This is the start of this AU, it will document every park Seaworld purchases, starting in
2011: SeaWorld announces purchase of Freestyle Music Park for 100 million dollars along with all the rides and has the park be rethemed to Pavilion Gardens, with the addition of Hurricane replacing Round About with new areas celebrating Myrtle Beach culture and a flat ride package. The park was announced to open in June 2013 during IAAPA 2011. Hurricane is a clone of the Hurricane from the Pavilion in North Myrtle.
2012: Small year just retheming and adding the rides promised in 2011 and preparing for 2013 grand reopening, also the park is considered a Busch Gardens park in everything but name, also a leaked deal is made with B&M for a giga in a new area on the water opening in 2014, and they made a deal with Namco to get Pacman in the park
2013 Grand ReOpening:
Palmetto Plaza
The entry plaza is rethemed to Palmetto Plaza, having more palmettos in the area and removing the giant guitar across the lake being replaced with a palmetto tree that is twisted like the park's logo before the retheme just with a palmetto instead of a guitar.
Sesame Street Fun at the Beach
The kid's area is rethemed to Sesame Street, that is it, all names are changes to a character's name followed by vacation style name
Hang Ten becomes Grover's Wacky Beach Train; More theming is added but the trains are replaced with one with Grover on the front car
Soak'd becomes Elmo's Slippery Sky Ride; more water features is added and an Elmo statue that shoots water out of a flower on his beach shirt at the rides
Fantasy Harbour Boardwalk
The Across the Pond is rethemed to a boardwalk walk sections with one of the rides from the flat ride package ending up here
Round About is removed and replaced with a clone of the Hurricane roller coaster at the Pavilion, constructed by GCI, named Hurricane
A 200 ft triple S&S air launched drop tower is added named Southern Skyfall
PacLand
Country in the USA is rethemed to a Pac-Man themed areas, and SeaWorld got exclusive theme park access for Bandai Namco
Iron Horse becomes Pac-Man Maze Madness; Ghosts are present throughout the ride with the track being repainted to dark blue on the edge bits of the track and black on everything else except yellow dots painted on the center if the track
A 200 ft starflyer is added call Ms. Pac-Man's Starflyer
You can meet different Pac-Man characters in the place the Ice Cold Country show was, named Pac-Man Meet n' Greet
The Bridge is closed as it is becoming a new land with a B&M giga and flat rides, this will prevent Carowinds from getting Fury 325
Broadway Boulevard
This was the Myrtle's Beach area, so fitting it became an area based on Broadway at the Beach with a mini aquarium in the area
Time Machine becomes Freestyle, a reference to the park's former name with music playing on the ride and the song being randomized
1 million visitors the first year back, but the park would be lumped together with the Busch Gardens parks and basically become a third Busch Gardens park except in name. Round About would be sold to Michigan's Adventure
2014: New land and B&M Giga, 1.5 million visitors
The new land that replaced the bridge is called the Pavilion Beachside, it is just a recreation of the Pavilion with a beach on both sides of the land
The giga is named Myrtle Tsunami, at a height of 325 ft with a layout similar to Fury 325 in our timeline since it is that coaster but bought by SeaWorld before Cedar Fair could buy it
2015: SNS screamin swing is added to the Pavilion Beachside, 1.5 million visitors. A survey is done showing a large portion of visitors came because of the Pac-Man land giving upper management an idea
Carowinds: Some projects will prevent some of Carowinds addition, so Cedar Fair has B&M make a new model, the B&M strata coaster for Carowinds, named Fury 425, but more intense and longer than Fury 325 we got, with a cable lift hill, marketed as the first true strata coaster costing 50 million dollars
Myrtle Tsunami is basically Fury 325 but with a true helix replacing the helix on the ride and over the lake and Fury 425 is a much more intense and longer version of Fury 325 without the treble clef and more stuff in the SC section of the ride
2016: Palmetto Plaza gets a launch coaster. Carolina Inferno. 1.7 million visitors
A multi-launch Gerstlauer infinity coaster named Carolina Inferno is added over the water with 17 inversions and 3 launches, taking the inversion record from Alton Towers
*Note: Myrtle Tsunami takes Fury 325's spot in our timeline as the coaster that gets all the best steel coaster golden tickets
2017: Zamperla Discovery in the Broadway Boulevard, and flat ride package to many areas of the park, but will not name, just know every area gets between 3-5 new flat rides and park prepares for 10th anniversary. 1.6 million visitors. SeaWorld gets exclusive access to Sonic for theme parks
2018: RMC Ground Up Hyper Hybrid and raptor is added in a new area made by cutting a bit of Sesame Street by the arcade, effectively giving the ride a mini land, removing the amphitheater for it
The new area is called Green Hill Zone and is themed to Sonic the Hedgehog, go figure. The RMC Hybrid is called Sonic's Green Hill Blitz, the trains look like Sonic's car, and the track is green with the wood being unpainted, and the raptor is called Tails' Emerald Stunting, with the trains looking like the Tornado 2 from SA2, the queue is Tails' lab
You can meet many Sonic characters in the arcade.
