Survey Reveals New Round of Future Attraction Concepts

[Zachary]

A new video from Demetri's Adventures on YouTube shows a new survey with a bunch of pretty nutty new ride concepts from BGW.

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Do we have other images from this survey? Anyone here get it? Anyone have comprehensive screenshots (possibly for a BGWFans article)? Any alts you've had/seen offered other than what's in the video above?

 

[cackylack]

They don't need the steel coaster, but can they please have ALL of the rest of the list? Along with Pantheon being themed?

 

[vacoasterfanatic]

where in the actual hell would they fit a hyper hybrid in the park after using fhp bro like there’s no way without axing something

 

[Zachary]

where in the actual hell would they fit a hyper hybrid in the park after using fhp bro like there’s no way without axing something

The most obvious spot is probably near the entry area behind Killarney. There are other, more complicated options too, but that's the obvious, massive plot.

 

[AIR]

where in the actual hell would they fit a hyper hybrid in the park after using fhp bro like there’s no way without axing something

If the park removed what's left of the animal pastures in Festa Italia, RMC could get creative with the pipeline easement and easily fit one next to Pantheon.

I'm not saying they should, I'm just saying there's room.

There's also still tons of room next to the Wolf. Not easily accessible by guest yet but tons of room to build.

 

[AlpenChariot]

I hope one day we see the England lot become park space in some form or another. It's close, has a decent amount of flat space, and is on the scale of the most recent spaces used for ground-up coaster builds.

 

[realrx]

A RMC sounds amazing with the current lineup but I feel like a Mack Extreme spinner is a better more unique choice. Could take up less space.

 

[TheCoasterNerd]

I didn't get this survey, which is disappointing. I get all the surveys, not sure why they didn't send me this one

 

[Zachary]

I have seen far fewer people sharing screenshots of or discussing this survey compared to the previous ones at BGW. Seems like it must have gone out to a much smaller and/or notably different audience than the previous rounds...? I'm really reluctant to write about it because I've seen it basically nowhere other than that video I posted earlier.

 

[TheCoasterNerd]

I don't love that the concept art and descriptions in the video are entirely AI slop but hey

 

[tursiops]

I got a survey the other day, but it didn't have the attraction concepts. Mostly interest level in vacation options.

 

[t21_sz89x]

My two picks from this survey are the RMC and the Pompeii refresh. I’d love to see Pompeii get revamped into a new ride while also keeping the show building.

It’s a shame that they can’t use Drachen fires plot for an RMC hybrid. That would’ve been a great place to have a Drachen fire successor.

 

[Mushroom]

I don't love that the concept art and descriptions in the video are entirely AI slop but hey

There might be an argument to be made that this meant a real artist didn’t get a gig, but in general I think surveys like this are one of the better use cases for AI generated images. Extremely limited audience, no pretense that the artwork was supposedly made by a human, no expectation the quality should be good and free of mistakes, and the ability for marketers to explore more concepts and get their learnings quickly and cheaply.

I still don’t want to see AI anywhere near anything that makes its way out into the park (be it merch or theming or anything else), but I don’t think we always have to condemn the park for using it under the blanket assumption of “AI bad.”

 

[vacoasterfanatic]

If yall wanna dog on busch for AI just go look at verboltens new ads bro enough said. This is lowkey a valid use of it

 

[Zachary]

There might be an argument to be made that this meant a real artist didn’t get a gig, but in general I think surveys like this are one of the better use cases for AI generated images. Extremely limited audience, no pretense that the artwork was supposedly made by a human, no expectation the quality should be good and free of mistakes, and the ability for marketers to explore more concepts and get their learnings quickly and cheaply.

I still don’t want to see AI anywhere near anything that makes its way out into the park (be it merch or theming or anything else), but I don’t think we always have to condemn the park for using it under the blanket assumption of “AI bad.”

In my opinion a HUGE, central, often deciding factor for me regarding the ethics of a specific use case for AI is disclosure. Unlike previous surveys, the images in the survey above have the Gemini watermark displayed proudly in the bottom right corner. There's no attempt to trick the viewer—these are disclosed AI images used for conceptual purposes. Shockingly, this is probably just about the most ethical, best use of AI I've seen out of a park...

 

[Coasternerd]

where in the actual hell would they fit a hyper hybrid in the park after using fhp bro like there’s no way without axing something

The part that’s hilarious to me is that the hyper hybrid in question is literally just Green Zadra.

 

[Tacky3663]

Hyper Hybrid & a Giga?

Sign me tf up.

 

[TheCoasterNerd]

But also, you know that since they’re Gemini, they probably used a few bottles worth of drinking water for each image. That’s what I’m mad about. I agree, for something like this, ai isn’t bad, but I still don’t think they should be using it at all given the environmental impact

 

[MrBradferd]

But also, you know that since they’re Gemini, they probably used a few bottles worth of drinking water for each image. That’s what I’m mad about. I agree, for something like this, ai isn’t bad, but I still don’t think they should be using it at all given the environmental impact

AI being a enviormental impact is blown way out of proportion than it is. A few bottles of water is nothing compared to the amount if water used in other stuff. Look how much wasted water goes into beef ect. Most of the water used for ai data centers is reused through a loop like system. It's such a small impact is pointless to even talk about and its just used a reason to nit pick not liking AI. The removal of using artists/college degrees wasted with ai being used is way more of a problem

https://www.reddit.com/r/aiwars/s/kycgRs5Pjy

 

[Jonesta6]

AI being a enviormental impact is blown way out of proportion than it is. A few bottles of water is nothing compared to the amount if water used in other stuff. Look how much wasted water goes into beef ect. Most of the water used for ai data centers is reused through a loop like system. It's such a small impact is pointless to even talk about and its just used a reason to nit pick not liking AI. The removal of using artists/college degrees wasted with ai being used is way more of a problem

https://www.reddit.com/r/aiwars/s/kycgRs5Pjy

I think the bigger issue is that you have new data centers being planned and built in areas that cannot support the water draws required to support their operations. Additionally, to use water as coolant they have to treat it - it seems some operations choose to add toxic chemicals for various purposes within their systems.

In Virginia, the volume of water is less a concern than the discharge back into waterways - I believe there's currently DEQ reviews underway to determine what the release rate can be.

But out West, they were already on a knife edge with water wasteful agricultural practices depleting water sources; the push by the AI/Cloud companies to build ever more data centers literally has some towns being told they need to find new water sources.