Busch Gardens Williamsburg Offers Sneak Peek at Big Bad Wolf: The Wolf’s Revenge – Williamsburg Yorktown Daily

WILLIAMSBURG — Busch Gardens announced Big Bad Wolf: The Wolf’s Revenge would be returning this spring during a hard hat tour to preview the coaster Tuesday.
Construction began on the ride in the summer of 2024 and it was announced as a surprise during the Howl-O-Scream preview event last year. Originally slated to have a different name, the park said fans were loud and clear on their desire to see it honor the legacy of an old favorite while launching the all-new family-friendly attraction. As a result, Busch Gardens Williamsburg chose the ride’s name specifically to build upon the history of the attraction — with a new twist.
“We didn’t want to just say it’s the Big Bad Wolf, we just remade it,” said Busch Gardens Williamsburg park president Kevin Lembke, “It is the next iteration [of the story.] It’s not meant to be a copy or a duplicate, but certainly built to be very reminiscent of [the original]. So, it made sense at that point based on all the feedback to really just commit to it.”
“It means a lot, and I think it means a lot to our guests too,” said Suzy Cheely, Vice President of Design and Engineering, about what it means to be bringing back Big Bad Wolf in its new iteration to Busch Gardens Williamsburg.
Clocking in at a top speed of 40 miles per hour over 2,500 feet of track, the coaster will be North America’s longest family inverted coaster, according to the park. 
The ride will also have two height level requirements: 42 inches to ride with a supervising companion and 48 in to ride alone.
The ride train will be able to fit 20 people in total sitting two-by-two over 10 rows. Busch Gardens said the capacity of riders per hour is theoretically around 600 to 700. 
There will be no swinging on this coaster, unlike the original. However, like the original, guests will experience twists and turns as they fly through a Bavarian village. The coaster track also features the same signature red coaster tacks with black and yellow are also featured.
The coaster reuses both the que building and maintenance building from Draken Fyre, but Busch Gardens says it will not displace any of the current Howl-O-Scream haunted houses. The space utilized previous storage space in the back of the park that wasn’t open to guests with very little loss of trees, it added.
The coaster is manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard — a company that specializes in custom-designed roller coasters. The company is credited with having built over 120 roller coasters around the world, according to Coasterpedia, and notably also designed Alpengeist and Apollo’s Chariot at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.
While Lembke says that the weather has posed challenges, currently, it hasn’t impacted the spring projection for opening the ride.
The coaster will be located in the Oktoberfest area behind Fest Haus with a current opening projected in the spring. For more information about Busch Gardens Williamsburg, visit the official website.
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