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Pretzel Kaiser said:
ACTUALLY, maybe not.

During the food and wine fest, the park will be doing some grape stomping demonstrations.
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Doubt they'd do it there. Would create a big bottlenck. Could see them moving them though to some other location.
 
Who else noticed that Apollo's did not get paint, because it is still that faded purple color? Plus I rode in the front row and still saw some rust, so I don't think they painted it.
 
Pretzel Kaiser said:
During the food and wine fest, the park will be doing some grape stomping demonstrations.
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Actually they stated that guests would get to stomp grapes as well. I can't help but think this will end terribly.

Cedarva said:
Sounds like you all had a decently great time meeting each other and random fun at the park today .. minus the coaster issues, of course! Wish I coulda been there .. sigh .. but there's always another day in the future sometime, right? :0)
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Yes- one day this will happen. It must.
 
Anyone else see the performers in Ireland? Thought that was cool and they were giving out Busch Gardens bracelets too!

Zachary said:
Pretzel Kaiser said:
During the food and wine fest, the park will be doing some grape stomping demonstrations.
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Actually they stated that guests would get to stomp grapes as well. I can't help but think this will end terribly.
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Right there with you. Stained clothes and angry parents. Why, just why would they let the public do it!
 
Most of y'all covered everything, but I had a great day. Nice weather, food was good (as always) and I thought the new sign where you pay for parking looked nice. As well as the water fall, and the "bright green" BG sign wasn't that bad in person ;)
 
I also left the park a little dissatisfied with the amount of downtime today, but I think I have a little more insight into the hold up at Apollo's Chariot.
I was the first person in line this morning, and walked into the queue only to observe a mantinence man grinding down the paint on the harness releases. Listening to him talking, it sounded like they painted these only yesterday, thus not testing the ride with the newly painted parts until this morning....I then observed more mantinence come in and inspect each harness system (even taking apart one which I was fascinated to watch). I then left the line and it became operational about an hour and a half later. I just can't believe they really did this only yesterday and did not expect to test it.
 
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So there is some truth the rumors we heard this morning. I was skeptical. We heard someone painted over the ride's sensors, which seemed really odd to me.
 
Campbell is one of the few decent people from TPR. If it was Alvey I would've asked you if you threw a funnel cake in his face.
 
As far as ride downtime went on Saturday:

Apollo, Griffon, and Alpie were down for the majority of the day

Nessie: Open all day

Verbolten: had a delayed opening due to "technical difficulties," but ran very smoothly for the rest of the day...until 5:55 when they experienced more "technical difficulties." The ops let all the guests remain in line, and the ride soon opened back up around 6:15-ish. It was kind of nice to see that it was up while the others were down. Especially after last year. Sunday it only had one minor issue, not sure what though. Ran fine the rest of the day.

Mach Tower and Flume: down all weekend. Ops said that they hope to have them up "soon."

And of course all of the minor rides were working fine all day.
 
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