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Manufacturer
Intamin Amusement Rides

Model
LSM Launch Coaster

Hamlet
Festa Italia (Italy)

Opening Date
March 25th, 2022

Tallest Drop
180ft

Max Height
178ft

Top Speed
73mph

Inversion Count
2

Launches Advertised
4

Launch Segments
3

Launches Experienced
7

Riders Per Train
20

Number of Trains
2

Height Requirement
52–76in



Pantheon is an Intamin-made LSM Launch Coaster that debuted at Busch Gardens Williamsburg on March 25th, 2022.
 
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Other than a tagline to better define the ride:
I would redefine the parts of the coaster and what they relate to gods wise.

The opening can stay Minerva. She’s the goddess of wisdom arts, trade, victory, and strategy. So the opening should look like a beautiful garden.

Next the launch is Mercury and the spike is Neptune; just simplify this by making this whole section Mercury. I would put in a bunch of Roman columns evenly spaced because it will add to the sensation of speed. Off train audio of horses and stampeding.

The top hat is Jupiter. The first time up the spike I would have sound of rumbling thunder. Then as you go over a clap of lightning and Thunder as you go down.

Next the dive and outward bank should be Neptune, and given its down by the Rhine, I would want to see a water splash effect when you are at the bottom. Then up at the outturn bank a long arm of a kraken and speakers that scream as you go through.

As you go to the end that’s now themed to Pluto. Given he’s god of the dead, I would invoke those kind of legends by putting in a gate before the stall, and a sea of red plants, and the same at the other inversion with one last gate.

Leaving the queue for last here. I would make it look like a portal with a statue of Mercury, who was the god of tricksters. I would put something indicating that Mercury is opening a portal to the home of the gods. So the queue should look like a very exotic garden, with lots of grape vines, flowers, cypress trees, and Roman columns holding up shade screens.
You don’t need on-board audio when you have those screeching LSMs😎
 
Was able to walk on Pantheon (for a total of 4 rides) on Sunday night at CT. Really good rides. This coaster has grown on me, especially at night (dark, but also fun to attempt to see lights throughout the chaos).
 
Photo credit: Jonathan Jackson on Facebook, cinematic photo(s) he took. This picture shows a new track extension to the maintenance bay that appears to allow both trains to be in the maintenance bay simultaneously.
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kind of odd the track is black and white though…
 
2 cranes stationed on concrete pads inside the ride this week, I wonder what for?? It's too early for it to need a refurb, right? So my only thought is that maybe new theming elements (please)
 
Aside - but it amazes me when, with launch coasters, testing happens and a video goes out with a title like that. Of course it can go backwards. Other launch sections do it. It's simple programming of the polarity output.
“BACKWARDS LAUNCH?!” is also a hilarious thing to include in a clickbait thumbnail like that since Pantheon, you know, literally has a backwards launch during the ride.
 
I always think about how much that part messes with people that don’t follow this stuff like us. Some people probably think it’s broken for a moment then they’re getting blasted backwards. If you had limited to no experience with roller coasters that is a total mind fuck.
 
Could it be that maintenance was having it roll a little forward and backward a couple of times for testing, or the system was faulting each time it was trying to launch the train?
 
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Aside - but it amazes me when, with launch coasters, testing happens and a video goes out with a title like that. Of course it can go backwards. Other launch sections do it. It's simple programming of the polarity output.

They can actually shoot it backwards almost all the way to the station. I saw them do it on several occasions during opening year testing.

Could it be that maintenance was having it roll a little forward and backward a couple of times for testing, or the system was faulting each time it was trying to launch the train?

My guess is that it had something that caused the system to abort the first launch. It appears normal for them to rock it a little when restarting it on launch one. I don't thinknI have ever seen it launch from a stop.
 
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