Most likely they will put an “employee only” gate near Invertigo to let employees directly into the park, bypassing the main gate.

Not bad. I like the layout with exception to the color scheme. 

#noyellowcoaster

That's probably one of the best concepts I've seen, as far as layout, entrance area, etc. I'm not sold on the name, the Outpost 5 and use of Beast. #LeaveSOBDead  Not sold on the yellow either. I want a green coaster!  

2 hours ago, upstop said:

Most likely they will put an “employee only” gate near Invertigo to let employees directly into the park, bypassing the main gate.

Why would they do this?  It's unnecessary cost.  They would have to construct a new entrance, staff it during working hours.  They would likely need to install locker rooms, staff HR to make sure that they have uniform options.

It says on the announcement that there are shuttles to/from the employee entrance.

 

 

18 minutes ago, teenageninja said:

Why would they do this?  It's unnecessary cost.  They would have to construct a new entrance, staff it during working hours.  They would likely need to install locker rooms, staff HR to make sure that they have uniform options.

It says on the announcement that there are shuttles to/from the employee entrance.

 

 

I dont see the big deal, i think its good for the park, more people means more things will be open, along side most restaurants that are double sides might be open. Racer might have both sides open at all times. Think of the possibilities with this. 

Cedar Point, which this concept is based off of, has an awesome dorm system that I think a lot of people take for granted. I made a lot of friends while staying at my CP apartment, right next to the dorms, and it felt like I was away for college. 

I always thought it would be fun....minus the no A/C i'd die lol

Not sure if many people care for these pictures, but there does appear to be multiple types of track at the plant. Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but the thin spine appears to be a Hyper (both Hyper in B&M's eyes, but that's a different story), and the thicker spine appears to be a giga type. I circled the track below.

And the wife drove, so I'm being safe.

That might, and I say might, be for Hershey Park's 2020 coaster. I could be wrong

That's track that hasn't been processed completely yet.  That color you see is rust, how it looks before its primed and painted.  Though, not all of it rusts like that, some of the track will be grey as well.  That's probably the newer track produced, I'm guessing before the rust sets in.

The thicker spine track are on all hypers and gigas at the bottoms of the bigger drops.  

38 minutes ago, sixohdieselrage said:

Not sure if many people care for these pictures, but there does appear to be multiple types of track at the plant. Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but the thin spine appears to be a Hyper (both Hyper in B&M's eyes, but that's a different story), and the thicker spine appears to be a giga type. I circled the track below.

And the wife drove, so I'm being safe.

 

Its also possible that the thicker spine is an area of the coaster that experiences more stress, so they make it thicker there then transition back to regular spine. Probably all for the same coaster. 

 

See if your wife will buy you a high powered lens that can read that tag. lol

Or maybe just go to the office and see if they care if you take pictures. Worse they can do is say no. ;-)

They really are pumping out the track though. Maybe they need to get a head start due to 2020 being super busy for B&M?

I have a nice Nikon with a super long zoom lens. I might go up and try to take a photo of the tag on the track that folks are talking about, but I wouldn’t know where to look for it...

@RuthlessAirtime

If you know where the old Batavia Transmission plant is (Ford Plant) which is now UC Clermont East, its behind there off of Old State Route 32. Blue building at the intersection of Batavia Road and Old 32. The track will either be right out front, or to the East (Williamsburg) side. The tags should be on end or the other, on the spine. 

Remember, please do not trespass to get any pictures. 

So here is proof that they are digging around closer to Banshee / The Bat....I wonder why?

https://www.visitkingsisland.com/explore/live-video

9 minutes ago, sixohdieselrage said:

@RuthlessAirtime

If you know where the old Batavia Transmission plant is (Ford Plant) which is now UC Clermont East, its behind there off of Old State Route 32. Blue building at the intersection of Batavia Road and Old 32. The track will either be right out front, or to the East (Williamsburg) side.

Remember, please do not trespass to get any pictures. 

I meant I wouldn’t be sure where to look for tags on the tracks, but the directions help too haha

I looked it up on google maps and it’s about a 20 minute drive for me.

@RuthlessAirtime I've edited my post above.

@Maverick44 An excavator. Good eye. Easy to miss there. SS below of Banshee Webcam.

On edit: What I see:

Circled in Red: Excavator

Circled in Blue: Dozer

Circled in Yellow: Skid Loader

I would not look too much into that.  That area seems to be where they dump excess dirt from various projects around the park.  They likely are just doing some grading out there with some of the dirt that has been dumped.  Or they need fill dirt for somewhere in the park and are hauling it the area where they need the fill.

As an avid watcher of the cams. This is the first though that I have seen them that close actually digging.

I honestly don't think HP would be building that early as they already have the dilemma of having to make a temporary entrance with that also on the docket and their hyper is mostly towards the front of the park.  

EDIT: Then again, they did ship in the Skyrush track early and let it sit for most of the season before going vertical. 

They will also need dirt to fill in the former Firehawk station the way it looked from those pics floating around last week.

Has anyone here ever asked if CSF would give private tours of their facility?

Given the proprietary nature of their manufacturing and the trade secrets that originate from that factory, I highly doubt that they give tours of their facility.  That being said, Coasterbuzz posted a video taken from within the facility when Gatekeeper was being built and Matt Ouimet and Rob Decker toured the facility.  

 

2 minutes ago, CoastersRZ said:

Given the proprietary nature of their manufacturing and the trade secrets that originate from that factory, I highly doubt that they give tours of their facility.  That being said, Coasterbuzz posted a video taken from within the facility when GateKeeper was being built and Matt Ouimet and Rob Decker toured the facility.  

 

That is an awesome lil video. The video editor in me wishes they would have color graded that footage though 

On 1/28/2019 at 9:12 PM, sixohdieselrage said:

@kirbias1 Must be a pretty big auger then. Or digging really deep. 

Yeah, it may or may not be, but I believe if this is a giga, they will use the land behind Banshee for a large portion of the ride due to minimal excavating needed because of how open it already is.

I swear we had the same discussion about how them moving dirt over there is/is not the start of giga construction last year in this same thread. 

And the year before

And the year before. 

 

I swear we had the same discussion about how them moving dirt over there is/is not the start of giga construction last year in this same thread. 
And the year before
And the year before. 
 

They’ve been digging footers every year. They are going for the new Giga record of longest time to build a Giga [emoji23]


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37 minutes ago, fryoj said:

I swear we had the same discussion about how them moving dirt over there is/is not the start of giga construction last year in this same thread. 

And the year before

And the year before. 

 

You forgot the year before as well. 

Just for the record personally I was not thinking it was for a coaster. Its the first time I saw them doing digging of any sort that close to the coasters. I was thinking of an employee entrance! don't get me mixed up with others that think its for footers lol 

I'm not 100% thinking it's for a coaster, but I find it interesting on where they are digging. It is the first time I've seen construction equipment back there on the webcams. I don't remember seeing construction equipment back there last year. Yes, the stuff we have talked about in the past back there is in the far right side which is the junk yard and people think it's clearing, but it's not.