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Busch Gardens Tampa: General Discussion

Wow; this coaster looks like it's going to be something else!

In fact, after a conversation with my parents, this coaster combined with the other amazing additions to the Florida parks since I last went to them and the fact that I adore Florida anyway is increasingly making me lean towards a return trip to Florida in 2021 for my 18th birthday present as opposed to a trip to a European park! I know a European park would be new to me, but some of the new stuff I could experience in Florida looks out of this world!
 
Matt N said:
Wow; this coaster looks like it's going to be something else!

In fact, after a conversation with my parents, this coaster combined with the other amazing additions to the Florida parks since I last went to them and the fact that I adore Florida anyway is increasingly making me lean towards a return trip to Florida in 2021 for my 18th birthday present as opposed to a trip to a European park! I know a European park would be new to me, but some of the new stuff I could experience in Florida looks out of this world!
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Obviously you do you, but for the price of a Florida holiday you could have several European trips. I'm currently pricing up a trip to the states, and though admittedly not the Florida region, it looks to be costing nearly 6x the amount of the week-long European theme park road trip I'm doing in April.

If you haven't already, I strongly advise a trip to some European parks!
 
To be fair, Florida in 2021 is an obvious choice. There are three major coasters opening in the state alone next year, on top of the two this year and everything else.
 
Burbs said:
Obviously you do you, but for the price of a Florida holiday you could have several European trips. I'm currently pricing up a trip to the states, and though admittedly not the Florida region, it looks to be costing nearly 6x the amount of the week-long European theme park road trip I'm doing in April.

If you haven't already, I strongly advise a trip to some European parks!
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If I went to Europe, I think it would only be one park, whereas Florida would be several across more days. My parents said that Florida would be our big family holiday for the year, whereas a Europe trip wouldn't. Also, I love Florida, and I really want to experience some of these amazing-looking things! Admittedly, I'd also love to go to Europe, so it's certainly a decision for me to make!
 
I was under the impression this element was going to be like Zadra's first turnaround. This looks much crazier.
 
How times have changed to the point where it's normal to have a "BIG family holiday" and one or more European trips in a year.
Wasn't that long ago that flying off to spain was "exotic", you know. The USA may as well have been Mars. When I were a lad, you were considered "rich" if your parents took you out of the country at all, never mind multiple times a year!
 
Danny said:
To be fair, Florida in 2021 is an obvious choice. There are three major coasters opening in the state alone next year, on top of the two this year and everything else.
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Agreed, but if you’ve been within the last year or 2...

Each to their own. :)
 
DiogoJ42 said:
How times have changed to the point where it's normal to have a "BIG family holiday" and one or more European trips in a year.
Wasn't that long ago that flying off to spain was "exotic", you know. The USA may as well have been Mars. When I were a lad, you were considered "rich" if your parents took you out of the country at all, never mind multiple times a year!
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Thing is Diogo, it would be a choice between Florida or Europe, and I must admit that as much as I'd love to visit a European theme park, I'm increasingly leaning towards Florida, because all of the new stuff that's been built at some of the parks since I last went looks out of this world!

Basically, my parents have said that it's a choice between a 3-day trip or so to one European theme park or a 10-day holiday in Florida. And as much as the European parks look amazing, I'm increasingly starting to lean towards Florida with a proposition like that!
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Agreed, but if you’ve been within the last year or 2...

Each to their own. :)
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For clarity, the parks we would be thinking of going to are Universal, SeaWorld and Busch Gardens, which I haven't done since 2016. In 2019, we only did the Disney parks; the only Disney park we'd be planning on visiting is Hollywood Studios for Galaxy's Edge.
 
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DiogoJ42 said:
How times have changed to the point where it's normal to have a "BIG family holiday" and one or more European trips in a year.
Wasn't that long ago that flying off to spain was "exotic", you know. The USA may as well have been Mars. When I were a lad, you were considered "rich" if your parents took you out of the country at all, never mind multiple times a year!
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You were lucky! We lived for 6 months in a rolled up newspaper in a septic tank.

...and you try and tell modern kids that, and they don't believe you!

We were poor, but we were happy.

When I was a kid, we had a couple of nights in Whitby as our ONLY holiday. I love Whitby, but we always went out of season to save money. God it was cold.

Perhaps thats why I'm the only person happy to do Tidal Wave at Thorpe Park on the coldest day of the season wearing only a T Shirt?

World first Refrigerated Iced Water Log Flume anyone?
 
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To try and drag this back towards BGT and Iron Gwazi, wow, that element looks phenomenal! It's giving off a bit of a SteVe vibe, which can only be a good thing!
 
Matt N said:
If I went to Europe, I think it would only be one park, whereas Florida would be several across more days. My parents said that Florida would be our big family holiday for the year, whereas a Europe trip wouldn't. Also, I love Florida, and I really want to experience some of these amazing-looking things! Admittedly, I'd also love to go to Europe, so it's certainly a decision for me to make!
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Lucky you hey

Benjsh said:
I'm thinking that section might be a little bit good.......hahahaha.
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just.....well.....what.....omg....this looks.....amazeballs!
 
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Danny said:
To be fair, Florida in 2021 is an obvious choice. There are three major coasters opening in the state alone next year, on top of the two this year and everything else.
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2021 is also DisneyWorlds 50th anniversary so should be a very good time to visit the Magic Kingdom anyway.

Which coasters are you thinking of?
I can't think of any opening 2020 other than Iron Gwazi?
But for 2021 there is Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind, Tron, Jurassic Park Raptor Escape (or whatever it ends up being called), New SeaWorld coaster.
 
jon81uk said:
2021 is also DisneyWorlds 50th anniversary so should be a very good time to visit the Magic Kingdom anyway.

Which coasters are you thinking of?
I can't think of any opening 2020 other than Iron Gwazi?
But for 2021 there is Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind, Tron, Jurassic Park Raptor Escape (or whatever it ends up being called), New SeaWorld coaster.
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SeaWorld are opening a new coaster this year as well.
 
jon81uk said:
2021 is also DisneyWorlds 50th anniversary so should be a very good time to visit the Magic Kingdom anyway.

Which coasters are you thinking of?
I can't think of any opening 2020 other than Iron Gwazi?
But for 2021 there is Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind, Tron, Jurassic Park Raptor Escape (or whatever it ends up being called), New SeaWorld coaster.
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I was referring to 2021 for the three coasters, not 2020 :)
 
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I was referring to 2021 for the three coasters, not 2020 :)
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Yep but you said two this year and I couldn't think of the other one. I'd forgotton SeaWorld were building one this year too. :) For 2021 there are at least three coasters coming!

Does seem like that's SeaWorlds new tactic - coasters. As in they can't compete with Disney/Universal on themed attractions so well, so why not become known for what Disney aren't doing. Busch Gardens of course already has always focused a lot on coasters.
 
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In that case we should see testing begin very soon.

Meanwhile, a sign on the station building is up:

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