wow it's creepy as! how spectacular.... In the announcement video I wasn't too keen, but that looks insane! very unique!

Edited September 14, 20178 yr by HussRainbow87

So what day do we all think it will open? My guess is Monday. Fewer people (compared to weekend) for a slightly easier soft opening. Also gives them till then to finish up the last few bits of landscaping, site clean-up etc.

Even better than I expected. It makes the drop so much more imposing. Congrats to the manufacturer of the face - it looks identical to the renderings.

Edited September 15, 20178 yr by GoGoBoy

Monday or Tuesday is my guess. They are progressing very quickly. When I was there this morning, there ate tonnes of workmen around the site. The fence alongside the new path, is having the railings installed. 

1 hour ago, Skeeta said:

What are the 3 thingamabobs on top of the Jokers head

 

?

My guess is lightening rods.

8 minutes ago, pushbutton said:

So what day do we all think it will open? My guess is Monday. Fewer people (compared to weekend) for a slightly easier soft opening. Also gives them till then to finish up the last few bits of landscaping, site clean-up etc.

I'm thinking either Sunday or Tuesday at the moment. Gives them two days to pack everything up and make final touches. I don't think it would be Monday because there probably won't be that much work done on Sunday. If they don't finish everything on Saturday it's possible they take a day off on Sunday and finish up on Monday. Who knows, maybe they're actually on track for an opening tomorrow.

I can't imagine everywith will be packed up from the carpark, road cleaned, carpark fixed and fencing removed by the time of the official opening. I imagine a lot of the carpark will reopen, but can't see the main road being used just yet.

To me it still feels like they are aiming for a soft opening tomorrow 🤔 The reason I think it will soft open tomorrow is because they have just worked all through the night to get the joker head up. 

If the plans was to soft open on Saturday, you would think that yesterday they made the decision to stay on site & wait for the best time to lift it up, rather than risk it & try to do it today. 

The only other reason why I think they lifted it up last night was because they only had the cranes booked in to use it on Thursday & they had to be somewhere else by today. 

9 minutes ago, xRazzBerryx said:

The reason I think it will soft open tomorrow is because they have just worked all through the night to get the joker head up

Got any idea how much one of those cranes cost to keep on site?

Plus as you said, booking them from X date till X date quite likely already had an extra day or two for weather situations like yesterday.

 

1 hour ago, Skeeta said:

What are the 3 thingamabobs on top of the Jokers head

 

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My guess would be lightning rods as @jcgoldcoast said but I wouldn't be surprise if one of them wasn't a height warning beacon for aircraft (similar to the tops of buildings) noting the height.

@AlexB  @Skeeta 

Somehow I feel one of you would know this. What are the building beacon requirements over the Helensvale area?

 

I'd guess they're either lightning rods, weather or ride sensors.

Edited September 15, 20178 yr by Reanimated35

18 minutes ago, Reanimated35 said:

Got any idea how much one of those cranes cost to keep on site?

When i was at HHA I remember one of the boys at HHA vertical telling me that one of our 200t cranes use to go for around $2000-$3000 a week to keep on site

1 hour ago, CamBrown said:

 

Could they be sensors for the ride? Things like wind speed and such?

Lightning rods.

1 hour ago, xRazzBerryx said:

The only other reason why I think they lifted it up last night was because they only had the cranes booked in to use it on Thursday & they had to be somewhere else by today. 

Yes, I believe the cranes had to be gone by today.

2 hours ago, jcgoldcoast said:

My guess is lightening rods.

I really don't think it's that.

@wikiverse You never know 

It would most certainly be due to crane cost...  and you'd be looking at a hell of a lot more than $3000 a day let alone a week for a crane that size. Maybe. Get your x10 tables out. 

MASSIVE cost

6 minutes ago, djrappa said:

It would most certainly be due to crane cost...  and you'd be looking at a hell of a lot more than $3000 a day let alone a week for a crane that size. Maybe. Get your x10 tables out. 

MASSIVE cost

+1

The budget for that installation would have to be been a set price, with the contractor taking the gamble on the weather. The crane cost would have probably blown away any profits had they kept it an extra day. Overtime would have been considerably cheaper. 

It probably formed part of the contract for the entire installation, but each part needs to make money of course.

Amazing how attaching the head gives it even greater scale. Really pops now. Brilliant.

Edited September 15, 20178 yr by Levithian

Lightning rods makes sense and they're about the same size as the one on AA

Yeah gotta remember that head is full of LED and you don't want the electrics enclosures copping the direct lightning hit

The trucks that were taking the cranes away arrived while i was there. Around Midnight I'd say.

Edited September 15, 20178 yr by JaggedJanine

So why does DC need 3 and AA only need one? Just due to the amount of metal on the joker head or something else?

Nearmpa update from August 28

And here is a photoshopped, higher quality image of the whole area

Edited September 15, 20178 yr by themagician

That queue layout really confuses me