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

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Ice said:
I'd literally throw a tantrum if it's a spinner, that is by far the last thing I want this to be.

Only way this ends up as a success in my book is a minimum of a Rockin Roller Coaster style launch coaster with CoDK story theming all around and whatnot. Obviously, if this were to be a Hagrid's style story telling coaster but fully indoors, that would be absolutely WILD. If only that was in the realm of possibilities.
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Do we have room for all that? Don’t get me wrong I want it, but it would have to go outside to be an effective launch or thrill coaster. Maybe an indoor outdoor gerstlauer?
 
DK's empty showbuilding not even factoring in the preshow and loading space is a good 5-10k sqft more than Bolt's showbuilding. And there was that mystery "additions" permit filed. I wouldn't say anything is totally off the table of possibilities solely from a space perspective. Other than a giga.
 
Idk why people have a problem with a roller coaster lol. DarKastle was cool as fuck to look at but the ride itself was mostly 3D screens which is…ehh?
 
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There's nothing saying it can't just have an outdoor section, unless they really commit to making an all indoor dark-ride coaster combination.
 
So I'm just going to put this out there in simple terms because if I really get into the meat of this I'd literally need to create an hour+ long video about in on Youtube but.

Busch Gardens Williamsburg went from planning one roller coaster for either the 2019 or 2020 season, and has now expanded it to 3 coasters in the span of 2022 to potentially 2024 or 2025. They're literally having a Coaster Wars with themselves.

And with how capital additions like these have gone, either BGW is going to turn into the biggest non-Disney or Universal park in North America in the next couple of years, or they're gonna shoot themselves in the dick with a nuke.
 
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b.mac said:
So I'm just going to put this out there in simple terms because if I really get into the meat of this I'd literally need to create an hour+ long video about in on Youtube but.

Busch Gardens Williamsburg went from planning one roller coaster for either the 2019 or 2020 season, and has now expanded it to 3 coasters in the span of 2022 to potentially 2024 or 2025. They're literally having a Coaster Wars with themselves.

And with how capital additions like these have gone, either BGW is going to turn into the biggest non-Disney or Universal park in North America in the next couple of years, or they're gonna shoot themselves in the dick with a nuke.
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I don’t think they’d be the best isn’t what area. I still think Cedar point will own the coaster capital title. Busch might become the coaster capital of the east coast.
 
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I don’t think they’d be the best isn’t what area. I still think Cedar point will own the coaster capital title. Busch might become the coaster capital of the east coast.
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I'm not trying to imply that. I'm implying that either they're going to see success like they never have before in the history of the park, or they're going to be suffering because these additions didn't have the intended impact on their business.
 
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So, I'd like to thank everyone who worked on the puzzle; and a huge thanks to @Zachary for letting me create it.

As some of you figured out; the puzzle is a type of book cipher as seen in the movie National treasure as well as numerous other works of fiction (Sherlock Holmes and Criminal minds to name a couple). There are also real life examples such as the Beale papers (from right here in Virginia) and this type of encryption was also used in the revolutionary war.

I settled on this as something that I hoped would be sufficiently challenging, while not being impossible.

Here's a little peak at my work:

So, basically I just copied the script into a text doc and split it on the space. I opened it in a text editor and turned on the line number feature. If the 'text to be encoded' were longer I would have done some additional transforms to make lookup quicker but that wasn't necessary...

Then I just wrote down a few 'candidate numbers' for each letter and selected them semi-randomly.

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I hope you all had fun and don't hate me too much. :)
 
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How far fetched would it be for DarKoaster and Drachen Spire revising to be the same coaster? If BGW can build Invadr on the footprint they built it on (particularly over the rail line), why not consider the DarKastle/DF site as connectable?
 

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I'm not trying to imply that. I'm implying that either they're going to see success like they never have before in the history of the park, or they're going to be suffering because these additions didn't have the intended impact on their business.
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While it’s nice to get all these rides, if they don’t fix/improve other parts of the guest experience, much of this will be for naught. The guests who come for coasters aren’t necessarily the same ones who come for other experiences, coasters don’t necessarily provide the same up sell as other experiences, and there’s definitely going to be diminishing returns on three rides in 4/5 years.
 
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