The Google street view for the park is incredibly outdated, The Crypt, Volcano, Shockwave, Hurler, and the old tornado slide in SC. I’d say it’s from about 2015
Google Street View in Amusement Parks
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The Apple Maps satellite view is up to date and appears to have been taken late spring or early summer.
Interestingly the satellite picture is from the construction of Tumbili so Winter 2021/2202.
The majority of parks have outdated street views – Magic Kingdom is from 2016, Cedar Point is from 2011 and BGW goes all the way back to June 2009.
Yeah those you just kinda take what ya get for in park street view. I’m not sure how much google prioritizes those (they don’t most likely) and how much the parks want their whole park shown off in that fashion or to let a google car drive around the park.
The issue (having been an intern for MapQuest in early early days of street views) for things like this is the access. Most private companies don’t want you on their property because of behind the scenes stuff you may capture.
I renamed and moved the thread to broaden it out to Google Street View in amusement parks broadly. I'd love to know how we could get Street View added to more parks and have Street View updated in the parks that were on the bandwagon early. Possibly something worth exploring.
You can tag all pictures you take on Google and allow it to be searchable. Those dots you see when in street view are personal photos that have been stitched together.
Ok, I found a good one, but just a word of warning: this might make some of you feel a bit old
Nickelodeons downfall is so sad. Gave up too easily on good concepts. I think it’s Hulu that has a great Doc on that.
The BGW street view is awesome. I haven't worked at there since June 2009, yet I can still go back and look at myself operating Roman Rapids, staring right at that camera- which was just a guy on a bicycle pulling the camera rig.
SWSA's street view goes back to June 2009.
Here is Great White's original entrance:
Originally the queue went into a shark aquarium that was in the circular building. The shark aquarium was later removed and is now used as event space. When it is used for haunted house space during HOS, the original indoor queue is used, and you can still see where the aquarium viewing windows were.
Here is Great White's original entrance:
Originally the queue went into a shark aquarium that was in the circular building. The shark aquarium was later removed and is now used as event space. When it is used for haunted house space during HOS, the original indoor queue is used, and you can still see where the aquarium viewing windows were.