If there's one thing I don't like about the wall at the moment, it's that it's all the same height. I dunno, it all look a bit weird to me because it's so flat and uniform, maybe some height changes would have been nice. Though I guess we don't know what it'll look like finished yet.
Yeah I'd have to agree. It is rather odd looking at the moment.
I think it is that's down to combination of two things.
Firstly it simply is just a big uniform wall.
In comparison Wuze Town (which is around the same height as the wall) has those smaller round towers either side in front of the main body of the building, and plants growing up it which really helps make it more more natural, pleasing to the eye and less like a massive building/facade towering down over you.
But in Phantasialand's defence for Rookburgh they probably didn't have much choice in the matter with the limited space available and that location's proximity to the housing.
(sadly years ago plans to build a sound barrier along the lake/houses were rejected after only 2 residents didn't agree to them. I imagine had the plans worked out things might have been different in the future with Rookburgh. Plus the lake and Temple site could be better used. But that's another story!)
Secondly it is just not finished yet. Perhaps there will be more protruding elements to add more depth/blend it.
Plus we aren't really seeing the bigger picture as the wall is actually on top of/built diagonally across a large concrete building - which is obscured from view for us at the moment by the F.L.Y. banner and construction fences. The building is only about 5m tall but on the Wuze side those arches presumably come down to the edge of its roof and will help blend it together to make it seem like one large building (my prediction is that the Wuze section of the building will house new toilets).
On the Rookburgh side whether the building will become any taller or just like Wuze be blended somehow remains to be seen of course. F.L.Y. passes over/through the building there as well.
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The second coat of arms/crest seems to be the same design as the other one. Also scaffolding seems to be going up on the right over the steel wall and future gateway to Rookburgh.
On Tuesday another straight section of launch track was delivered to the site.
Presumably this is the next part for the 1st launch out of that cannon-like structure. In this older picture you can see at the back the one bit of launch track in the arches - it is believed from there it will go through the similar rectangular black steel structure (which along with the two supports in front will also support the launch track).
Similar to what is demonstrated in this diagram posted a while back on PhantaFriends.de.
With the 1st launch being a normal straight high up on supports over the pathways below, and the 2nd weird launch (as seen in the older pic below) starting in an underground tunnel and then curving up and out, it should make for some nice variety (as if being the world's first launched flying coaster wasn't already enough
).