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Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st No the plans don't show how deep they will have to dig, for the station.

Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st ^If those are the foundations for the station, they are pretty deep. Comparing it to Saw, they didn't dig so deep as this except on the first hidden drop portion. Reason I suspect it is for the possible world's first element, is because...

Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st A hole is being made at the SW7 site at the moment. Should be interesting to see if this will have to do with the worlds first element. Picture taken by Alton Towers Guide's facebook page.

Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st New harnesses? Very interesting. Do these new harnesses have a new colour or are they more different than that?

Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st A recent view of the site from a POV video. Original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdzFO3LRqfE

Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st I have a good feeling that by the time you go, there will be some foundation drills there. The latest I heard of the site, is that it has some rebar for the foundations and a concrete truck.

Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st ^Thanks alot. Now I'm going to sleep tonight with my lights on. Hopefully I have no nightmares. :cry:

Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st Looking around the internet, I found this picture. Could this be a hint as to what the world's first could be? From what I can read it says target. Picture by CoasterMadMatt on flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/coastermad ...

Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st Nothing really new at all. But just a little update. Picture taken by Graham Walton from his facebook page.

Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st In my boredom, I have made a editied version of how the area would look like with the building and the spider in it. Original picture is in the link below the second image. Also the photo was taken on the 5th July. So it is kind of...

It's meant to be like that. The groundworks crew place some special cast things and pour in concrete to fill up that space. Anyway, it should be interesting to see this begin testing. Though I wonder how the cars will look like. I do think MACK have made enough blue coasters. But that's my opinion.

Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st Here are the most recent pictures I found on TowersStreet. It was origanilly taken by their facebook page. http://www.towersstreet.com/talk/future ... ussion/45/

Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st It appears the 3 metal things from the black hole's structure have been taken down. Also, the pile of dirt has been dug up mostly and it seems to be ready for some pillar drills. Photos taken by Theme Park Mania. More pictures in...

Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st You never know.

Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st Does anybody know if alton towers are allowed to make a deepish hole where the station will be based at? Or does the council only allow them to dig a certain limit?

Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st Did the plans mention anything on cutting down some trees to fit the station in? I am very surprised how the whole coaster is going to fit in there. Should be very interesting to see it completed.

Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st It appears most of the concrete has been dug up and is ready for digging of the footers. Picture from roary01 on the towerstimes forum. More pictures in the link. http://forum.towerstimes.co.uk/sw7/cons ... ssion/300/

Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st Looking over the SW7 plans, I found this substation thing. Does anybody have a idea what it is? Or if it is unkown, could this be a part of the 'world's first'?

Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st The Swarm's groundworks were starting around july. This coaster won't have to have so deep footers on some parts compared to The Swarm, since it is a lighter type than a B&M. They have plenty of time. And about the comment of overhyping...

Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st Apparantely, diggers have appeared on site and the black hole foundations are going out. No pictures yet, but it's great to hear things are pacing up.