Seems like its a result of staffing versus cost-cutting. Could have sworn there was an image on twitter of people working on the towers
What's next for Busch Gardens Tampa??
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It didn't appear to be being painted from what I saw, it looked more like electrical inspection work.
Either way, I'm under the impression this was a very, very recent decision. Personally, it doesn't makes sense to me to remove literally all references to it everywhere (online, in park, etc) for a simple rebrand.
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Yep, that area is all walled off today:
We’ll see whether the Busch Flyer and Train come back either there or somewhere else in the park. They’d both fit easily in the Bird Gardens.
We’ll see whether the Busch Flyer and Train come back either there or somewhere else in the park. They’d both fit easily in the Bird Gardens.
Some other little things
- Kumba now has lights lining the tunnel before the helix
- Shade structure is coming to the Cheetah exhibit, looks like it should be finished within the next 2 weeks.
- I've seen them continue to work on the Sky Ride towers, last saw them Friday
- Kumba now has lights lining the tunnel before the helix
- Shade structure is coming to the Cheetah exhibit, looks like it should be finished within the next 2 weeks.
- I've seen them continue to work on the Sky Ride towers, last saw them Friday
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I mean... it is being moved to a scrapyard...Well, I guess Sand Serpent is not being moved...
It just seems a little odd to me that they're ripping it apart rather than disassembling it since it's all designed to be portable and easily taken apart.
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I'm standing by some kind of inverted family coaster- whether that be B&M or Vekoma, I haven't the foggiest lol.
Yea I think whatever is coming will be Vekoma, I just hope whatever they put there will draw more attention to that area in the park to bring the crowds off Cobra and Cheetah Hunt
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Vekoma would be interesting. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the original Rhino Rally water section was the only time BGT worked with Vekoma. Like for like would be cool using the rest of the land. I just can't see this coaster staying confined to pantopia. Definitely taking a right over the service road into prime serengeti real estate Rhino rally has left over for an attraction.
I might have the wrong perspective but a family boomerang doesn't seem like a good fit due to the low capacity of those types of rides. A full circuit family coaster would be a better addition but I don't have a good understanding of how much room is available.
Have you been to Busch lately? They don't care about capacity.
A family boomerang would have the same amount of capacity as Tigris and probably more than Sand Serpent, so they'll be fine.
The park needs something to actually bring people back there, instead of people just strolling in hours after they’ve waiting at least 30 mins+ for either Cobra, Cheetah, or IG because of 5 minute dispatches
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BG definitely suffers from the layout of the park being a massive loop. Similar problem to Islands of Adventure but at least they’ve mitigated that a bit with the Velocicoaster path to skip basically a land and a half.
Except IOA is somewhat balanced with attractions all the way around the loop - BG is now very front of the park heavy.
