PROJECT 2027
Welcome back to SDC and another construction update.
We've done some studying of the site and we're going to give our best guesses on the layout today. Here by Powder Keg, it appears that there is a long launch zone down the hill
The footers near the restroom appear to be a curve to head into the helix garden area
It looks like the the footers there by the machine on the hill will be connected to this set of footers in a curve before heading towards the backside of Lumbercamp Falls
You can see the mine hoist tower over on this side too, we'll talk about it more later.
So here is where it gets a little difficult to follow the path. I personally think that it will to the left past the falls and then it appears to loop up and make a complete circle before heading over to the pathway under Plunge's lift.
Here you can see what we think is the initial loop in this area
Here you can better see when it pulls out of the initial loop and then heads back up and around
I think this is where that second loop is going to cross over and come this way
Going off of the beams that that they've installed for protective netting next to the pathway, this will probably be another curve before heading back to the other part of the ride
I really like the added rockwork. It really does look like a curve over the Plunge tunnel and then a straight line back to the hill that has the footers on it
Look at the rockwork on the other side of the tunnel and then follow the footers - it's basically a straight line
Here is the mine elevator hoist. It really towers over the Wildfire plaza area. It is still not completed, they need to install the drive wheel at the top
Looking at the footers here it is obvious that they connect to the footers on the hill on the other side of Plunge. This means that the track will be elevated here to go over the ride (and will possibly hug this hoist tower)
You can see they are still working on this tower
Again I cannot get over how much this area has changed this season
Here are those footers I was talking about. They line up with the Plunge's lift meaning that the track here will have to elevated to go up and over
This might just be wishful thinking on our parts, but this sure looks like the start of a pathway to connect to PowderKeg. We hope its not just a maintenance access road instead
So the pathway of the footers here gets a little tricky.
Our best guess is that this curve lines up with the supports on top of the station (what else could they be) and that we will swoop over this area (queue?) and then over the station before going into a launch down the hill (again just our working theory)
Here are those footers lining up with the station.
The only other possibility is that we exit the station and go this way, but that would require a major launch right away to get up over the midway as it couldn't be low track
It doesn't look like there will be a lot of indoor queue so I am guessing we'll have outdoor queue in this area somewhere
They have started framing out the station and that gives us a better idea of how it will work. We think you'll enter the station on this side before taking a staircase up to the second floor where you'll encounter additional queue before going down another set of stairs to reach the load side of the platform
Here will be the load side of the platform. It will feature some large windows so you can see the second portion of the ride. You'll notice that they have already installed wood framing on the openings for the station including what we think will be where the train exits into the ride
So our working theory is that you will exit this side of the station in the train and it will curve right and around the building before launching up into the helix garden. Not exactly sure the path, but we're fairly confident that this ride will only feature launches
Again, that mine elevator hoist has really changed the looks of the area
Riding the various coasters and the train we are even more certain that this area will contain part of the ride. The building of a giant footer makes it even more apparent that there's even more to it besides the already installed helix by Wildfire
Lots of fill has been added to this area since our last visit
Lots of activity in this area next to Outlaw Run. The white tents apparently have ride components in them and are keeping things hid for now...
The ride announcement will take place on August 14th and we will be there to cover it live.