Negative-G - Busch Gardens Tampa Bay 2024 Page Six

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
Tampa, Florida
August 5, 2024
Page Six

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The Kumba Rollercoaster at Busch Gardens Tampa, Tampa, Florida

After whipping you up and over there is a tight turn which sends you right back through the second of the interlocking corkscrews.

The Kumba Rollercoaster at Busch Gardens, Tampa, Florida

Sitting down here in my house writing this these pictures make me want to get back on a plane for a run to Florida for some more.

a few months after this visit Busch Gardens closed Kumba down with no warning. There were months of speculation that the park was going to remove this great coaster. Thankfully as I was working on this trip report in April 2025 (It has been a busy winter and I am behind in my trip reports) Busch Gardens announced that Kumba was going to return to operational status soon.

The world needs more Mold-A-Ramas. These injection molding souvenirs are pretty rare but super cool artifacts of the 1950's. Bond and I walked by and the smell brought back fond memories.

Who needs a hurricane simulator when we just had Debbie pelting us with rain at high velocity the day before? If you want to see what our actual hurricane experience was like here is a link to the video that we made.