Tempesto

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Manufacturer - Premier Rides
Model - Sky Rocket II
Type - Steel Coaster
Height - 150 ft
Length - 863 ft
Top Speed - 62 mph
Elements - 3 (LSM Launch Track, Heartline Roll, Non-Inverting Loop)
Trains - 1 train, 2 across with 3 rows, 18 riders per train
Restraints - Lap Bar with a rubber seatbelt
Opened - April 25, 2015
Hamlet - Festa Italia

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Same here it was definitely running yesterday afternoon. Don't know for how long it ran though.
 
This ride is and always has been somewhat "beneath' BGW (as a clone, prefab compact "coaster"). Especially now that MMXX will be so close by utilizing a similar forward-back-forward launch approach. In the least, this thing never should have been placed so close to a real coaster, and a legendary one at that. Sell it or move it somewhere else with space/need for more attractions. (Ireland?)
 
is that much different of a concept than Finnegan's Flyer, which is an off-the-shelf compact ride? i would just consider it more of an "off year" when parks spend little to put something in just to say they have something new, while they save up for something big in future years
 
Could it be simply due to power demand from the ride and what the existing infrastructure could support at the time?

As had been mentioned elsewhere on here, there's a probable power issue where the park would have to undergo a serious overhaul of their grids, or take something out to put something new in depending on where the attraction is placed within the given grid layout.

At the time of Tempesto, the grids in other areas of park may not have supported the power load, and it might have been easier to place the ride where it is because it can more easily tap into the supply for AC and remove a more or less dead zone in that area.
 
To be fair to the park, there really isn't a hell of a lot of room left for expansion without annexing Festa Field or Festhaus Park, and it appears they already have grand ambitions for those areas. That might be another big reason Tempesto ended up where it is.
 
So if a ride like Tempesto is "beneath BGW," how do you explain Wild Izzy? There's no such thing as "this is beneath them" since parks like Disney and Universal are perfectly okay with slamming down pre-made coasters in their multi-million amusement parks.
 
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Primeval Whirl has an added thrill element, because the trains seem to separate the track from time to time. The potential for death adds to the experience, making it more like meeting a dinosaur in person.

Tempesto beats up my head and neck, and bores me. As I have said before, if it were marketed as a flat, I would agree that it was great for its class. It does nothing for me as a coaster, however. Also: pain. And: Comfort Collars. Plus: capacity.

On the other hand, it keeps people off the paths and out of Apollo’s queue, which is nothing but good for me.
 
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Ok, we all think this twisted piece of metal is out of place. And, as @Jonesta6 stated, back on the day Busch was close to running extension cords because the power grid was stressed.

So (with a serious tongue in check) they do a "Catapult" and move the sucker. Get rid of the congestion that MMXX will add to the horror story known as Festa and put it in Festhaus Park to complement whatever 2021 is.

Edit- oops, if this should be in Concepts go ahead and move it.
 
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