Project 2026: "Things"
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My guess is Burgermeister’s Hideaway will be rethemed to Love Island’s Hideaway in an attempt to stay relevant while committing to the park’s Old World roots (Love Island started in the UK after all). New event: Summer of Love?!?!
Project 2026 could just as easily just be general stuff like thematic enhancements, upgraded food offerings, new shows, etc. most of which wouldn’t require permits to do site clearing. The only thing we know is up for chance is Italian Le Mans
Projects like that are always interesting to me with the dualism of opinions they create. The “GP” generally doesn’t talk about them and it doesn’t pull them in but they love it.
“Thoosies” either plot this course of love it and needed or “it’s not what the people want”.
Personally I love it. I wanted to see something like this for a while where the park gets some love.
If the "Italian Le Mans" project falls (or has already fallen) through for 2026, I suspect we'll still see something listed here tackled next season. Still lots of energy behind some of these ideas internally.
If I had it my way I would have put LeMans raceway back where the proposed event building was behind the Royal Palace theater and in Italy have an extreme spinning coaster
I don't want another new coaster until like 2030
Intamin is just itching to give you another raunchy launchy.
Honestly would love them to fix things that have been wronged next year: verboten, pantheon, maybe some Darkoaster, Nessie tv fix
Don't think I've seen this mentioned here, but I wonder if it's possible we see something at WCUSA next year if the Le Mans 2.0 plans have fallen through/are delayed? I know in the past many of BGW's off-years/smaller years WCUSA will get something. Not too sure of the exact timeline of building a new waterslide, but seems like now is probably too late if they weren't already at least eyeing something. Maybe if they were looking at something for 2027 they could still have time to fast track it and have it ready for next season though?
Waterslides are often easier to manufacturer as they require less support columns than most attractions, and the more labor intensive work would be the pool it would need unless they do it a la Riptide Race where the splash pool is an above ground fiberglass piece. So it’s not out of the question for them to look into that.
WCUSA did just get splash island or whatever it's called, but water parks definitely need lots of capacity