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I really like the labyrinth idea! I could see it with several entrances and when you get to the center there could be a long hallway to exit the maze. That way you could still feed new people into tne maze and the people would not need to find there way out.

Take something like this maze, add several entrances on either side of the long exit.
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Also provide some kind of token in the center, maybe a i survived the labyrinth.
 
I really dig this idea! For the fun house I would love to see non-static mirrors. If you put them back to back to form triangles of different sizes and place these triangles on turn tables you could make the mirror maze change all the time or every 15 minutes. Meaning every time a person goes through the maze they could have a different experience. further if you made the mirrors themselves flexible and back them with rollers you could (where you want distort effects) have the distortions change. Add in disappearing walls, movable curtains and, well placed intelligent lighting, and you have the makings of a maze with dozens of configurations!
 
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First off, Nicole, I love all of those ideas. I think an alone style house would be awesome. We have waited long enough for one.

I also like the idea of a fun house. However, I would lean more towards Zimmy's disorienting mirror house. My mom used to spend a lot of time in Hastings, and she said that the Funhouse (Turvey Manor) was one of her favorite things there.

She said that after a while, all of the effects either quit working or were disabled deliberately due to safety issues. If the park wasn't willing to do it back then, I highly doubt that they would do it now.

If they don't do an alone maze, I would at least like a Greek or Roman mythology based house. I just hope it's not too "smart" for most people.
 
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I'm always down for Haunted or Fun Houses, there are specifically not enough permanent funhouses at major amusement parks. I think a GREAT funhouse is a hard attraction to design that isn't liability though, seems to be the only reason I can think of for the decline of this classic attractions. That or guests lingering behind to get into mischevious activities. I'd love to see an S&S Swing Ride in Scotland. Maybe with the theme of some ruins of a Scottish type castle that the seat swings close to, producing a feet-chopper effect as it swings over. If it's true that the Clydesdales are now gone I can think of a perfect location... Keep the Stables though and turn them it into a Busch Gardens History museum of sorts. Old photos, old ride POVs, BBW's sign, one clydesdale's stable if one still exists.
 
TerrainHuggr said:
If it's true that the Clydesdales are now gone I can think of a perfect location... Keep the Stables though and turn them it into a Busch Gardens History museum of sorts. Old photos, old ride POVs, BBW's sign, one clydesdale's stable if one still exists.
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Busch Gardens Williamsburg is the only park in the chain that continued using their stables for animals. They opted to have a type of Clydesdale that did't quite hit the mark for their Budweiser, show-horse counterparts.

It was very important to the park after the sale to keep Scottish horses in addition to other livestock found in the highlands. In fact, Tampa actually offered to give them some flamingos, but Williamsburg declined almost immediately.

I would love to see the park expand their Celtic collection, but I would like to point to my signature for that one.
 
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Well I still like the idea of an S&S Swing ride and a BG museum even if the proposed area is not suitable. I know flat rides haven't been a focus of the park in the past. Quite honestly I don't personally like many flat rides, but the only flat that I do like that the park doesn't have, is an S&S Swing.
 
Well you can see why on this Forum. People bitch if it isn't the biggest, fastest, new B&M; and completely ignore a new flat, regardless of how cool it is.

That said, I have been to a few parks with great flats.
 
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S&S 4D Free-Fly At BGW?

I don't see this coming anytime soon, but I thing a 4D Free-Spin would be a good fit for BGW, since it takes up little space, and is good for all ages.
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Recently the park has really been breaking out of their shell with manufacturers. I am not personally too interested in that one, but I wouldn't rule it out yet. With the way the park seems to be adding rides currently, they might soon compete with KD in terms of quantity. However, quality is what I want from BG. I don't want them to become coaster hoarders.
 
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CastleOSullivan said:
Recently the park has really been breaking out of their shell with manufacturers. I am not personally too interested in that one, but I wouldn't rule it out yet. With the way the park seems to be adding rides currently, they might soon compete with KD in terms of quantity. However, quality is what I want from BG. I don't want them to become coaster hoarders.
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Good points.

I think some great flats are needed in some areas. A Ferris wheel is England for example. Yea is that sterotypical? Heck yea. But my issue right now is the rides are "unbalanced". So many flats in San Marco and Germany, but meanwhile England/Scotland/Ireland, Pompeii, France are all hamlets with one ride.

