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Maybe some clues to the tower structure from the Ride to Happiness. Just scale up this A-frame concept front and rear. The track might go straight up the front A-frame, peak over it, then ascend up to near the peak of the rear A-frame and curl around it. It could also mean that the train and track actually go the full 375', being on top of the A-frame. That, with the inversion up top, would be incredible.

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Unfortunately it’s difficult to get a good angle from inside the park since they blocked off the path to Superman entirely today (I was told by an employee that Superman is having its own issues but they figured they’d just block it off to continue working on the area). I grabbed the best pic I could from over by Toro but it’s partially obstructed by trees
 
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Well, damn, that next to last support structure is already done! I thought it would go up a bit. Now I'm really befuddled how the last support structure -- if it is the last and there aren't late footers to be poured -- will make a 375' tower on an apparent two-point stance. Gonna be some amaze amaze amaze engineering happening.
 
Well, damn, that next to last support structure is already done! I thought it would go up a bit. Now I'm really befuddled how the last support structure -- if it is the last and there aren't late footers to be poured -- will make a 375' tower on an apparent two-point stance. Gonna be some amaze amaze amaze engineering happening.
Far from complete, you can see the top part of that A shape there has two connection points on it. In some fashion, that'll merge with the smaller diagonal beam on the right (positioned directly underneath the track) and continue vertically up the tower. This whole A frame structure will effectively be the "front" leg of the tower, then the two in the rear will presumably complete the arrangement.

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Something like that perhaps:
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I really like structure analysis like this, especially when it's a first-of-its-kind tower like Mack is producing here!
 
Well, damn, that next to last support structure is already done! I thought it would go up a bit. Now I'm really befuddled how the last support structure -- if it is the last and there aren't late footers to be poured -- will make a 375' tower on an apparent two-point stance. Gonna be some amaze amaze amaze engineering happening.
Coliwood replied to someone on a recent video/post saying that not all footers were done being poured. I’ll try to find it shortly
 
Far from complete, you can see the top part of that A shape there has two connection points on it. In some fashion, that'll merge with the smaller diagonal beam on the right (positioned directly underneath the track) and continue vertically up the tower. This whole A frame structure will effectively be the "front" leg of the tower, then the two in the rear will presumably complete the arrangement.

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Something like that perhaps:
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I really like structure analysis like this, especially when it's a first-of-its-kind tower like Mack is producing here!
Thank you! Yes, noticed that pair of fittings atop the A-frame looking more closely at today's pics. Your sketch makes sense for what it could/should look like. Three-point stance always made the most sense based on how other towers and spikes have been built for tall coasters. Although this is a five-point-to-three-point structure. Cool stuff.
 
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He also in the same video pointed to say "The Tower will go over there" to a spot that seemed way too far away from the current rise of track, so I think he's just speculating (incorrectly) on the extra footers.
Yep, that claim made me scratch my head when he said it. Also, months ago he made his own pre-viz of what the ride might look like and he had the tower near the stall and the ride shorter. He's made a number of predictions that turned out to be inaccurate. Nothing wrong with predictions, we're all having fun with this in theory, but not everything he says is based on leaked info from someone in the park.
 
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Really good sense of scale so far in this photo.


Outside of the scale of project purple …
I’m almost more intrigued with the fenced off area. I hope they don’t give that back to the parking lot because that to me looks like a FANTASTIC plot for a Vekoma family coaster. Still leaving Ka’s plot available for something bigger
 
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