Late February 2022 General Photo Update
DarKoaster, Pantheon, Bridges, Rhinefeld Controversy, & More
Given the overwhelmingly positive response to last month’s photo update, it seems that our readers may still be interested in this sort of broad, general park changes-focused, Busch Gardens Williamsburg content. We still don’t plan to post updates like this on any set schedule, but whenever there’s a plethora of small projects ongoing, we’ll be […]
Go-Karts Plus Planning Multi-Level Track
Family Entertainment Center Near Busch Gardens Williamsburg Proposes Major Attraction Addition
We’ve never written about Go-Karts Plus here on BGWFans, but our partner community, ParkFans, has long had a corner of the forum dedicated to the park’s discussion. For anyone who may be unaware, Go-Karts Plus is a family entertainment center located about 20 minutes west of Busch Gardens Williamsburg. It features a small roller coaster, […]
Good & Bad News Regarding the Proposed Special Event Building
Back in May of last year, Busch Gardens Williamsburg filed paperwork with James City County requesting permission to build an absolutely enormous special event and storage facility on the former site of the park’s Festhaus Park-adjacent greenhouses. This addition, as we understand it, was designed to allow the entertainment department to vacate Curse of DarKastle […]
Thoughts & Reviews from Anonymous Busch Gardens Williamsburg Employees
At long last, Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s much-anticipated, Intamin-made, swing-launch coaster, Pantheon, finally saw its first large batch of riders on February 3rd. During an employee-exclusive event held yesterday, park employees were given the opportunity to ride Pantheon a nearly-unlimited number of times—day and night. Over the past 24 hours or so, I’ve been in contact […]
Our First Photo Update of 2022 Features Everything from Renovations & Repaints to Hints at Battle for Eire's Future
With Busch Gardens Williamsburg operating year-round nowadays, we have been granted the opportunity to observe a ton of fairly routine maintenance work that we’ve never been able to witness previously. Better yet, after years of deferred projects as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, this “off-season” has been a particularly busy one thus far by […]
Busch Gardens Williamsburg is Developing a New, Unique, Intamin-Made, Quad-Launch, Indoor, Family Roller Coaster to Replace Curse of DarKastle
Psssst. Before we get into today’s story, I just have a few requests. Please read all of the colored text boxes (like this one). The white boxes just offer a bit of cheeky fun—but the colorful ones only contain important information, I swear. After (and only after!) you read the whole article: Feel free to […]
BGWFans Leaks SeaWorld Orlando's Project Penguin
Sibling Gossip So Juicy We Just Had to Share
Hey you—yeah, you. I know you’re probably planning to skip past all this text as you go lookin’ for photos and videos. Though I’d certainly prefer that you read the whole piece, I know it’s fairly likely that you won’t. With that in mind, before you get goin’, could I ask for just a couple […]
Busch Gardens Williamsburg's Long-Planned Giga Shuttle Coaster Still Has Yet to Recover from COVID
Thanks to a treasure trove of newly-obtained, internal SEAS documentation, we can now say with a high degree of certainty that Busch Gardens Williamsburg is not currently planning to pursue their long-sought giga coaster project in time for a 2023 debut. Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s thoroughly-leaked, Intamin-made, giga, shuttle coaster known to BGWFans readers as “Drachen […]
A Brief Word Regarding BGWFans' Position on Project Codenames
Throughout BGWFans’ more than 10 year history, we have leaked a lot of major Busch Gardens Williamsburg attraction additions. Historically, we have typically tried to identify yet-to-be-announced BGW rides by their anticipated debut year. For instance, prior to their official announcements, we identified Verbolten as Project 2012, Tempesto as Project 2015, InvadR as Project 2017, […]
Full Howl-O-Scream 2021 House & Show Lineup Leaked
Ahead of Busch Gardens Williamsburg's Howl-O-Scream 2021 Announcement, BGWFans Has Obtained Details on All of the Park's New Houses & Shows
August 10th Update:Most of the lineup has now been officially announced! Check out the update at the end of this article for more details! Oh boy, this is gonna to be a blockbuster… BGWFans has now sourced, corroborated, and, through examination of internally-sourced documentation, essentially confirmed the house and show lineup for Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s […]
Busch Gardens Williamsburg's 2020 Roller Coaster Addition is Unlikely to Open Before 2022
