Loch Ness Monster is BACK and Better Than Ever! HUGE Ride Refurb Tour/Reaction Busch Gardens
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- We're at Busch Gardens Williamsburg to experience the recently upgraded Loch Ness Monster; a classic Arrow looping coaster from 1978! The ride received some major retracking this past off season along with some impressing theming enhancements! We'll show you around the queue, take you for a ride on the attraction, and give our thoughts afterwards!
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I can hear Pantheon in the background asking himself "do I also have to wait 46 years?"
😭😭😭
DarKoaster I can also hear as well “What about me BGW?”
LOL TRUE
True tho
Regarding DarKoaster, I think an inexpensive way to improve the ride would be to simply add a few effects every year. Make it a point to slowly add a little bit each and every year instead of doing a major refurb. Then everyone would want to ride it every year to see what changes have been made. It would be similar to a Halloween maze that changes each year. By the end of ten years it could be Disney/Universal level without having to break the bank any one year.
I'm glad they are keeping these old arrows in good shape instead of replacing them.
That was exactly what I was about to say!
So many people were gutted when they tore out Big Bad Wolf (which was probably much harder to maintain because it was a suspended coaster). Loch Ness Monster is the one coaster at the park with probably an even greater load of nostalgia associated with it than BBW, and it's also one of the best old Arrow loopers anywhere. So I think it's not just that it's an old Arrow, it's that it's THIS old Arrow.
It's great to see that they put some effects in the tunnel again. In the ride's early days, there were fog machines and strobe lights in there, and I think for a while there was even some kind of illuminated image of the Monster. But it had gotten bare.
I do agree however Anaconda at Kings Dominon needs to go 😂. Mack Hyper or new Vekoma replacement plzzz!
@@ch6inre6ction11 But they can make it smoother or something 😢.
@@maxhagenauer24 Lol forget all that. The thing about Loch Ness is its setting, layout and its overall look. It's classic in every way. Its art. Anaconda has a boring layout and no type of artistic style. And it's rough and janky especially after the mid course slams it to a screeching hault
The ride op at 3:22 sure is using a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! ;P
The older coasters in the country really need to be redone just like this.
Indeed, Viper would benefit from this treatment a lot.
Some of them have been, but not to great results. Plus, most people would rather just have a new, better coaster replace them.
There is hardly a more iconic view of a coaster than those yellow intersecting Arrow loops and track over the water. It’s such a great looking ride.
This is soooo well done by Busch Gardens. The thematic upgrades on this are so much more interesting than a new, unthemed roller coaster, and give the park character which makes people want to come back. I really hope United Parks does similar upgrades on more of its rides 🙏🙏
I think the last thing that they could do to add some more spice on the reopening of Nessie, is to make the trains duel again on the loops.
Welcome back, Nessie.
Loch Ness is the coaster that made me fall in love with coasters, good to see her getting love from BG!
Yes! I was hoping you guys would make a video on this refurb! I love the updated theming and the tunnel is quite cool! Hopefully, Busch Gardens does this type of theming for most of their rides
My daughter and I were part of a commercial/photo shoot a few days before it opened to the public and rode it over a dozen times. You can spiffy her up, but she's still an old lady Arrow! Take your earrings out ladies and gentleman, the head banging it still there! The last row is actually the smoothest. If you're in the front, good luck! LOL
You gotta respect how much work BGW puts into this ride to keep it going this long: they’ve bought new custom trains that look practically identical to the old ones, they’ve retracked the thing, they’ve added tons of new theming, all years after most parks would’ve just scrapped a ride like this.
4:59 Sarah and Taylor confirmed
bro it's been like 2 years now
I always thought so...but they don't bring it up much I started to question it lol
Glad I'm not the only one
In the Kings Dominion video from a few days ago, he called her 'babe' as well. Like, we've always known, but now it's confirmed.
