RE: Festa Italia Renovation/Retheme?
Leave The rides in Festa Italia as is, Remove Roman Rapids. It's the best option. It takes up SO MUCH space... Looks to be just about as much as festa italia itself... They could install a Huss Land of Giants, themed to the 4 of the Titans. Huss has a new family ride that can get riders plenty wet called Delirium as a replacement for roman rapids. Best of all the water features can be turned off in winter months, but the ride could still operate.
All of Huss's flats are highly customizable. Just look at what Kings Dominion did With tomb raider, and imagine the concept picture themed to Neptune?
A ride with fire Themed to Vulcan. Possibly one of the giant "Jump2" With an impressive show for spectators...
Maybe a Huss "Fly Away" Themed to Icarus
And Finally A giant Huss Frisbee themed to the Anemoi. Edit: Upon a quick google search I found that there are none of the largest model in existence... So it has the potential to break a world record.
It would a very visually impressive addition to the land, as these rides are HUGE (I believe one of the models of the Giant Frisbee stands at over 110ft, then the gondola would reach well over 150 feet in the air...) , They are all highly customizable. They all have a great hourly capacity which would mean that area would be constantly flowing. They would Expand the area greatly, And give thrill seekers something to do other than the parks 5 rollercoasters, plus mach tower... Delerium is more of a family ride But it would fill the "I want to get wet" spot, left behind by roman rapids.
The base price of the 3 or 4 rides would end up Just over the cost of one giant thrill coaster (and far beneath what they announced for verbolten), and they could renovate and revamp Festa Italia the way they did Oktoberfest. Plus the marketability of Giant huge rides no park in Virginia has that shoot fire and water at you and look absolutely insane? It's a win win. The only ride that May have any sort of reliabilty problems is the delirium ride, but the concept of the ride, minus the water fountains/show is not new.