Since COVID-19 walloped the United States in March of 2020, we have been fairly timid in regards to forecasting an opening timeline for Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s long-awaited, Intamin multi-launch coaster, Pantheon. This hesitancy hasn’t been rooted in a lack of insight into the status of the project, a lack of rumors surrounding an opening timeline, […]
Howl-O-Scream 2021 Details Begin to Bubble to the Surface
Details Ooze Forth Regarding the Upcoming Resurrection of Busch Gardens Williamsburg's Signature Halloween Event, Howl-O-Scream
Earlier today Busch Gardens Williamsburg pushed a handful of blockbuster changes out to the Howl-O-Scream website. Most notably among them was a basic skeleton for this year’s event. Howl-O-Scream 2021 Lineup Howl-O-Scream 2021 is slated to feature five houses, four terrortories (read: scarezones), and four shows. Of those five houses, three will be new with […]
Newly Revealed Plans Depict Water Country USA's Next Big Attraction Addition
Back in February we published a story outlining the early signs indicating to us that something notable was in development for the current site of Water Country USA’s Aqua Skoot, Rampage. In the months since, Water Country USA has reopened for the first time since 2019 and both Rampage, and its neighboring tube slide, Wild […]
Enormous Event Building Proposed Near Festhaus Park
The Single Most Interesting Article About a New Warehouse Imaginable
I know this article isn’t short and the title sounds like a snooze-fest. Give it a shot though. I assure you, there’s something for everyone in here. Howl-O-Scream? Project Madrid? Pantheon & Drachen Spire? This piece has it all. Part I: Background Busch Gardens Williamsburg has morphed a lot over the years, but there are […]
Is Busch Gardens Surrendering the Battle for Eire?
After Just Two Short Years of Operations, Could this Innovative, Immersive, One-of-a-Kind, Virtual Reality Attraction Have Already Given its Final Rides?
This post is going to feel hauntingly familiar. Back in late 2017, we wrote The Curse is Fading, an article outlining the early, tentative evidence suggesting to us that Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s beloved darkride, Curse of DarKastle, may have already seen its final riders. Back then, Battle for Eire was right on the horizon—in fact, […]
New Evidence Suggests Water Country USA Could be Evaluating Rampage's Site for Future Development
There’s a winter storm pummeling much of the country, we just marked Valentines and Presidents Day off our calendars, and we’re still in the midst of a devastating, world-altering, global pandemic. Taken together, I think it’s reasonable to conclude that February 16th, 2021 is an odd time to talk about Water Country USA—yet here we […]
Will Pantheon & Aquazoid Amped Open in 2020?
New Evidence and Rumors Suggest the Two Major 2020 SEAS Projects in Virginia May See Substantial Delays
As eyes slowly turn towards reopening a post-COVID-19 world, we’ve been inundated with one question over and over again: “Will Pantheon and/or Aquazoid Amped open in 2020?” Obviously, until Busch Gardens Williamsburg makes an announcement one way or the other, we’re unlikely to know for sure. What we do know, however, is that there is […]
New Site Plan Provides First Glimpse at La Cucina Renovations
Site Plans Depict New Bar & Checkout Setup at Festa Italia's Oft-Forgotten Restaurant, La Cucina
Hey everyone, quick note before we get started: The article below was written last week and scheduled for a March 12th publication. In the time since, COVID-19 has flipped BGW, the amusement industry, and to some extent, society as a whole on its head. Due to the impacts of the Coronavirus, projects like the one […]
Apollo's Chariot May Not Be Ready for Opening Day
New Quick Queue Offering Suggests Apollo's Chariot Won't be Ready to Reopen with the Park on March 15th
As opening day approaches, bits and pieces of Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s website have been slowly receiving updates. Most of these changes have been pretty mundane, but, as one of ParkFans’ forum members, FoozMuz, pointed out this morning, there is a particularly suspicious recent change to the park’s Quick Queue offerings. Busch Gardens Williamsburg is now […]
Despite Continued Silence from the Park, Details Begin to Trickle in About Aquazoid's Big Renovation
In an investor-facing press release published this morning, SeaWorld Parks let Water Country USA’s 2020 secret out of the bag: Water Country USA’s family raft ride, Aquazoid, is going under the knife. As we’ve been reporting on for a while now, odd things have been happening around Aquazoid—which is easily one of Water Country’s most […]