SDC's 2018 Project(s) and Park Developments

t-n-t · September 27, 2016, 05:01:40 PM

So, no actually announcement of what ride it is and when?

shavethewhales · October 03, 2016, 10:12:17 PM

^You'll have to wait till next August for an announcement by the looks of it. If steel is already in the air, then maybe late July?

I'm just wondering when it will actually arrive. Maybe early spring?

chittlins · October 04, 2016, 06:03:04 PM

Quote from: sdcfan88 on September 27, 2016, 10:19:25 AM
Since there is not much to talk about for the new coaster at the moment I wanted to bring up this ride which I think has exactly what SDC needs to focus on for new projects in the future. The immersive theming and storytelling with the projections and animatronics would be fantastic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRQNMWribCI

This is the exterior of the ride in question which they could also build and theme around a mining or cave theme quite well. https://rcdb.com/12083.htm

Also imagine how incredible it would be if they could put some love into AP, FM, and FITH with this theming technology.

Efteling is in the process of building a new dark ride attraction that is a good bit over 30 million in cost. Hopefully, if all goes as planned , I get to this park in 2018. I want to sneak nearby Toverland in as well.

Swoosh · October 06, 2016, 02:34:24 PM

FWIW, the Dive Coaster that is/was rumored was to be similar in theme to Baron.

sdcfan88 · October 09, 2016, 03:20:05 PM

For what its worth I was up there for a few hours on Thursday, didn't get as many pictures as I wanted since a thunderstorm decided to form right over the lake and sit over the park for 2 hours.

Some of the clearing behind Echo Hollow seen from the Culinary School porch.

Here is a bit of the clearing as seen from TNT's queue. They didn't just clear out the trees and throw some retaining walls up and such, they also appear to be digging out much of that hillside now too. Likely for pathways and infrastructure.

76 Signage as we already have seen, the blue part lights up with a neon blue halo effect:

This one is still incomplete for some reason:

shavethewhales · October 09, 2016, 04:44:37 PM

Thanks for the photos sdcfan88! Sucks that the rain put a damper on things, but the park looks fantastic and I'm glad to see some progress on the ride area. Have they gone vertical on the new bathroom by EH? Seems like that is taking forever too.

History Buff · October 09, 2016, 05:11:59 PM

Best time to take pictures - when the streets are shiny.

sdcfan88 · October 09, 2016, 09:51:14 PM

They had tarp over the bathroom area so I am not sure. Nothing is gone vertical otherwise from what I can tell. They seemed focused on digging out that hillside.

Also I also wonder if this is another example of what kind of layout to expect when things finally do go vertical. https://rcdb.com/12000.htm Thats an interesting Lift hill.

shavethewhales · October 15, 2016, 11:46:07 AM

Someone mentioned to me that there has been some more action lately on the construction site. If anyone is going soon, some pictures would be greatly appreciated. I probably won't head up there again until Coaster Chrstimas on the 12th.

Swoosh · October 16, 2016, 05:08:29 PM

Ask and you shall received - yes that is a footer... or two

https://midwestinfoguide.blogspot.com/2016/10/project-2018-sdc.html

sdcfan88 · October 16, 2016, 08:07:29 PM

I had a feeling they were about to put footers in there when I visited a couple weeks ago. When I was on TNT there was an area by the loop around that also looked like it was about to receive one as well.

shavethewhales · October 16, 2016, 10:27:39 PM

Hmm, almost looks like they are flattening it for a station, and the spread footings would be part of that... but the track stakes originally went perpendicular through there down the hillside. I wonder if there will be some sort of station interaction/fly-by?

I'm super happy to finally have some almost vertical construction though. I'll definitely be heading out there more next year. Although at this rate they could have the thing built by then...

sdcfan88 · October 16, 2016, 11:11:18 PM

Quote from: shavethewhales on October 16, 2016, 10:27:39 PM
Hmm, almost looks like they are flattening it for a station, and the spread footings would be part of that... but the track stakes originally went perpendicular through there down the hillside. I wonder if there will be some sort of station interaction/fly-by?

I'm super happy to finally have some almost vertical construction though. I'll definitely be heading out there more next year. Although at this rate they could have the thing built by then...

Yeah I am really wondering about that myself. Is it really gonna take them another 15 months to put together a steel coaster? This thing has to be huge and be incredibly well themed (such as constructing a underground element or a fake mountain structure for it to pass thru) to justify that timetable I think. Unless the contractors are really stretched that thin up there right now.

This brings the question: Does anyone remember how long it took for them to build Wildfire? Might be a good reference point to this project.

HumphreyHawk · October 17, 2016, 11:16:17 AM

It's probably just new bathrooms for EH...lol

Swoosh · October 17, 2016, 07:01:39 PM

Quote from: HumphreyHawk on October 17, 2016, 11:16:17 AM
It's probably just new bathrooms for EH...lol

Those are already being built on the other side of EH