[anthonydj]

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.

I have never been on a construction sight. I would love to go on the construction sight of Carowinds because i know it would be 100% different then looking on the camera. I would probably seem to go 10 X faster in person.

[Capler]

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?

Leviathan would be a better comparison. It took then weeks to get those two gigantic center supports completed. And judging from what we have seen this week with Fury, it has taken a week to get that one support done, -as I type it's still not attached. On schedule, behind schedule, who knows, but it appears they were waiting on the last crane to arrive.

[FamousAmos]

If I lived in that area, every day I would film a documentary (sort of) of the important parts of the construction. Granted that I have permission from the park and I'm not in college. I like to do things like that.

[HavenHamilton]

Looks like the "missing link" will be going up today...connecting support, spine, and track.

[Hiveminded]

Has the drop height been announced previously? It's 320 feet.

https://twitter.com/mikefehnel/status/5 ... 2540101632

Well I guess that officially confirms it, even though I didn't doubt it, we now have confirmed the tallest drop from a lift hill in the world.

[uscbandfan]

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.

I'm sure it may be perspective but the "circle" looks like it's too tight to wrap around the center where the state line and carowinds sign will be (roughly where the giant pile of grey gravel is.)

[anthonydj]

if i am not mistaking it looks like another piece to the lift is about to go up!!

Or is this another piece ?

[shane235]

if i am not mistaking it looks like another piece to the lift is about to go up!!

Lift? I think you mean drop. They are about to raise up a piece to connect with the support, the track, and the spine, like someone previously said.

[LocalYokel]

Cool video from the construction site:
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/1 ... g-the.html

[FamousAmos]

I'm sure it may be perspective but the "circle" looks like it's too tight to wrap around the center where the state line and carowinds sign will be (roughly where the giant pile of grey gravel is.)

I think it will be fine...

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[coasterbruh]

Did tarheel give you his MS paint password???

[FamousAmos]

Nahh, I'm lazy and did not finish it.

[anthonydj]

Does anyone know if they work on Saturday or Sunday ? Just wondering...

[bradbeane88]

Does anyone know if they work on Saturday or Sunday ? Just wondering...

Last week they worked on saturday but not on sunday. So my guess is it will probably be the same this weekend!

[Capler]

Does anyone know if they work on Saturday or Sunday ? Just wondering...

Last week they worked on saturday but not on sunday. So my guess is it will probably be the same this weekend!

As slow as they have been moving today, they better come in tomorrow so we will have something to hold us through Sunday. That must be an especially difficult piece to place, they have been messing with it all day long.