venny
TS Member
I touched on it a little in my general thoughts from a visit this last week, but it really is incredible how quickly the park have moved to get to this stage. It’s only been six months since the fire and we’re already seeing such progress. At this rate, it’s entirely believable that the area will be open for the new season. There wasn’t a single time that we saw the site without some sort of work occuring.
It looks as though most of the structures are now in place, barring the new Spanish shop which has some in place but is also now the location of a second tower crane. There are numerous tunnel sections which you can see formed in the cast concrete shear walls, which look like they’ll accommodate either the mine train or log flume. There’s also a gap in the shear walls at the rear of the old shop location, which makes me wonder whether the intention is for the train to catch a glimpse into the new Austria area whilst obscuring it from pedestrian areas in Spain behind the rebuilt shop.
There are some big openings in the walls too which I’m guessing will be a combination of faux windows on the Spanish side and potentially viewing windows to see the log flume passing from Spain.
It looks as though most of the structures are now in place, barring the new Spanish shop which has some in place but is also now the location of a second tower crane. There are numerous tunnel sections which you can see formed in the cast concrete shear walls, which look like they’ll accommodate either the mine train or log flume. There’s also a gap in the shear walls at the rear of the old shop location, which makes me wonder whether the intention is for the train to catch a glimpse into the new Austria area whilst obscuring it from pedestrian areas in Spain behind the rebuilt shop.
There are some big openings in the walls too which I’m guessing will be a combination of faux windows on the Spanish side and potentially viewing windows to see the log flume passing from Spain.