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Ian

Ian

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I get excited when a park starts a media campaign about a new ride it's getting. It's thrilling to watch them reveal bit by bit and then BOOM, the big announcement comes. I read through the press release only to find it's a spinning coaster, or a Eurofighter, or even worse, a spinning wild mouse. Such an anti-climax as they are my least favourite ride types.

Can you think of any media campaigns that have resulted in something that you consider to be well under par when announced?
 
Reese's Extreme Cup Challenge was an announcement veiled in secrecy, and loomed very close to Hershey Park's 100th year anniversary. While coaster geeks were hoping for something... well, something like Skyrush for 2007, there was a certain note of disappointment for a dark shooter.
 
Not exactly a ride(or should I say rides), but SFGAm is pretty big when it comes to announcement teasers. For 2013, they had a" What's in the wooden crate" teaser, and ended up adding an extremely overhyped show along with a 50 foot eyesore stage in one of the nicest looking areas of the park. And this year, they did a general" Choose your Path" thing on YouTube where the public was given 2 locations, and whatever had a higher vote, they filmed at the location and gave a bit of info. Ended up being the 40 Seasons(not anniversary) "celebration."

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Th13teen was a massive anti climax.

What we were promised by the ride announcement was the world's first physiological coaster. What we got was a fairly poor family coaster.

Riding Darkmare, shows just how much of an anti climax Th13teen was a whole.
 
Back in the spring of 2011 (aka my first offseason as an enthusiast) Kings Island started teasing something heavily, complete with a video of them unloading a giant rubber dinosaur from a truck and showing off a hilly, wooded construction plot behind Firehawk. I was very excited to see some kind of terrain coaster themed to dinosaurs, because knowing Cedar Fair it wouldn't be anything else.

And Dinosaurs Alive was born... -_-
 
Angry Birds Land at Thorpe Park was an announcement that got more disappointing the more they revealed! The only ride that was new was the Dodge Ems; and that's just about on par with a Reverchon Mouse in terms of exciting additions.

When 'new thrill coaster' turns out to be a Volare, that's never good.

But the most anti-climatic announcements are always re-themes, especially when they are hammed up to be something completely new. Ie: Scorpion Express at Chessington...sigh.
 
All the hints they gave for Shoot the Rapids had me all excited. I knew it wouldn't be anything huge because Maverick was still fairly new, but I thought it would at least be better than what it was.

The marketing for Th13teen was also all wrong.
 
^At least Saw, Swarm and Smiler were substantial additions. I can see why as an enthusiast the end result may have left you wanting more, but I don't think they're really anticlimactic since they're pretty major rides and matched up with how they were sold in the first place.

13 on the other hand was a joke. The way it was sold as the world's most terrifying ride experience and all that bulls**t disclaimer form stuff, when what they actually had was a family coaster, was ridiculous and easily seen through by enthusiasts and GP alike once it opened. I can't think of anything else that even comes close to that whole misguided shower-of-s**t build up if I'm honest.
 
Lake Compounce announcing one of those rubbish Premier things when they could have had a fab Zierer.
 
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