[tarheel1231]

Awesome! I may stop by the park tomorrow morning to get a shot. It also looks like the orientation of the ride from Screamscape was upside down.

[uscbandfan]

What do you mean by upside down? The top-hat being on the parking lot side of the station instead of the park side? If so, all lefts will be rights and all rights will be lefts.

[mdsmith98]

Wow, that’s exciting if it’s actully true! I will see if I can get out to the park today to check it out (I probably can)

[gabed]

Can confirm that first footer is being dug. Rebar is all over the place too

[dirkdiggler1992]

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[tarheel1231]

Here we go!

Mind if I add this to the Links thread?

[dirkdiggler1992]

Go ahead. I don’t see how those people can stand in the water park in this heat.

[fonzlinney]

Here at Carowinds today the park looks great and there is a lot of activity going on in the area where the coaster is supposed to be, by the way they really are going all out for this Carolina fest.

[fonzlinney]

Lots of rebar has showed up. The Wi-Fi here at the park is relatively slow I check to see the latest on Carowinds connection just before I posted and now after I posted looks like a lot of what I said had just been posted oh well I’m just confirming. lol

[uscbandfan]

Now we just need a frequent park-goer to try and note where each footer is and try and rotate that layout around to see if it matches up in any way.

[Hiveminded]

They changed the voiceover in skytower, it’s the same script but less like “AnD REaCHEs BREATHTAKING SPEEDs of uP TOo 95MPH!!” And more like “and reaches breath taking speeds of 95mph”. No excitement anymore probably for the sanity of the workers.

Anyways, Project Alpha

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And the hotel

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Edit: There is a peephole in the fence behind the games building on the left, here’s the view

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[mark40511]

I agree with screamscape's thoughts on the coaster being painted white with something like white' lightnin' ish in the name. Since it launches into a loop like white lighnin' . But even still, this coaster looks great can't wait to get the actual stats. Also, to me, Mack coaster track looks so much like intamin track.

[Carowindsman]

I talked to one of the construction workers, he said the blueprint is all wrong they leaked it to throw everybody off. Its going to be a Mack Strata Coaster with 10 inversions. He told me that I believe it

[CCookieMonster]

Also, to me, Mack coaster track looks so much like intamin track.

Yeah, why does the track look so similar? They both use triangular track. I have noticed Intamin switches between triangular and square/box track, but that's not the focus right now.

I talked to one of the construction workers, he said the blueprint is all wrong they leaked it to throw everybody off. Its going to be a Mack Strata Coaster with 10 inversions. He told me that I believe it

S/He might be right in the first sentence, but strata coaster with 10 inversions? MACK STRATA? 10 inversions? I'm not really taking this in, but it would cost a ton of money. Plus, is there even enough space for this? And most other parks with really tall launch coasters have them somewhere near the middle of the park so the skyline looks really nice. CP and TTD, Hershey and Storm Runner, Magic Mountain and Superman/Drop of Doom. KIngda Ka is the exception, the placement (IMO) is horrible...just sayin'. I'm not trying to crush anyone's hopes or dreams, just trying to be realistic.

[sorashaun]

I talked to one of the construction workers, he said the blueprint is all wrong they leaked it to throw everybody off. Its going to be a Mack Strata Coaster with 10 inversions. He told me that I believe it

Pretty sure a construction worker wouldn’t reveal any plans the park hasn’t.