The shop is now empty and clean in preparation for a large and exciting project to be started this coming week. We’ll begin cutting and welding the first of forty large steel structural frames tomorrow morning. While we begin that work the painting crew is over at the Hazelnut Inn going full blast in the North Star suite. All the ceiling and wall surfaces are now primed with the second, blended coat well underway in many areas. The maze of scaffolds and very high ceilings makes it difficult to get a good picture but by using the wide-angle setting I managed this shot to give readers a glimpse of the magic that is unfolding. We hope to have the large scaffold disassembled in the next day or two which will open things up a great deal. Stay tuned for much more…
Moving days!
We were too busy to do much filming during the big move of six semi-loads of features. Here are a few still photos and a quick video of one of the transfers at the site. It was both challenging and a whole lot of fun!
Mission completed!
It was another busy day at the Imagination Corporation as we moved the balance of the finished pieces to Castle Fun Park. This morning it was cold and wet. We started with the largest and heaviest piece, weighing just under 13,000 pounds. It measured twenty-four feet long, eight feet tall and ten feet tall. As we did yesterday with the first three loads, once we arrived on site we transferred the individual pieces from the transport truck onto the crane truck for the short 150-yard journey to the work site. By three o’clock all of the pieces were on site and everyone was back in the warm and dry shop. The finished pieces will be stored at Castle Fun Park until it is time to begin construction, hopefully, sometime next year.
