Additional Verbolten: Forbidden Turn Details Surface
New Documents Reveal Even More Specifics Regarding Busch Gardens Williamsburg's 2026 Attraction Overhaul Project
Note: This article expands on our previous reporting regarding Verbolten: Forbidden Turn from back in January. This write-up assumes knowledge of all of the details shared in that piece. If you don’t know about the planned animatronics, the massive, three dimensional tree, the fog machine, the building exit tunnel updates, etc., please read that previous […]
Verbolten: Forbidden Turn Plans Call for Extensive Thematic Overhaul
Leaks Provide Verbolten Retheme Details & Hints for What Could Be in Store for 2027
Background Given how long it has been since I’ve put pen to paper here on the BGWFans frontpage, before diving into the new documentation and information pertaining to Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s currently-underway Verbolten renovation, I’d like to first make sure everyone is caught up with the current state of new attraction development at Busch Gardens […]
New Development Planned Between Nessie & San Marco
Fresh Evidence Suggests the Location & Potential Ride-Type of Busch Gardens Williamsburg's Next Attraction
This article is the second in a two-part series. Be sure to read yesterday’s piece, Whispers, a broad collection of recent Busch Gardens Williamsburg rumors, before proceeding! Utility Markings About a week ago I got a message from friend of the site, ParkFans member, and public record monitoring extraordinaire, Jahrules. He tipped me off to […]
A Compendium of Recent Busch Gardens Williamsburg Rumors for 2026 & Beyond
This article, Whispers, is the first of two pieces that will be published this weekend. This story focuses on a wide array of rumors out of Busch Gardens Williamsburg over the last year or so. The second article will contain never-before-reported evidence regarding progress on one of the projects alluded to below. It’s gonna to […]
Extensive Updates Regarding Busch Gardens Williamsburg's Yet-To-Be-Announced, Big Bad Wolf-Inspired, 2025 Bolliger & Mabillard Family Inverted Roller Coaster
It has been nearly nine months since we first broke the news that Busch Gardens Williamsburg was planning to construct what we believe to be a custom, dual-lift, Bolliger & Mabillard, family, inverted roller coaster on the former site of Drachen Fire, Festhaus Park. If you missed that story or feel like you need a […]
New Leaks & Rumors Detail What to Expect from Busch Gardens Williamsburg's Water Park in 2025
Per a collection of recently-obtained documentation, Water Country USA is planning the addition of a new water play structure for the 2025 season. These new documents detail the park’s plan to demolish the existing H2O UFO splash pad and its pair of associated kiddie tube slides in order to make way for a fresh, notably-larger […]
Tipping Comes to United Parks Quick Service Dining
Where Does Your Money Go When You Tip at a Counter Service United Parks Restaurant?
Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s parent company, United Parks (formerly SeaWorld Parks), rolled out a new tipping system at their flagship property, SeaWorld Orlando, last month. United Parks properties with table service restaurants and/or full-service bars have long offered tipping for waitstaff (as is traditional for similar establishments throughout much of the United States). This newly-debuted tipping […]
Is Busch Gardens Williamsburg Making the Ultimate Nostalgia Play for Their 50th Anniversary?
