This paint job on Scorpion (the park’s oldest coaster opened in 1980) looks amazing! When it opened almost 40 years ago its original paint scheme featured orange track and black supports, but this changed to red track with blue supports in a 2004 repaint. Continue reading
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Military and Their Family Can Get into Busch Gardens Free!
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You may not be aware that Sea World (parent company of Busch Gardens) has a program where military and their family can get in for a day for free! You can find all the details on their website, but the basics are below. Great to see the park doing something to honor our troops and their families!
Continue reading3D Printing a Mini Tigris Coaster at Busch Gardens with Coaster Labs
I saw the still in this video and was in awe. My first thought was, “that’s Tigris at Busch Gardens Tampa!” So after watching the video the answer was, well sort of. It is indeed a Sky Rocket II by Premier Rides (which Tigris is as discussed previously), Continue reading
Demolition of Rhino Rally is Underway @BuschGardens Making Way for Project Jethro
Riding the Skyride today was surprised to see the demo of Rhino Rally. Here’s a video I made of it. Pretty large crew onsite that spent the day taking apart the former queue that was left abandoned for years after the ride’s shutdown.
Continue reading21,638 feet @BuschGardens
Flipping through a travel magazine and saw this cool spread with fun facts about Busch Gardens. 21,638 is the combined length of all the coasters in the park (to be made longer by Iron Gwazi later this year). That’s about 4 miles of track you can ride! The park having 300 animal species as well as the animals eating about 2 tons of food a day was also pretty cool. No word on how many tons of food a day the humans eat…
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Happy Halloween! @BuschGardens has Monsters Year Round Though!
Halloween might be a day for monsters, but you can find monsters 365 days a year at Busch Gardens Sesame Street Safari of Fun!
I Did the Scavenger Hunt!
So in honor of their 60th anniversary Busch Gardens is running a scavenger hunt. There’s even a prize for everyone who completes it! You can grab a game card near the entrance and then look for anniversary boards throughout the park for the answers. The boards provide great history about past attractions and the park in general. Just slide the little disc around to see the answer
The one above is located near the entrance to Tigris and talks about the Tanganyika Tidal Wave ride that used to occupy that piece of land. I also included below a pic of the blank card here as to not take the fun away by giving the answers and my prize. Happy hunting!
How Kumba Roars at Busch Gardens
Kumba has a distinctive roar, but it appears that the sound is caused by something that is missing rather than something that is added. B&M has a characteristic track design seen below of a box “spine” with fins that hold the rails. This box can echo the natural vibrations of the ride and is often filled with sand to dampen it to the customer’s desired level. My guess is what makes Kumba unique is that these boxes are probably empty to maximize the “roar”, and not minimize it in any way.
Continue reading2019 Pics of Closed Rhino Rally at #BuschGardens
On my trip last week I managed to get a great look at Rhino Rally from the Sky Ride. Rhino Rally opened in 2001 and closed for good in 2014. It was a safari truck ride made by Vekoma, the famous ride company, and was the one and only of its kind.
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