Okay good because I was worried that Taylor was just friend zoning her this whole time, they're so cute together and I'm really happy for them knowing that fact 😄
I wondered too but didn’t want to ask. I just started watching their channel a few months ago
this was also my first big coaster. i remember stuffing socks in my shoes so i could meet the height requirement. glad to see they’re giving it some love! all the new audio stuff makes it so much better
So Iconic! I have been to BGT and Kings Dominion but not BGW. I really love the Arrow loopers 😎 I really need to go to BGW. Thanks guys for sharing the great ride footage 😎😊❤️👍
Giving such a ride some well deserved love is great. There are not many coasters as iconic as Loch Ness Monster.
the 1970s color scheme has always impressed me. reminds people they're riding a nearly true vintage machine.
I do loops in my boat all the time. 😆
If you don't, you ain't doin it right 😂
I really wish Vortex got this, too (which was also my first big ride!). Happy to see them keeping this one alive!
Such a great arrow I rode it during previews so glad they kept it around!
My first big coaster was big bad wolf. Wouldn't ride this at that time. Later in life I started riding it and it's still my favorite coaster to this day.
Happy to hear that they have given Nessie a refurbishment/upgrade! It's amazing what a retracking will do for a coaster!
After what happened with the Mindbender, there is now this fear that one of the classics might be done away with suddenly. Glad that the Loch Ness Monster is going to be lurking around, hopefully for at least another 50 years!
Yeah, let that math sink in! 2024-1978=46 years! Nessie is nearly half a century old!
A Legendary RollerCoaster! Busch Gardens should be proud.
I’m dying at the photo of the old timey Arrow “boat” in the queue 😂 That’s an amazing detail
Watching this video brought back fond memories of being a young kid riding Nessie for the first time! It's been almost a decade, I will have to check out the new tracks. Saylor gang always killing it!
Was great meeting you guys! I’m so glad they poured so much into this legendary coaster.
My first time on your channel, reviewing my first roller coaster experience ever! Great review, guys, thanks for covering this. The renovations look great. The LNM has a special place in my memories as a kid decades ago.
Such an iconic roller coaster. Im pretty sure one of the first ever roller coaster POV's to go viral on the internet was one of this very ride. And for good reason. This is basically the epitome of a classic thrilling coaster! Intimidating and a little janky, but also not overcomplicated. Just a true classic that will get a smile on just about anyones face.
Awesome job,guys!! I actually worked @ BGW,one summer,back in it's early days;so of course it is my Home Park.Glad to hear Nessie has been successfully improved!! Thanks for the great review!!
WOW! I remember riding that as a teenager dozens of times back in the Jurassic era 40 years ago! 😂😂 I can't believe its still around. It was my first big coaster ever riding too..Amazing. Its an iconic coaster.
Reminds me of demon at great america. That ride was definitely an average arrow with a story, and now its beloved. The fewer arrow loopers there are left, the more special these rides become. Corkscrew profiling aside
Adding a story makes the theming experience so different. That screen in the tunnel is so cool.
Good to see Sea World Entertainment starting to dip it’s feet back into theming and indoor rides. Hope we get to see more indoor and themed stuff (looking at you wild arctic)!
Also, they should do a coaster in the old corkscrew hill building for their next ride, use it as the station!)
Rad video! I was a kid when this opened, I’ve never been there, but always wanted to. I’ve been watching it age through pictures in roller coaster books and videos, so I agree that it looks better than ever!
Loch Ness was my first major roller coaster. Such a special ride!
I’ve been so excited for this coaster to be refurbished! I rode it last year and even then it was a fun ride!
I was looking for this video yesterday lol, I refused to believe you wouldn't have a video on this.
It is beautiful to see the Orient Express’ sister coaster is in great condition. I miss the Orient Express but a part of her lives in Loch Ness Monster.
One of my first roller coaster rides as a kid. So glad to see it lives on!! 💪
This looks amazing! this is my very first coaster I've ridden that goes upside down. If it wasn't for this coaster I wouldn't be riding any of the coasters I ride today
So excited! Loch Ness was my first coaster too! Summer of '78!
My first big coaster too. Went 1 week after I graduated high school in 1991.
Reminds me of the theming in the queue for Expedition Everest. Looks cool, BGW and KD are top of my list for the next coaster trip
Glad to see what they've done with this, putting in the $$$ to preserve an iconic coaster. Is it my favorite coaster in the park? No way, but I'm glad it's THERE, and now it will be there for a longer amount of time! (Big Bad Wolf was my first big coaster, and I unfortunately can't relive those memories, so glad this one is still ticking away.) Also, that queue is giving me very Expedition Everest queue vibes and I'm not mad about it. Looking forward to getting back on this, and hearing so many sweet stories about how this was someone's first looping coaster. (Love those loops, but the first drop was always my favorite part.)
4:55 Loch Ness was also my first big roller coaster! So grateful that BGW is my home park
Outside of vampire (Chessington! Home park!), I have never wanted to go on an arrow coaster this much. This looks incredible!
This video really makes me happy. I remember marathoning this in 1987 when I was in seventh grade on a trip with my family from Michigan. Everyone was waiting for “The Big Bad Wolf” so I rode this 24 times that day. This coaster is so sentimental to me and I’m thrilled that they kept it and made improvements!
This is so cool! When I was a kid, we went to Busch Gardens to ride Loch Ness Monster and Big Bad Wolf in their opening seasons (yup, older than dirt). Next time I’m back on the East Coast I may have to make a nostalgia trip to ride the refurbished LNM and ride Pantheon for the first time. I rode Drachenfire when I was stationed at Fort Monroe. Let us never speak of it again. 😂
Loch Ness Monster was my first time going upside-down on a roller coaster, or on any amusement ride for that matter. I think that was the case for a lot of people out there. It wasn't my first big coaster (that was the long-vanished Mr. Twister at Elitch Gardens), but it was a major milestone for me.
I haven't been back to BGW in so, so long (before most of the coasters there were even built) despite frequent visits to Virginia to visit family. This is just making me itch for it.
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
I love seeing all the work they've put into this. It's always been one that I've enjoyed riding multiple times every visit, and I want it to last forever. The added theming will make it just that much better.
Last time I visited bgw it was during winter fest and I thought all the rides would be open 💀
Love that one ride of Nessie gives you more views of a mythical beast than 100 rides of Big Bear Mountain.
Nice upgrades! Interestingly.. in 2018 they added nice audio... and a strobe? In the tunnel/ helix section there too!... but it didn't last long after 40th anniversary
I know you were saying it tongue and cheek but as a massive fan of a show called Life After People I genuinely think Nessie will be among the last coasters still standing. Arrow coasters are made of steel but have the amount of bracing a wood coaster is given, something I believe sets them up to stand a long time. It will be between Arrow coasters and hybrid woodies with a steel structure for last standing coaster (we actually get a glimpse of this comparing Mega Zeph to rides like Williams Grove Cyclone or the Joyland coaster that were abandoned around the same time). Voyage is probably the coaster I'd ultimately put my money on though, with how much it is spread out and having a steel structure you would probably still see evidence of a coaster there after more than 500 years.
Damn you guys are uploading a lot. Good for you
It was also my first big roller coaster!! I cried and was terrified and my dad forced me to ride it… and I came off a coaster junkie 💀 that same night we got stuck at the top of the big bad wolf and had to walk the main-drop’s stairs with firemen escorting us. Good times. The Griffon wasn’t even a thing yet. Rip BBW
Rode it last summer, and going back in August! Ready to ride it again!!
I'm very happy to see parks trying to take care of their old classics. Grew up in Florida, Busch Gardens Tampa had my favorite roller coasters growing up. I've moved up north now, I really need to make a trip to Williamsburg to what it's like.
My wife and I grew up in Va Beach. We haven't been to BG since like 2011 the year before we had our son and then I got stationed elsewhere. We have a 1 week trip coming up in the beginning of June. Plan to go on a weekday while schools are still going. Our kids are now almost 12 and 10 and they love coasters. They'll finally get to experience our childhood theme park. Cant wait to ride all the new and the old!
ngl im happy this coaster got upgraded, this is also my very first actual coaster ive ridden
Showing old rides love !! I love it ! Long live nessy
My first big roller coaster was the one right behind you while you said that. Griffon!
I love what they've done with the place.
I like how the past couple videos come in multiple accents. The ride itself has a Jaws and Jurassic park vibe. Those video panels are great way to add theming to an outside ride.
They did an amazing job on this. I am going to have to go back this summer (I planned my trip a couple of weeks too early). This was also was my first big coaster outside of my home park.This and Big Bad Wolf (RIP 😢)
I’m glad they kept the extended queue theming!
Thanks for taking a selfie with me at twisted Timbers on Friday!
I rode back row and it is FUN tons of airtime and the loops were so smooth
Love your vids😃
Omg I saw you at Pantheon yesterday and I was freaking out!!!
You two have been everywhere! Lol. I’m tryna be like y’all.
I was hoping it would duel in the interlocking loops again but we will see during busy season. Lets hope Magnum and Viper gets this treatment too!
This was definitely my first ride also
While I am yet to visit BGW, I have been to Lock Ness. On a boat tour, my sister and I saw something in the distance that could have been the monster (Or just a fish).
My daughter told me they are legally not allowed to remove it, because it's actually a historic landmark
this refurb deserves a standing ovation, it sucks that I'm not going to BGW this year
Can't wait to try for my first time this year.
I came across your channel. Love your videos , new subscriber
I feel as though they were looking at Kings Dominion’s Jungle Expedition and were taking notes…especially with the billboard for this on 95 a few miles outside KD haha. Not that BGW has ever needed tips on theming!
Hope to ride it one day.
love to see y'all at my home park. i've got to get over and re-ride nessie now that the retrack is finished! also, if only i could've been there when y'all were. would've loved to meet y'all 💔
I have yet to go on this ride, but I would have to say it has been my most anticipated coaster for probably a decade
I saw yall at the park! 😂 yesterday and lochness monster is amazing it is still wobbly tho
I’m very excited to get back on this thing! I’ve always made sure to cherish my rides on it. The other thing I’ve been wanting was a refurbishment of the effects on Verbolten cause they could use some TLC in my opinion
I really miss this ride I haven't been to bush gardens since I was little
I loved the ride before, but more theming and much smoother track makes it even better.
It was a lot of head knocking before.
This was my first big coaster as well
There’s also a quest or Easter egg in the bulletin board too!
R.I.P. BIG BAD WOLF 🐺
Really hope they go and add theming to pantheon now.
I saw y’all at the ride. I was at the front row. If I saw y’all after the ride, I would have said hi
WE ARE IN THIS RIGHT BEFORE YOU GET ON
Seeing what BGW did with this ride really has me hoping the same can be done with Viper at Magic Mountain. I know its very unlikely, but I would love to see Viper preserved and refurbished
when humanity is gone all that will remain is Loch Ness Monster and Nemesis - fitting
Another Easter egg is on the diagram of the train in the queue there is six cars. This is because the original design of the trains only had six cars.
Were you guys there on opening day. I was. Sadly there was delays a lot so when we were going to ride it, it delayed and we had to head out
I love you both
The new Nessie statue at the end is such a great near miss experience on the right side of the train!
Actually walked right by ya on the bridge. Wasn't sure at first but now I know.
We really need to petition Cedar Point to contract either Chance or Premier to retrack Magnum XL, and along with that, to adjust some of the banking/air time hills etc and give it new trains.
Now hear me out. That ride has to be close to the end of its shelf life. The ridership isn’t what it used to be because of the roughness. And if they removed it then they would be missing a traditional steel hyper coaster focusing on airtime and speed. And would essentially replace it with a hyper coaster from a different manufacturer.
It’s a classic coaster, already a good layout, and could easily be updated with new profiling, trains and a retrack. Bringing it into the modern age, make it smoother all while keeping a classic arrow ride and layout alive for another 30+ years