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The lighting trusses look a bit more professional now that they have been painted cream to blend in better with the rest of the roof structure.
Main Street looks much better now that the screens have been shifted out of the way of the Daily Planet building.
A new Hollywood sign has been installed too, but it will probably look better once the steelwork is hidden by more vegetation and you get the effect of the sign sitting on a vegetated hillside.
The golden Bugs Bunny looks great, and makes you wonder why the fountain never had a landmark in it until now.
Movie World's fountain has undergone an upgrade for the parks 30th anniversary.
Pipework is in the ground for H2Oasis, a new splash pad area for the kids.
All the new slides are being provided by Whitewater West, who are based just outside of Vancouver, Canada.
Blue, purple, yellow, green and orange slide parts have arrived at site. Easiest to see are the large sawtooth pieces for the tailspin elements used on Kaboom! This part of the slide will eventually be like a large tilted dish you slide around the edge of.
With the old Mach 5 tower gone, works have begun on the new H2O zone slides.
The sun sets on Steel Taipan.
A good chunk of the layout. All that remains to be installed at this end includes the helix after the airtime hill, the barrel roll, and the final turn and brakes.
After the corkscrews is a funky airtime hill that threads through the loop.
There has been much anxiety about whether the train will re-open at all, given the amount of track that has been disturbed or covered over to allow the coaster to be constructed, but here the park is reassuring guests it will return.
Since our last updated, more Tower of Terror track has been pulled off the Giant Drop.
You can see how the track before the loop actually drops into a trench below ground level. Expect to see the announced themed tunnel element around here.
Fun Fact: Steel Taipan is the 2nd orange roller coaster in the history of the Gold Coast to feature two corkscrews.
Actually two corkscrews, mirrored against each other in a "twisted horsehoe" arrangement first seen on Maverick at Cedar Point.
You drop off the trim brake into a corkscrew.
Looks like an oil refinery.
Strangely, our version of the coaster has additional smaller supports between the main columns at some high load sections.
