Finnegan's Flyer
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But BGW never has any fire-related issues...
I would argue the lack of rides in Ireland vs flats in Italy led it to Ireland.
They looked at another spot in Italy, according to Suzy Cheely in an interview. I’m not sure where exactly as I’ve heard both facing the Rhine River and the ravine towards EFP and LNM were looked at specifically, not sure how truthful this is. I imagine part of the reason why Ireland was chose due to the lack of flats on the right side of the park as well as the similarities to The Battering Ram.
I kinda recall that. I'm just curious, because sometimes I get the feeling that some people want things, but don't want to change anything to get it. In a park like BGW that's very limiting. As I stated in the longer post though, I think FF's issue isn't so much where it is, but the lack of integration to where it is.
Like I'll be honest, despite all the land clearing that happened for InvadR, the fact that from the path you only really see the entry plaza and the lift, I kinda easily forget how many trees used to be back there. I feel like if they did more around FF like that to work it into Ireland's outward appearance (castle doors) a bit more, it would be easier to forget the trees that were there. But instead they cheeped out on it and it looks out of place (no arguing that). But, again as I pondered before, I'm curious how much of Bolt's "price tag" (that reported $50mil number that in no way was only the coster) was for the station redo, interior theme elements, and the broken bridge; because it feels like Bolts, shall we say less than warm reception, played into them massively cutting back on what they ended up doing to future projects from a budget on theme elements.
Bolt's on-ride theming was half-assed and the ride got a lukewarm reception based on the park going with a different manufacturer than Intamin for a much tamer version of a small blitz coaster that, while I believe is actually pretty fun, was overhyped as a more intense thrill ride by the park's marketing team.
So for the park to reduce theming on FF because they focused on the wrong priorities (assuming that's what it was and not some major technical issue that isn't visible to guests but took a huge chunk of the budget) on a different kind of ride in a different section of the park (that was part of a much larger overhaul to that section) that was constructed several years earlier just doesn't line up to me as much as they were probably limited in budget and were racing to get the swingset built and open before the summer season was in full swing/they miss major incremental revenue from promoting something new.
So for the park to reduce theming on FF because they focused on the wrong priorities (assuming that's what it was and not some major technical issue that isn't visible to guests but took a huge chunk of the budget) on a different kind of ride in a different section of the park (that was part of a much larger overhaul to that section) that was constructed several years earlier just doesn't line up to me as much as they were probably limited in budget and were racing to get the swingset built and open before the summer season was in full swing/they miss major incremental revenue from promoting something new.
There was also Tempesto, InvadR, now incoming Pantheon. I’m not saying is because of Verbolten, but the fact of the matter is that was the last heavily themed ride, and since then they’ve generally been stripping theming and cutting back on it.
Not sure of the exact timeline, but something tells me that the cap ex was there at the time for the fledgling company to invest heavily in one of the flagship parks - now they were just getting back to the cap ex starting last year, but it seems to be less per park so they could spread it around instead of dumping most of it in one place.
However, as had been mentioned several times - there's still a decent amount of things they can still do for a really small amount of money to better integrate the ride with it's surroundings - they could keep the rock pile but make it actually look like castle ruins (throw a bunch of broken paving stones on the current pile) and encourage some plant growth to make the ruins look kind of old.
They could set up a few removable posts holding up a scrim wall in front of the basement so that while it won't enclose the structure it will hide the guts of the ride. Or, they could do a paint job, stick some mechanical looking props down there (out of the way of the actual equipment), and run some theatrical lighting to make it more convincing.
Neither would be more than a few thousand I'd guess, so quite within reach assuming they'll have any money at all on the other end of the pandemic crisis.
However, as had been mentioned several times - there's still a decent amount of things they can still do for a really small amount of money to better integrate the ride with it's surroundings - they could keep the rock pile but make it actually look like castle ruins (throw a bunch of broken paving stones on the current pile) and encourage some plant growth to make the ruins look kind of old.
They could set up a few removable posts holding up a scrim wall in front of the basement so that while it won't enclose the structure it will hide the guts of the ride. Or, they could do a paint job, stick some mechanical looking props down there (out of the way of the actual equipment), and run some theatrical lighting to make it more convincing.
Neither would be more than a few thousand I'd guess, so quite within reach assuming they'll have any money at all on the other end of the pandemic crisis.
Where did BGW get the picture on the back of their printed tickets from?
The footrest does not look like that on Finnegan's or any of the other S&S Screaming Swings I looked at.
Seems to be a lot of trouble to create this from scratch for the picture when it would be easier to photoshop one of their existing models.
The footrest does not look like that on Finnegan's or any of the other S&S Screaming Swings I looked at.
Seems to be a lot of trouble to create this from scratch for the picture when it would be easier to photoshop one of their existing models.
The simple answer is BGW didn't create the picture. The ride manufacturer created the picture as part of the FF concept art. Essentially a mockup of what it would approximately look like.
They actually just got new passes with pantheon on then anyway, so you won't be seeing the FF ones around anymore. But yeah it doesn't really make sense why they made it like that
That is quite possible, but I would expect them to pull their CAD data for that. Weird that they would have a different design in there when all the swings they build use the current footrest.
I mean considering that there are no restraints on the ticket image are we really concerned about the foot rest?