My "concepts" think tank that people can run with:
~Spinning wild mouse with taxi themed cars, Ferris Wheel in England
~EitA gets overhauled in Ireland, riverdance show
~Scotland gets a "funhouse" like ride themed for a haunted castle (yes I know Darkastle is in the park but stick with it)
~Pompeii's EFP gets ripped out with the event building re-purposed for a indoor ride. My "concept" would be a "Revenge of the Mummy" clone called "Fires of Pompeii". Use the outdoor area for a flat or two. Mini Launch (for kids) tower, and another small flat (something that swings and spins?)
~Re-name Tempeto for another Roman god. Make that entire area Rome, theme it all as "inside the SPQR".
~Re-do San Marco area as Italian Wine Country.
~France needs some things around the show and Griffin to bring some interest. Bring back a car ride and name is "San Monico" for the big F1 Race held in south France.
~In Germany would be a total redo of DarKastle. I would re-do the entire ride to make it a journey into the brothers Grimm stories. They mostly take place in Germany. A ride where you are going into the forest (yes I know Verbolton uses it as well) with little red, encounters with Hansel and Grethel, rumpelstiltskin, rapunzel. The DarKastle doesn't really entirely fit Germany. Fairy tales come to life would fit more in with Germany. Bump Alpengeist to be French Alps, and add some other small ride to make it work.
 
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Neat ideas!

Glad to see somebody else agrees about a Festa Italia retheme. It remains the red herring area of the park, and especially with Tempesto, it gives off a cheap, Six Flags vibe with a clusterfuck of ideas that don't belong in the World's Most Beautiful Theme Park.

Personally, I want Festa to be rethemed to Greece, ancient Greece in particular. I'm not sure where I'd go from there, though. I can't decide if they area should take on a stately Athens-like theme dominated by towering columns and intricate carvings, or a more festive and rustic "Mediterranean Festival" theme. I think the former could be a bit redundant with San Marco, although maybe a bit of both themes could be incorporated into the area. But since Festa already has a "fair" theme, the festival theme could probably be done more cheaply, and could even preserve some of the games.

Maybe if I get the time, I'll write out a full concept. I already plan to keep Apollo's name and theme the same (Apollo was the Roman and Greek sun god), and to rename and retheme Tempesto to another Greek god. I'd love to tear out Roman Rapids, as it is a ridiculously mediocre, bottom-tier rapids ride that sits on prime real estate. Hades-themed dark ride, anyone?
 
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Eric said:
I don't see this coming anytime soon, but I thing a 4D Free-Spin would be a good fit for BGW, since it takes up little space, and is good for all ages.
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I thought this would have been a good alternative to Tempesto.
 
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CastleOSullivan said:
Recently the park has really been breaking out of their shell with manufacturers. I am not personally too interested in that one, but I wouldn't rule it out yet. With the way the park seems to be adding rides currently, they might soon compete with KD in terms of quantity. However, quality is what I want from BG. I don't want them to become coaster hoarders.
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Good points.

I think some great flats are needed in some areas.  A Ferris wheel is England for example.  Yea is that sterotypical?  Heck yea.  But my issue right now is the rides are "unbalanced".  So many flats in San Marco and Germany, but meanwhile England/Scotland/Ireland, Pompeii, France are all hamlets with one ride.

My "concepts" think tank that people can run with:
~Spinning wild mouse with taxi themed cars, Ferris Wheel in England
~EitA gets overhauled in Ireland, riverdance show
~Scotland gets a "funhouse" like ride themed for a haunted castle (yes I know Darkastle is in the park but stick with it)
~Pompeii's EFP gets ripped out with the event building re-purposed for a indoor ride.  My "concept" would be a "Revenge of the Mummy" clone called "Fires of Pompeii".  Use the outdoor area for a flat or two.  Mini Launch (for kids) tower, and another small flat (something that swings and spins?)
~Re-name Tempeto for another Roman god.  Make that entire area Rome, theme it all as "inside the SPQR".
~Re-do San Marco area as Italian Wine Country.
~France needs some things around the show and Griffin to bring some interest.  Bring back a car ride and name is "San Monico" for the big F1 Race held in south France.
~In Germany would be a total redo of DarKastle.  I would re-do the entire ride to make it a journey into the brothers Grimm stories.  They mostly take place in Germany.  A ride where you are going into the forest (yes I know Verbolton uses it as well) with little red, encounters with Hansel and Grethel, rumpelstiltskin, rapunzel.  The DarKastle doesn't really entirely fit Germany.  Fairy tales come to life would fit more in with Germany.  Bump Alpengeist to be French Alps, and add some other small ride to make it work.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but DarKastle is set in Bavaria, not Germany. And with Alpengeist, Rhinefeld is, according to multiple sources, "themed to a runaway ski resort in the German Alps". Despite this,(correct me if I'm wrong), we don't really get any indication of this until we get nearer to Alpengeist, when fake snow and stuff shows up. My idea is to put more alpine stuff in the shops(e.g. fake snow on the windows and so on) and retheme one of the souvineer shops to a sort of ski equipment shop, and sell your typical souvineers while also having ski equipment on the walls and sokme sort of area telling the legend of the "Ghost of the Alps". You could also retheme Land of the Dragons into a sort of alpine area of sorts. Turn the big treehouse into a mountain complete with rock climbing walls, small caves and so on, and instead of the fountains you have mountain streams and so on(probably unrealistic tho).
 
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