Busch Gardens Williamsburg Project 2024: Loch Ness Monster Renovation

[Jwanger93]

If your referring to the concrete pad in the river it’s called out on the drawing set as a foundation for a Nessie statue.

 

[cricket]

Is anything happening with that fake track?

 

[horsesboy]

Is anything happening with that fake track?

fake track?? I don't really know what you are talking about.

 

[GoHokies87]

the rail tracks from the shed to the water?

 

[BG Fanatic]

Where’s this new pillar at?

Here

 

[qdeathstar]

How? It was an identical track exchange.

Well, as the track aged it got rougher and rougher so in order to make the ride comfortable they may have increased the trim. Now that the track is brand new those previous adjustment to trim could be undone.

 

[Jwanger93]

Here

That is foundation for the sculpture, as shown on the plans here

 

[cricket]

fake track?? I don't really know what you are talking about.

This thing right at the start

 

[AIR]

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This thing right at the start

Yea that's not happening. That picture has always confused me as what seems to be additional track was never proposed in any plan.

 

[Coolguy15]

Didn't take a picture but the Loch Ness Monster meal from Mickey D’s is in Charlottesville too.

 

[BG Fanatic]

That is foundation for the sculpture, as shown on the plans here

I agree and is exactly what I'm saying

 

[cricket]

Does anyone know if the member previews will work the same way it has been for the past few rides? Will you need to scan at the machines up front to get a little ticket to ride?

 

[bgw enthusiasts]

Does anyone know if the member previews will work the same way it has been for the past few rides? Will you need to scan at the machines up front to get a little ticket to ride?

Does anyone know if the member previews will work the same way it has been for the past few rides? Will you need to scan at the machines up front to get a little ticket to ride?

We theorize it will be just showing your membership to ride since the park already knows it's not going to be very busy membership wise with this not being a brand new ride.

 

[Coasternerd]

However, this is a fan favorite attraction, and it would be easy to abuse the “show your membership” system because family would just hand off their passes to other people in their group. I find it likely they will do the voucher style thing.

 

[Jwanger93]

Yeah don’t know how the park would expect that they won’t be busy seeing that they currently are running Facebook ads, a tv commercial and a literal McDonalds meal. I think they expect a pretty good turn out for this event. They will have something more than nothing atleast.

 

[Zachary]

They are branding it "Member-Exclusive Ride Time", not a "Member-Exclusive Ride" so, in theory, there should be a mechanism to allow people to ride it multiple times. Cleanest way to facilitate this would probably be to rope off the area and have vouchers to allow people within the perimeter. We'll see if that happens though I guess.

 

[horsesboy]

We theorize it will be just showing your membership to ride since the park already knows it's not going to be very busy membership wise with this not being a brand new ride.

I wouldn't count on that at all there is significant enthusiasm and excitement in the coaster community for this work. Senior leadership at the park admitted thar they were caught off guard during the members farewell ride event by the numbers that attended I would assume that to be even higher for first rides.

 

[BG Fanatic]

Employees get their first ride today.

 

[swimmerboy29]

Aren't the coaster trains technically submersibles in the ride's story? Would be cool if they're recontextualizing part or all of the cave into us going "underwater," so the screens looking directly at the monster on the lake's floor make more sense.
I think this theory has a lot of merit. Good CG is not cheap in the slightest. I'd be surprised if BGW threw in 10's of thousands just for a couple seconds at the end of a commercial like that

I like this - my initial thought was that you would have the screens and then a final one at the end over the mouth where it lunges at you, but that like he said- the cave is pretty fast so most people probably wouldn't even notice it.

Also- my buddy claimed that you could see the monster "swimming" beside you in the tunnel- I don't know when they stopped doing the light-up body and the thing at the end but now I'm wondering if that's just something his dad told him because his family had season passes for a good 20 years.

 

[BG Fanatic]

Anyone hearing reviews from employees?