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Sea World seagull sanctuary in the New Atlantis Precinct.
What has previously bee a small arcade and custom baseball cap shop is now a hole in the wall fish and chippery. It works well having parents able to sit just that little bit closer to their kids on the Nickelodeon rides.
Vikings Revenge April 2021, no changes to report.
Dear management, putting a bulging corflute print of some old style windows on a building doesn't help make the theming look more realistic.
A new big screen in the Plaza area. Because this area doesn't get used for many live shows, nor is there a collection of Warner Bros. cartoons to lean on here, it ends up showing advertising most of the time.
Jet rescue underwent some extensive works, including reconstruction of some footings. They've also added this nicely colour coordinated catwalk just before the final brakes.
Vortex now has proper metal property boxes attached to the fence, with covers to stop items getting wet.
(They're similar to the ones at Batwing and Surfrider)
And here's the view from the entrance to the New Atlantis Precinct, which is still waiting on Trident to complete the vista.
If all goes well, we'll be riding this within 6 months.
That's not a pirate flag on the coaster. In fact, they are flags with black and white variants of the Village Roadshow logo. There seems to be a view that visitors care about this corporate branding within an Atlantis themed zone.
One of the best moments will probably be the double down, a couple of quick downhill hops with some slight banking side to side, so riders will be lifted up in their seats and sway side to side.
The 'cathedral' structure bracing the first turn.
Out on Sea World Drive you can get a sense of the rest of the layout.
The airtime should be pretty strong on this considering the hill is about half the height of the first drop.
Still not quite done, but the bones of the layout are more or less in place now.
The layout combines all of M&V / Gravity Groups signature manoeuvres, from airtime hills to their pioneering 90 degree banked turns, which were previously unseen prior to 2005 (The first wooden coaster to feature a 90 degree banked turn was Hades at Mt Olympus, Wisconsin)
From the Nickelodeon Land, we can see just how nice the timber of the ride looks against the surrounding vegetation. Relatively few wooden coasters exist in subtropical climates, so there is a real opportunity here for Sea World to really continue the landscape and create one of the best looking wooden coasters out there.
Here you can see just how low set most of the layout is compared to the size of the first drop. Riders can be assured a fast paced ride from start to finish and a constant sense of speed with the wooden structure flying past around them.
Most of Leviathan's layout is complete.
Near the exit is a rather cool cross sectional model of the Concorde, and the ISS.
