This would be nice. I was planning on going on St Patricks day.
Project 2022: Pantheon
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That's 1 ride total for the pre-view period, not 1 ride per visit, correct?
Sounds like you will have to scan your pass at the front, get a card that says you can ride, then hand it to an attendant at the ride. Probably going to have a lot of people very angry over it. Also, qualified members who don't ride coasters (aka my mother) will probably start scalping their cards lol.
Not clear, but I would agree with @Zachary. It will be 1 ride during the preview period. However, we should look closely at how SWO handles Icebreaker previews because BGW will likely be the same.
Wonder if they will check the ticket against the membership. Otherwise this could definitely happen. I can absolutely see some of these YouTube thoosies paying $1-300 for an extra ticket just to get their video review out early as possible
I wonder what the window for riding will be on the dates, especially the 4th. Will it be all day, so the ride can warm up, or is it just going to be a couple hours?
At that point, it’d be cheaper to just buy another pass.
The Passport to Thrills promotion is kinda silly honestly. It's like a bonus single pantheon ride on top of your member preview single pantheon ride. Definitely not what I thought of when they were initially hyping it up.
Has anyone else's hype for the ride completely evaporated as a result of it being a floater for 2 years? Like in 2020 I was super excited, now I'm like ready to ride it but all hype as left the building. Wouldn't be shocked if it's just me. But hype for this has completely died in my mind, and the only "excitement" I have is to see what theming is used for DarKoaster.
Idk I'm pretty hyped. Not every day my favorite park gets a new rolly coasty
I think the problem is the 2.25 years of carrot on a stick where the ride is supposed to be open and it just isn’t. It’s hard to be super excited about anything for that long
It's funny that the marketing is saying ..
One of the most anticipated rides of 2022!
without mentioning ..
One of the most anticipated rides of 2021!
One of the most anticipated rides of 2020!
One of the most anticipated rides of 2022!
without mentioning ..
One of the most anticipated rides of 2021!
One of the most anticipated rides of 2020!
I mean I’m not gonna lie I certainly am ready for “waiting for Pantheon” to conclude. I feel like @Zachary first posted about it back in like 2017. Definitely by 2018. Like it’s not enjoyable at all to observe a corporation just withhold these new rides for an entire year for their shareholders after initially delaying them because of COVID.
At this point for me it’s just a let me know when it opens attitude. I actually am more hyped for KD’s ride. Not because Tumbili is even close to Pantheon in ride quality, but for the direction the park is taking and what that means for the overall experience.
I would really like to see BGW take a year and work on rehabbing the park experience and fix all the little things around events, food, and customer service, vice just throwing more coasters around the park.
If it's any consolation to those who are greatly annoyed by the ongoing Pantheon Marathon, consider that this entire languid end-to-end saga -- from the ditching of "Madrid" to the pandemic-induced delays of the past 2 years -- have collectively led the park to scrap one (IMO) bizarre and terribly ill-conceived ride concept, and then to at least postpone/reconsider a second concept which would have inefficiently gobbled up the last remaining large open plot of land within the current guest-facing footprint. ...With the second concept having a bit of the stink of "Well, what Big Thing can we quickly get in here" in the wake of chopping up that horrible first concept.
Now we have Pantheon, which I think is going to be pretty terrific, and the park folks have had a bit more time to ruminate on what Festhaus Park ought to contain in the near future. That's a major benefit, in my view, no matter what ultimately happens with the Drachen Spire plan. Plus, we are getting a much-needed family friendly and indoor attraction in the meantime, smartly checking two important boxes.
Now, maybe the family coaster would have happened a few years after "Madrid" anyway. But maybe not. "Madrid" was going to be very big and very expensive. And very stupid.
Given the "accidental" (actually heavily deliberated and carefully revisited) benefits to the park's attraction lineup that have been driven by 2-3 years of design rework and major delays, my vague annoyance over waiting for Pantheon is greatly tempered by the thought that this is, and will continue to be, a better park than we likely would have had otherwise. ...Even if absolutely everything, everywhere, has royally sucked in the meantime.
Two years is a lot shorter in the rear view mirror than it is the first time through.
Now we have Pantheon, which I think is going to be pretty terrific, and the park folks have had a bit more time to ruminate on what Festhaus Park ought to contain in the near future. That's a major benefit, in my view, no matter what ultimately happens with the Drachen Spire plan. Plus, we are getting a much-needed family friendly and indoor attraction in the meantime, smartly checking two important boxes.
Now, maybe the family coaster would have happened a few years after "Madrid" anyway. But maybe not. "Madrid" was going to be very big and very expensive. And very stupid.
Given the "accidental" (actually heavily deliberated and carefully revisited) benefits to the park's attraction lineup that have been driven by 2-3 years of design rework and major delays, my vague annoyance over waiting for Pantheon is greatly tempered by the thought that this is, and will continue to be, a better park than we likely would have had otherwise. ...Even if absolutely everything, everywhere, has royally sucked in the meantime.
Two years is a lot shorter in the rear view mirror than it is the first time through.
Brambo
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Sooo...the members that cancelled and get a one time ride get the exact same thing the current paying members get, except a few days later? Can anyone who signed up for that system confirm that? I understand doing one-time rides to limit lines...but seems that the current members should not get the exact same deal essentially that the cancelled ones do.
The cancelled members that get to go are the ones who bought a 2020 membership when Pantheon ERT was a big part of the marketing. They also had to register by a certain date to be eligible and will also need to buy a park ticket. My guess is that there is going to be almost none who take them up on the offer, but for legal reasons they had to offer it to them.
Just a small correction: It's my understanding that those people won't need to buy a ticket.
I'd love to touch base with someone who did take BGW up on the offer though to get information about their experience thus far. I sorta doubt anywhere here did though.
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