Attraction Riptide Race
- Thread starter Zachary
- Start date
Leaving the Member event tonight, @Zachary and I spotted a robotic deer that appeared to be heading toward the project site. We theorize the party interrupted its work.
The robotic squirrel take over during the day while the deer sleep.
Did BGW seriously forget to inform the robot deer about the event!?!?!
Screamscape posted a possible new dueling slide at Adventure Island, any possibility ours is similar? Attached is the image from Screamscape.
Next year Adventure Island (BGT's version of WCUSA) is getting a dueling slide. Considering the parks are known for getting similar attractions (Colossal curl, vanish point, etc), I think this adds a lot to the idea that WCUSA is probably getting one soon.
Wild Thang and Rampage have returned to the WCUSA website. When you actually go to the Water Country slides list, you arent linked to them, however if you just type into google "Water country usa rampage"/"water country usa wild thang", their pages have both returned!
Last edited:
Before when I looked them up, their pages were completely gone, and typing in what would have been the URL just brought you to Colossal Curl. So at least their pages are reactivated...
When some marketing intern, probably based in Orlando, is running the show potentially with an outsourced web dev team, sloppy results ensue though a 301 redirect is a nice touch.
Also interesting to note all of the pixels installed in their websites <head> section while they also use 2 GTM containers... And regular analytics.js too. Basically indicates in my professional experience that they don't know what they're doing and have potentials for bad or duplicative analytics data and also have a higher potential for security exploits. Poor job all around, and the sad part is it can be so easily cleaned up too.
I looked at their sitemap - https://watercountryusa.com/sitemap.xml - and found both Rampage and Wild Thang listed under Busch Gardens' domain. This means the pages, even if not listed on the navigation, are being crawled by search engines and being redirecting to 404 error pages - really poor form indeed.
Also interesting to note all of the pixels installed in their websites <head> section while they also use 2 GTM containers... And regular analytics.js too. Basically indicates in my professional experience that they don't know what they're doing and have potentials for bad or duplicative analytics data and also have a higher potential for security exploits. Poor job all around, and the sad part is it can be so easily cleaned up too.
I looked at their sitemap - https://watercountryusa.com/sitemap.xml - and found both Rampage and Wild Thang listed under Busch Gardens' domain. This means the pages, even if not listed on the navigation, are being crawled by search engines and being redirecting to 404 error pages - really poor form indeed.
My guess is they meant to pull the page completely and by default they stick it under the BGW domain thus making it discoverable to anyone whom knows where to look. Probably an error or an overlooked issue with any CMS tools they're using.
I'd also venture to guess that whenever they put together a page for Gemini it'll also be under the BGW domain on the sitemap even if that URI doesn't actually exist and redirects to a 404.
Again, they need help with SEO since the whole point of a sitemap is for search engine crawls: noindex directives and delisting content from that sitemap are good for essentially telling the search engines to go away instead of what they're currently doing basically saying something's here but it goes to an error and ultimately contributes to devaluing your site. Unless WC was a subdirectory of BGW's site instead of how it currently sits on its own domain, adding a second domain to a sitemap doesn't make any sense.
My guess is their CMS platform has BG as the true parent shell of the whole thing with BGW as a main container within; WC content would be buried within the BGW container as it's own folder - so from a lazy web dev perspective, it would make sense to build the sitemap following the CMS directory. However, since the purpose is telling search engines where the content is, each page needs to be on the same domain for it to be all that effective - it's like trying to assemble a Lego set and finding K'nex pieces somehow in the mix.
I'd also venture to guess that whenever they put together a page for Gemini it'll also be under the BGW domain on the sitemap even if that URI doesn't actually exist and redirects to a 404.
Again, they need help with SEO since the whole point of a sitemap is for search engine crawls: noindex directives and delisting content from that sitemap are good for essentially telling the search engines to go away instead of what they're currently doing basically saying something's here but it goes to an error and ultimately contributes to devaluing your site. Unless WC was a subdirectory of BGW's site instead of how it currently sits on its own domain, adding a second domain to a sitemap doesn't make any sense.
My guess is their CMS platform has BG as the true parent shell of the whole thing with BGW as a main container within; WC content would be buried within the BGW container as it's own folder - so from a lazy web dev perspective, it would make sense to build the sitemap following the CMS directory. However, since the purpose is telling search engines where the content is, each page needs to be on the same domain for it to be all that effective - it's like trying to assemble a Lego set and finding K'nex pieces somehow in the mix.
Wisconsin Dells is actually getting the first one in America next year..
Alright then! I still think that a slide wheel would be cool to have at water country.
Thats what the one that used to be at adventure island looked like. If im not mistaken they used the exact same art thing for both rides, so it probably just wasnt worth recreating it simply for such a small detail
No rampage I meanThis is not entirely to do with this ride but now that there is a new map it has the ride on it wild thang is there but now rampage(
Admin Note: I moved this to the correct thread
Last edited by a moderator: