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This afternoon light probably better reflects the track's actual colour. Now pics from the area I uploaded from my mobile at 3:30. Note part numbers were visible, and I have all my photos in much higher resolution if you want me to clarify. The pic below, all 3 grey poles connect together. The supports in the distance are either a lead in or lead out of the turnaround. There's a chance they'll connect to the climb in the next pics below. Just like the pic @Inverted just posted. Driving into the park and seeing the coaster coming at you is going to be a hell of a sight! Cherry picker used for untying straps? He was making clanking noises with whatever tool he was using, and not being gentle at all in there. Ah, thanks. They were unloading one this arvo though. Thing is with this pic I took earlier, I'm getting a much better appreciation of the speed this hyper will be pulling.

I'll upload pics in batches. First group here are from about 10am, all taken from fenceline that runs from Green Lantern all the way back towards the new road (last row of the carpark): Lots of pieces now - foreground and background. Even more arrived during the day! Probably pieces already photographed - but since we're playing pin the numbers together, maybe a few clues in there for you. For those who haven't been during construction, here's a few "step back" pics of the area around the lift hill. Hopefully you can get a feel of where the construction fences go in relation to the hill and GL to the right. That base in the garden bed is massive, the support going onto that will be what, 50m high? Another hole in the fence, although not vehicle sized. After I took these pics, I went into the park. Took more as I left, I'll upload these shortly.

Great to see videos like this and how the parks used to be. One thing I didn't realise they had was water pouring off the top of the wave of Wipeout. I remember the pool of water and fluffy in there, but never remember that feature, when was that turned off?

we likely won't see any construction taking place over the Easter period. Hope everyone has a great holiday!

Popped into the Sydney Easter Show today. Went and did a few things. It's great to see the majority of the Australian travelling rides all together in a single place - they've got the key ones as far as I know, such as the Speed, Pirate's Revenge, Freakout and Powersurge, all of which have made appearances at LPS in the past. I tried out a new one called "The Beast", which is basically the Freakout fed super steroids, that cost the whopping total of $15. If you look at the Beast and Freakout side by side, Freakout looks miniscule. I went on both and Freakout was a walk-on and only cost 7 coupons, while Beast was 15. However a thing I noticed was that the Taipan was not here today, and where it used to be now sits Grant's Pinfari ZL42. Good riddance to that thing - it was a boring ride, and it did not belong at Sea World. And in terms of the new coaster, it is not a good ride. Now given, this is a travelling coaster and the single time I rode it was in the back row, but this ride was more of a headbanger than riding HWSW a week before maintenance with the Arrow trains. The presentation on the ride, however was great - probably because it is new and the ride just got a new coat of paint that it desperately needed when it operated as Python Loop. The ride has OTSRs on the trains, and they are not all that comfortable, especially for my 6"5 frame. Operations, however, was extremely quick, and the ride ran two trains all day, with the red one out of action for the time being.

I went and checked it out around 4:30, and nothing much had changed since @Glubbo update, however I will say about the change to the entry, as it has changed (or he assumed) since what @AlexB drew a diagram of. The road doesn't link to the usual road in which buses drive along, that has also been closed off. Here is showing the road blocked off now: And here is a map showing the carpark system now: Black is fencing, blue dot is someone directing buses, red is bus route (buses do now drive over the pathway where blue dot is), orange is general traffic route and green is parallel parking spaces. So from now on, for people to get photos of footings and track installation around the station area, you will need to take a camera with a big lens

About 5 minutes. Not too long, but gave me a good fright.