Plus the announcement that Volcano was closing came rather late, so they likely already had a large batch stocked for the opening day processing rush and were caught off guard like everyone else was.
Volcano Goes Extinct
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I know I keep drilling on this but seriously—does anyone know why KD would be gutting the mountain before flattening it? I understand caution around delicate areas outside the mountain, but I just took new photos showing the station area has been taken down to the studs. Is this normal before a building is flattened...?
I'm having a real problem reconciling the "mountain is doomed" theories with what I'm looking at right now.
Note: I'm not saying the mountain is staying, I'm just very confused by this process.
I'm having a real problem reconciling the "mountain is doomed" theories with what I'm looking at right now.
Note: I'm not saying the mountain is staying, I'm just very confused by this process.
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I truly believe that we will eventually find out whether the mountain is being torn down or not.
The company contracted to perform the demolition is named Wack. That's all I need to explain why it's so confusing.
I do believe in due time we will also know what the replacement will be.
OMG YOURE ALL WRONG ITS GOING TO GET TORN DOWN TOMORROW!!!!!1111111ones
I dont thing the mountain is going anywhere if nothing more than its been there so long now it would lose some of the parks identity. Who knows, maybe they will just yank everything out, patch the mountain, pour a slab leveling out the floor and make a new permanant haunted house then at Winterfest it becomes a snow covered mountain covered in millions of shimmering lights to outshine what BGW does with Pompei.
There's actually multiple reasons for doing it this way.
First being when people think of demolition, they think violent destruction when really it's actually a very methodical process of slowly taking parts of something away. The coaster and the mountain are made up of various different materials. Normally in a demolition you want to separate those so it makes sense that they would want to first take out as much of the coaster as possible along with any large electrical from the launch and station. All the coaster items (supports, track, other small parts) being removed first can also make taking the mountain down much easier. At least that's how I see it so far.
Second, the mountain could also be a wild card. They might not know the full condition of the mountain until the coaster is completely taken out. Sure it's intact now but once you remove everything they might find out the mountain can't simply be repaired.
But in the end when you're taking out a large structure like this you want to take as much out of it before moving forward with the final demo. It just makes the separation of the materials easier.
First being when people think of demolition, they think violent destruction when really it's actually a very methodical process of slowly taking parts of something away. The coaster and the mountain are made up of various different materials. Normally in a demolition you want to separate those so it makes sense that they would want to first take out as much of the coaster as possible along with any large electrical from the launch and station. All the coaster items (supports, track, other small parts) being removed first can also make taking the mountain down much easier. At least that's how I see it so far.
Second, the mountain could also be a wild card. They might not know the full condition of the mountain until the coaster is completely taken out. Sure it's intact now but once you remove everything they might find out the mountain can't simply be repaired.
But in the end when you're taking out a large structure like this you want to take as much out of it before moving forward with the final demo. It just makes the separation of the materials easier.
Cedar Fair has Canada's Wonderland with their iconic mountain on their International Street. It has been modified for new attractions over the years. That mountain was ready in 1981 when CW first opened to the public. It is only 2-3 years younger than the moucano.
Knotts Berry farm has 2 major historic ride attractions, (log flume & mine train), that are housed in steel/concrete structures that resemble rock work (mountain range). Those structures are about 20 years OLDER than moucano. They were both restored within the last 8 years.
So I think the whole "mountain is too old" reasoning for it to possibly come down is BS. If anything, cutting 5 billion holes in the concrete "skin" for the volcano supports made the mountain look bad and degraded the external concrete in many places. Getting rid of the coaster supports going through the mountain gives KD a rare opportunity fix the outer concrete "skin" by replacing the missing rebar and mesh; removing cracked/crumbled sections of concrete, and spraying a whole new layer of concrete from top to bottom.
Course, that might have to wait until CF/KD decides what is going on/in that site and whatever modifications/expansion is needed for the mountain. Course, a certain fan site says everything must go, so what I wrote is probably mute.
Knotts Berry farm has 2 major historic ride attractions, (log flume & mine train), that are housed in steel/concrete structures that resemble rock work (mountain range). Those structures are about 20 years OLDER than moucano. They were both restored within the last 8 years.
So I think the whole "mountain is too old" reasoning for it to possibly come down is BS. If anything, cutting 5 billion holes in the concrete "skin" for the volcano supports made the mountain look bad and degraded the external concrete in many places. Getting rid of the coaster supports going through the mountain gives KD a rare opportunity fix the outer concrete "skin" by replacing the missing rebar and mesh; removing cracked/crumbled sections of concrete, and spraying a whole new layer of concrete from top to bottom.
Course, that might have to wait until CF/KD decides what is going on/in that site and whatever modifications/expansion is needed for the mountain. Course, a certain fan site says everything must go, so what I wrote is probably mute.
As an FYI, The mountain inner structure is traditional steel I-beam construction sitting on concrete pilings. Smaller I-beams and steel columns make up the outer edges and extensions of the core mountain. If you stripped off the form rebar, mesh, and concrete skin, you would think you were looking at the skeleton of a wide 6-7 story office building (with a narrow central section that reached 10-12 stories high.
If KD determines the core structure is unsound and could not be repaired at a reasonable cost, then I could see the park taking the mountain down as well.
It is just too early in the game as to whether the mountain stays or goes.
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Ran across this video, toward the end has some pretty interesting views inside the top of Volcano. Dont know if its been posted here before but Ive never seen it.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ne2l_U5rdw
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ne2l_U5rdw
New piece of heavy equipment parked behind Volcano, looking at the Volvo website best match is HIGH REACH DEMOLITION EXCAVATOR https://www.volvoce.com/united-states/en-us/products/high-reach-demolition-equipment/ec750ehr/
The boom was folded over but doesn't look like it would reach all the way to the top track without getting right under it. Looks more suited to ripping the back out of the mountain.
The boom was folded over but doesn't look like it would reach all the way to the top track without getting right under it. Looks more suited to ripping the back out of the mountain.
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Poor Volcano is just a shell of it's former self.
That area is gonna be mega cursed for at least the next year and a half. Just a sad, empty plot.
