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

Important Articles:​

• BGWFans' full "Project DarKoaster" leak:
  
  

  Busch Gardens Williamsburg's New-for-2023 Roller Coaster

  BGWFans.com has exclusively obtained a bevy of information regarding a yet-to-be-announced, fully-indoor, multi-launch, family coaster currently in development for Busch Gardens Williamsburg.

  bgwfans.com
• BGWFans' summary of the DarKoaster: Escape the Storm announcement:
  
  

  DarKoaster: Busch Gardens Williamsburg's Indoor Roller Coaster

  Everything we know about Busch Gardens Williamsburg's officially-announced, new-for-2023, multi-launched, family roller coaster, DarKoaster

  bgwfans.com

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Major Updates:​

• July 15th, 2021: ParkFans member, @horsesboy, posts a rumor regarding possible DarKastle redevelopment plans
• November 25th, 2021: BGWFans begins teasing a Curse of DarKastle replacement
• December 2nd, 2021: Building permit filed for "modifications to existing Germany village building" valued at $3.5 million
• December 6th, 2021: BGWFans confirms that the Curse of DarKastle replacement is a roller coaster
• December 30th, 2021: BGWFans leaks "Project DarKoaster"
• February 10th, 2022: @Jahrules discovers a utility markings request for the area around DarKastle
• February 16th, 2022: DarKastle has been cleared out
• February 18th, 2022: Photos from inside DarKastle
• April 7th, 2022: DarKoaster plumbing and electrical permits found
• April 20, 2022: @horsesboy reports that stagged construction materials have been decreasing suggesting ongoing construction
• June 1, 2022: BGWFans reports that DarKoaster track is on-site and subsequently posts the first photos
• June 2, 2022: Busch Gardens Williamsburg teases Project DarKoaster for the first time
• June 14, 2022: BGWFans publishes DarKoaster photo and locker building plans
• July 18, 2022: Outdated photos from inside DarKastle leak online
• September 6, 2022: Busch Gardens announces DarKoaster: Escape the Storm opening in 2023
• April 20, 2023: Busch Gardens announces May 19, 2023 as the opening day for DarKoaster, with a Members Only Preview starting May 11, 2023.

 

[Zachary]

Between @Tricoart and @Coffee_Kreamer, you all got it! We were looking for numbers!

So, the resulting cipher is...

• 20
• 2
• 123
• 132
• 7
• 19
• 45
• 26
• 48
• 195

Seems like you may need another piece to get further...

 

[Tricoart]

Though this is probably not the next step at all, all possible combinations when simply converting back to letters are:

B/T
B
A/B/C/L/W
A/C/B/M
G
S/A/H
D/E
B/F/Z
D/H
A/I/E/S

 

[Hamptonian]

I’m getting frustrated in the most fun way lol. I’m half tempted to just look up all 10 lettered words and process of elimination but I’m stronger than that. Plus I have work in the morning…

 

[Tricoart]

Maybe it's some maths-related thing (like those mean, median and mode questions)? The only other thing I could think of is Roman Numerals, but that's just a ton of X,C,I,V, and L's.

 

[Hamptonian]

Maybe it's some maths-related thing (like those mean, median and mode questions)? The only other thing I could think of is Roman Numerals, but that's just a ton of X,C,I,V, and L's.

Could it be like binary code?

 

[Jonesta6]

Bitwise logic?

 

[Tricoart]

Could it be like binary code?

Would that not just turn it into a load of 0's and 1's?

 

[Hamptonian]

ASCII is what I was thinking but it isn’t adding up on there either

 

[Tricoart]

Bitwise logic?

I tried doing that, and it would generate a 0 9 times out of 10 (using AND logic, at least)

 

[Tricoart]

Maybe the 'Seems like you may need another piece to get further... ' might mean something, like there's more information in the article that we haven't yet used?

 

[Hamptonian]

Maybe 'another piece' might mean something, like there's something else in the article that we haven't yet used?

Might it be in reference to “the key to solving the puzzle is a preview of history?” Line

 

[Jonesta6]

Maybe the 'Seems like you may need another piece to get further... ' might mean something, like there's something else in the article that we haven't yet used?

Or another article?

 

[Hamptonian]

Or another article?

Zach said everything we’d need to solve it is in the article already though.

 

[Tricoart]

Might it be in reference to “the key to solving the puzzle is a preview of history?” Line

Might be something to do with previous Project Penguin reporting?

 

[Hamptonian]

Might be something to do with previous Project Penguin reporting?

Maybe what is in the spot where penguin was supposed to be built?

 

[Tricoart]

Maybe what is in the spot where penguin was supposed to be built?

It's only really referred to as a 'festival pathway', so I don't really know what that would do. Besides, I think there's more of a chance that it is some kind of number.

 

[Hamptonian]

It's only really referred to as a 'festival pathway', so I don't really know what that would do. Besides, I think there's more of a chance that it is some kind of number.

Might the key on the map be an actual key for the code?! As in “the KEY to solving “

 

[Hamptonian]

It's only really referred to as a 'festival pathway', so I don't really know what that would do. Besides, I think there's more of a chance that it is some kind of number.

Only numbers I can think of is 2020 maybe add the month number too

 

[Tricoart]

Might the key on the map be an actual key for the code?! As in “the KEY to solving “

It doesn't really have a key, even on the park map it just says 'Festival Pathway - Select Dates'

 

[Tricoart]

Only numbers I can think of is 2020 maybe add the month number too

It was originally slated for 2021, and the original leak of it was in January 2020, but if the reactions are anything to go by, it isn't related to previous reporting.