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New Wild Oasis Area Coming to Busch Gardens Tampa 2025
Busch Gardens Tampa today announced Wild Oasis, a new area of the park opening in 2025. The park is touting the new Wild Oasis land as North America’s “most engaging and interactive adventure realm.” Wild Oasis will be situated within...
Continue reading...Busch Gardens Tampa to Remove Scorpion Roller Coaster
Busch Gardens Tampa announced the closure and removal of the legendary Scorpion roller coaster. After thrilling guests for over 44 years, the final day of ride operation will be Labor Day, Monday, September 2, September 8th, 2024. Guests are invited...
Continue reading...Phoenix Rising: New Details and Photos From Our Hard Hat Tour
This year, Busch Gardens is adding its 10th roller coaster, a B&M suspended family coaster named Phoenix Rising. Today, Busch Gardens was nice enough to invite us to the hard hat tour of their newest coaster, and during the event...
Continue reading...Incredible Aerial Photos of Busch Gardens Tampa
In a recent visit to Busch Gardens Tampa, I brought my drone with me and took photos of the theme park from above, providing me with views of the park I have never before seen. Below is a selection of...
Continue reading...The Coaster101 Podcast: Coaster101 Goes to Busch Gardens Tampa
Recently, members of the Coaster101 team took three separate trips to Busch Gardens Tampa – some repeat visitors, some first time visitors, and we’re here to bring our experiences to you. C101 Founder John and one of C101’s newest writers...
Continue reading...Phoenix Rising Construction Update at Busch Gardens Tampa
Phoenix Rising construction is picking up speed at Busch Gardens Tampa as the park’s new-for-2024 Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M) family inverted coaster prepares to go vertical. Update: This afternoon, Busch Gardens Tampa shared on Facebook photos of a large light...
Continue reading...13 Defunct Theme Park Monorails
While Walt Disney may have thought they were the way of the future, monorails have failed to become a widespread mode of transportation. Like stream trains, after the Disneyland monorail opened there was a building boom of theme park monorails...
Continue reading...Busch Gardens Tampa Announces “Phoenix Rising” Family Invert
With the closure of Sand Serpent, Busch Gardens Tampa’s wild mouse coaster, coaster fans have been wondering what will “rise from the ashes” in that corner of the park’s “Pantopia” section. Today – we have our answer: Phoenix Rising. The park’s...
Continue reading...Review: Serengeti Flyer at Busch Gardens Tampa
Busch Gardens Tampa has always been one of my favorite regional parks, and has one of the best and most well-rounded coaster lineups out there. Now, their thrilling flat ride collection is growing as well, with their newly opened Screamin’...
Continue reading...The Coaster101 Podcast: Iron Gwazi-cast + Giveaway!
Last week, Shane and Mike from the Coaster101 team had the chance to ride Iron Gwazi, the world’s tallest and steepest hybrid coaster. Spoiler Alert: It lives up to the hype. This week on the podcast, Shane joins Andrew to...
Continue reading...Iron Gwazi: Our Review and Reactions
In recent years, the roller coaster and theme park industry and community has had some difficult days, with countless construction delays, park closings and attendance issues. However, throughout these past months and years, there has been a shining light at...
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