MK Mine Ride Construction Update

Animaniac93-98

Animaniac93-98

Well-Known Member
My predictions for construction (based on nothing, so you know they're important!)

- Construction ends on January 1 2014, so that no money needs to be spent on construction during the second quarter of fiscal 2014
- Cast previews and testing for the month of January
- Public soft openings for Februrary to accomodate such things as the President's Day weekend crowds
- Official opening in March

And now I wait to hear how wrong I am by our resident insiders. :oops:
 
Scuttle

Scuttle

Well-Known Member
Here's a few from today.
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doctornick

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danlb_2000 said:
The entrance in that picture appears to be right next to the big drop, so that would be where the cars return to the unload/load area. Not sure if that is what you meant?
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@Lee has indicated in the past that there is a second, smaller indoor portion at the second half of the ride. From the previous schematics, I think that this second indoor area was after all the drops, so maybe this is the entrance to that.
 
Lee

Lee

Adventurer
danlb_2000 said:
The entrance in that picture appears to be right next to the big drop, so that would be where the cars return to the unload/load area. Not sure if that is what you meant?
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Yeah, sorry I wasn't more clear.
That appears to be where the cars enter the load/unload part of the mountain at the end of the ride.
doctornick said:
@Lee has indicated in the past that there is a second, smaller indoor portion at the second half of the ride. From the previous schematics, I think that this second indoor area was after all the drops, so maybe this is the entrance to that.
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No, in this final, shorter version of the ride, there is only the one indoor section in the ride. Next time the cars go inside, it's to unload.
 
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doctornick

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Lee said:
No, in this final, shorter version of the ride, there is only the one indoor section in the ride. Next time the cars go inside, it's to unload.
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I guess I'm not up to speed. Is the following picture not the planned layout? I thought it was and it shows and indoor portion on the bottom left, separate from the load/unload.

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Rob562

Rob562

Well-Known Member
doctornick said:
I guess I'm not up to speed. Is the following picture not the planned layout? I thought it was and it shows and indoor portion on the bottom left, separate from the load/unload.
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That's an extremely short stretch of the track, if it's truly "indoors" it can't be anything more than a quick tunnel/covered trench. Pure guess here, but maybe this is where there will be a quick glimpse of the Witch menacing at you as you fly through. [insert Disco Witch joke here]

-Rob
 
Lee

Lee

Adventurer
doctornick said:
I guess I'm not up to speed. Is the following picture not the planned layout? I thought it was and it shows and indoor portion on the bottom left, separate from the load/unload.

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Hah-hah....now I see where the confusion is.
That little brown bit on the last part of track is not an inside show scene.

The layout I was working from showed...a...something there. Perhaps a bridge.
Now, I don't think there is anything there at all. The photo being discussed is of the re-entry into the mountain for load/unload, just around the area of the cottage scene.
 
Lee

Lee

Adventurer
Rob562 said:
That's an extremely short stretch of the track, if it's truly "indoors" it can't be anything more than a quick tunnel/covered trench. Pure guess here, but maybe this is where there will be a quick glimpse of the Witch menacing at you as you fly through. [insert Disco Witch joke here]

-Rob
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To the best of my knowledge.....no witch.
(Not a guarantee, just what I heard the last time I got info on the ride.)
 
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doctornick

Well-Known Member
Lee said:
Hah-hah....now I see where the confusion is.
That little brown bit on the last part of track is not an inside show scene.

The layout I was working from showed...a...something there. Perhaps a bridge.
Now, I don't think there is anything there at all. The photo being discussed is of the re-entry into the mountain for load/unload, just around the area of the cottage scene.
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Thank you for the clarification. I guess I always assumed that that area was a small second show scene based on how the picture was labelled.

Is there a possibility that there could be any show scenes in the loading/unloading building, either at the beginning or the end of the ride?
 
danlb_2000

danlb_2000

Premium Member
Original Poster
Lee said:
Hah-hah....now I see where the confusion is.
That little brown bit on the last part of track is not an inside show scene.

The layout I was working from showed...a...something there. Perhaps a bridge.
Now, I don't think there is anything there at all. The photo being discussed is of the re-entry into the mountain for load/unload, just around the area of the cottage scene.
Click to expand...

There is definitely something there, you can see it in the picture below. It appears to just be a bridge.

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