The Smiler - Construction Discussion

Smile always. New for 2013.
Locked
User avatar
loaster
New Member
New Member
Posts: 8
Joined: Sat Mar 24, 2012 7:05 pm
Location: Essex

I'd expect the site clearance to continue until at least the end of June, and the footers to start going in mid July. There's a lot of footers to go in.
PeteMadden

Very exciting to see the 'Secret Weapon Inside' banner. If they're going to use it, I'm expecting they will use the black hole entrance as part of the entrance for SW7
User avatar
NickReid
Member
Member
Posts: 87
Joined: Fri Jun 08, 2007 4:34 pm

Why would they use a banner that uses th13teen's vines and track on for SW7?
User avatar
Adz
Admin
Admin
Posts: 7038
Joined: Tue Nov 18, 2003 6:37 pm
Location: Yorkshire
Contact:

I expect its just dumped there rather than being intended for usage at a later stage...
Image
PeteMadden

NickReid wrote: Why would they use a banner that uses th13teen's vines and track on for SW7?
Because it doesn't necessarily give away that it's TH13TEEN, maybe just a very minor cost cut, almost pointless I guess.
Either that or the banner in the photo is a similar design but with the SW7 track, you can't tell from the picture
User avatar
Themeparksandy1981
Member
Member
Posts: 1560
Joined: Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:34 pm
Location: Midlands
Contact:

Maybe there gonna use it to cover a section of the track which is the worlds first part. Unless that part will be indoors.
User avatar
stretchy
Member
Member
Posts: 273
Joined: Mon Apr 26, 2004 3:58 pm
Location: Stoke
Contact:

Yesterdays Photos
My usual overview
Image

View from the bottom gate
Image

The diggers
Image

View down access road behind X Sector
Image
[url=http://"http://www.stretchedmindz.com"]Image[/url]

[url=http://"http://www.secretsantaelf.co.uk"]Image[/url]
User avatar
dominoes
Member
Member
Posts: 591
Joined: Tue Oct 05, 2010 6:49 pm
Location: On my computer. How else would I be on TT?

Bin! Yay! And dirt! Even better!

But really, great photos. Has everything gone now?
User avatar
stretchy
Member
Member
Posts: 273
Joined: Mon Apr 26, 2004 3:58 pm
Location: Stoke
Contact:

No to be honest in the past week all it looks like they have done is they have moved stuff around.
[url=http://"http://www.stretchedmindz.com"]Image[/url]

[url=http://"http://www.secretsantaelf.co.uk"]Image[/url]
PeteMadden

That SW7 fencing is getting me so excited every time I see it!
User avatar
rcopus
New Member
New Member
Posts: 18
Joined: Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:33 pm
Location: Dudley

Chubba wrote: In the last pic, is that the "secret weapon inside" banner from SW6?? :?
Looks more like the fence covering from Terry's construction to me.
User avatar
Boz
New Member
New Member
Posts: 0
Joined: Fri Feb 28, 2014 12:29 am
Location: Farnborough, Hampshire

I was down there this weekend :)

I saw, from Oblivion, that they have built an access ramp from the old Black Hole queue line, down into the bottom of the site, with an access point through the trees at the back of the site, again, behind the old queue line.
A million apologies but i couldn't get a good view of it to take a piccy. The only ones i could get were of the rest of the site, and not much has happened there.
User avatar
Rob
Admin
Admin
Posts: 2409
Joined: Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:05 pm
Location: Glasgow

Still worth sharing your images of the construction site. It's amazing what things we can pick out that may have gone unnoticed.
User avatar
Boz
New Member
New Member
Posts: 0
Joined: Fri Feb 28, 2014 12:29 am
Location: Farnborough, Hampshire

Rob-TT wrote: Still worth sharing your images of the construction site. It's amazing what things we can pick out that may have gone unnoticed.
sure no problem :)

Image

Image
User avatar
dominoes
Member
Member
Posts: 591
Joined: Tue Oct 05, 2010 6:49 pm
Location: On my computer. How else would I be on TT?

Probably a stupid question, but has that fence at the back always been there? Cause it looks pretty new...
User avatar
Boz
New Member
New Member
Posts: 0
Joined: Fri Feb 28, 2014 12:29 am
Location: Farnborough, Hampshire

i think it is new, and if my estimation is right, that clearing will lead onto a raised viewing area, located above the queuline just to the north of the first lift.

edit: just looked again and i was wrong, it's the perfect position for the new maintence acess road
Last edited by Boz on Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:10 pm, edited 1 time in total.
User avatar
Boz
New Member
New Member
Posts: 0
Joined: Fri Feb 28, 2014 12:29 am
Location: Farnborough, Hampshire

sorry to double post, can't modify.
Boz wrote: I saw, from Oblivion, that they have built an access ramp from the old Black Hole queue line, down into the bottom of the site, with an access point through the trees at the back of the site, again, behind the old queue line.
just thought i would add as well, that teh ramp is right in the middle of the site, in roughly the same spot that the vertical lift should be going.
read into that what you will :)
PeteMadden

This is all getting me very excited for when I finally get to see SW7 development for myself in a fortnight. Fantastic photos as well Boz
User avatar
The Moon
Member
Member
Posts: 319
Joined: Mon Jun 25, 2012 2:55 pm
Location: The Moral Highground

Getting up there for the 18th before my Florida theme park month, should get a good look from up Oblivion. Anyone else reckon we may see a nice revamp of X-Sector or are Merlin going to be themselves? The area is looking sad, in fact the whole park is awful compared to the likes of Busch Gardens Tampa or Disney.
THC selectively targets and destroys tumor cells while leaving healthy cells unscathed. Conventional chemotherapy drugs, by contrast, are highly toxic; they indiscriminately damage the brain and body.

Toke up...
User avatar
DannyNewbro
Member
Member
Posts: 99
Joined: Mon Mar 21, 2011 4:52 pm
Location: Anglesey, North Wales

The Moon wrote: Getting up there for the 18th before my Florida theme park month, should get a good look from up Oblivion. Anyone else reckon we may see a nice revamp of X-Sector or are Merlin going to be themselves? The area is looking sad, in fact the whole park is awful compared to the likes of Busch Gardens Tampa or Disney.
Well there's no need for that!
Image
Locked