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You get a great view of the M1. What more would a person want. @Jamberoo Fan(Fence poles around swamp going up on page 16 of coaster construction).

@Jamberoo Fan I think you might need to re-think your sources. Nothing better then this site to get to the bottom of things. Brad2912 broke the story in November last year. (They also said they would announce it in the coming months and that was almost a year ago.) djrappa knew all along but has the best poker face. This was discovered late November. It took Th GB till DEC 19 to publish anything and if you read the article the info came from this site. In regards to the Hotel, nothing was in the financial docs this year so this could be years away. The thing that is yet to reveal itself is why build a new car park off site that would coast loads more than upgrading the current overflow car park? MW shows the new overflow car park will be a sealed car park with flashy gardens. If the new car park goes ahead the council has said that MW will need to upgrade Kopps Road. If MW are willing to spend that money on the new car park than why have we never seen the current overflow car park sealed and set out to maximise its area? I don’t know the answers and maybe MW will have 2 overflow car parks. Maybe MW have future plans for that area that we don’t even know about. Maybe MW just wants to hold onto that land. I always say when it comes to this stuff, I'm 99% wrong. Things change constantly at the parks and somethings never go ahead. All we can do is do a running commentary.

I think it was the neighbors complaining about it that brought it out in the open.

@lifeofsamage The only area that I could see MW reclaim for TopGolf would be the overflow car park which I mentioned at the start. @Jamberoo FanIn one of the latest ASX annonsments it say TopGolf construction will not start until 2017. “FY16 was a year in which a number of projects came to fruition. This includes two management agreements in Asia and significant design and planning to bring Topgolf to Australia. Construction of the first Topgolf site is planned to start in CY17, to open in FY18. “ Also in the release it talks about Go Carts. This Go Carts thing is throwing me. Everywhere I have looked it up it says Go Carts and not Go Karts??????????. The other thing to mention and I think we all first read this as MW adding Go Karts to the Stunt show but it clearly says to introduce between existing shows. “A new initiative is the introduction of Hollywood Stunt Driver 2: Go Carts into the liveshow arena between existing shows.” http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20160825/pdf/439mjrt2jy6hcl.pdf

Your image overlaps the coaster by a long way. Why would they build a permanent fence around the swamp and pull it down again in 8 weeks?

Cheers. That's why I posted it first.

With this being discussed about in most topics and construction starting soon it might be time to for its own topic. We all know TopGolf is going to take up a lot of land but where will this baby go. From what information we have out there, I believe that TopGolf Australia will be based on the one located in Las Vegas. To get this topic going I have scaled the images together using AutoCAD and tried to position it into likely locations. This is the location I think some people think it will go. Only thought I have on this one is why fence the swamp if you're going to need to pull it down again. This options makes some sense to me but is does mean the number 1 filming tank needs to relocated and it’s not your everyday backyard pool. On the flip side, removing the filming tank could open up the whole area up to MW. Overflow car park. This could be why MW is planning a new car park. I would think MW would want the new car park finished first before any constructed happened in this area. MW saying construction to start this year might be referring to constructing the car park in readiness to resume the current overflow car park. Which leaves current area behind AOS. We know a new show is coming and maybe MW have new plans for the animals. In this location I can still see 6 stables left for MW to use. Maybe AOS new show will only need half the amount of animals in it. @AlexB can I have an image of the new sound stage. This could all be undone by its location.

Looking at the footers it looks like the walls are going to be concrete blocks at the base

This is the footer in question that I took a photo of earlier. It looked like every other footer and I believe what @AlexB is saying is correct. When I look at the layout I in the red zone it reminds of the cluster of columns for the loop.

The footers are famous. The most photographed rio ever. lol

@AlexB It's just my ongoing tally.

One thing I didn't mention but the maps reminded me what I counted on my trip. The arrow marks the location where I counted another 53 tie-down pole connections already assembled. Most of the footers in the red zone already had their pole connectors installed or sitting next to its location ready to be installed. So far I have worked out their is 68 pole locations currently being worked on or completed. With what is still on site there is at least another 50 to go in. Giving a current grand total of 121 poles. Of course skeet doesn’t know if there is any more of these bad boys laying around on site or if some are spares.

I have never seen a coaster with formwork left on even when the footers are above the ground. Some in the background are above natural ground and have had the formwork removed. Why would you pay all that money for stainless steel formwork? @AlexB will on day have the latest map of the layout.

I stole photos again but for once I think TPSN got some good close ups. How many footers are in this one pit? Timber stakes holding the formwork in place. Tie-down for the poles\post waiting to be fitted inside the reo cage. You can see the metal templets and how they are incorporated to set out the tie-down rods into the correct position. You can also see just under the top templet a timber formwork box. Once the footer is finished the top templet is removed along with the timber box. This will leave a hole in the concrete for the flange on the bottom of the post/pole to slide into. 2 footer complete just waiting on the formwork to be removed and 2 footers ready for the formwork and pouring of the concrete to finish the cap. Some of the footers are round and some are square. Table to lay the plans on. Footers everywhere One of the footers are happy. Looks like it got a tick of approval.

Did the quick trip and this is what I have. 1. Roughly the line where the site office is and the temp fence finishes. 2. Nothing has happened in this area. (this includes no pegs sighted). 3. This is the hot zone of construction and all the footers are going in. 4. Pegs in this area but nothing else has happened. 5. Land has been screeded and some reo cages laying on their sides. Took some super doggy iphone photos from the car park. A. Metal formwork B. Footer poured with formwork still attached C. Cage with bolts attached waiting on the formwork D. Completed footer waiting for the poles to arrive on site. A1. Shows this footer is only 1 meter from the road. You can also see the tie-down rods which will attach the main structure of the coaster to the footer.

I'm going for a drive. Otherwise I'm going to keep zooming in on your photo.

That makes two of us @djrappa. I'm sure it's been done before but in twenty years in the building industry I have never seen plastic pipes used as formwork. Metal formwork is the norm so it can be reused on the next job. From the photos I thought the formwork was made out of concrete pipe. I putting this down to the formwork required for the capping isn't readerly available in Australia and after this project won't be needed again so they have gone with a throwaway option.

The ones at the back look like they are not in place yet.

I'm trying to work out in the photos what people are calling a core sample This is a core sample The large cylinders look like they are being used as formwork for the caps.

Looks like they're starting to cap the piers.

I love the rescue mission part the best. Wouldn't be very interesting news if they told the truth.

@Theme Park GirlI have been told by an employee of TPSN that Theme Parks a Go-Go are looking at hiring more staff.

I would love if somebody got into a negative reputation Parkz would automatically place a ban period before they could post again.

Yea, I tend to agree with you. I would also like it to see more hills/air time.

To get your heart pumping a bit. Here is the Mack Rides coaster which will open in 2018, at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w9tVlgzAu0