***Official Footer Pouring Thread***

[The Jet Coaster]

Here is my update from today

Here is an overview shot. You can see at least 4 groupings of footers poured as well as the station. They are starting to pile up dirt into a small hill in the area with the C shaped black tarp on the right.

Do you have a higher resolution version of this available? Looks like lift hill footers are already put in.

[JamminJ]

Doing a little googling, and a little stalking works wonders..

Does this mean we are getting Mighty Canadian Minebuster too? I don't want that... THING ...

[derek_lentz]

^^All of my pictures are taken with my camera phone. That is the only resolution I have. Only the very base of the lift hill has been poured. They are working between the lift hill and the station/train shed right now.

[carowindsman6654]

Those are some big footers. Great pics Derek especially for a cell phone camera.

[The Jet Coaster]

^^All of my pictures are taken with my camera phone. That is the only resolution I have. Only the very base of the lift hill has been poured. They are working between the lift hill and the station/train shed right now.

Thanks. With that blown up picture, it's clear the lift hill footers haven't been poured. Just those funny squares at that small a resolution had me suspecting as such.

[Sokeman]

Lovely. Tear down the trees but don't tear up the asphalt.

[bgwfreak]

It's the worst kept secret that Carowinds is getting a B&M hyper.

You MIGHT know what it is & from whom but unlike what happened with Diamondback the little details remain underwraps. So the cat hasn't been let outta the bag just yet & that's what counts the most. Besides don't count out the new 4-abreast mega trains from Vekoma because their site does mention projects coming in 2010 that will be using the new seating configuration.

It's not Vekoma, we've already established they are B&M footers, and B&M isn't going to use another companies trains.

[carowindsman6654]

Lovely. Tear down the trees but don't tear up the asphalt.

They'll tear it up...eventually. Nah, screw that. Let's have a parking lot coaster like Six Flags. Yay.

-Oh and it is truly amazing how many people on the internet think Cedar Fair pulled a fast one and Carowinds is the one getting the Intamin Giga. Yeah, i'm sure they would spend the money just to throw off a few coaster enthusiasts.

[thebigcheese]

hey everyone, been gone for a while on vacation and stuff and the ppl on kdfansite post so much it usually takes all of my time to see whats new at KD.
so im glad to see you finally have footers!! has anything else happened over the last month or so?
btw you can find me posting on kdfansite and a lot of other sites under thebigcheese or yournamehere.

[chknwing]

I wonder if where they are piling dirt up by that new black barrier is where some kind of banking for the coaster will be and then back into the station, maybe a helix seems like it could fit, come down into the curve and then back into the station

[PreferParamount]

I don't know if its already been figured out, but I know the wooden creates in the parking lot are filled with bolts for the footers.

[The Jet Coaster]

Interesting. How do you know that it's full of bolts?

[Jstbcool]

I've been tracking both the Carowinds construction and the KD construction, and I enjoy this board a lot more. A lot less argueing and senseless name calling and not 10 pages of posting a day. Glad to see more footers being poured for this coaster. Can't wait to see some track showing up and the official announcement showing the stats of this ride. I hope its as good as Diamondback is at KI. From the look of the cleared land it will be.

[Jonathan]

You should see it before JamminJ comes through with a machete and starts axing posts left and right.

[billcollins531]

I (sadly) may know what this is, but my mind isn't functioning correctly right now...so...sleepy...
Anyway, what is the black tubing at the top right of the dirt area? is that for a future lake?
When I hear the answer I'll probably be like "ohh...yeah. I knew that."

Thanks for helping me out with the hyper-giga thing.
I do still strongly believe that it will be a hyper, and most all
evidence points towards that being true, so why does giga keep coming up in the forums?