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There's still quite a bit of unused space in that building, and permits were filed a little over a week ago for two of this years houses, so its probably a house.
Did you actually roll backwards down the top hat? I've never seen what happens before it comes to a stop in launch two, but we were in the station and saw the relaunch from the monitors in the control booth. Watched them manually jog the train forwards and backwards a whole bunch of times before...
Here's a slightly higher res version I scanned and uploaded to Tumblr (lol) years ago. I still have the original collateral, so if you want a super high-res 300dpi scan I can do that later today!
Do you need the sites to be functional on the web, or are you just looking for the full backups/files from them? I'm the guy that originally archived all the sites from 2004 on, so I still have the full rips on my computer. I can zip them up and send them via Google Drive if need be.
WildGravityTravels went out there the other day. The only track still visible outside Clermont is the IC2-K invert track for Gröna Lund. Back in February there was some purple track and some light teal track for unidentified projects, but those pieces are no longer there. They were likely for...
Just a clerical thing. Each new installation is represented by a letter, A-Z. Once they installed 26 inverted coasters they were out of alphabet letters, so they started using IC2 and started over at A.
When I made the initial post about this on Reddit yesterday I made sure to include this disclaimer after several people were re-posting the news without any context:
... this new evidence that it could potentially be a surf coaster is NOT an indication that the project it still currently...
I posted this a week or so ago on Twitter, but it's very likely this is a 2020 project. The completion date on the permit is January 4th 2021 and these permits typically have very generous completion dates to make sure work is done before the written date.
The permit the author of that OBJ article was talking about is the SFWMD permit for this same "Penguin" project on the festival pathway. The author simply correlated the codename of "Penguin" with the Penguin exhibit. Not sure why they didn't bother doing any further research, but oh well.
Yup, it was the Decades Cafe Arcade during the last few years of its life. Initially it was the very large Motown Cafe. Eventually they converted the bottom level into an arcade and the top floors remained the dining and bar portions.
I'd love it if it was one of those Zamperla Giga Discoveries. I've only been on the smaller Huss versions of those kinds of pendulum rides, but the queue is divided into two separate corrals before boarding, so one of those would fit in with how this appears to load. Plus, it doesn't use...
There's plenty of on-going discussion about this project here starting from November:
What's next for Busch Gardens Tampa?? | Page 57 | Inside Universal Forums
What's next for Busch Gardens Tampa?? | Page 58 | Inside Universal Forums
But to summarize:
It's some kind of outdoor flat ride...
Like I said before, the Screamin' Swing is just a guess based on the queue design and Busch's history of installing similar attractions at their parks in subsequent years. Realistically it could pretty much be any type of small ride that fits into that new area behind the Rhino Rally queue.
And...
Here's the plan overlay from the article:
A few notes - Screamin' Swing is totally a guess based only on the fact that BGW just got one and the layout of the paths coming out of the queue building. It could literally be anything, as Busch files their plans with the SWFWMD completly stripped...
They haven't done anything special in recent years, and crowd levels that night entirely depend on what day of the week Halloween falls on, but it's usually at least moderately busy.
And to add to the topic at hand - just bought my Ultimate FFP+Express, so I'll be there most nights!
I'm super excited to photograph this zone. I bet it'll look amazing after a rain shower with the glowing neon lights from the arcade cabinets reflecting off the wet streets.
The older imagery came from the FDOT APLUS image archives, and the newer images are from the Orange County Property Appraiser - they update their map with new imagery from Januray of every year - the high-res stuff started in 2012.