Project 2015: Tempesto

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I don't think I could honestly rule out any opening time for Tempesto. With how crazy the park has been on the announcement of this coaster in the first place, a March announcement and an Early-spring opening would not suprise me at all. But even if the park does follow through with the original construction schedule where they stop work until sometime in the spring I don't think we could even rule out an Early-May, or Late April opening. But considering they had already started construction on the photo-booth, and queue before CT even ended, something tells me they might still be working on structures throughout the winter. But who knows, I guess we'll just have to wait and see in March.
 
I wonder if the announcement will give any rhyme or reason to not announcing it? Could there be a logical explanation for 'not marketing your new ride'? (the beaten, but not quite dead yet horse, has raised an eyebrow)
 
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I was really confused by the lack of announcement until the massive layoff occurred and then it made perfect sense. They probably knew layoffs were coming and didn't want to announce the new ride just to have to follow it up a few weeks later with "...oh...and..uh...sorry but we are laying off 30+ employees..." Can you imagine how the papers would have spinned that?

By the time they announce the new ride in March, most people will have forgotten the layoffs and the announcement won't be tainted.
 
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Probably since 2015 is the 40th Anniversary year, they want to let the Anniversary year celebration take center stage and the new ride will just ride along. And besides, it is a pretty good marketing technique. The park is getting a lot of free publicity about this ride and it hasn't even announced it yet.
 
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I'm sticking with them not making any announcement until they know the ride is working properly to avoid another fiasco.
 
Remember back when Griffon was built, Sheikra (at BGT) had non-floorless trains and a regular loading station. However, we found out thereafter that BGT built Sheikra station with a possible future conversion to floorless trains in mind. At the time of Sheikra being built, floorless dive coaster trains had yet to be tested (or likely developed). With that train of thought, could BGW potentially do the same thing and wait for Bosque Magico's version to open and see how it runs before committing to this type of technology in the station. I could definitely imagine there being some concerns with trying to be the first to implement a dual loading (sliding) station on a continuous circuit launched coaster, with forwards and backwards launching across that portion of track. Further, it could be that the ride would cost more to implement that station design. I'd think Bosque Magico would've had to foot the bill of the design and development of a station capable of handling forwards and backwards launches across it at high speeds. If there were two of these ride models with dual-load stations being built, the design/development costs may have been shared between the two parks. Given the delicate financial situation, I could see them bowing out of that risk. If BGW waits a season, the design may be completed and fully tested and they would be able to order with more confidence.

Long story short, I could see BGW intentionally waiting (with a dual station in mind) to see how it works out first and then implementing some sort of retro-commissioning mods..... Wishful thinking but it has been done before. Further, it could turn out that the ride's first season that BGW is fully satisfied with the capacity of the ride as is (meaning, it could exceed their expectations) and thus lead them to not even worry about making any modifications.
 
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I'm not sure if demolishing the station for a completely different setup is a good idea for a company that's already in financial trouble. Its not like Sheikra or Mantis where all you'd need to do is just replace the trains, add the mechanisms underneath the staiton, and replace the floors. The ride in Mexico loads similar to the two Freeze clones which means you'd have to have a bigger station in the first place so you'd have to replace the entire station.

Animator said:
I'm sticking with them not making any announcement until they know the ride is working properly to avoid another fiasco.
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Except this isn't a prototype like Mach or Verbolten. It's already working well in two other parks. Any bugs/kinks in the system would've been fixed by now. There's no reason to wait for an announcement in that case.

I feel the announcement is held off partly because of the coaster's low capacity. Park doesn't want crazy lines for the ride like Volcano. Of course its bound to happen anyway because its the new ride and it sticks out like crazy but still. I'm sure other reasons like the layoffs also contributed to the park pushing the announcement back.
 
The sheer fact that they have little if not no existence of a marketing team is most likely why no announcement about the ride has been made in 2014.

Either way about the dual loading station, BGW definitely could've pulled it off with the limited space for the ride area. I think the factors between the two set up's maintenance and minimum staffing for the ride (along with the fact that there's basically no improvement in capacity) shows why BGW went with 1 train and 1 station instead of 2. Overall cost.
 
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The sheer fact that they have little if not no existence of a marketing team is most likely why no announcement about the ride has been made in 2014.
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They didn't give Marketing layoffs until near the end of December when the track was very clearly visible and seeming halfway done. They could have started advertising it starting at the beginning of Christmas Town like how they advertised Verbolten the Christmas Town prior to it's opening.

I don't think the layoffs had a physical impact on the advertising, but more or less the idea of laying off so many people while adding a new ride.
 
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Marketing was not doing a close to reasonable job before they were laid off. There is no reason to believe that any of these miscues are nothing more than errors on their part. I think we give the park for more credit then it is due be assuming they have or are planning anything. For many years everything they have done has been reactionary. Look how poorly they marketed Bolt and for that matter LR.
 
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I wonder, with all our attention being dragged up, could this be a clever distraction to a refurb/retheming of Festa? Just a spitball here, but, maybe its a surprise development? Is that even possible?
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Even if they could hide a retheme, I doubt they have the money.  They are making huge cuts right now.  Hardly the time to decide to redo a hamlet, regardless of how much it may need the work.

That said, I wonder how much the theming for the the ride itself will spill out into the surrounding area?  The daredevil/bike thingy doesn't really mesh well with the current Roman gods/Marco Polo/etc.
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Just gives us plywood,paint,maybe some mesh wiring cagings and monster mud(A thing used to make rock or fake trees for halloween and whatnot) We can make it for cheap!
 
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