The list of themed spiels at the end of the document takes me back...
Curse of DarKastle
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Note how the minimum staffing went from 7 to 5 team members between 2015 and 2016.
So depressing reading that manual knowing the ride is gone and destroyed
I'm not sure if this is the appropriate forum to say this... but...
Anyone else incredibly frustrated BGW is adding a coaster in 2021 before opening a Replacement to Darkastle?
Anyone else incredibly frustrated BGW is adding a coaster in 2021 before opening a Replacement to Darkastle?
I’ve always viewed BfE as a replacement for Europe in the Air. It is essentially the next generation motion simulator. CoDK was a ride-through dark ride, which in my opinion, is completely different in kind.
I'm not sure the park management sees them as so different, besides one being much cheaper and easier to run.
I have heard that the Justice Leagues fell well short of attendance boost projections too, there may simply not be much of a reality for that type of ride in regional parks.
I have heard that the Justice Leagues fell well short of attendance boost projections too, there may simply not be much of a reality for that type of ride in regional parks.
I don't know that this has been confirmed anywhere yet, but the fleet of sleighs have been removed from DarKastle sometime over the last nine months or so. Something tells me we may not ever see them again in Williamsburg... ?
I can confirm that they were removed around the middle of August. I was sent a picture by a friend of mine of the cars being removed on August 20th. I'm not going to share the picture at this time because it isn't mine to share and I'm not going to attempt to get anyone in trouble.
Those vehicles are not at all obsolete based solely on them being tracked. Though trackless is the latest and greatest, there are more rides being built on the good ol tracked system out of Oceaneering. Tracked allows for a far greater range of motion. Now the modern tracked cars are much more advanced than the old CoDK pneumatic ones, but that doesn't mean they are obsolete. They would still be perfectly usable for a new iteration of a ride.
That being said, them discarding the old cars should entirely show BGW has no intentions of ever bringing back a dark ride in that style.
That being said, them discarding the old cars should entirely show BGW has no intentions of ever bringing back a dark ride in that style.
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Hopfully they realized that if the did try to build a new ride and use old ride vehicles to try and make something ground brealking it wouldnt work. BfE is a great example. Its been done and people want something new, they know whats out there now and they want that. Its like taking a 2000 car and painting it and making it brand new then asking someone would you rather ride in that or a 2019 vehicle with todays technology.
In my mind if done right, a ride like that should be a good capacity machine - especially good for guests who want to do something other than sit in the Festhaus to cool off on a hot day. That they don't have any known plans to repurpose the building for rides at the moment doesn't mean it couldn't happen.
Dumb question though - it's not likely or possible that the park could sneak in renovation to existing structure while filing for other permits for other attractions or general improvements?
Dumb question though - it's not likely or possible that the park could sneak in renovation to existing structure while filing for other permits for other attractions or general improvements?
Do you mean like filing for permits in Festhaus park but building a attraction inside DK? No, they would need very specific permits for something like that. I really think they have found their purpose for that building. If you consider HOS and CT one of their larger money makers and the fact they can leave those sets up year round saving that cash in building them out every year I dont see them changing it any time soon.
Fair enough - I was thinking more in terms of if they needed some kind of permits to modify pathways, rebuild older queue structures, etc and filed renovation permits in with a stack of the others - assuming for what little I know there'd be plans available for the county to look as part of the process for each thing but none would be considered new construction so there wouldn't need to be as much scrutiny as a new attraction such as Pantheon or the FP attraction would require.
It may be a cost saver to not have an attraction in there year round and use it for HOS and CT, but I still don't see how they couldn't use some of their 5-year cap ex budget to help move the needle for another filler ride in that space while working towards a large attraction or other large guest-facing project (hamlet refresh, etc).
It may be a cost saver to not have an attraction in there year round and use it for HOS and CT, but I still don't see how they couldn't use some of their 5-year cap ex budget to help move the needle for another filler ride in that space while working towards a large attraction or other large guest-facing project (hamlet refresh, etc).
Right - but in terms of building modification we agree there likely wouldn't be much assuming they keep the castle as is and don't expand or otherwise modify the shell. So minor permitting required might have documentation that could theoretically be submitted alongside other items requiring minor permitting.
Though your answer to that is that's not going to happen that way if they do put an attraction in that space.
Though your answer to that is that's not going to happen that way if they do put an attraction in that space.