'The beast is back' | New roller coaster announced for Busch Gardens Williamsburg

2 years ago by 93maddie94 to c/rollercoasters

bobkmertz 2 points 2 years ago

I'm really hoping they actually follow through with theming this thing.... It's going to make or break it. They dropped the ball with Pantheon but at least it is a fun coaster but DarKoaster is just a complete failure without the full theming.

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93maddie94 2 points 2 years ago

One of my bigger complaints about BGW as a whole is the theming. I just don’t feel like the countries, rides, and other theming all flow together well. Then some rides have potential for theming and it falls flat, and some don’t even try.

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bobkmertz 1 point 2 years ago

BGW really just stopped maintaining stuff. The theming in that park was just a little below Disney but after the holdings company took over they just stopped fixing things when it broke and that has led to a subtle but yet very noticeable difference. Then you look at rides like Verbolten which has degraded a ton solely because they didn't maintain the theme elements in the building leaving the dark forest not so dark.

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