Jarrett
Most Obnoxious Member 2016
First off, if this is not in the correct thread (I want to say the only other one where it might fit would be News & Rumors but there's no real information to go by which is why I put it here) I would love it if a mod/admin could move it to the right one.
Anyway, there are rumors of Gwazi being shut down in the future given that it seems to have horrible luck and apparently rides horribly (I'll unfortunately get to see for myself when I go there in November), if you look at Gwazi on Google Maps you will see that Gwazi takes up quite a lot of land and there are a few small empty lots next to it. This could almost certainly allow for a new coaster for BGT, probably a small-medium-sized one. This could also give them an opportunity to clean the area up.
However, knowing how Busch Gardens does things, they never build a coaster without a sister coaster at their other park. Cheetah Hunt and Verbolten, SheiKra, and Griffon, and Alpengeist and Montu are all great examples of this.
So I looked at BGW on Google Maps. While they do have the infamous Drachen Fire plot that seems like the obvious choice, they just renovated Oktoberfest and while a new country would fit back there quite nicely (Sweden?) I don't think they Blackstone would do that. All the countries that will be there are there I think simply because of how long the park has been around and all of the countries have certain histories to them, it would feel strange to have a new one built this far after the last one (I want to say it was Italy?) was built. So I'm fairly certain that that plot could be used. HOWEVER, in terms of which areas need the most love, I noticed something. When I went in 2007, Ireland was my favorite section of the park in terms of how it looked. The buildings were beautiful and it really felt authentic. Cork Screw Hill was cool (shame they got rid of it) and I really enjoyed the show, Secrets of Castle O'Sullivan. While both of those are gone, the area is still really nice, and it's a real shame there's nothing to do there. However, if you look at Killarney on Google Maps, there is a lot of unused land around it. While it is nice that BGW is sort of a backwoods-y park and it works well with the European theme, at the end of the day, they need a coaster or something to do in Killarney, and a coaster would fit in there well, probably one a little smaller than Gwazi's replacement. In addition, Ireland has all sorts of Irish mythology that the park can play with. Kings Island's already doing it with Banshee, I could see BGW pulling this off very well.
Now what do the Busch Gardens parks need? I would have to say that both parks need wooden coasters, since BGW doesn't have one and BGT is losing theirs. I would rule out wing coasters simply because both parks already have inverts (though you can have inverts and wing coasters, I think SFGAm has an invert, a flyer, AND a wing coaster) but in the off chance they do put wing coasters there, I could see the Williamsburg one being the dominant of the two.
However, I do think that both Busch Gardens parks need good wooden coasters. Two GG looping woodies like Hades 360 would work well. A twisted one similar to Gwazi would work well in the Gwazi plot (maybe go as far as to call it Gwazi: Reborn or something?) and an out and back would work well in the Killarney plot. Maybe have the track roll over on the way out and thread under the roll on the way back? Or maybe the first wooden cobra roll at the end of the layout?
Just something I was thinking about, I was wondering if anybody else had given this any thought. And again, if this is on the wrong thread, I would LOVE it if a mod could move it.
Anyway, there are rumors of Gwazi being shut down in the future given that it seems to have horrible luck and apparently rides horribly (I'll unfortunately get to see for myself when I go there in November), if you look at Gwazi on Google Maps you will see that Gwazi takes up quite a lot of land and there are a few small empty lots next to it. This could almost certainly allow for a new coaster for BGT, probably a small-medium-sized one. This could also give them an opportunity to clean the area up.
However, knowing how Busch Gardens does things, they never build a coaster without a sister coaster at their other park. Cheetah Hunt and Verbolten, SheiKra, and Griffon, and Alpengeist and Montu are all great examples of this.
So I looked at BGW on Google Maps. While they do have the infamous Drachen Fire plot that seems like the obvious choice, they just renovated Oktoberfest and while a new country would fit back there quite nicely (Sweden?) I don't think they Blackstone would do that. All the countries that will be there are there I think simply because of how long the park has been around and all of the countries have certain histories to them, it would feel strange to have a new one built this far after the last one (I want to say it was Italy?) was built. So I'm fairly certain that that plot could be used. HOWEVER, in terms of which areas need the most love, I noticed something. When I went in 2007, Ireland was my favorite section of the park in terms of how it looked. The buildings were beautiful and it really felt authentic. Cork Screw Hill was cool (shame they got rid of it) and I really enjoyed the show, Secrets of Castle O'Sullivan. While both of those are gone, the area is still really nice, and it's a real shame there's nothing to do there. However, if you look at Killarney on Google Maps, there is a lot of unused land around it. While it is nice that BGW is sort of a backwoods-y park and it works well with the European theme, at the end of the day, they need a coaster or something to do in Killarney, and a coaster would fit in there well, probably one a little smaller than Gwazi's replacement. In addition, Ireland has all sorts of Irish mythology that the park can play with. Kings Island's already doing it with Banshee, I could see BGW pulling this off very well.
Now what do the Busch Gardens parks need? I would have to say that both parks need wooden coasters, since BGW doesn't have one and BGT is losing theirs. I would rule out wing coasters simply because both parks already have inverts (though you can have inverts and wing coasters, I think SFGAm has an invert, a flyer, AND a wing coaster) but in the off chance they do put wing coasters there, I could see the Williamsburg one being the dominant of the two.
However, I do think that both Busch Gardens parks need good wooden coasters. Two GG looping woodies like Hades 360 would work well. A twisted one similar to Gwazi would work well in the Gwazi plot (maybe go as far as to call it Gwazi: Reborn or something?) and an out and back would work well in the Killarney plot. Maybe have the track roll over on the way out and thread under the roll on the way back? Or maybe the first wooden cobra roll at the end of the layout?
Just something I was thinking about, I was wondering if anybody else had given this any thought. And again, if this is on the wrong thread, I would LOVE it if a mod could move it.
