The Virginia theme park's Zierer drop coaster will be the nation's first, featuring a free-fall drop inside a show building in addition to familiar elements borrowed from its predecessor, Big Bad Wolf.
We're planning to be on site for Verbolten's media day next month so keep reading Theme Park Insider for reviews, photos and video when the coaster opens.
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FWIW, US parks have a habit of promoting things as "first anywhere" if they're just "first" in the US.
Also, we haven't heard yet about when the media access will be. Often at regional parks, the "media day" is just early media access in the AM, followed by public access later in the morning. But I'd plan on visiting Saturday if you want to be totally safe on getting in to ride. Also, you won't have the deal with the slooooww capacity issues on media days. (Parks typically slow cycle times down a lot when they're shuttling reporters and photographers on and off the ride.)
Looks like a run ride, though.
I won't be there for the media event, but I do expect to hit BGW sometime mid to late summer during my annual VA Pilgrimage. Choosing between a retro-fitted I305 (I rode it with trims during its first summer of life) or a brand new Verbolten is a no-brainer. Gotta go with the shiny new ride in the better overall park - it's a Williamsburg life for me!
they're wrong...
still, it does look quality though!!
But at any rate here's the video from Coaster Crew:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DCta3ri67w&feature=player_embedded
-Well that is just rude and unnecessary. To begin with, making the "first in the world" claim and it being discovered as false (which would be quite easy once the ride is open to the public) will SERIOUSLY injure BGW's credibility in the press. Now I don't know anything about the technical side of this, but I don't think it a stretch of the imagination that if they are making the claim, then it is possible that there is some technical (possibly behind-the-scenes and unnoticable) aspect of the experience that differs from Thirteen and allows them to justify (albeit only technically) such a claim. If that truly is the case, then it's not "Typical American Arrogance" so much as "Typical Business Competition".
What IS arrogant is to assume something before you have all the facts.
...just sayin, chief.
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