Lord Robert said:Wow. Does that mean there's more people coming to Nessie for her 40th birthday? Because that coaster couldn't ask for a more better present.
I think that just means people are starting at the front of the park and moving back. :/
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I think that just means people are starting at the front of the park and moving back. :/
Zachary said:Great time for Instagram embedding to break. That's how I goes I guess.
Use this link to see everything: http://instagram.com/BGWFans
this may just be my opinion, but I am not a fan of the face of Nessie for the 40th anniversary logo. I feel like it looks too cartoon. I don't loveeeee the face for the actual sign for the ride, but I think the 40th anniversary logo face could be better.
Glad to say that the effects are in full working order!
Yep. Working at 9ish when I last rode. Maybe had a case of the hiccups but all is well now. Let's all hope.
We made it to the park Saturday and we were very excited to see the effects working. I hope they're able to keep these up.
Also, a bagpipe player has been performing at the LNM entrance the past week. Unfortunately, so has music from the opening year. The area is flooded with disco music.
I know disco was really popular in the late 1970's BGW, but it doesn't mean you should play it.
Nothing wrong with Disco...
/me Hustles
Its her week, if she wants to get down more power to her!
/me Hustles
Its her week, if she wants to get down more power to her!
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Nessie doesn't want to get down.
Walking up to Loch Ness Monster isn't supposed to be a dance party. Guests are meant to stroll to the outskirts of the town of Heatherdowns to find a base camp on a hillside where explorers are working to find the Loch Ness Monster in the waters below. Tanks should be bubbling. There should be clacking noises on the typewriter. There should be ambient noises of workmen repairing and loading boats and subs. There should be itermittent radio transmissions coming in from people out on the loch. Maybe even the occasional announcement of a returning vessel.
Instead of honoring this theme, the park condescendingly decided that Nessie is old and so they should celebrate her birthday with a bunch of random old stuff that in no way relates to the ride. It's just lazy and shows a depressing lack of creativity, imagination, and actual care for the coaster they are purportedly celebrating.
Walking up to Loch Ness Monster isn't supposed to be a dance party. Guests are meant to stroll to the outskirts of the town of Heatherdowns to find a base camp on a hillside where explorers are working to find the Loch Ness Monster in the waters below. Tanks should be bubbling. There should be clacking noises on the typewriter. There should be ambient noises of workmen repairing and loading boats and subs. There should be itermittent radio transmissions coming in from people out on the loch. Maybe even the occasional announcement of a returning vessel.
Instead of honoring this theme, the park condescendingly decided that Nessie is old and so they should celebrate her birthday with a bunch of random old stuff that in no way relates to the ride. It's just lazy and shows a depressing lack of creativity, imagination, and actual care for the coaster they are purportedly celebrating.
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Great point @Zachary After a trip to BGT and SWO earlier this spring, it's more a chain wide problem and not a one park problem.
I honestly really wonder if they sit down for a meeting, and someone from the park says "Oh lets really bring the queue back, make it what it really was!" And everyone agrees, and someone suggests to make a track for background noise and some epic music. Then some SEAS Corporate rep goes "Oh well, that's nice. But we own the rights to this music and it's easier for us, so do that."
I honestly really wonder if they sit down for a meeting, and someone from the park says "Oh lets really bring the queue back, make it what it really was!" And everyone agrees, and someone suggests to make a track for background noise and some epic music. Then some SEAS Corporate rep goes "Oh well, that's nice. But we own the rights to this music and it's easier for us, so do that."
Disco? Really? That should be how Cedar Point celebrates Gemini's anniversary, not how Busch Gardens Williamsburg celebrates Loch Ness Monster's anniversary.
Disco is a side effect of that year. Other tunes were playing with a majority being disco. It quite frankly took me several walk-thrus to figure out what the heck they thought they were doing by playing this <stuff>. If I go to BGW a lot and didn't get it, then the single day visitors must have thought it the weird norm.
Speaking of the weird norm, my go-there-all-the-time brain said, "Why are they playing old Howl-O-Scream and American Jukebox tunes here?" Old timers hang around there for a while, you'll pick up what I'm puttin' down.
Speaking of the weird norm, my go-there-all-the-time brain said, "Why are they playing old Howl-O-Scream and American Jukebox tunes here?" Old timers hang around there for a while, you'll pick up what I'm puttin' down.
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Old Monster Stomp, Fiends in the Festhaus, the now "old" Nite Beats, and some American Jukebox to pound it home.
I went the BG on Saturday, and rode this. I have ridden in the front, probably the middle, and this time, the back. Is it just me, or is there not much leg room? I am 6' exact, and every time, I feel cramped on this ride.
I do like something was done w/the cave, which was long over due.
I do like something was done w/the cave, which was long over due.
It's not just you but its better with the new trains then the old ones.