I hope she gets some work done over the winter. She was starting to look pretty rough.
DarKoaster
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I believe I read that the lighting company that made the effects went bankrupt
Why would that affect anything? Stuff doesnt just break when a company goes out of business (unless it relies on constant connection via the internet). Also, there are a bajillion special effect/themeing companies out there, irregardless of the fact that they use industry standard parts which BGW Entertainment is no doubt familiar with. The real reason is something probably broke and it was easier (and cheaper) to un-sequence the lights than to replace it.
That’s a real bummer that the lights don’t turn on in sequence anymore. That was always one of the coolest things about DarKoaster IMO. I’ve ridden it dozens of times and that last purple phantom (the one that lights up on a bit of a delay and on the other side of the tracks from the others) still gives me a little jumpscare sometimes.
this is the moment where I say this, they would have made this a indoor wild mouse instead (after all, the space for it was a wild mouse), all they have to do is to rise the warehouse building up including the ceiling/roof and give it a castle theme
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Wild Maus (and Glissade) was way smaller than the footprint for DarKastle. Besides a dark ride, the type of ride and track layout that exists in the building is perfect for it. I will always hate the trains but that's just me. The theming is crap. They'd be better off just turning it all off and having it be pitch black if it's not going to work as intended. I feel the same way about Lochness but that's irrelevant I suppose.
I said it when we learned what this was, the best way to to do the two loop is on the first loop to have it dark with rare theme elements, and on loop two have black light illuminated theme elements that come on and offer a faint glow on your lap bot offer a new visual for while you go through.
Yep, the correct approach has been obvious to everyone from the moment the track layout leaked—use lighting, projection, and audio to make the first and second lap feel distinct from one another—a simple, obvious approach that was somehow never executed.
DarKoaster, more than any other attraction I can point to at BGW, feels like the one that got away. The potential on paper for the attraction was so incredibly high—an innovative, fully-indoor, story-driven coaster based on a beloved original park IP with an amazing, existing queue and facade to work with in a building designed to house a world-class dark ride. The potential, if United Parks had been willing to follow through with it, was truly immense. The execution we got was laughably poor.
DarKoaster, more than any other attraction I can point to at BGW, feels like the one that got away. The potential on paper for the attraction was so incredibly high—an innovative, fully-indoor, story-driven coaster based on a beloved original park IP with an amazing, existing queue and facade to work with in a building designed to house a world-class dark ride. The potential, if United Parks had been willing to follow through with it, was truly immense. The execution we got was laughably poor.
Totally agree with this take. So much potential for a great ride, yet it seems like the story, presentation, and thematic elements were just thrown together in a rush. Even after DarKoaster’s opening, they could’ve further developed the lore and filled in the gaps, but they instead decided to just move along and assume the majority of people won’t care. To this day, it just feels like an incomplete and disappointing project.
I’m sorry but there is no excuse they can’t someone come in and fix this issue and Lochness as well.
Money is usually a pretty good excuse. Especially money that is ill invested. There would be no profitable return on changing something around when the end result would be fundamentally the same as it is now.
The problem was horrible planning and execution from the beginning. When capital projects start, they kinda have unlimited budget. That's when things need to happen.
Just an update, whatever was going on with the lighting is fixed. The ride was working normally last night.