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 […]
The Final Post of the Off-Season
It’s almost time. As of the time this post goes live, there are only 14 hours till Busch Gardens Williamsburg opens its gates for the 2013 season. As you could expect from BGWFans, we’ll be dashing around the park all day tomorrow documenting every last change we can find. Anyway, though a massive wave of […]
Ticket Booth Construction, Eagle Ridge Overhaul, and Much More!
We have less than two weeks till Busch Gardens Williamsburg opens and I have some great news: There’s an absolute ton of news to report. Over the past few weeks things have been slowly building up but nothing has really happened that justified a post; that is, until now. Today we have tons of construction […]
New Show Coming to Das Festhaus in 2013 and More!
Das Festhaus Will House Two Shows for 2013 A This is Oktoberfest-Style Show Is Returning To Das Festhaus for 2013 It’s true. After last year’s horrifically disappointing debut of Entwined, it was clear to everyone that major changes needed to take place. Well, today, we can finally share what we’ve been told to expect in […]
First off, sorry about the ridiculously long delay on this update. We ran into some fairly major bugs which prevented us from posting picture galleries- something that was needed to make this post possible. Fortunately we’ve managed to find and fix said bugs and everything is now (hopefully) running smoothly once again. If you run into any […]
Waves of Honor, Food & Wine Festival, Banbury Changes, and Gelato!
This is going to be a quick post highlighting some recent news having to do with a leaked employee memo which can be found below. There’s not a ton of new information here, but it does confirm a fairly long list of rumored and/or leaked bits of news that we’ve heard over the last few […]
SeaWorld Entertainment IPO: Here Come the Suitors
According to sources cited by Reuters, in addition to pursuing an IPO, SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment is in early talks with multiple potential, independent buyers. Among them, both Six Flags and Apollo Global Management (of Great Wolf Lodge fame) are specifically named. While it’s not unusual for companies to see if they can fetch a higher price […]
Busch Gardens Parks Get New Logos
With the upcoming IPO on the horizon, SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment has chosen to assign new logos to both Busch Gardens Williamsburg and Busch Gardens Tampa. The new branding was first spotted by Newsie on the official filing papers for the chain’s IPO. A few days later, Party Rocker spotted the new logo on the upcoming version […]
Verbolten: Now with Headlights!
It has finally happened. After months and months of waiting, Busch Gardens Williamsburg has finally managed to get headlights and tail lights working on all of Verbolten’s trains. As some of you may remember, when Verbolten had its soft opening back in May of last year, the blue train had working headlights. Well, the following […]
According to a letter sent around to park staff on November 30th, Busch Gardens Williamsburg has done quite a bit of reorganizing within its upper management as of late. The leadership changes involve everything from Water Country USA to the Finance department and they’re defiantly worth making note of. Anyway, I’ve divided the post up based on who the […]
Banbury Cross Changes: Permits, Leaks, and Rumors
Before I get into the story, if you could take a moment to vote for BGWFans in the Behind the Thrills Fansite of the Year poll, that’d be fantastic. Thanks for your support everyone! [hr] Introduction It sounds like there might be something brewing in Banbury Cross. Over the past few months, we’ve been hearing […]
Christmas Town 2012: Everything You Need To Know
Yesterday, one of our forum members, UnicornZiva, pointed out that the park had updated their Christmas Town website to include a full lineup of this year’s attractions. I figured it would probably be something that would be good to share on the front page, so, well, here it is. And, since a normal “this is what […]
Announcing KDFans and the ParkFans Network
After months of hard (ok, maybe not so hard) work, we’re happy to finally announce the ParkFans Network along with BGWFans’ new sister site, KDFans!
Howl-O-Scream 2012: The Full Review
The original plan was to have a review posted following opening weekend, but there was a problem: Howl-O-Scream’s opening weekend was literally one of the worst things I’ve ever experienced at the park. Everything was an absolute disaster. Houses were horribly understaffed, the actors that were present did absolutely nothing, the houses were in awful shape, and park theming […]
Final Howl-O-Scream 2012 Update
Well, Howl-O-Scream starts tomorrow (Friday the 14th) and, well, what better way to get people excited than to post the final Howl-O-Scream update? Anyway, Ireland, Rhinefield, Night Beats, Festa, and England are really the highlights of today’s update as they had the most work done since our last update. If you missed the last update […]
Fall 2012 Pass Member Appreciation Announcement Event
If you were somehow unaware, yesterday was the first day of Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s annual pass member appreciation event. For the third year in a row now, the park held an event in Das Festhaus to announce the details of this year’s Howl-O-Scream, Christmas Town, and anything new coming for the following season. This year, […]
I know, I’ve done it again. This update was supposed to go up on Saturday but things came up, my time to do anything with the site was taken away, and, well, life got in the way. Again. The good news is that I managed to get back to the park for a second time […]