Seriously, make it a Scandinavian country and be done with it. New France has never made sense to me as an original decision. If they wanted rustic and log-cabinish and lumberjacky, they didn't have to go all the way to Canada for it. Not nearly.
To temporarily be realistic about changing up New France's identity, even if it would un-bork InvadR's theme... I don't imagine the ROI being particularly attractive, and the area is already pretty full, save for that isolated spot that was going to be the storage building, making it hard to imagine how to fully complement a hamlet retheme with a new Shiny Big Thing or two. But in an alternate universe where A-B got serious early about acquisitions and became an international leviathan instead of being swallowed up by one, I'd wish hard for a Norway or Sweden or Finland to happen.
A semi-friend with strong connections to the park in the halcyon years told me about a ride manufacturer who, during the bobsled era, pushed for the park to install a 'sled in the New France area as part of a Switzerland hamlet concept. That particular ride system seems like a rather stupid product to hawk to BGW, given what was installed right up the road in 1988. And I wouldn't give the story a sliver of credibility -- but for the person who related it, whose demonstrated knowledge and history of accuracy makes the tale all but impossible to dismiss.
I'm doing that thing where I mention someone and then don't identify them. Candidly, everyone hates this, including me. I think this is the first time I have ever resorted to it, so call this one a freebie and I'll aim for another handful of years of not this.
