The Parkz Update: Doomsday Destroyer ride nears completion while theming grows

The sheer number and variation in the building facades is quite a departure for recent attractions at Movie World where the focus was on making the singular attraction presentable without much concern for the surroundings.

While in recent years we're used to seeing the final pieces of rides come into place in the weeks or even days prior to opening, Doomsday Destroyer is more or less in place with work now focusing on the machinery and components required to make it operational.

More buildings are to go in place filling in some of the vacant land, as indicated by the new concrete slab.

A closer look at the components that drive the Doomsday Destroyer's rotating motion. The large motor in the middle has a 90° turn in its axle and drives one of the large geared wheels found on each arm.

On the other side another motor.

With facades built in front of the backdrops, the whole area will have a great feeling of perspective.

No attraction at Movie World has received this much surrounding theming since Wild West Falls (Tthen Wild Wild West), which was as much an expansion of the park's boundaries as it was a new attraction.

The ride features a new design of Intamin restraint. The same company built Giant Drop, The Claw, Superman Escape and Surfrider so you can see a steady progression in their restratin style over the years.

Mangled steel is the first signs of the destruction that the villains will bring to DC Comics Super-Villains Unleashed, the mouthful-of-a-name given to the new precinct that surrounds Doomsday Destroyer.