RE: Busch Gardens Golden Days/What you want to see return.
After thinking about this thread's prompt, I've realized that there's no major attraction or any one item that I'd like to see return. It's a collection of little things, which, added together, have a big impact on the park experience.
So here's my list of easy/somewhat realistic changes:
- Bring back classical music on the entrance path (i.e. no Frank Sinatra)
- Return the original hamlet names
- Return instrumental music to Banbury Cross, New France, and Aquitaine
- Bring back the little German people cutouts in Oktoberfest
- Give Oktoberfest a more classical paint job, repainting the brightly colored green/orange buildings brown, tan, white, etc.
- Put the German people statues back in the Festhaus
- Give Killarney a darker color scheme instead of the pastel colors
- Remove the construction site-esque green tarp from the back of Wolf Valley
And now, some less feasible (but equally longed for) items:
- Put back the archaeological dig site props around Pompeii
- Bring This Is Oktoberfest and its appropriate stage back to Das Festhaus
- Put the wooden High Striker game in the place of the Oktoberfest soccer game
- Return the rustic props to the flower beds of New France
- Add back the clothes hung across the buildings of Aquitaine
It's funny, the things I would love to see return to the park are all more or less very small things. I don't expect to see many (or any) of these things return in the near future, but, in that "perfect" Busch Gardens that I sometimes visit in my dreams, these items are present.
