Weeeeeeelp it finally happened to me.
I'm scheduled to be in Virginia this Friday... until the 29th. Missing V:FT by one day.
I'm scheduled to be in Virginia this Friday... until the 29th. Missing V:FT by one day.
Project 2026: Verbolten: Forbidden Turn
- Thread starter Le Moose
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Don't lose hope in soft openings!
This, I imagine there will be atleast the week leading up to the date for sure.
The legendary JBL-28 speaker that was on the corner of the locker building pointing towards the bridge has been taken down after 14 years of service and has not broken once or had a blown tweeter. Busch gardens is pretty good at speaker placement through the park but for some reason that one spot before the bridge had horrible coverage with that one speaker covering the entire area and to compensate they cranked that specific speaker up to high levels. It has now been replaced with two JBL professional high outdoor speakers which fun fact is the exact model they put on the Loch Ness chain lifts and break runs post retheme so we’re looking at high clarity larger throw! The station speakers have also been gutted and replaced by these as well, which will be the first coaster in the park to abandon JBL-28’s in station which has been the consistent speaker use for the entire park for decades.
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Just a quick side note for those curious those high throw square speakers are LOUD, and I mean LOUUDD. So the fact that they replaced every single JBL28’s in the station with these is actually insane, they still haven’t powered the outdoor ones on the entire left hand side of Oktoberfest so for now the only music we can hear is from the Festhaus and/or the bridge, but once they are turned on expect coverage to be way better! Busch gardens is notorious for buying bulk of a specific speaker in mass, so there’s a very very very high chance that these are leftovers from the Loch Ness monster retheme as B&M most likely supplied the audio system for Big Bad Wolf
Posts like this are exactly why I love this forum.
AS A REMINDER LOOSE ARTICLES……
you may have escaped the Black Forest now escape this….
Literally just repaint the snow trenches.
Yoda is gone. I’m a big fan of the Darkastle off in the distance.
Now, I know that AI is getting good, but that looks hand-painted. If it's actually hand-painted, that's awesome!
This is SUCH a vast improvement. The original banner was probably one of my least favorite bits of the original scenic package. Love to see it not only replaced, but replaced by something that looks very, very nice.
Are you talking about the green ride vehicle itself?
If so, yes. It's undergoing annual maintenance.
Seeing a distinct clear lack of anything AI looking in the signs and theming is a relief. It’s whatever for advertisements but use real artists for stuff like this, thank you
I love that they've just consistently put Darkastle in the background of murals and art within the area. It adds to its imposing feel
Darkastle is probably one of the Easter eggs. They said they’ll be doing a lot more Easter eggs