We all know about London Rocks coming to the Globe Theater next season and Colossal Curl’s opening at Water Country USA in 2014, but that’s far from everything the park has on its plate over the off-season this year. In addition to those two at least moderately marketable projects, the park is also replacing the […]
Water Country USA Announces Colossal Curl
Today Water Country USA announced the extensively leaked ProSlide WorldALLEY that we’ve been expecting to see unveiled for a few weeks now. Because the official plans have been leaked, there really isn’t much new information here aside from the colors, the name, and a few very minor details. That said, we’ve managed to collect basically […]
Water Country USA's 2014 Project Revealed
Well, we certainly didn’t plan to share this stuff so early, but it seems someone else pulled the trigger before we were planning to do it ourselves. So, in light of that, we might as well have a bit of fun on an otherwise dull Friday afternoon. Enjoy! [hr] [iconbox title=”Update: Colossal Curl Has Been […]
Festa Italia Expansion & Large New Attraction
It’s happening. It looks like after years of providing Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s visitors with the most subpar in-park experience possible, Festa Italia, the park’s neglected red-headed stepchild of a hamlet is finally going to receive some love. Today Busch Gardens Williamsburg filed a permit for a “new attraction with height of 156 feet” with the title […]
Public Service Announcement: Fright Feast is Awful
The park has two exclusive dining opportunities for this year’s Howl-O-Scream: Fright Feast and Blood Banquet. I opted to experience the latter last weekend and, after reading people’s thoughts about Fright Feast on our forum, it seems I made the right choice. By all accounts, Fright Feast is, basically, awful and should be avoided at […]
Final Howl-O-Scream 2013 Construction Update
As you may or may not know, Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s 14th Howl-O-Scream event starts tomorrow but, fortunately, tonight we have one final construction update for you all to check out before the official debut. Now, because there’s not really much to say that hasn’t been said already, the vast majority of this post will be […]
Pass Member Appreciation 2013: The Presentation
Yesterday, August 7th, was the the first day of Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s Pass Member Appreciation Weekend. As we’ve come to expect from the event, the park held an elaborate presentation inside Das Festhaus at which they announced the details for both of their upcoming seasonal events, Howl-O-Scream and Christmas Town, as well as teased the […]
Pass Member Appreciation 2013: What to Expect
As you may or may not know, this Saturday and Sunday is Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s annual Pass Member Appreciation Weekend. For those of you who aren’t familiar, Pass Member Appreciation Weekend is an event that takes place every year the weekend before Howl-O-Scream. Historically the event has offered pass members exclusive discounts, giveaways, dining experiences, […]
Mix it Up Cast Walk-Off & Cancellation
This is still a developing story and this post will be updated with more information as it comes out. Before I go any further, if anyone has any additional information that they’d like to share, you can email me here. As always, your identity is 100% confidential and I’ll never release anything you don’t specifically […]
Howl-O-Scream 2013 Construction Update
Now that IllumiNights’ removal is nearly complete, the park is finally able to get started with Howl-O-Scream’s install. Considering that Busch Gardens Williamsburg has just a mere three weeks to bring together what is marketed as the most extensively themed event in the park’s history, I’d say they have a lot of work ahead of […]
Howl-O-Scream 2013: The Lineup
In past years, BGWFans has always kept a constantly up-to-date list of all of the rumored, under construction, and confirmed Howl-O-Scream attractions on the ParkFans Forum and, while that has always worked, I think posting it to the main site this year may increase the list’s visibility to people who don’t stay up to date […]
Europe in the Air Has Flown Its Final Flight
Europe in the Air is Closed Without a single mention from the park, Europe in the Air, Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s European-themed Soarin’ rip-off, closed yesterday, June 30th. As of the morning of July 1st, there has still not been any mention of the closure from the park but, according to what we’ve been told by […]
IllumiNights 2013 Construction Update & More
The Food & Wine Festival just ended, Pirates 4D just closed, reasonable temperatures are quickly becoming a thing of the past, and it’s getting to the point where you can’t walk outside without the humidity hitting you like a ton of bricks. What does all this mean? It means it’s time for IllumiNights. Now, just […]
Introduction About a week or so ago I asked on our Facebook page whether or not there was any interest in a quick review of The Chef’s Guests, one of Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s up-charge experiences for this year’s Food & Wine Festival. Though the response wasn’t overwhelming, it seemed that some of you were, indeed, interested. […]
Coca-Cola Market, Aquitaine, IllumiNights, Howl-O-Scream, & More!
Before I get to the update, I’ll address this first. I can hear the cries now: “Where’s the Food & Wine review?” “What did you think of Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s new festival?” “Quit stalling, just give us the pictures!” Well, unfortunately, this isn’t a Food & Wine Festival review. Why you ask? Well, I haven’t […]
The Final Food & Wine Construction Update
As I’m sure you all know, the first ever Busch Gardens Williamsburg Food & Wine Festival starts this Friday. Regardless of its quickly approaching debut, I’m sure there’s plenty of people out there who would love one last construction update before it starts. This is that update. Enjoy! [hr] New Food & Wine Festival Announcements […]
Food & Wine Festival Construction, Coca-Cola Market Progress, & More!
Though the BGWFans homepage has been pretty quiet over the last few weeks, the park has still been very busy preparing for the Busch Gardens Williamsburg Food & Wine Festival, working on the new Coca-Cola Market, continuing to clean up Aquitaine, and more. I’ll start out the post with a look at the ongoing construction for […]
Verbolten Incident & Mäch Tower Changes
Over the last few days a little news has come out pertaining to Busch Gardens’ two newest rides: Verbolten and Mach Tower. I’ll start with the Mach Tower news because that seems to be the only story that would actually have an affect on someone visiting the park. After that, I’ll go into what we’ve heard and […]
Opening Weekend Part 2: The Photo Update
I’m terribly sorry that it took me this long to get this post up. After Pass Member Preview, I simply didn’t have enough photo content to justify a post- at least not one I would have been happy with. With that said, last weekend was technically the first full weekend the park was open to the […]
Opening Weekend Part 1: Presentations and the Food & Wine Festival
I was going to post everything I have gotten this weekend at once but there is, quite simply, way too much content. Instead I’m going to break down everything from this weekend into two or three separate posts. This first post contains all four of the presentation videos and a ton of new information on […]