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Project WC16 - New for 2016


JoshC.

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Even from the top of Summit Plummet you can kind of make out all that structure behind Everest. You've just ruined the magic toofpik. Still.. could be worse..

 

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Bit OT but just what is that? I remember seeing that monstrosity when visiting and thinking WTF...

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Back on the topic of WC16... Lots of activity on site today... Saw a big hole and foundations going in from Slammer, plus got a few photos.

 

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A moving digger moving piles of dirt higher than my head!

 

 

 

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Cement mixer and the drill (not drilling today). Plus one of the last-surviving pieces of arena fence! Still standing... Just.

 

 

 

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Blue fence trying to hide the hole they're digging for foundations... A very station-shaped hole.

 

 

 

 

And finally...

 

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This is why Thorpe can't have nice things.

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I spy, with my fanboy eye, a large hole...

 

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The hole is presumably required to fit the attraction inside the building structure - the revised plans show it to be just over 2m deep (http://www.totalthorpepark.co.uk/images/other/2016revisedsideview.jpg). Looks as if they've already hit the water table!

 

High-res construction shots online, as ever, at Total Thorpe Park :)

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I guess we won't see major vertical construction until at least September/October time

Judging by the hefty ground work we've seen so far, I think it's looking pretty fees able for an early summer opening now (maybe June), though that's not a bad thing as I expect to be hammering on with my final uni year March-may.

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