The New Whip Construction, Workshop are building a new Whip

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The American Whip is incredibly old, and the Adventure Island workshop team are building a new one from scratch to replace it. The ride experience shouldn't differ at all but it's something new being built and that means AIG has a construction gallery for it...

17/12/08 - Some of the steel has arrived at the park:


29/10/09 - The structure is being put together in the square. When the steelwork is complete it'll be moved.






31/01/09 - A board explaining the steel structure has appeared:

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05/03 - More of the structure has been constructed.

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19/03 - Sections of the Whip have been galvanised.


19/03 - More galvanised steel.


26/03 - The Whip structure in the tunnel.

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30/04 - Some of the new rounding boards stored on the Fireball platform.


01/05 - The cars on the old Whip are having some work done, they'll be reused on the new ride.


01/05 - Wheels are being replaced.


01/05 - More parts of the old Whip cars being renewed.

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05/05: The old Whip has started coming down...

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Pictures from 06/05





By the end of the afternoon the whole site was reportedly clear.

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Morning of 07/05:







Bits of the new Whip behind the Go Karts:



Evening of 07/05:

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Apologies for the delay in getting these online!

09/05:







11/05:





21/05 - Up and running: