Project 2022: Pantheon

[halfabee]

RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?

This is just playing devil's advocate on smallest plausible (smallest, for a tall ride that is) attraction?  i.e. not based on any new or specific info that make you think this scenario is likely, right?

That's exactly right. I'm just trying to pare it down to the minimum possible set of improvements given what little we know, to see what that yields.

I wondered whether the pipeline has seen any relatively recent (post-9/11) restrictions placed on what can cross it, and where. Like, perhaps, large buried electrical. ...With the older infrastructure grandfathered in. What might that impact?

And the answer was that any substantial attraction in the pasture area would likely need to get power from far away. Maybe from a source that has big power available, but isn't using it right now. Like Festa Field.

Who knows.

 

[phurst]

RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?

Any chance this is not even an attraction, but something utilitarian? A cell tower or something similar?

 

[horsesboy]

RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?

Any chance this is not even an attraction, but something utilitarian? A cell tower or something similar?

Almost zero at that height and the waiver request list it as an attraction so there would have to be sn error there.

 

[Haberdasher1973]

RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?

That's spelled correctly, so it's automatically out of consideration. Maybe CONQUISTADR.

Though the Conquistadors were technically FROM Spain and Portugal, not IN Spain.

FROM/IN... as if that matters to the park that brought us Vikings vs. French trappers...

So ConquistaDR, ToreaDR, BullFightR... any I'm missing?

 

[Mushroom]

RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?

Any chance this is not even an attraction, but something utilitarian? A cell tower or something similar?

Pretty sure Festa got one of those in 2015.

 

[Unagi]

RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?

Any chance this is not even an attraction, but something utilitarian? A cell tower or something similar?

As Zachary pointed out on the first page of this thread, the filing clearly states that it is for an attraction.

 

[horsesboy]

RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?

Any chance this is not even an attraction, but something utilitarian? A cell tower or something similar?

Pretty sure Festa got one of those in 2015.

No that was a landscaping prodject. That is just a deceptive metal modern art piece sticking out there.

 

[wombat96]

RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?

Public Hearings start at 7!

Also, I'm banking on the name being CrusadR! Reclaim the holy land this spring on Busch Gardens tallest, fastest, and longest coaster!

This is satire for anyone who garners offense, I can already feel a few Dear VA. Gazette posts...

 

[cdchen83]

RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?

Public Hearings start at 7!

Also, I'm banking on the name being CrusadR! Reclaim the holy land this spring on Busch Gardens tallest, fastest, and longest coaster!

This is satire for anyone who garners offense, I can already feel a few Dear VA. Gazette posts...

i didn't get the live stream going till about 10/15 min ago. and I see the are talking redistricting resolution. I noticed thats at the bottom of the list. Did i miss anything substantial?

 

[Thomas]

RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?

I'm at the meeting now. Larry, David, and Suzy are here.

 

[cdchen83]

RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?

I'm at the meeting now. Larry, David, and Suzy are here.

Very nice. Thank you for the response. Got the live stream going.

 

[warfelg]

RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?

Blah....this is one thing about working local government I DO NOT miss at all. I had to sit in all these meetings as the "township" representative to advise the board. 99% of what they talk about has little need for the actual employee.

 

[Thomas]

RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?

It seems Kingsmill has no problem with it and the park has spoken in more detail about the project with the board members in private.

 

[newsie]

RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?

Height waiver is approved.

 

[horsesboy]

RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?

Its approved no new details

 

[cdchen83]

RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?

well. that was tight lipped to say the least. lol.

 

[warfelg]

RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?

Well that was a little boring unless you really want to parse their words to find meaning.

 

[Ghost]

RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?

Well, based on Mr. McGlennon's comments about being excited for this project, but wanting more "indoor, less thrilling, less tall" rides in the future, I think that at least eliminates the possibility of this being an observation tower and maybe even a Star Flyer, depending on how he defines "thrilling".

 

[AlpenChariot]

RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?

Well, based on Mr. McGlennon's comments about being excited for this project, but wanting more "indoor, less thrilling, less tall" rides in the future, I think that at least eliminates the possibility of this being an observation tower and maybe even a Star Flyer, depending on how he defines "thrilling".

Obviously he hasn't been paying too much attention to VR coming to Europe in the Air

 

[thopping]

RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?

So far I'm hearing nothing new that we don't know already. The project is being labled as Busch Gardens Madrid on the screen, however.

Height waver has been approved!

My take-away exactly.

All I got, was whatever it is, is a "new" attraction that some on the board were excited about. Whether "new" means literally that, a "new" attraction, or a "new" type of a attraction, I have no idea. Too little to go on. Even a new type of coaster could fit the latter interpretation though.

Everything else, as you say, we already know. Pretty much a summary of the staff report, references to offline conversations, references to a public meeting at Kingsmill, and some vague reactions from the board based on having been assumingly read-in on the project.

I did get a feeling it's all outdoor, so no Verbolten-type show building, but I wasn't expecting otherwise.

And it's not overly noisy, at least compared to a concert that Kingsmill is more concerned with, so that's not saying much.

Well, based on Mr. McGlennon's comments about being excited for this project, but wanting more "indoor, less thrilling, less tall" rides in the future, I think that at least eliminates the possibility of this being an observation tower and maybe even a Star Flyer, depending on how he defines "thrilling".

...and that. May be wishful thinking, but I wouldn't characterize a Star Flyer as very thrilling. That gentleman may have...but from his reaction I got the sense it may be something more than a tower with people dangling from it.