anthonydj wrote:It was interesting because i was looking at the pictures of construction of the Intimidator and noticed that they were complete with the lift hill on the date 10/17. Does this mean that Fury is behind on construction ? Or because the bottom of the hill being built compensates for the lift?
I don't know if it compensates for it or not.
My thinking is that the "time consuming" part of construction is the station. Getting the all the electrical, mechanical, line queues, control panel, etc etc etc done takes a lot of time. That's a lot of detail type of work, and it takes a lot of time. If you've ever been on a constuction site, you'd notice that the structure seems to go very quickly. It "looks" like construction goes very fast as the structure goes up. But then getting all the little fixtures, walls, paint done "seems" like it takes forever before it gets totally finished. It's just the nature of building things.
My hope is that since the station was done first, they have all winter to be working on that, and weather will have very little effect for doing all that detail work.
The big, obvious building of the rest of the track, after the lift hill is done, can move pretty quickly. And once the lift hill is done, we'll all be impressed with how quickly the rest of it goes. Kind of like how we didn't even notice the section of the track behind the trees... and boom... there were 6 supports and 2 sections of track almost in the blink of an eye.
edit-- I love that we can now see the shape of the circle at the main gate entrance taking shape. It gives some reference for how it'll look.
