RE: Project 2015: Premier Rides Coaster for Festa Italia
Nice to be able to discuss this finally... [exhales]
I had hoped for some angle, experience, customized feature, or other gimmick to set this copy of the ride significantly apart from others elsewhere. Not to be, it seems.
Part of me wants to say this is BGW's answer to Scorpion, just 35 years later and with notably lower capacity. But aside from the general notion of a small steel production model coaster with a lot of action packed into a very compact footprint, there aren't a lot of similarities between the two.
I know nothing about what other work might accompany the addition of this ride. Fingers crossed for some kind of refresh of Festa Italia...? Or at least the part of it within the viewshed of this ride? Might be hard to do while taking down so many trees. Do I give up on this hope?
I will say that Premier has a winner in this ride, in the sense that it really is a lot of fun. Others will serviceably point out the shortcomings associated with putting it in a high-traffic area of a park that gets roughly 3M visitors per year, so I'll just stop here. But once you're on the thing, it is definitely an entertaining and repeatable experience (insert your complaint about queue length here). :angel:
