Following additional plans being released yesterday, the project has today been announced to be a viking themed wooden rollercoaster.
Busch Gardens Williamsburg wrote:In 2017, a great battle will ensue in the trappers' village of New France. Vikings will invade, forcing the trappers to defend their village. Invade new territory on the first wooden coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. The 74-foot drop makes it a force to be feared and nine airtime hills wait to be conquered by bold warriors. Chart a course through the winding frontier at 48 mph and claim eternal glory for your crew.
Here's the difference:
There's currently a poll for the ride's name so head over to the Project 2017 page to cast your vote!
Re: Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 8:09 pm
by Altontowersbarlow
All three names are absolutely horrific. Despite this I am very interested to see this develop.
Re: Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 11:30 pm
by lewis97
It has been announced that 'InvadR' will be the name for the coaster, having received 52% of the votes.
Re: Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 11:51 pm
by Owen
Personally, I feel the name of an attraction is very important. It needs to be memorable and eye catching, to make the ride equally as memorable and noticed. This name is cringeworthy and lazy - and I feel like this will soon be forgotten p, especially by those outside of the US, a shame really after the success of Verbolten.
Re: Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 12:02 am
by lewis97
The park did publish a blog post just over a week back explaining the process behind selecting the choices of names. Although 'InvadR' may seem lazy at first it is actually inspired by Old Norse names so does have deeper meaning, although admittedly this is unlikely to be something the average guest is aware of.
Re: Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 2:18 pm
by Owen
I like the idea, however Verbolten also took inspiration from the German word Verboten (which means prohibited or something similar) and it is much nicer to say than InvadR. I don't know if I'm being picky I'm just not a fan of the name really :-k
Re: Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 9:18 pm
by Danny
Despite the reasoning of the name InvadR, a name also needs to sounds good and suit the theme and ride. I don't like it, but will reserve full judgement until we find out more about it.
Re: Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 3:49 pm
by MakoMania
I think this is the worst name for a ride to come out of SeaWorld creative for a very long time, maybe the worst in the history of the company.
Still happy BGW are getting a wooden coaster though
Re: Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:03 pm
by MakoMania
Official POV of InvadR!
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The name is growing on me.
Re: Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 10:21 am
by Owen
It seems as though Busch Gardens will be using the trains from Tampa's Gwazi coaster on InvadR. Personally I'm not too excited about this as they weren't the best, however it'll be it resting to see what happens...
Re: Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Posted: Sun May 29, 2016 10:31 am
by Burniel
Owen wrote:It seems as though Busch Gardens will be using the trains from Tampa's Gwazi coaster on InvadR. Personally I'm not too excited about this as they weren't the best, however it'll be it resting to see what happens...
They weren't all that bad - the Gwazi trains were fairly new and it would be a bit of a waste to not reuse them. The way I see it, the more money they save on the trains, the more they can put into more exciting aspects of the coaster!
Re: Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2016 5:54 pm
by Owen
A second poll has been started, where you will now choose the logo for InvadR. Below are the options.