Project 830 - Hollywood Rip Ride Rock-It Replacement

[GA-MBIT]

Do we think the main tower and Inverted Loop will go down before HHN season ends? I had always thought they'd trim off the far-end portions first and then properly dismantle the larger mid-section after guests are totally blocked off from the area, but with how fast they are taking this thing down, I really don't know!

 

[Mad Dog]

Yes.... the sightline should be so much better for my November vacation. I always understood the kinetic energy that RRR brought to USF,
but I disliked what it did to the NYC skyline. Hoping the replacement doesn't have such a negative NYC sightline effect.

 

[Viator]

What on earth? So the station building is far enough behind the facades so the turn isn’t actually visible in the park?

That’s a… choice. It’s like they’re hiding the entrance. If that’s the case, I feel like they have to rework the Daily Bugle building as the ride entrance to actually attract people.

(Or… you know… use the pre-existing Ghostbusters firehouse and just reattach the old Ghostbusters sign that used to attract people to the show…)

If the load is similar to what @tommyhawkins is thinking, it'd essentially be an inverse of Hollywood's, to what is the switchtracks for the vehicles to unload.

Which, honestly makes me wonder if people might have the orientation of the layout wrong, if it starts with vehicles going closer to Mummy, and then launching as they are in the direction of the soundstages.

 

[coastercody]

Do we think the main tower and Inverted Loop will go down before HHN season ends? I had always thought they'd trim off the far-end portions first and then properly dismantle the larger mid-section after guests are totally blocked off from the area, but with how fast they are taking this thing down, I really don't know!

I’d say by the end of the month

 

[GA-MBIT]

I’d say by the end of the month

Is it just vibes or do you have a reasoning for that? Genuinely asking!

 

[Rhian]

Do we think the main tower and Inverted Loop will go down before HHN season ends? I had always thought they'd trim off the far-end portions first and then properly dismantle the larger mid-section after guests are totally blocked off from the area, but with how fast they are taking this thing down, I really don't know!

Deconstruction is also done after the event closes and on the early morning hours when the park opens but guests aren’t in that area anyway. Some nights don’t have HHN going on so it’s easier to do work then, too.

 

[UniversalRBLX]

Do we think the main tower and Inverted Loop will go down before HHN season ends? I had always thought they'd trim off the far-end portions first and then properly dismantle the larger mid-section after guests are totally blocked off from the area, but with how fast they are taking this thing down, I really don't know!

Will be interesting to see as you go directly underneath it and weave your way through the non-inverting loop supports for Artista queue.

They'd have to station a crane somewhere in the music plaza stage area in order to support the removal.

I think they just really wanted to demo the edges of the ride since that contains the bulk of where future development is (especially on the NY side where the station is and they'd like a head start on the foundations).

 

[ParkRumors]

My guess is they’re gonna keep up the current pace until the whole thing is gone, so end of the month seems like a pretty good guess. Once the track by the Fallon bathrooms is removed, they can simply re-route the El Artista queue into that soundstage the way they’ve done queues there in the past. That would free up the area in front of the Rockit tower for the crane to be staged.

Plus, this demo crew might be moving over to LC as soon as they’re done with Rockit

 

[coastercody]

Is it just vibes or do you have a reasoning for that? Genuinely asking!

Let’s go ahead and say informed vibes

 

[UniversalRBLX]

My guess is they’re gonna keep up the current pace until the whole thing is gone, so end of the month seems like a pretty good guess. Once the track by the Fallon bathrooms is removed, they can simply re-route the El Artista queue into that soundstage the way they’ve done queues there in the past. That would free up the area in front of the Rockit tower for the crane to be staged.

Plus, this demo crew might be moving over to LC as soon as they’re done with Rockit

What I'm thinking now is that they open up the pathway between Fallon's show building (in red) and the area where Rockit was (where Ghostbusters queue was last year). But you need to put a crane somewhere in the plaza area... so not sure. Green is current pathway.

 

[tommyhawkins]

55% gone already - maybe more after today, they'll remove the same way they installed, in plaza. to right of stage as youre looking at it, might do any parts that affect queues on the two days where no HHN

If the load is similar to what @tommyhawkins is thinking, it'd essentially be an inverse of Hollywood's, to what is the switchtracks for the vehicles to unload.

Which, honestly makes me wonder if people might have the orientation of the layout wrong, if it starts with vehicles going closer to Mummy, and then launching as they are in the direction of the soundstages.

The reason I have the brake run coming into front of station is for practical reasons, just having a gravity fed brake run to avoid needing a huge gantry. I spent a lot of time looking at options I even overlaid USH for comparison but its very different, so after looking at it all for routing to and from maintenance shed, the scenario i put out has switch tracks in one location. trains get dropped straight out of station into a LSM launch, and gravity brings it back on brake run with no need for tyre drive etc