Da Vinci's Cradle

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Manufacturer
Zierer

Model
Flying Carpet

Hamlet
San Marco (Italy)

Debut
1983

Closure
2022

Riders Per Cycle
40



Da Vinci's Cradle was a Zierer Flying Carpet flat ride located in the Da Vinci's Garden of Inventions area of Busch Gardens Williamsburg's San Marco hamlet. It debuted in 1983. After an extended closure, Busch Gardens Williamsburg announced on April 26, 2022 that Da Vinci's Cradle would be removed. Its final operating day is unknown.


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Thomas said:
Hopefully they remove this ride and move the Pantheon entrance.
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This is an interesting thought. Would make a ton of sense with it but at the same time there’s the backstage roads the cause problems. But it would be good for the overall flow to have Pantheon be part of the garden area. I would counter overall that a path back there form here would be nice, but to do it as an “in addition” rather than “as opposed to”.
 
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I was talking to one of the employees yesterday that was taking pictures of the site. I asked if they have any plans and the answer was not at this time but the person did suggest that they (personally) would like to put some type of animal display in that area. I thought that was a pretty good idea as opposed to another flat ride or more likely a beer stand.
 
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rollercoastercoaster said:
Did we ever find out why this actually closed? I don't think the park gave a reason
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It needed an extensive rebuild do to age that would have required lots of part replacements. Unfortunately no one currently supports that model ride any longer so everything would have had to be custom made and the cost was just to high to justify fir such a small ride.
 
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I have a fun memory of this ride to share. This kid had won one of those huge stuffed pikachu's from the arcade, the ones that are like 2 feet wide. He was holding it and dropped it right as the cradle went for it's full rotation. The air movement sucked the pikachu into the "runway" of the ride and when the cradle came down, it vaporized the pikachu and brought the stuffing with it on the upswing, making it snow in mid july!
 
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