Busch Gardens Williamsburg announces Finnegan's Flyer swing ride

This is a good addition, especially for Ireland where an E Ticket is needed. I especially like the idea of the swing over the valley there.
And I for some reason prefer the medium sized swing over the way taller versions like at CP or Valleyfair. They seem a little faster and snappier to me.

I think the medium ones are better, too.

From what I can tell by looking at the one at CP, it seems to be pretty much the same as the smaller ones, just taller. In effect, that gives it a longer swing, but less force.

Hopefully they've figured out the maintenance challenges on these. They weren't super reliable for the first year or two.

kpjb, I believe that’s true. CP, in their never ending quest to be the -est of everything (not that there’s anything wrong with that, usually) ordered the tallest version. And VF got the same, but I’m not sure there are any others that size. Well, I don’t know for sure about the one at Liseberg, it may be. It gets the prize for placement, too.
Regardless, I really like the ones found at Dollywood and SDC, size-wise, and it sounds like this one is the same “staggering” height.
And to be fair, I’ve ridden Skyhawk several times this season and it’s running well. At first it was beset with problems and even lost a cable one day, but lately it’s pretty reliable.

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sa=X&hl=en-us&q=Uppswin...&imagekey=!1e1!2shttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Uppswinget.JPG&...erState=lb

Good lord, that’s a big link. But it looks like Uppswinget is a medium sized one as well.

Jeff said:

Hopefully they've figured out the maintenance challenges on these. They weren't super reliable for the first year or two.

Yeah, we figured that out for them ;)