Busch Gardens Williamsburg: General Discussion

[MaxPower]

That surf coaster model looks pretty underwhelming in all honesty, hope they come up with something better than that for their next project.

Always liked the thought of a flying coaster going over the river personally.

 

[Rob]

Verbolten is perfect as it is.

From what I've seen, the inside of the show building for Verbolten is in a bit of a state with many broken effects etc. I agree that it doesn't need a re-theme, but sounds like investment is needed to bring it back up to standard.

I think local park management have learnt from the lessons of say Pantheon, an addition whereby the coaster is great but the presentation falls well below what is expected from Busch Gardens Williamsburg. They pushed corporate management at United Parks really hard to get the Nessie thematic updates through and ensure that the new Big Bad Wolf came with the theming that it did.

Going back to theme Pantheon is essential!

 

[John_P]

Sat in the car park now after a fantastic first ever visit to the park. Got plenty of rides on Pantheon and Apollos Chariot.

Just a lovely park in a beautiful setting.

Darkoaster is currently shut, someone told me all the intamin straddle coasters are currently down. (Don't know how true that is)

 

[Maelstrom]

Sat in the car park now after a fantastic first ever visit to the park. Got plenty of rides on Pantheon and Apollos Chariot.

Just a lovely park in a beautiful setting.

Darkoaster is currently shut, someone told me all the intamin straddle coasters are currently down. (Don't know how true that is)

All three that are operated by united parks that own Busch gardens are down. Not sure why.

 

[Matt N]

Quantum Accelerator at Six Flags New England also appears to have been delayed. I’m unsure of the status of Juvelen or Yukon Quad.

The apparent common thread is that all of the closed models have drive tyre launches. Hagrid’s, with its LSM launches, is still open.

 

[John]

From queue-times.com data, Yukon Quad is currently open. Djurs is closed today but Juvelen was running yesterday.

 

[DistortAMG]

The issue with names like these is that it feels very short term. Like how New Texas Giant isn’t new anymore.

The same argument could be made for places such as New York ir New England. After a while the word new in these names stop meaning literal new and just become part of the name.