Project 2022: Pantheon
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Brambo
Cyberdyne Systems Software Engineer
Case and point: My friends that go to the park maybe once a year like Tempesto the most...
I've thought this too, however, the first x amount of rides for me is always exciting, regardless of what I know about the ride. Take Verbolten for instance. I knew every dirty secret that ride had to offer, thanks to @Zachary, but it still took about 15 ish rides before I stopped getting butterflies during the first turns. Compare that to Griffon, where I had seen the POV, but barely knew anything else and that feeling went away after 4 rides. Part of that is ride design, to which I'll say that I've never been on an RMC that hasn't surprised me. Some of their elements just feel so... wrong... Now I haven’t been on a lot of them, but I knew what SteVe and Lightning Rod had in store did not compare to what even the track looked like from on the ground. Can't wait to get down to BGT for IG.
Wonder why they didn't have those on for previews the last two weekends. Not completed yet, or perhaps they didn't want to draw more attention to a ride only members could enjoy?
I like this because they're putting effort and resources into the ride but I don't like this at the same time because night rides in the pitch black were SO DAMN GOOD
Night rides are awesome until the damn camera flash obliterates your eyesight after the tophat.
Well I enjoyed my night rides while they lasted.
Seriously a night ride on this thing was BONKERS. The only part of the ride you could see on was when you were on the spike, the top of the tophat, and the brakes.
Last Friday was clear with the first quarter moon, and it was really awesome seeing that directly in front of the train as you went up the front side of the tophat both times. Hopefully the lighting is used selectively, because I love riding coasters in the dark (e.g. Apollo, Mako, Kumba).
I believe this is an auditable item...
Sure is! Wonder if they capitalized those lights into the cost of Pantheon? Would think it’s no longer considered “CIP” after 5 years…..
Hey, if they are waiting to turn the lights on for opening day, then maybe they are waiting to install theming for opening day too! 
Don't get your hopes upHey, if they are waiting to turn the lights on for opening day, then maybe they are waiting to install theming for opening day too!
This weekend is the passport to thrills event. So unless you have a ticket for that, no.
Oh yeah, thanks.This weekend is the passport to thrills event. So unless you have a ticket for that, no.
BTW, RIP Scott Hall
Regarding the dynamic of “seeing” a coaster before you ride it, I definitely think that it kind of works both ways. It’s fun when a ride is fully hidden, as it creates that sense of surprise: I really didn’t know what to expect with Hagrid’s at Universal, and the way that ride/queue are designed serves that really well.
But there’s a very specific adrenaline rush to having such an intense part of a ride so close to the station, and Pantheon achieves this with the top hat: even if they were to add some kind of soundtrack to the queue area, it would be drowned out by screams, and I have to imagine heart rates increase the longer folks are standing in its presence. And as noted, there’s enough dynamism to Pantheon’s layout that seeing it is not the same as really experiencing it, so I don’t think it’s a huge deal in this case even though I see the appeal of going in fully blind on something (which is definitely how normal people who aren’t on ParkFans experience most rides, and how I experienced Magic Mountain’s coaster lineup in 2009).
But there’s a very specific adrenaline rush to having such an intense part of a ride so close to the station, and Pantheon achieves this with the top hat: even if they were to add some kind of soundtrack to the queue area, it would be drowned out by screams, and I have to imagine heart rates increase the longer folks are standing in its presence. And as noted, there’s enough dynamism to Pantheon’s layout that seeing it is not the same as really experiencing it, so I don’t think it’s a huge deal in this case even though I see the appeal of going in fully blind on something (which is definitely how normal people who aren’t on ParkFans experience most rides, and how I experienced Magic Mountain’s coaster lineup in 2009).
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