Busch Gardens Quality Control Team
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I will just say that my favorite place to eat (Grogan's Grill) needs some TLC. Spider webs everywhere, pain needs touching up, and the flower beds near Europe in the Air and by the seating area for the restaurant is looking pretty unsightly. Simple fixes really. And yes- poor poor Mr. Turtle. He gained a back foot and lost his front leg... thus is life for a foam critter at a theme park.
Where should we start, Oh! How about here:
Alpengeist's snow is chipped, dirty, and discolored.
It needs to be power washed, then re-painted.
Darkastle's Ice is also terribly discolored, and dirty. To the point where it's poop brown, and there's also mold collecting on the sides of it.
The Oktoberfest flag banners around Der Wirbelwind, are so dirty that the white part of it looks brown.
This needs a coat of paint very badly.
Who's ready for the first round of "What's missing from this picture?" game. Simply guess what's missing from a picture and you win!
#1:
#2: (this one's a toughie)
#3:
Alpengeist's snow is chipped, dirty, and discolored.
It needs to be power washed, then re-painted.
Darkastle's Ice is also terribly discolored, and dirty. To the point where it's poop brown, and there's also mold collecting on the sides of it.
The Oktoberfest flag banners around Der Wirbelwind, are so dirty that the white part of it looks brown.
This needs a coat of paint very badly.
Who's ready for the first round of "What's missing from this picture?" game. Simply guess what's missing from a picture and you win!
#1:
#2: (this one's a toughie)
#3:
Yes, that snow and ice needs painting much like this that I mentioned earlier that was shrugged off. I'd rather see this repainted before the snow. Why you may ask? Because this is more outstanding wrong and worse than dirty snow. Dirty snow is common, especially around pathways and roads. If anything that snow looks more realistic now.
I'm pretty sure most of DarKastle's 'mold' is painted on. And Alpie's snow will never look good as long as people can walk on it.
Oktoberfest sign on the black metal trellis.
Rhine River Cruise sign at the Rhine River
Catch the falling crap nets at Mach
Rhine River Cruise sign at the Rhine River
Catch the falling crap nets at Mach
whispers said:
Correct.
Correct.
Nope. Keep guessing.
PR, I understand there are other things that need fixing, but your excuse is invalid, and your just making it to defend the park. Dirty snow on the side of the road is already unsightly enough, who would want that to be re-created in a theme park?! Like Connor said, this is supposed to be an old German village in the alps, I'm pretty sure they don't have cars, and snowplows driving through to create the dirty snow build up on the side of the roads, your excuse just doesn't apply in this case.
I was kidding.
But the snow gets dirty on the slopes, as well. There is a fair amount of dirt in nature.
But the snow gets dirty on the slopes, as well. There is a fair amount of dirt in nature.
Nic said:
Hmmm. I never noticed that much dirt on the slopes when I've gone skiing, I'm sure there is some, but it's nothing that noticeable.
Anyways, when I was a kid, the snow was always white and shiny. Really the fix to this problem isn't that difficult, just a couple buckets of plain white paint, if the park really can't afford that, I'd almost be inclined to pay for it.
Fresh powder (which is a big part of any ski village's business) is predominantly white, but near the end of a day if there's not enough snow it could end up turning into a dirty slush. Basically during the middle of the day you should not be seeing dirt amongst the snow, it should be pure white. When the mountain is going to close for the night it is excusable if there wasn't enough new powder the night before or it's towards the end of their operating season.
I've gone snowboarding for a few years and I have friends who regularly go, they know the right times to go and plan meticulously for it.
I've gone snowboarding for a few years and I have friends who regularly go, they know the right times to go and plan meticulously for it.
In that case, CT has failed because their main color scheme isn't brown.
Also, if I can add my two cents into the ring, my issue about the paint isn't that it's brown per se, but the fact that the paint is looking so aged and forgotten. Pieces of it a chipped and torn and a few strokes of a brush could really help fix that issue.
Also, if I can add my two cents into the ring, my issue about the paint isn't that it's brown per se, but the fact that the paint is looking so aged and forgotten. Pieces of it a chipped and torn and a few strokes of a brush could really help fix that issue.
Matthew said:
Matthew, I have personally been to the German Alps a handful of times. I know what that area should be themed like. As an old German Village in the Alps, snow can also become dirty along pathways, sidewalks, trails, whatever you prefer to call them. This happens not because of a high-tech snow plow but because people walk over it constantly and when you walk over snow constantly, it turns to a grayish slush, mix in the dirt and you have dirty snow lining pathways. By allowing the snow to be dirty at the park just means they are keeping it real just as in real life.
Furthermore, since I can only assume they are going for a spring-time theme, there should not be a lot of snow or ice at the base of the mountain. An old German Village would not have much snow covering the ground that time of year; however, the higher up the mountain, the colder it gets and it stays freezing near the tops of those mountains most of the year. This means the mountain should have plenty of snow on. Because the lift hill for Alpengiest simulates a similar lift I rode up a mountain, it should mean that as you go up that lift hill you are going up the mountain.
Wow.. an old forgotten about haunted castle isn't allowed to look decrepit...lets scrub off that moss and repaint the whole place to make it look old-new again...totally agree with you on the snow part....thats a maint thing.
Nora said:
Correct, Correct, and Correct! Congratulations Nora!
Here's what number 2 should actually look like, if it wasn't missing the third banner. I made this one particularly tough though, so don't feel bad if you couldn't figure it out.:
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