A wire-with-elbow would be something new and different to get the signals to the far-side shotguns of the rebuilt glider-to-weekender converter, a little quicker -- though it'd just be for show, of course... an MWSS will work just as well at this scale, possibly better once you take input and output converters into account.
I tried using the octohash database to find a way to rebuild Goldtiger997's beehive-at-beehive bait using just one glider plus one-time turners, to give more time to split off more gliders and synchronize them to rebuild the one-time turners. Something like this:
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x = 82, y = 69, rule = B3/S23
78b2o$78b2o2$76b4o$75bo4bo$75b3o2bo$72bo5bob2o$72b4obo2bo$69bo6bobobo$
69b5o2bobob2o$74bobobo$64bo2b5o2bobobo$13b2o47b3o2bo4bobob2o$6b2o5b2o
46bo6b2o2bobo$6b2o53b7o2bobobo$42b2o24bobobob2o$42bo20b6o2bo$8b2o33bo
13b2o3bo6b2o$8b2o32b2o13bo4bo2b4o$2b2o47b2o5b3obobo4b4o$2b2o46bobo7bob
obo2b2o3bo$51bo9bo2bobobob2o$64bobobobo$62bobob2o4bo$39b2o21b2obo5b2o$
39b2o14bo3bo5bo$54bobobobo4bob2o$54bobobobo3b2ob2o$55bo3bo2$64bo$64bo$
o63bo$3o$3bo$2b2o$61bo$61b3o$64bo$63b2o3$64bo$63bobo$7b2o54bobo$5bo2bo
55bo$4bob2o48bo$4bo49b3o$b2obo4bo43bo$b2ob2o3b3o41b2o$12bo$11b2o5$43b
2o$42bobo5b2o$42bo7b2o$41b2o2$55bo$51b2obobo$50bobobobo$47bo2bobobobob
2o$47b4ob2o2bo2bo$51bo4b2o$49bobo$49b2o!
So maybe we need a different bait, or more stages, or some other idea. A while back calcyman came up with a possible alternate mechanism:
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x = 32, y = 46, rule = LifeHistory
19.2A$19.2A2$17.4A$16.A4.A$16.3A2.A$13.A5.A.2A$13.7A.A$17.A.A.A$11.7A
.A.A.2A$10.A4.A.A.A.2A.A$10.3A2.A.A.A$7.A5.A.A.A.A$7.4A2.A.A.2A$11.A.
A.A$5.4A2.A.A.A$4.A4.A.A.A.2A$4.A.A2.A.A.A$5.A.A.A.A.A$7.A.A.2A$7.A.A
$8.2A$2A$A2.A.2A6.2A$2.2A.A8.A$3.A.A5.3A$2.A2.3A3.A$3.2A3.A$5.4A$5.A
11.A$2.2A.A.2A7.A$2.A2.A.A6.2D3A.2D$3.2A4.A3.D2.D2.D2.D$5.5A3.D2.D3.
2D$5.A8.2D$7.A$6.2A2$18.A$17.2A$17.A.A9.2A$29.A.A$29.A$10.2A$9.A.A$
11.A!