The park buys Dragon Challenge but it is put in storage
2 million visitors!!
2019: Park gets rights to use Spongebob. A motion simulator is added to the Broadway Boulevard themed to Spongebob with the queue being Spongebob's house then the Chum Bucket. Krusty Krab restaurant is added across the pathway from where the replica Chum Bucket is, and you can have a Krabby Patty with Kelp Fries and Kelp Shake to drink, 2 million visitors.
2020: Park doesn't get to open for long, so S&S record breaking air launch coaster over the water in the Fantasy Harbour Boardwalk is delayed to 2022, but Dragon Challenge which is sitting in storage was taken out and put together in the offseason and is added to the Broadway Boulevard as the original name, Dueling Dragons, and as a reference to Medieval Times with the rides lore being changes to 2 dragons the knights of Myrtle Beach could not control, there is a preshow using footage made for the park by Medieval Times MB and they duel once again, the ride only operates for a week before the pandemic. 50k visitor but stopped because of pandemic
Carowinds: Closes Hurler to be RMC'd
2021: Flat ride package and Dueling Dragons true opening, 1.2 million visitors, dropped down because of COVID, but will bounce back in 2022 with a haunting addition
2022: S&S Record Breaking Airlaunch coaster, 0mph to 100mph in 2 seconds in the Fantasy Harbour Boardwalk named Shockwave
Family Kingdom closes due to lack of attendance, the park buys Swamp Fox for relocation with same name, unknown where it will go
Park adds a Halloween event, renaming the park during that to Frightful Pavilion Gardens, during the Halloween season, opening for the park is now March to November, park prepares for 15th anniversary, 2.4 million visitors
Carowinds: Preparing for 50th and RMCing Hurler
2023: 15th anniversary of the park, 3 new coasters and a rapids ride are added, all family coaster, but 1, attracting more families and something festive is coming next year
3 million visitors!
1.Swamp Fox which is in the area between Pac-Land and Sesame Street, the non-family coaster
2.Little Hurricane, gravity group family, at Pavilion Beachside
3.Splashdown, Journey to Atlantis clone of the rides at SeaWorld parks without the theming, at the Pavilion Beachside
4.Spectral Falls, clone of Infinity Falls at SeaWorld Orlando, at Pac-Land, has guests go through the spectral realm
Smaller additions are added for quality-of-life including Coke Freestyle Machines
Carowinds: Still adds Aeronautica Landing, but adds RMC Hurler, with the name of Iron Beast, it has a height of 210 ft and has a vertical loop, 4 inversions and many moments of airtime
2024: 10th year for Myrtle Tsunami, merch is made to celebrate, plaque added at Swamp Fox, and Hurricane, commemorating Family Kingdom and the Pavilion respectively, more Coke freestyle machines are added, park adds a Winterfest like event, changing the park's name during the event to Pavilion Winter Holidays, extending the operating season, March to January, 2.9 million visitors
2025: Season is extended to year long, and new Vekoma launched hypercoaster coaster, similar to Abyssus at Energylandia, is given its own little plaza down in Pac-Land to make a entrance coaster, name is Southern Eclipse,
4 million visitors!!
