Any sign of any vertical construction of the new coaster, yet? This thing is being kept very much under wraps - other than the announcement of the ride type and a few last days of season shots of the groundworks and the supports arriving on site… nada. Quite impressive these days in all fairness.
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Drayton Manor Park
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Haz
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- Favourite Ride
- Nemesis
From: https://x.com/ThemeParkJaden/status/1728539187408928888?s=20
track has arrived for Drayton's coaster! it has the new gen intamin spine on it too as seen in the background, I assume it will go up soon so ill be sure to head down either this or next week!
Jb85
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Does seem to be an interesting colour scheme. Black (yellow?) Supports silver track?
siralgenon
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It's a cream track with dark grey supports, it's just the light shining off it.
GooseOnTheLoose
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- Favourite Ride
- Ug Bugs
It’s great to see the new coaster at Legoland Windsor going vertical, the astonishing progress being made on Hyperia and how quickly the replacement track for Nemesis went in considering the size of the job to strip out all the old supports and track first. It’s shaping up to be a great 2024 - but it begs the question, what are Drayton playing at? Feels like this has been a working site forever now, and not a vertical bit of construction in sight, yet!
Themeparksandy1981
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Looking back over the past 12 months
Apocalypse was fully removed by the end of November.
Then nothing to March to the rest of Pandemonium and the former fish and chip shop was removed.
The construction walls went up at the beginning of May.
Footers started to be dug at the end of August.
Supports started to arrive mid September with track last week.
Speaking to staff they hope to get the coaster open in April.
Themeparksandy1981
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Next year
They also announced that Terence is moving back to Thomas land and is listed to reopen in Spring with the new coaster and shockwave re theme.
George W
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Yea it has a small shop sold bits and bobs and Thomas the tank engine related stuff if I remember correctly.
Dave
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I don’t think it’s too late yet, though it would indicate there won’t be much theming around the ride layout. Nemesis track was up early because they had to scaffold the station which couldn’t practically be done until the track was in place.
Hyperia is far more track and that’s only recently gone vertical.
Themepark-newbie
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Has anyone seen the actual layout for the new coaster or is it still under wraps? As mentioned, an April opening (allowing for weather etc) would either indicate minimal teeming OR a much smaller layout.
Leigh
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- EGF
There’s been no official confirmation, but Intamin have put out videos relating to the family lift and launch coaster that show an “example” layout which could be what they get.
George W
TS Member
There's been 0 information about the layout but the ride type gives us a kind of understanding of what to expect though but it has been confirmed this is a custom layout.