DC Rivals HyperCoaster construction discussion

[TimMc333]

55 minutes ago, jack.c said:

Can someone make a pov in no limits? I would but I'm stupid..

I have no doubt that @docoaster is all over it! 

[Slick]

Just adding a quick recap:

• Richard's closer look article is up on Parkz
• My in-depth article is now live on OurWorlds

For those who don't like clicking or tapping, here's a quick photo dump from my end ( @Richard was ever so lucky to go on-site, meanwhile I snooped off-site with my telephoto lens.)

 

[Whombex]

4 hours ago, Slick said:

Great photos @Slick - especially this one. Only thing with it is my curiosity for how the landscaping will go.

[Theme Park Girl]

Here's some piccies from my visit today. Lots of working happening on the lift hill ☺️

Edited June 7, 2017 by Theme Park Girl
Added panorama now that I've had a chance to edit it at home ☺️

[Fultre]

Some shots from today guys. Lots of activity around the site, many parts prepped and ready to go.

 

[SHOOKETH]

Movie World's skyline now is stunning. You have the charcoal black coaster right up the back, with the red coaster to the left, then the green coaster right up front with half of the completed "fuschia" coaster. Breath taking. #themeparkporn 

[Tim Dasco]

So what colour will the next one be? Orange, yellow, blue? 😂

[Ninja]

38 minutes ago, Tim Dasco said:

So what colour will the next one be? Orange, yellow, blue? 😂

Hopefully wooden coloured 

[Tim Dasco]

16 minutes ago, Ninja said:

Hopefully wooden coloured 

So brown? Ewww yucky! That's a crap colour! 😂 (That's a joke for people who can't tell)

Edited June 7, 2017 by Tim Dasco

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

can always paint it a classic white?

[Inverted]

Testing has started!!!!!

 

Well on the lighting anyways.   

On way home today they had crews playing with coloured purple spot lights on the Stengel dive supports.

Looked awesome!

[xRazzBerryx]

1 hour ago, Inverted said:

On way home today they had crews playing with coloured purple spot lights on the Stengel dive supports.

Exciting  glad to see that it will have lights on the coaster, I bet it will look stunning at night! 

One question though, are you sure the lights were purple? ..or were they Magenta?

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

1. they could very well have been white lights, and the colour of the track is what you saw
2. it could be purple. I like that they're planning lighting, but I would have loved to have seen LED strip run the length of the track - REALLY make it pop at night.
3. Either way, i'm glad to see they haven't blown their wad entirely on the coaster and have something left over to make it look nice - hopefully that extends to landscaping and perhaps even some themed elements along the ride course.
4. it's not fuschia.

[HussRainbow87]

I wanna see this lighting! Hopefully it will be something like this:

 

 

[jake_hunt]

Imagine the cost of that for 1.4km of track though...

[Flynn_Smith]

19 minutes ago, jake_hunt said:

Imagine the cost of that for 1.4km of track though...

Couple of these should do the trick... low cost too. Im joking if you didn't realise

[Tim Dasco]

Big W have cheaper fairy lights. But dumb LED Pixel Strips are actually cheaper than fairy lights. $10/5 metres. (plus controllers)

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

do pixel string instead of strip. 

25c per light - you can pick the spacing. Even if you made it every 30cm, you're looking at about 4600 nodes = around $1200 or so

(https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/12mm-bullet-type-DC12V-WS2818-RGB-full-color-addressable-LED-pixel-light-IP68-10cm-wire-spacing/701799_32770502185.html?spm=2114.12010612.0.0.j8sPlG)

Now, sure - these aren't things that will last a decade, so triple the price for a more commercial quality unit, add another $500-$1000 for controllers and such - maybe go all out and buy a Pi to drive it all for you - you're gonna have the whole thing lit for around $5000.

Now to sit back and wait for @djrappa to pick it all apart - as I know he's probably got a better idea.

[Tim Dasco]

^ Plus the labour costs for someone to wrap it around the whole coaster and cables ties to attach it to the track. 

$5,000 is not to bad considering they are spending 30million plus. I am sure MW would want to make this stand out at night. I am actually surprised DW don't have lighting running up the Dreamworld tower.

Edited June 8, 2017 by Tim Dasco

[rappa]

Nope no way. Do not light the whole track. Parts will start to fail and it will be a maintenance nightmare and look like shit. 

 

Stick to ground based flood lighting. 

[Gazza]

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Now, sure - these aren't things that will last a decade, so triple the price for a more commercial quality unit, add another $500-$1000 for controllers and such - maybe go all out and buy a Pi to drive it all for you - you're gonna have the whole thing lit for around $5000.

What's your labour component?

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Well see that depends - if they'd thought about it before it went vertical, they could have hard everything fitted to the track, plugs at each end. Obviously after its up, fitting is a tougher job.

So costs could vary, and yes it'd obviously cost easily double factoring labour - I wasn't ignoring that part, it just wasn't relevant considering the previous posts only talked about light costs.

[jake_hunt]

@AlexB when I brought up cost, I also meant labour. Obviously, Movie World would be able to afford the lights themselves - they are spending over $30 million on this already. What I meant was that at this point, the cost and effort of basically going over the whole track again to install 1.4km of lights on the track is probably not worth it. As you pointed out though, it would have been much easier and more feasible had they installed the lights on the track segments in advance.

[jack.c]

Can you guys discuss the theming of the ride in the other thread? Yes lights come under theming. 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

2 hours ago, jake_hunt said:

@AlexB when I brought up cost, I also meant labour.

Hey Jake - wasn't specifically referring to your post, but the two after it simply referencing a product, and it's cost, without labour.

1 hour ago, jack.c said:

Can you guys discuss the theming of the ride in the other thread? Yes lights come under theming. 

Oh i'm sorry - I didn't realise you were a moderator.

You did notice TWO of them continued the discussion here, right?

Lights can also come under construction - since lights are part of the construction...

 

Do you need a hand out of the backseat?