HAS ROUGH CONCEPT OF PARK MAP
2011: SeaWorld announces purchase of Freestyle Music Park for 100 million dollars along with all the rides and has the park be rethemed to Pavilion Gardens, with the addition of Hurricane replacing Round About with new areas celebrating Myrtle Beach culture and a flat ride package. The park was announced to open in June 2013 during IAAPA 2011. Hurricane is a clone of the Hurricane from the Pavilion in North Myrtle.
2012: Small year just retheming and adding the rides promised in 2011 and preparing for 2013 grand reopening, also the park is considered a Busch Gardens park in everything but name, also a leaked deal is made with B&M for a giga in a new area on the water opening in 2014, and they made a deal with Namco to get Pacman in the park
2013 Grand ReOpening:
Palmetto Plaza
The entry plaza is rethemed to Palmetto Plaza, having more palmettos in the area and removing the giant guitar across the lake being replaced with a palmetto tree that is twisted like the park's logo before the retheme just with a palmetto instead of a guitar.
Sesame Street Fun at the Beach
The kid's area is rethemed to Sesame Street, that is it, all names are changes to a character's name followed by vacation style name
Hang Ten becomes Grover's Wacky Beach Train; More theming is added but the trains are replaced with one with Grover on the front car
Soak'd becomes Elmo's Slippery Sky Ride; more water features is added and an Elmo statue that shoots water out of a flower on his beach shirt at the rides
Fantasy Harbour Boardwalk
The Across the Pond is rethemed to a boardwalk walk sections with one of the rides from the flat ride package ending up here
Round About is removed and replaced with a clone of the Hurricane roller coaster at the Pavilion, constructed by GCI, named Hurricane
A 200 ft triple S&S air launched drop tower is added named Southern Skyfall
PacLand
Country in the USA is rethemed to a Pac-Man themed areas, and SeaWorld got exclusive theme park access for Bandai Namco
Iron Horse becomes Pac-Man Maze Madness; Ghosts are present throughout the ride with the track being repainted to dark blue on the edge bits of the track and black on everything else except yellow dots painted on the center if the track
A 200 ft starflyer is added call Ms. Pac-Man's Starflyer
You can meet different Pac-Man characters in the place the Ice Cold Country show was, named Pac-Man Meet n' Greet
The Bridge is closed as it is becoming a new land with a B&M giga and flat rides, this will prevent Carowinds from getting Fury 325
Broadway Boulevard
This was the Myrtle's Beach area, so fitting it became an area based on Broadway at the Beach with a mini aquarium in the area
Time Machine becomes Freestyle, a reference to the park's former name with music playing on the ride and the song being randomized
1 million visitors the first year back, but the park would be lumped together with the Busch Gardens parks and basically become a third Busch Gardens park except in name. Round About would be sold to Michigan's Adventure
2014: New land and B&M Giga, 1.5 million visitors
The new land that replaced the bridge is called the Pavilion Beachside, it is just a recreation of the Pavilion with a beach on both sides of the land
The giga is named Myrtle Tsunami, at a height of 325 ft with a layout similar to Fury 325 in our timeline since it is that coaster but bought by SeaWorld before Cedar Fair could buy it
2015: SNS screamin swing is added to the Pavilion Beachside, 1.5 million visitors. A survey is done showing a large portion of visitors came because of the Pac-Man land giving upper management an idea
Carowinds: Some projects will prevent some of Carowinds addition, so Cedar Fair has B&M make a new model, the B&M strata coaster for Carowinds, named Fury 425, but more intense and longer than Fury 325 we got, with a cable lift hill, marketed as the first true strata coaster costing 50 million dollars
Myrtle Tsunami is basically Fury 325 but with a true helix replacing the helix on the ride and over the lake and Fury 425 is a much more intense and longer version of Fury 325 without the treble clef and more stuff in the SC section of the ride
2016: Palmetto Plaza gets a launch coaster. Carolina Inferno. 1.7 million visitors
A multi-launch Gerstlauer infinity coaster named Carolina Inferno is added over the water with 17 inversions and 3 launches, taking the inversion record from Alton Towers
*Note: Myrtle Tsunami takes Fury 325's spot in our timeline as the coaster that gets all the best steel coaster golden tickets
2017: Zamperla Discovery in the Broadway Boulevard, and flat ride package to many areas of the park, but will not name, just know every area gets between 3-5 new flat rides and park prepares for 10th anniversary. 1.6 million visitors. SeaWorld gets exclusive access to Sonic for theme parks
2018: RMC Ground Up Hyper Hybrid and raptor is added in a new area made by cutting a bit of Sesame Street by the arcade, effectively giving the ride a mini land, removing the amphitheater for it
The new area is called Green Hill Zone and is themed to Sonic the Hedgehog, go figure. The RMC Hybrid is called Sonic's Green Hill Blitz, the trains look like Sonic's car, and the track is green with the wood being unpainted, and the raptor is called Tails' Emerald Stunting, with the trains looking like the Tornado 2 from SA2, the queue is Tails' lab
You can meet many Sonic characters in the arcade.
