It's a twisty hill (technical terms now)

Just went past.  No invert there.

 

7 minutes ago, Inverted said:

It's a twisty hill (technical terms now)

Great - first sign of some serious ejector airtime?

3 pieces installed today, with the next lot of supports where the track will drop down after the twisty hill. After the drop down it will sharply turn to the right 

Edited May 8, 20178 yr by themagician

@themagician Have they connected the turn around to the S-Bend? If not, does anyone know why they're waiting to do that bit?

No they haven't yet @xRazzBerryx the track pieces are on site ready to be installed, but don't know why they haven't yet. 

The next pieces have been installed, dropping down over the track before the Stengel Dive.

Also a number of new supports are scattered around the place, as well as some ready to be installed.

A close up of those tightly twisted pieces

 

3 minutes ago, themagician said:

 

Holy #$&% 😮😮😮

19 minutes ago, Theme Park Girl said:

Holy #$&% 😮😮😮

Has the lights just come on to where this is going? 

Edited May 9, 20178 yr by Skeeta

Lol @Skeeta! Just one of the most turbulent designed pieces of track I have ever seen. Love it already 😂😉👍

So you can see that pieces 43 and 42 are those tight twisting pieces, and together they can go upside down.

That is some Maverick-level twisty-ness right there

@Theme Park GirlIt looks like the kids have left a crayon on the parcel shelf and it has melted in the sun.

WoW!!!

So is something like this what we are now speculating based on pieces 42 and 43? I hope so!

I've done up a quick sketch on what's been built so far. There might be some errors since this is just based on photos, I'll leave @docoaster to do all the fantastic 3D NoLimits stuff.

Red is obviously what's already been built, blue is the two routes where it could go down now. I feel pretty sure that it'll go down the inner route because the track appears to be un-banking in the most recent photos. I think from there it'll probably wrap around itself a couple of times before making the return journey to the station (perhaps a bit similar to what @docoaster had in his video).

Can someone remind me what piece number the first piece of the Stengel dive is? If it is just after the mid-40s, I feel like it really could be a non-inverting loop - which would be amazing, I've heard the airtime those things give is fantastic. If that is the case, I think the chances of this being a non-inverting hypercoaster are quite a bit higher now.

At the rate they're going I feel like that apart from the lift hill, drop, and perhaps one or two other major elements after the drop, the trackwork will be almost completely finished by the end of this month.

That's also when GL goes into maintenance, so I think it's a very viable guess. You would assume they would finish the lift hill and drop last.

Edit: just noticed that 42 is pictured in the back of @themagician's photo of 43, I'd say that's confirmation the piece below is 43 as well.

If piece 43 photographed today is the same as in this picture by @Theme Park Ninja I'm feeling like a non-inverting loop is becoming a stronger possibility.

I've got a hunch based on the joining pins: on 42 they're facing towards us. When I first saw the pieces I thought if the other in the back is 41 it would be a zero-g; if it's 43 it would have to be something else. This is because the close end of 42 is optimised for leveling out whereas the far end has some pitch to it:

You can see in the inverted picture how that'd make a pretty awkward zero-g since the track shoots up at the end, but for a non-inverting the pitch drops it back in to the loop nicely. Again, if the other is 43 they have to join together at the level end due to the pins on 42, which wouldn't really work for a zero-g but strengthens the case for a non-inverting loop.

@Santa07 the piece at the start of the Stengel is 49. That would give 5 pieces available between that and the twisty parts. For a little bit of reference I counted how many pieces are in one half of the Flash loop:

That's 6-7 pieces up to the zone where it would start twisting. With a loop a little smaller 5 pieces definitely seems plausible to fill the half loop from twist to ground. At least now that #48 is on site we shouldn't have to wait too long to see some support structure to get some extra clues 

Edited May 9, 20178 yr by rummy

my god it's just too awesome and it's still not finished can't wait to see what else they add to the TWISTACULAR

The best pieces of track currently being installed, carrying on from this point 

23 hours ago, themagician said:

 

Just sitting in the Movieworld carpark now enjoying some McDonald's and admiring this beast of a coaster.  As said in a few posts, the photos don't do this thing justice.  The impression you get as you turn into Movieworld, this coaster just blows you away.  The large crane is currently maneuvering into a new position .  There is not much track left in the holding yard but there is still 6 containers that look like they haven't been unloaded yet.  

On 08/05/2017 at 9:11 PM, xRazzBerryx said:

@themagician Have they connected the turn around to the S-Bend? If not, does anyone know why they're waiting to do that bit?

 

On 08/05/2017 at 11:17 PM, themagician said:

No they haven't yet @xRazzBerryx the track pieces are on site ready to be installed, but don't know why they haven't yet. 

Vehicle/crane access?

The track is just loosely bolted in-place for now to be self-supporting and they will join it properly later.  maybe those bits will go in last after the dive-loop is fully bolted together?

Larger crane is back in the carpark near the containers

Edited May 11, 20178 yr by themagician

Must be a lay day down here today. Nothing really going on at all. No cranes in use, no one working in the Coaster site at all. No movement in the holding yard either. 

Heres an obligatory photo taken so it was worth my while to come down here haha

Edited May 11, 20178 yr by Brad2912

@Brad2912 You must have turned up while they were on a break.  I did a head count for you and I counted 7 Logan Steel workers.   The containers were getting unloaded and a few of the workers were working on the track they had already installed between Stengel Dive and the Inclined Dive Loop.  (Look at us, Richard has us talking all proper) Both cherry pickers were being used.

Bah. The twisty piece that connects to the straighty piece is being installed this afternoon inbetween the whoosh-wow and the gullywhumper.

These track pieces all tease an inversion but than just say nah and turn around the other way

3 hours ago, Skeeta said:

Look at us, Richard has us talking all proper

Next step is to censor the word twisty...