 All righty so I was at the park today um it was super exciting so a some advice if you want to go ride roller coasters and rides with no lines go on an open day Friday Saturday Sunday during the day before how we'd hunt because it is absolutely dead there was a little bit of rain and it was a little bit chillier and that definitely helped but so far I've noticed that the park is extremely dead on these days that they're open for how we hunt so go in the morning um I also heard how we know it's been pretty dead so far too but go and that's your best time to get on rides I've never seen the park so dead um but let's get right into it so you're gonna notice a few changes with our um our videos coming out you're gonna notice um the production kind of going up and uh the our capabilities going up as well so I just wanted to say thank you um our videos are getting really popular the views are going up and we're reinvesting you know the money that we're earning from the videos back into the channel so you guys get more higher quality videos so hopefully you guys really enjoy the enhancements that you're seeing um throughout uh our channel as it upgrades um and again I apologize I sound really nasally I'm sick hopefully uh shortly I'll be a lot better I think today is the worst I've sounded though so you can probably really tell so obviously from the footage you're seeing uh the drop is about halfway done um I believe from what I've counted they have two more pieces to install and then it uh so it's one vertical piece then one vertical out uh so one more vertical and then one more vertical that kind of curves in towards where the the train will be held and then you'll have the train um being held section that you see right there installed and then they'll connect that to the left column seven um is the next support structure to go up so I believe Tuesday to Friday is a very big project for this um for Yukon Striker because all the pieces kind of need to go um and be held by cranes while they're being installed because the parts that are going in other than column seven rely on each other to be held in place um so I just wanted to point out that this coaster is gorgeous so no matter where you stand and take into account the track is very dirty um and it's not done and it still looks stunning I mean the the photographs that you can take of this coaster are going to be phenomenal um so as you noticed in one of our previous shots the electrical for the tunnel is installed and ready to go from the looks of it and it looks like they've got quite the electrical grid set up there so hopefully um you know based off our interview we had with Peter the construction manager of the project there are going to be some small hidden you know details or small theming aspects uh in the tunnel that are going to be a surprise when the ride opens so hopefully that's you know fog mist or whatever and some lighting effect as you drop in that would be really cool can you imagine dropping into a tunnel with a fog and not being able to see the tunnel that would be insane um over here you can see again no concrete or cement has been poured for the footings in the lake or pond or river but a lot of people have been pointing out how close these uh supports are going to come to vortex's layout so that's going to be uh another added bonus of uconn striker you're gonna have some i guess head choppers or leg choppers let's call it on uh vortex um again i want to stress no matter where you stand in this park you can pretty much see the drop now unless the mountain is in your way uh so very uh great locations around the park to take shots of uconn striker and next weekend um you should be able to get even better shots uh this thing should be nearing completion uh again the lift and the drop by next friday if not the week after but i from what i'm understanding and from what i'm guessing based off of column seven and all that this thing should actually be rushed next week if weather holds out again because the structure relies on itself to hold itself up um so not oh this is an interesting one so a lot of people have been asking in my video what is that white line going up the lift hill of uconn striker i did not know so um part of the reason i went today despite me being sick is because i wanted to find out myself and i was really curious i am obsessed with this project um the white line is an emergency ladder so i'm assuming you know they have the again i'm going to pronounce this wrong i don't know i can't get it but the fune liquor um elevator system that that right there that i just pointed at that is like an elevator system that maintenance can use to get to the top um they use it for evacs here in there then they have the two catwalks off to the left and right and then i'm guessing that would be the emergency ladder if all else failed let's say the you know the um the elevator system failed or you know they need to get up close and inspect the lift hill there but you can also see right off to the left there the electrical wires running down the side there in the silver tube actually attached to the um the track itself that would be the electrical so a lot of people are assuming it's uh electrical but the electrical would be that silver piping going up the right side of the track there um so yes there is a gap in the ladder i have no idea i'm assuming it'll be fixed i'm assuming that they'll work on that i don't think there's any specific reason as to why there isn't a ladder installed there yet just probably maybe the pieces haven't arrived or something like that um so definitely a lot of work has taken place under here so this um it looks like everything down there is fully installed again the electrical is obviously not hooked yet but they have definitely on rainy days or windy days my understanding is they have been working low to the ground so they've been able to get a lot of work down in the station break run and lift hill area instead of lifting you know the lift hill and drop in place so they are definitely still hard at work when they aren't lifting the big pieces in so just because we don't see you know the drop in lift hill completed yet doesn't mean they haven't been hard at work they definitely have i can tell all these little minor details done in the break run station area so this is the piece um again my channel is uh full of a wide variety of people that watch my channel it's not just enthusiasts it's newer enthusiasts and you know people that go to parks just for fun so this piece is actually the piece that'll like connect to a chain dog you know the train will slow down and then it'll connect to a chain the chain will slowly kind of move you over the edge of the drop and then you'll slowly crest that little drop right there and then eventually it'll let you go into the tunnel um so into the drop and then into the tunnel so that part right there uh that was really cool to get that again i'm zoomed really far in that's why it's shaking so much i was really struggling um with the shake a because i'm sick and b it was raining so sorry about the shakiness but i wanted to get these up close shots right here um it looks really cool i can't wait to see that piece lifted in again i'm really hoping that a lot of this will be done by next week um so that's super exciting and uh yeah i i there's a lot of um work going on in the lift and drop area then it'll continue that way they've removed a lot of the fencing too the frontier canada fencing is what i call it uh near the vortex area so they've removed a lot of that fencing that's probably just for heavy equipment this was one of my favorite shots with those fall colors starting to come in and the fog and ukland striker i just i just love it um and to be honest this shot made me kind of go do they really need to repaint vortex like i was thinking to myself like they really don't need to repaint vortex all that much like it looks really nice the red and the silver actually don't or i should say do not not fit in that area they fit in really nicely um so these are the sheet piles finally got the name right internet high five um so these sheet piles they drive into the ground and then they'll dig out the ground for that vertical loop slash um runway section into the return emelman um so again for those that don't know the vertical loop will be in this section and then it goes into this weird element that a lot of people are commenting on it's almost like a little mini airtime hill um it's it's actually called a runway again surya um was the one that like let me know about that so thank you um i actually love that it makes so much sense so it'll use the runway to gain more speed to go into the emelman and head back into the mid-course brake run or third course brake run is what i like to call it because it's about three quarters of the way through the ride cycle so they'll probably be uh digging that out shortly uh it does look like they're moving very slowly in this area i don't know anything about sheet piles and how hard it is to get them into the ground i suspect from what i'm seeing it's extremely hard because every weekend it almost looks like they only got a couple more in um so that's definitely a very slow moving area of the ride um i do not see any new footing stug either so we'll see what happens in that area anyways thanks so much for watching my videos guys hopefully you really enjoyed this construction update there'll be more of them every weekend hit that like button subscribe if you haven't and share this video for others to watch have a good one guys bye