Busch Gardens Williamsburg Project 2023: DarKoaster (Multi-Lap Intamin Straddle Coaster)

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horsesboy said:
I wouldn't describe it as that but I did have sources that reported early testing break issues but my understanding is that was fix a long time ago and all systems are good or at least as good as an Intamin can be for next next week.
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I seen a documentary on TV a month or two ago on the building and testing of a roller coaster. When they were testing it they found it was running faster than the manufacturer had calculated what they wanted it to run at. They found that the coaster came equipped with nylon wheels from the factory and this was the problem. They fixed it by switching out some of the wheels with polyurethane ones and testing it. Each time the running time decreased and it wasn't until all of the wheels were switched to poly did it hit the time the mfgr wanted it to run at. This could be part of the reason here.
 
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Really happy to see the soda/beer/etc. collaborative marketing with this coaster. It's wild to me that they put that additional effort into a small indoor family coaster, but not into their newest, flashy, giant spiked, multi-launch, marquee coaster. I'm sure that the pandemic played a role in not doing so for Pantheon, and the nostalgia for the location and theme helped do so for DarKoaster, but I hesitate to think they'd have done it regardless of covid.
 
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bwick29 said:
Really happy to see the soda/beer/etc. collaborative marketing with this coaster. It's wild to me that they put that additional effort into a small indoor family coaster, but not into their newest, flashy, giant spiked, multi-launch, marquee coaster. I'm sure that the pandemic played a role in not doing so for Pantheon, and the nostalgia for the location and theme helped do so for DarKoaster, but I hesitate to think they'd have done it regardless of covid.
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Truthfully, I think it was just lazy marketing because they assumed that people would flock to the coaster en masse and not ask questions since it was such a big and flashy addition. I’m hoping the park learned from that whole fiasco about how to appropriately promote a new attraction.
 
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If they don't market the hell out of this thing, people won't know it is there. For years there has just been a building there with nothing going on, if you weren't aware of a change you could easily miss that there is now a ride in there as an average passerby who has been going to the park for a couple years now.
 
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