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New Over the Wall Pictures
- Thread starter danlb_2000
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cbconglom
Well-Known Member
speaking of updates, here's an hd video showing the start of the mine cart/utility work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y2SN-L5hzA&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.mousesteps.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=662&Itemid=65
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y2SN-L5hzA&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.mousesteps.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=662&Itemid=65
djkidkaz
Well-Known Member
We need a new aerial photo.
ChristianG
Well-Known Member
Where's Scott Keating when you need him?
Uncle Lupe
Well-Known Member
We've come so far from dirt mountain to dirt hole.
In that video it looks like the have build pretty tall concrete forms down the middle of large trench we saw in the earlier pictures. Can't really guess what that would be for.
Dan
jt04
Well-Known Member
Exactly. Those forms are at least 10 feet deep. Seems too deep for a water feature and too far north to be part of the castle walls. Strange.
Jdlay
Member
After watching the Mousesteps video, I'm left wondering if this could be an extension to the Utilidors?
unkadug
Follower of "Saget"The Cult
There was one originally planned before they got rid of all the M&G's...perhaps it is for an extension to the new coaster area? :shrug:
That would make sense. The wall/pit appears to come right up to the construction wall which is around where the existing Utilidor is. Also if you look at the over the wall picture you can see two low forms and it appears from the video that a concrete slab has been poured between them which would make sense as the floor of a corridor.
Dan
Rob562
Well-Known Member
Possible, but it's odd that they'd continue it, since getting costumed character CMs to/from the "island" isn't necessary anymore. Yes, CMs operating the attraction will still have to get to/from the attraction, but they wouldn't necessarily be out of place walking between the attraction and a backstage door near Pooh or the BATB area, much the same as Teacups, Dumbo and Carousel CMs do now.
Unless, of course, they're incorporating a permanent Snow White/Dwarf M&G area near the attraction, and want to minimize the walking the characters have to do out in the open. Or, perhaps the costumes for the Mine attraction CMs will be too different from the surrounding area's CMs and they'll want to keep them visually separated from the rest of Fantasyland.
-Rob
boufa
Well-Known Member
Could even be more basic than that.... maybe a fire exit. The utilidoors are an underground building and it must meet certain National Building Codes. You must never be more than a certain distance from an escape route. Not saying this is true... I have never been anywhere near the utilidors (except over them
). Just a thought. We tend to forget the practical things sometimes.
ob1thx1138
Member
I really think this is being overthought. That is a text book excavation for that depth. They might just be laying a sewer pipe, conduit, anything really, but the size is very misleading. When you dig like that the hole has to be 4 times as wide as it is deep.
optjay
Well-Known Member
Agreed, but there is now a rather large form sitting in it. Looks to be at least 10'.
ob1thx1138
Member
Wow, how wide is it? It could be storm drainage. I remember seeing a man hole at the north end of that trench in earlier pics
yensid67
Well-Known Member
I don't think this is any extension of the utilidors. If it were it would be directly behind the men's locker room and shower area. Pesonally, I think its a underground drain area for Fantastkabd Expansion. But, who really knows? You would have thought someone would have caught the permit post?!? Oh, well, this will only keep us all intrigued with what it really is going to be used for!