BGWFans & Busch Gardens Williamsburg
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Yeah but balloon tests are not a short time frame. The balloon can be up for a pretty considerable amount of time. Certainly long enough for people to see it.Even before documents were filed, actually.
May Line of Sight Test – BGWFans
As initially reported via Twitter this morning, BGWFans can now confirm that a red line of sight balloon was flown over the park this morning. According to eyewitnesses, the balloon appeared to be located behind Apollo’s Chariot—likely in the area currently occupied by the stables behind Festa...bgwfans.com
2021 was a similar situation, I think.
There may be more story there than just someone happening to drive by and take pictures
Do we need to make some #FreeBGWFans tshirts to wear on Pantheon opening day?
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Omg that would be epic
Better yet, how much would it cost to get a skywriter plane to put @bgwfans in the sky right above the ride during the ribbon cutting?
So I think a somewhat 'grassroots' way of getting BGWFans contribution to BGW's community more seen and hopefully invited back would be the most powerful:
So here's the thought (and I'm willing to do this if @Zachary and @Nicole like this). Every time you got to the park, take a picture of something that's really share worthy (timed up coasters, cool exposures, things like that). Tag both BGWFans and BGW. Add some positive hashtags. I'm talking about pictures and captions so good that BGW social media will want to share it.
Basically me thought here is almost force them to ignore all this positivity on social media that includes BGWFans OR make them have to retweet or like it so it gets seen. The other idea here is when someone searches for BGW on twitter, they're going to see all of this going on.
Am I asking for something big here? Sure. Am I asking us to ignore bad stuff? No. I'm just asking that we flood all manners of social media with co-tagged items that show BGWFans has big time community support within BGW.
So here's the thought (and I'm willing to do this if @Zachary and @Nicole like this). Every time you got to the park, take a picture of something that's really share worthy (timed up coasters, cool exposures, things like that). Tag both BGWFans and BGW. Add some positive hashtags. I'm talking about pictures and captions so good that BGW social media will want to share it.
Basically me thought here is almost force them to ignore all this positivity on social media that includes BGWFans OR make them have to retweet or like it so it gets seen. The other idea here is when someone searches for BGW on twitter, they're going to see all of this going on.
Am I asking for something big here? Sure. Am I asking us to ignore bad stuff? No. I'm just asking that we flood all manners of social media with co-tagged items that show BGWFans has big time community support within BGW.
I would hashtag the drop out of it TBH. @ both BGW and BGWFans. # SEAS, BGW, Busch Gardens, MyBGWStory, ACE, (no matter what you think of them), Themeparks, Amusement Parks, Colonial Williamsburgh, WCUSA.....basically anything related that people would search in relation to BGW.
I would buy this in a heartbeat. Just a white shirt that says #freebgwfans on the front. Can we make this happen?
Personally I hope they never let BGW Fans back for any media event. What you all have done is immoral, disgusting, rude, and unprofessional. Shame on you.
Just kidding. Pissed off BGW Fans is the best BGW Fans. The past week has been a blast ?
Just kidding. Pissed off BGW Fans is the best BGW Fans. The past week has been a blast ?
Eventaully Busch Gardens will get so butthurt that they'll start their own forum, with their own leaks.
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So I think that anything like this will be have to be put together by the community. I suspect the admins cant risk being directly involved; regardless of how much they might want to.
But if someone wants to start tracking it for feasibility; I'd buy one, but I won't likely be able to come out to show my support at the park anytime near when Pantheon opens. My wife and I just had our third; so at this point I'm not sure if I'll make it out to the park at all this year.
Yes for two reasons.
One littering is never good even when done for a noble cause.
Two people will think that Scott is working with us and that will scare them away.
This seems like a total non sequitur, but someone mentioned something a few posts back that made me think about Dan Dipiazzo. While looking for a specific quote to share, I stumbled across something else. Hence, this post.
The start of our relationship with BGW back in 2016 was really uncomfortable for both parties I think. We were both very weary of one another (coming off of literally like five+ years straight with zero communication) and there was a lot of history to put behind us. Anyway, we each exchanged a few olive branches and started to get along pretty nicely. Our relationship was really testy at times, but ultimately Dan completely understood BGWFans, our readers, and our coverage needs. He understood that we were going to do a lot of things that would make BGW very unhappy. That said, he also understood that, at the end of the day, it is better for everyone involved if we worked together wherever common ground existed.
I know we were a huge risk for him to take on and I can't thank him enough for giving us a chance. I hope we did him proud. Things may have fallen apart since that time, but BGWFans and Dan Dipiazzo did some great work together and I wish it could have lasted longer than it did.
Anyway, that email I rediscovered... I wanted to share part of it. A few days before his Williamsburg departure was announced, Dan penned a note to Nicole and I specifically to let us know what was about to happen. A lot of the email contains more personal and professional detail than I want to share, so I clipped those parts out. The BGWFans-specific parts are included below though.
I hope he's still reading and I hope that, at least in his opinion, we're still doing a good job.
The start of our relationship with BGW back in 2016 was really uncomfortable for both parties I think. We were both very weary of one another (coming off of literally like five+ years straight with zero communication) and there was a lot of history to put behind us. Anyway, we each exchanged a few olive branches and started to get along pretty nicely. Our relationship was really testy at times, but ultimately Dan completely understood BGWFans, our readers, and our coverage needs. He understood that we were going to do a lot of things that would make BGW very unhappy. That said, he also understood that, at the end of the day, it is better for everyone involved if we worked together wherever common ground existed.
I know we were a huge risk for him to take on and I can't thank him enough for giving us a chance. I hope we did him proud. Things may have fallen apart since that time, but BGWFans and Dan Dipiazzo did some great work together and I wish it could have lasted longer than it did.
Anyway, that email I rediscovered... I wanted to share part of it. A few days before his Williamsburg departure was announced, Dan penned a note to Nicole and I specifically to let us know what was about to happen. A lot of the email contains more personal and professional detail than I want to share, so I clipped those parts out. The BGWFans-specific parts are included below though.
I hope he's still reading and I hope that, at least in his opinion, we're still doing a good job.
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