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https://www.zamperla.com/products/endeavour/ Zamperla’s page seems to indicate that the 24-seat model is trailer mount and the 48-seat is a park model. It’s unclear though, because one of their photos is a 48 seat park installation but the foundation is different than what is at KI. Regarding the concrete, they already had a crew there pouring shaded concrete for the AE plaza and touching up around Cargo Loco, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they just cut and removed the existing concrete and poured new along the Mercado. It’s not THAT much work to remove a section and replace it during the week while they still have time to modify it.

Nah, that’s just the SlingShot tribute statue. Nice catch, didn’t notice that. It was strange to have the Mercado concrete so far outside the bounds of Mercado itself and into the actual midway. Someone must have realized that and decided to fix it before daily operation started, looks a lot nicer and will be even better once the construction fence is down. I’m pretty sure Mercado’s concrete has some shading to it. Subtle, but compare it to the ride queues or stand on the Mercado directly and look between your feet and the cap on the skyride foundation. It’s kind of a steel blue.

Using the ride foundations and queues for contrast, I'm pretty sure the Mercado deck's concrete has some shading in it. It's not blatant, but there's some light blue/steel grey or something in there. Up close, just compare the new cap on the old Skyride foundation to the Mercado surface right next to it.

Loving the detail work on the mechanical building.

For a company that started off with two LARGE coaster projects in a row, the initial Timberliner woes that led Holiday World to bring GCI in for a while, and some of their rides having problems with being high-maintenance, Gravity Group has really struck gold with the all-wood prefab track system. Racer's retracking and profile adjustments turned out great, and the following major Beast project provided a much needed, well-executed overhaul. Fun Spot is opting for RMC ReTrak on some parts of Mine Blower, but I heard Voyage has started getting some of the new Gravity Group track. Considering how finicky Voyage has been over the years with conventional track, hopefully that works out well for them and they can get it back to more like how it ran when it was new.

I'm not sure how much it actually benefits the park anyway. I always avoid the heck out of the tournament time because of traffic.

Back in the Paramount days when there was a LOT more asphalt in the park, it would always reek on the first weekends from the seal coating, hit you walking up towards the entrance plaza and took at least a week after opening to fade.

Baynum photos of Diamondback.

@malem I recall a bug with an Invision upgrade a number of years ago where the profile field with the id of “1” broke the permissions to edit that field. For me, that was the AIM field. If that’s the cause, all you have to do is make sure the Members group has permission to edit that field.

Well, there ARE two lifts... Might be why they had that crane up on the first lift the other day, removing the old one?

When did Adventure Express get RMC'd?!

I like how up close and personal Cargo Loco will be with the midway. Looks like Sol Spin's mechanical building is almost ready and we're getting really close to seeing the actual ride hardware for both of them.

The rope work up top is nice too.

It would actually be, layout-wise, a little strange to make it part of Adventure Port considering the location across from the Tower Gardens entrance, which is very much I-Street. Maybe they decided not to try splitting areas in the middle of the midway there.

Despite what the map says, I think they might have dropped it from being part of Adventure Port. No repaint, and no new concrete to or around it. It doesn't really fit in either AP or I-Street, honestly it would probably fit best in Coney. There are better things that building could be used for.

There's been a crane up at AE all day. Earlier it was extended all the way out over the lift.

Derp. Okay, see where I said 6? Replace that with 7. Now see where I said 5? Replace that with 6.

I wonder what the structural stress difference is on our ride vs CW's ride because of the trains. Ours runs 6-car trains while theirs runs 5-car trains.

Never even thought about trying it, but it was the best spectator sport in the park.

I've been under the impression that Vortex's demise wasn't known until sometime during the final season, maybe even as late as the end of the summer season. I'm not saying this is the case with Bat, but it's still concerning. Hopefully it's a mechanical issue like the lift motor or other equipment that just needs to be replaced, and they don't have the needed parts or equipment in yet. Bad case of that in Action Zone right now if it's a matter of waiting for parts work.

The Coney games storage building by Racer's exit and the new AE entrance was Skylab's machinery building, so it's interesting they ended up being so close together.

When Top Gun was built, the monorail was still in service. It's not just a matter of being the same layout as CW, they had to work around the monorail track and station.

This is why I said not to jump to conclusions on opening weekend. They've gotten a lot done in the last 5 days.

I expect we're getting close to ride hardware installation, underground utility work and foundations are just about ready.

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