The park buys Dragon Challenge but it is put in storage
2 million visitors!!
2019: Park gets rights to use Spongebob. A motion simulator is added to the Broadway Boulevard themed to Spongebob with the queue being Spongebob's house then the Chum Bucket. Krusty Krab restaurant is added across the pathway from where the replica Chum Bucket is, and you can have a Krabby Patty with Kelp Fries and Kelp Shake to drink, 2 million visitors.
2020: Park doesn't get to open for long, so S&S record breaking air launch coaster over the water in the Fantasy Harbour Boardwalk is delayed to 2022, but Dragon Challenge which is sitting in storage was taken out and put together in the offseason and is added to the Broadway Boulevard as the original name, Dueling Dragons, and as a reference to Medieval Times with the rides lore being changes to 2 dragons the knights of Myrtle Beach could not control, there is a preshow using footage made for the park by Medieval Times MB and they duel once again, the ride only operates for a week before the pandemic. 50k visitor but stopped because of pandemic
Carowinds: Closes Hurler to be RMC'd
2021: Flat ride package and Dueling Dragons true opening, 1.2 million visitors, dropped down because of COVID, but will bounce back in 2022 with a haunting addition
2022: S&S Record Breaking Airlaunch coaster, 0mph to 100mph in 2 seconds in the Fantasy Harbour Boardwalk named Shockwave
Family Kingdom closes due to lack of attendance, the park buys Swamp Fox for relocation with same name, unknown where it will go
Park adds a Halloween event, renaming the park during that to Frightful Pavilion Gardens, during the Halloween season, opening for the park is now March to November, park prepares for 15th anniversary, 2.4 million visitors
Carowinds: Preparing for 50th and RMCing Hurler
2023: 15th anniversary of the park, 3 new coasters and a rapids ride are added, all family coaster, but 1, attracting more families and something festive is coming next year
3 million visitors!
1.Swamp Fox which is in the area between Pac-Land and Sesame Street, the non-family coaster
2.Little Hurricane, gravity group family, at Pavilion Beachside
3.Splashdown, Journey to Atlantis clone of the rides at SeaWorld parks without the theming, at the Pavilion Beachside
4.Spectral Falls, clone of Infinity Falls at SeaWorld Orlando, at Pac-Land, has guests go through the spectral realm
Smaller additions are added for quality-of-life including Coke Freestyle Machines
Carowinds: Still adds Aeronautica Landing, but adds RMC Hurler, with the name of Iron Beast, it has a height of 210 ft and has a vertical loop, 4 inversions and many moments of airtime
2024: 10th year for Myrtle Tsunami, merch is made to celebrate, plaque added at Swamp Fox, and Hurricane, commemorating Family Kingdom and the Pavilion respectively, more Coke freestyle machines are added, park adds a Winterfest like event, changing the park's name during the event to Pavilion Winter Holidays, extending the operating season, March to January, 2.9 million visitors
2025: Season is extended to year long, and new Vekoma launched hypercoaster coaster, similar to Abyssus at Energylandia, is given its own little plaza down in Pac-Land to make a entrance coaster, name is Southern Eclipse,
4 million visitors!!
HAS ROUGH CONCEPT OF PARK MAP
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