Disclaimers The following reporting is based upon actively in-development plans. Subsequent revisions could change many of the details described below. The following should be viewed as a description of what Busch Gardens Williamsburg is likely, currently planning on constructing in 2025—not as an infallible depiction of what Busch Gardens Williamsburg will construct. Journalists, content creators, […]
DarKoaster: Escape the Storm Debuting at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in 2023
Everything We Know About Busch Gardens' Newly-Announced Indoor, Multi-Launched Roller Coaster
DarKoaster Basics Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s newest coaster, DarKoaster: Escape the Storm, is a spiritual successor to the park’s legendary, defunct dark ride, Curse of DarKastle. This Intamin-made, steel, family roller coaster has been constructed entirely within the walls of Curse of DarKastle’s original show building and will reuse much of the previous tenant’s infrastructure (queue, […]
FAA Height Waiver Filed for Busch Gardens Williamsburg's Project 2024
New Request Proposes 220 Foot Tall Structure in Festhaus Park
We’re just a handful of days away from Project DarKoaster‘s official announcement, but the flow of news dictates that we continue to look forward. We’ve known for many years now that Busch Gardens Williamsburg has big plans for the previous home of Drachen Fire, Festhaus Park. In the mid-2010s, the site was rumored to be […]
Widespread Whispers Warn of Mäch Tower's Potential Demise
“BGWFans is Always Right” Writing about rumors is remarkably uncomfortable for us. We typically try our best to stick to stories for which we have some amount of actual evidence—whether we can share that underlying data with our readers or not. The only reason many of those stories work is because of our reputation. Without […]
Website Leak Includes 2022 Howl-O-Scream House Lineup
An Apparent Website Misstep by Busch Gardens Williamsburg Seems to Confirm This Year's Mazes
Anyone who happened to be searching for Busch Gardens Williamsburg Quick Queues on Google recently may have stumbled upon quite a treat: The park’s publicly-accessible-and-searchable Howl-O-Scream Quick Queue page was updated with what appears to be the Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s 2022 Howl-O-Scream house lineup! While there’s some chance this listing could be some sort of […]
Roman Rapids Encounters Rough Waters
After Standing But Not Operating for Years, Roman Rapids Finds Itself Up a Creek Without a Paddle
Yikes. That’s a good way to summarize the current situation surrounding Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s 1988 Intamin rapids ride, Roman Rapids. For anyone who hasn’t kept up with the attraction lately, Roman Rapids hasn’t operated since Labor Day 2019. The capacity limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 simply made spinning up a staff-hungry attraction […]
Howl-O-Scream 2022 Information Begins to Ooze to the Surface
In-Park Observations & Permit Filings Shed Light on this Year's Howl-O-Scream Lineup
Now that we’re just over a month away from the September 9th start of this year’s Busch Gardens Williamsburg Howl-O-Scream, it seems high time that we begin sharing what we expect to see out of this year’s event. Since May, we’ve actually known the basic skeletal outline of this year’s Halloween event. That said, with […]
New Evidence Suggests that Busch Gardens Williamsburg's Boneyard is Slated for Development
Digging up graves is typically more of a Halloween activity, but it looks like Busch Gardens Williamsburg may be getting an early start on the festivities this year. Two months ago we wrote about a shocking occurrence at Busch Gardens Williamsburg: A pair of height balloons were flown in Festhaus Park. At the time, we […]
Two Balloons Appear Over Festhaus Park
Here’s a wild twist: There was a height survey in Festhaus Park today. Wilder yet, there were two different balloons flown. Oh, and it gets weirder: We don’t think this is Drachen Spire. Before we get to that though, here are a few photos showing both of the height survey balloons in the air earlier […]
Drachen Spire Height Waiver Extension Details
Just over a week ago, we reported on the renewal of the notorious 355 foot Festhaus Park height waiver that was originally requested for the controversial, Intamin-made, multi-launch, giga, shuttle coaster we’ve dubbed Drachen Spire. In last week’s article, we were very careful to leave the door open for a currently anticipated opening in either […]
The Battle for Eire Appears Lost
Busch Gardens' Ill-Fated VR Sim Seems to be Extinct
We’ve assumed this day was coming for a while now, but that doesn’t make it any less newsworthy. After less than two seasons of operation, Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s first of its kind, Falcons Creative Group-produced, virtual reality, simulator attraction, Battle for Eire, appears to be no more. Guests attending Busch Gardens Williamsburg this weekend arrived […]
Late February 2022 Attraction Status Update
A Brief Survey of the Current Status of All of Busch Gardens Williamsburg's Attractions
As promised in our general photo update on Tuesday, we’re circling back today to provide status and maintenance updates on all of the park’s main attractions. This is especially important right now given the recent delays in ride reopenings that have plagued Busch Gardens Williamsburg. When the park originally announced their March attraction lineup a […]
Tales Tell of a Dragon in the German Countryside
Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You Back in November, we wrote about Project Drachen Spire’s COVID-induced slumber. In that article, we discussed the history of Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s thoroughly-leaked, Intamin-made, multi-launch, shuttle, giga coaster that was originally slated to debut just one year after Pantheon in 2021. As described in our November piece, COVID derailed […]
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