SFGAm riddle
some things too keep in mind
-they still have a coaster to take down this will probably take 1 month
-they have to remove the old footers and the parking lot under shockwave 2 weeks
-prepare forms for footers and poor footers 2 weeks after they are poored they have to wait at least 30 days for them to cure properly.
sub total 3 months this brings us to january 1st
-new coaster construction time unknown but ill take a guess at 2.5 months
-testing and landscaping another guess at 1 month
total 6.5 months 2 weeks into april
this means that it is possable for six flags to actualy finish the ride before the park opens provided the weather is decent during the winter. if the weather is bad this could add a month or two to the construction time.
hope this helps someone to understand what every one is talking about
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p.s. contrary to popular belief i am not an idiot nor i am i a child.
does any one have any pic up dates on the construction. I f u do, post them or something. Also how many people think the new B&M will NOT be clone of the Superman Ultimate Escape.
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Never Has Gravity Been So Uplifting.
*** This post was edited by BullGuy on 10/1/2002. ***
Look at the third picture down and tell me where you see any hills. Like I said, there are some *minor* topographical changes in Whizzer's plot of land, but nothing that can't be very easily fixed. In fact, nothing I would expect to require alteration at all.
-Nate
Edit: This is also a good picture to all the space in and around Whizzer (on Whizzer's side of the tracks) that I was talking about previously. That's a lot more than ten feet.
*** This post was edited by coasterdude318 on 10/1/2002. ***
Coasterdude318.... you were the unlucky chap that got post number "666"... you better pray those breaks on your next coaster actually function correctly!!!
[EDIT] Umm.... uh oh... someone took out a post and made me the unlucky chap. That can't be a good thing! I hope Superman at Worlds of Adventure doesn't overshoot the spike :)
*** This post was edited by DawgByte II on 10/2/2002. ***
But they're not. :-)
The curve that appears to be "cutting into a hillside" is actually inside a ditch (this can clearly be seen in the link I posted, bottom right-hand corner). There is about as much "terrain" around Whizzer as there is in the rest of the park:
None.
-Nate
coaterdude318: Maybe something's changed since then (unlikely), but that's more than just a ditch. Have you been on the ride? If so, think back to the second drop: to your left, there was a slight rise, and then mostly flat land, possibly slightly sloping away from you. To your right, there was a wall that rose above the top of the train, with solid earth behind it for some distance, testified to both by the fact that every bit of the trees next to you are are also above you, and that if you look, you can see it sloping up. Again, this is not much more than a knob. But it's taller than a coaster train, at least. If you look very carefully at the picture you're talking about, you can see this. But it is heavily obscured by the extreme angle the picture was taken from, and by the fact that the entire thing is covered with trees. The rest of the plot of land undulates slightly too, but this is again hard to see because of the extreme angle.
http://www.negative-g.net/SFGAM/SFGAM2001/SFGAM-2001-2.html
On the last picture on this page (thanks for the site!), you can see how the ground rises up to the right of the train, but not to the left. I assure you, it continues to slope up to the middle of that clump of trees, albeit not on very steep angle. You can also see some small knolls rising up beyond the fence. since while the Whizzer is there, nothing else can be in that spot, those knolls are generally considered part of Whizzer's plot.
*** This post was edited by (SF)Great American on 10/2/2002. ***
*** This post was edited by (SF)Great American on 10/2/2002. ***
-Nate
coasterdude, from going to this park many times i'd *almost* garantee ;) that that water is lower than the land around it, which means that there is elevation change in that plot.
However, the supports for footers that would have been in the water wouldn't require any adjusting because since the surface of the water is usually considered "ground level", not the bottom of the pond. That is, normal sized footers aren't poured into the pond; they're extended to rise above the surface of the pond (meaning that the length of the support would be the same whether there was water or grass there).
-Nate
Bottom line of my argument is this: moving the flyer from Whizzer's plot to Shockwave's plot is not going to require any new engineering or support adjusting. Both are about as flat as can be.
-Nate
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-Bob (formerly Coaster Jedi)
Do any of you know how to build a sundial out of a pen and a donut?
uh oh, sounds like someone has a case of the mondays.
Ragingusmc said:
Yes you can tell that they are flying coaster supports by the wings painted on them......
No in all honesty aren't there ways to tell if the supports are for a flying coaster or not. (besides the wings, LOL).
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Coaster Counter: 85+...I need to sit down and figure it out :)
Closed topic.
