there is a long pre-launch/lift hill section of the ride, and it moves through it slowly. If you'd said 2 minutes, then yes, very believable. Otherwise, @Theme Park Ninja I have my doubts, or the staff member misheard

[MaxxTheMonster]

Well with The Ultimate being 7:24 approx ride time,  2.3 km length, top speed 80kph, but only going 18kph average...

Steel Dragon being being 4:00 approx ride time, 2.5 km length, top speed 153kph...

Both at their longest width from point to point are between 700 and 750 metres...

Longest width that is being cleared at MW is approx 300 metres...

Either this thing is really going to wind on itself and have a low average speed (Road Runner is max 46kph so think less than half that speed), or I would say that 8 minute ride time either includes a lot of waiting time to unload or is totally incorrect...

[Brad2912]

8mins? They are having a lend of you surely

[Santa07]

8 minutes is pushing the boundaries of going too far. Plus, unless they have a heap of trains the efficiency will be absolutely awful. I think this MW employee was either having a joke with you Ninja or heard something completely wrong.