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As I said...IF the rendering in the "leaked" slide were to be believed. And, IF that slide is factual, why no bullet point about height? It would be 75ft taller than Mach Tower.


Too many times?

What if the slide predates the height waiver. SEAS never said those slides were final or anything is factual. They just said yes we made those.
 
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What if the slide predates the height waiver. SEAS never said those slides were final or anything is factual. They just said yes we made those.
That's just my opinion. I recall people looking at the full release of slides and guessing they were from August-Sept. based on other parks and official announcements that came afterward. That period is after the waiver approval.

Again, it's just a guess/opinion like most of the posts in this thread. Tongue in cheek quoting Sgt. Hulka - "Lighten up, Francis". :)
 
That's just my opinion. I recall people looking at the full release of slides and guessing they were from August-Sept. based on other parks and official announcements that came afterward. That period is after the waiver approval.

Again, it's just a guess/opinion like most of the posts in this thread. Tongue in cheek quoting Sgt. Hulka - "Lighten up, Francis". :)

They were guessing because the picture was from Steel Vengence, which had been under construction for a year by then, which means that mock-up could have existed for 2-3 years before the public saw it.
 
Sorry not trying to be a stick in the mud or change your opinion, but there’s so much unknown about those slides other than SEAS saying that the sides were part of a presentation. Without any dates it’s hard to say.

I personally feel as though the cost of the height waivers, plus the FAA waiver not being rescinded makes it tougher to think the 315ft thing is something they moved on from. A spike shuttled launch sounds too much like Tempesto that I think the impact from it wouldn’t be big enough. And a multi launch low to the terrain coaster sounds too much like Bolt that I think the impact wouldn’t be that big either. That’s why I feel as though a traditional Giga could still very much be in the cards.
 
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Yeah if you file for 315 chances are you have intentions of building that high. Plans could not have changed that much from when the permit was filed since this was in development for years.
 
This was in the Virginia Gazette:

Busch Gardens gets permission for expansion in Italy section
Jack Jacobs
jojacobs@vagazette.com

Busch Gardens received permission to encroach on a resource protection area buffer in order to build an expansion to the Italy section of the park Wednesday.
Because of the scale of the proposed expansion, encroachment is considered unavoidable. The project is anticipated to permanently encroach on 2,961 square feet of the landward resource protection area buffer and 1,564 square feet of the seaward buffer, watershed planner Trevor Long said.

The present Chesapeake Bay Board members voted unanimously to approve the exemption. Board member William Apperson wasn’t present at the meeting. No county residents spoke during the public hearing held at the meeting.

The public notice for the application’s public hearing refers to the expansion as a building in the Italy section of the park. A Busch Gardens spokesman declined to comment further on the nature of the building.

It is proposed that 90 native trees and 90 native shrubs be planted to mitigate the effects of the project, according to a staff report.
Staff recommended the permit be approved pending the acquisition of necessary local, state and federal permits as well as a mitigation plan and $10,000 surety in a form the county attorney’s office finds acceptable. The permit is void if the project doesn’t start by Oct. 10, 2019, Long said.
David Gussman noted the proximity of the Colonial Pipeline to the project area, inquiring whether that would be taken into consideration as the construction is conducted.

“They’re very caution of their line and we are too,” said Suzy Cheely, Busch Garden's director of design and engineering.

The exemption follows a height wavier OK’d by the Board of Supervisors in June. That wavier allows Busch Gardens to construct an attraction not to exceed 115 feet above finished grade or not to exceed 155 feet above sea level. Busch Gardens was similarly quiet on the details of that project. The structure would be located in the Ireland section of the park near the Griffon roller coaster.
 
There are some problems with this article:

1. They confused the height waiver for Project Madrid with Finnegan’s Flyer. Project Madrid’s height waiver was for 315 ft, not 115; and it is is near neither Killarney nor Griffon.
2. The headline is simply false. They got approvals for encroachment into the Resource Protection Buffer Area. They have not yet gotten approval for the actual construction.
 
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