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El Toro
Construction Watch
Six Flags Great Adventure
Jackson, NJ
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September
24th
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| The metal pedestals for the supports | Stacks of lumber for the framework | ||
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| The pre-fabricated rails sit awaiting installation. There appear to be lots of straight sections and a few curved rails as well. | |||
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| The Taz Twister is now completely gone with just the foundation remaining | The shooting gallery has been completely cleared | ||
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| A stack of fence formerly around the Tweety Roundup | The former Tweety roundup site | Digging has commenced on the footers | |
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| The welders storage trailer | New planting in front of the preview center | The old Kingda Ka renderings have been removed (between Friday night and Saturday morning), in preparation for this Wednesday's announcement! | |
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September
17th
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| This stack of small metal pieces have arrived, and they appear to be bases for the wooden structure | Another view of those beautiful pre-made wooden rails | |
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| The Tweety Roundup is now completely gone | The Taz Twister is being taken apart piece by piece, and should be gone in another day or two | |
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September
10th
The Tweety Roundup Carousel has already begun being dismantled, along with the Rodeo Stampede.
Several buildings in the section are being cleared as well in preparation fro demolition or remodeling
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| The now fenced off section | The mechanical room under the Taz Twister seems to be clearing out | ||
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| The Waffle Cone stand has been gutted | Only the center section of the kiddie carousel remains | ||
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| The props are being removed from the shooting gallery | Disassembly has begun | ||
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| The Rodeo Stampede is being disassembled, and the cow shaped cars are sitting in a line near the Viper station | |||
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The preformed wood laminated track is sitting in the storage area under plastic sheets. |  |
| The first shipments of track for the new wooden coaster have arrived. | Close-up of the joints for the wooden preformed rails | ||
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September
4th More progress seems to have taken place on the site, and more equipment has arrived. The rebar frameworks for the footers seem to be long, narrow and shallow, as though they will span the width of the structure, rather than have individual footers under each support. |
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| More equipment and storage trailers and a shed have arrived on site | It appears more of the rebar frames have been assembled | |
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August
30th With the end of August and the final week of daily operations underway, construction is really starting to pick up. No shipments of the
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| A new marking has appeared between Rolling Thunder's queue and the Golden Kingdom fence, which fits with the rumored move of the queue in preparation for the new ride | Two storage trailers are now on the Viper site, and a work area has been set up for welding the rebar frames in preparation for the footers | |
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| Bundles of rebar are all over the former Viper site, waiting to be formed into the framework used in reinforcing the concrete footers |  |
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August
25th A few more markers have appeared, along with rebar for the footers |
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| These markings appear to be for the lift footings, and in the far corner are the rebar frames | More markings have appeared along the far edge of the cleared area |
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August
16th Not much has happened since the last update, but things should be picking up soon as daily operations are almost over for the year |
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| ^ Preparing for the construction fence to go up | A new survey marker has appeared along the lake | |||
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< Rodeo Stampede has been closed for a few days now, possibly in preparation for removal |  |
Another sign warning people to keep out of the construction area has appeared. I have witnessed several guests cut through the area by jumping the fences, but more than anything, it's employees who ignore the signs > |  |
| The parts storage area is now clear in preparation | ||||
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July
31st With parts scheduled to start arriving in the next few weeks, site prep continues as the trees are hauled away |
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July 26th |  |
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| All of the
trees marked for removal are now down in Rolling Thunder's infield. The left a nice stand of trees in the corner and all along the back of Rolling Thunder's station. |
Overview of the cleared Viper area. Tree removal along the back edge seems to have stopped. | The Dippin Dots stand that was here has been moved. The trees on the opposite side of the path are marked for removal, so the path may be narrowing for construction soon. | ||
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July
24th Trees are now being removed in Rolling Thunder's infield as well as the Viper site. |
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| Some of the marked tree from Rolling Thunders infield have been taken down, though still more are marked that have not been touched yet | The Viper site continues to have more trees removed. | |
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July
18th Tree removal has begun along the back edge of the former Viper site. |
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| Two construction vehicles are now on site, and have begun removing some of the trees along in the direction of the Safari | About a dozen of the trees which have been removed are laying on the ground with all the branches removed | |
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July
7th More site preparation is going on, with the concrete debris pile gone, and the land graded around the station. Some of the fake front "Old West" buildings from Viper's former queue have been removed. |
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| You can look right through the empty station now. | The large pine tree doesn't have the markings for removal | |||
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| A pile of the fake building walls | The old railing and stairs from the buildings | A view of the overall site | The smooth flat ground in front of the station | The large central building is mostly down |
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June
29th Trees along the lakefront and all around the Taz Twister, Kiddie Carousel and Shooting Gallery have now been marked for removal. Trees in the front corner of the lake behind the Waffle Cone stand (where the rocks and flowers are) and Wildside pizza have not been marked |
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June
24th While nothing has been officially confirmed by the park yet, they have put a proposal before the Jackson Township Planning Board to build a new roller coaster for 2006 in place of the (now removed) Viper. The former Viper site has been cleared, and trees in the infield of Rolling Thunder have been marked for removal. According to an article about a manufacturer of wooden coaster track in Europe, deliveries of prefabricated track segments are shipping across the Atlantic in August for delivery to Six Flags in New Jersey. We will continue to follow the construction as it progresses this Summer. |
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