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[legoerosion]

It's going to be great once the ride is revealed so we can see what the layout is, because it really seems like the footers are just scattered about.

[mg]

No photos, but the supposed station has gone vertical with steel. There is quite a bit of structural steel staged in that area too.

[legoerosion]

No photos, but the supposed station has gone vertical with steel. There is quite a bit of structural steel staged in that area too.

Building the station before any track installed is certainly an odd choice

[Duelist]

Could it be a pass-thru building for the ride instead of a loading/unloading station?

[sdcfan88]

Time Travelers station was midway complete around this time in 2017. Track and supports didn't start getting installed till the end of May.

EDIT: Found this interview video with the construction manager of another Mack Rides project being built right now here in the states at SFGA. This one will be well over 300ft high and has launch elements as well. Note the technical discussion details and the size of the footers in the background to see how similar this project will be compared to SDC's. I highly doubt SDC's upcoming Mack (launch?) coaster will be that big, but it won't be a snoozer either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InDGxKbLU3Y

[legoerosion]

Here's an aerial shot of the construction coming from Kevin Berger on Facebook.

[BackInTime]

Looks an awful lot like structural material is being staged along the service road beyond the trees from OR. 

[Swoosh]

Could it be a pass-thru building for the ride instead of a loading/unloading station?

It's possible, but the foundation looks way too substantial to just be a thematic building. That and were to the point in the building process where that's the only place that looks like a station.

[prkbkr]

New member here, but been lurking and following for a while.  Because the most recent google satellite shows the cleared area but nothing more recent, it's exciting to see a recent aerial image in addition to ground level images that really helps give a better idea of what's going on. 

With the placement of the alleged station building there, does it make the most sense that the entrance will likely be accessed along an extension of the path in front of the Wildfire entrance? Also, because there are rumors that it will become the longest coaster at SDC to-date, interested to see if the layout will also extend into that second smaller cleared area at the back end of Powder Keg (could just be a construction materials staging area?).  Appreciate that at least some sections of mature trees have been left intact within the layout.

One thing I'm wondering is at what stage will we be able to tell exactly what type of coaster this will be? I assume that in the next few weeks we will start to see supports and track elements installed probably before we have any official announcement, but would we be able to confirm what type of coaster it will be just from an upright station, or likely not until track supports or track sections arrive on-site? I guess it also depends on the timing of when each of those elements are completed, but we should start getting a lot more hints very soon, right?

[sdcfan88]

What would be a buzz kill on this is even if it IS a big coaster with height and length to it, I sure hope it doesn't wind up being a shuttle coaster like the SF Mack coaster currently being built. I've noticed the park is really shifting towards pushing trailblazer sales with its newer additions. They really desperately need another reliable high capacity ride after we lose TNT this year.

[Lampie]

Something I keep thinking about is the new coaster is effectively blocking the main path where SDC could add additional land to the park. I was really hoping part of this 10 years of projects would include an additional "land" out that direction to help increase park capacity. It feels like this will really lock them into more or less the existing foot print meaning that almost all new rides in the future will require replacing an existing one.

[prkbkr]

I totally agree, that seemed like a good access point to expand out to the new land they acquired but with three coasters in tight quarters there, it might be more difficult to do so.  At the same time, I kind of imagined that the old Fire in the Hole building would come down and start to link the Powder Keg / Opera House area more directly with Outlaw Run. But even then, the train route runs right through there and sandwiches between Outlaw Run and Powder Keg, so it would be just as difficult to route a main path to a park extension there too. In any case, it would seem a new area expansion would need at least two connecting routes to circulate better and there are very few options for that at the back of the park.

Another thing I have been wondering recently is that even though a lot of evidence still points to a Big Bear Mountain type family friendly launch coaster, we've heard about that big investment to expand steadily within the next 10 years, so what if SDC's plans for this new coaster would be to go very extreme (Stryker/Hyper etc as many speculate) first and just not worry about having a family coaster for a few years to then soon fill the gap with a Thunderation replacement as soon as possible, like 2029ish?  Or is it really that much more likely for them to want to fill the family coaster gap first?