Updated Rockit timeline

Remember when I said that Hollywood Rip, Ride, Rockit track work will be complete during May. I was wrong. It was completed much earlier:

April 27, 2009 - The lift track starts to go up.

April 28, 2009 - The lift track gets topped off.

April 29, 2009 - Track work complete.

May 1, 2009 - The catwalk for the first block brake is installed along with the stairs.

May 8, 2009 - I went to Universal during the band trip and saw Rockit.

May 9, 2009 - The opening is announced as July 3, 2009.

May 11, 2009 - A train has been spotted in the station.

May 13, 2009 - Landscaping has begun on the CityWalk portion of the coaster. Concrete has been poured in the chasm. The catwalks for the second and third block brakes are installed.

May 14, 2009 - Just after closing time, the first test run has been conducted on Rockit.

May 19, 2009 - The catwalk before the station begins to get installed.

May 20, 2009 - The catwalk for the first of the final brakes has gone up.

May 23, 2009 - The catwalk before the station is finished. Still needs paint.

May 25, 2009 - Daytime test runs begin.

May 26, 2009 - Lights are installed on the lift.

June 2, 2009 - Recently, daytime test runs stopped. Universal fears a rollback situation on Rockit, so they will take down the lift track and replace it with anti-rollback track. The rings will be installed. Its opening will still be July 3rd.

June 3, 2009 - The lift chain is removed.

June 4, 2009 - Two of the track pieces of the lift has been taken down. It was the two installed before the final. Landscaping is complete on the CityWalk portion of Rockit.

June 5, 2009 - Demolition of the lift track is complete. The mural begins to go up. LED lights are installed on the train.

June 7, 2009 - The second train has arrived.

June 8, 2009 – Queue railings have gone up in the queue. More of the mural is drawn with a person playing a bass guitar.

June 9, 2009 – Work on the Jimmy Neutron side of the mural begins. The roof archway has gone up for the entrance of Rockit.

June 10, 2009 – The anti-rollback track begins to go up on the lift tower. The front of the maintenance building is painted red.

June 11, 2009 – The lift track is back up.

June 12, 2009 – The catwalk leading to the station is painted red.

June 14, 2009 – Landscaping is complete, and the construction walls are down on the CityWalk portion of Rockit. More of the mural has gone up for Rockit including on the side of the maintenance building.

June 15, 2009 – Rockit now appears on the park map. The third train has arrived.

June 16, 2009 – It is revealed that at the station, there will be a moving walkway. You will have 45 seconds to board the train, sit, pull the safety bar, and choose your song. Touch screens will be on your safety bar. In the queue, the options will be shown too. A plethora of screens in the waiting area will show DJ characters. They will introduce a genre of music. The construction walls in front of the station are down. Soft openings may begin early July 2009 and official opening may be late July 2009. The rings might be on site.

June 17, 2009 – All trains are on site.

June 18, 2009 – The maintenance building painting is complete with the front of it with the Hollywood Rip, Ride, Rockit logo, the actual front painted red, and the side painted. The opening was pushed back to July 11, 2009. Construction walls surrounding the maintenance building are down. Construction walls just surround the entrance, Rockit mural on Jimmy Neutron, and the lift.

June 20, 2009 – Testing restarted at 8:30 pm.

June 21, 2009 – Daytime test runs resumed. It went fast for the first half of the lift, but stopped then went up slow.

June 22, 2009 – The train ran up the lift at normal speed.

June 23, 2009 – They painted the other mural on Jimmy Neutron red and added another mural. Some walls connecting the maintenance building to Jimmy Neutron (under the crowd surfer) have gone up.

June 24, 2009 – A camera has been put in the firehouse facade.

June 27, 2009 - A rollback occurs. There will obviously be quick enhancements.

June 28, 2009 - Rockit valleyed again. An elevator has been installed on the back of the lift tower. LED screens appear in the queue. No Doubt's Hella Good, Fergie, Donna Summer's Bad Girls, M.C. Hammer, and K.C. and the Sunshine Band are revealed to be some of the songs that will be played on Rockit.

July 1, 2009 - The entrance sign has gone up.

P.S.: I know I was wrong with my prediction last time, but this (I think) will be right. As of 7/1/09, the only thing left to be installed is the rings on the lift. I can see them arrive by the end of the week, and them installed by next week. The week after, soft openings will begin and by the end of the month, the grand opening will occur.