Gwazi (Lion & Tiger) at Busch Gardens Africa

This is an off ride POV of Gwazi, the dueling wooden roller coaster at Busch Gardens Africa in Tampa,Fl. This is a DUELING roller coaster and NOT a RACING coaster. People tend to think that since there are two roller coasters that load in the same station that they must be the same ride. Nothing could be farther from the truth on a dueling coaster. A racer runs two tracks that run together. A dueling coaster has two separate tracks which ARE DIFFERENT from each otherand have a few near misses in which the two track come at each other. In this case, Tiger's track has tighter turns and many quick changes in directions. Where as Lion has more of a slalom type run. With that being said, here are the stats. Gwazi is a mythical creature that had the head of a Tiger, and the body of a Lion. It was built by Great Coasters International at a cost of $10,000,000 and opened on 6/18/1999. The stats for both Lion and Tiger are the same, Height: 105ft 5in/32.15m, Length: 3,508ft/1069.23m, Drop: 91ft 10in/27.67m, Speed: 51mph/82.07kph, G-force: 3.5, ride duration: 2:30. It should also be noted that this is where the Florida Coaster Club (FLCC) was born. It was during the construction of this ride. I myself am a member of this club. Go to http://www.floridacoasterclub.com/ if you're interested in joining our group.

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[Myk44]

HAS ANYONE NOTICED YOU CAN'T CLICK THE FUCKING ANNOTATION AT THE BOTTOM BECAUSE YOUTUBE TIMELINE COMES UP. WELL THOUGHT OUT!

[woodencoasterfan]

@Myk44 You could have let me know with out using that language! YouTube hadn't installed the timeline bar until sometime after I inserted the link. Also, you may not know this but typing in all caps, means you are SCREAMING on the message boards.

Thanks for letting me know about it and I'm correcting it on all my videos that have links on them.

[martyoldtown]

Lol Am I a dork for watching these vids, cuz I rode the gwazi and didn't open my eyes for the whole ride. It was my very first roller coaster! I am 31 years old and rode it with my 8 and 10 year old... they did better than I did. It made me not wanna ride another one. I was told that this was the worst one to ride for your first. Is that true????

[woodencoasterfan]

@martyoldtown Did you ride it befor Feb? They recently installed new trains from the GCI, the company that built the coaster as well as completely retracking both sides. It's now super smooth and the new trains are very comfortable. If you rode it before Feb then I'd say yes. Prior to the overhaul, it was one of the roughest woodies I'd ever ridden. One ride on the old PTC trains and I'd gave a headache the rest of the day.

[woodencoasterfan]

@martyoldtown Ive got a video of Gwazi with the new Millenium Flyer trains on it. Just go to my channel and click on my uploads and it's the most recent upload of Gwazi.

[woodencoasterfan]

@ProdigyStepper Well I just posted a new video of Gwazi with the new Millenium Flyer trains. Just go to my YouTube channel and look for it under my uploads section. It should be the fourth video from the top under the Cheeta Hunt Testing video.

[ProdigyStepper]

@woodencoasterfan MF cars? what do they look like?

[twilightbreyer11]

Man I remember when I first rode this I was only 7 and I still love it to this day, though I still scream on it like a little school girl, I can't wait till htey open there new rollar coaster the cheetah hunt thats gonna be a blast!!!

[SuperNikeey]

i Love it' ! i was on the lion ! and i love it!

[articblazeheart]

This is my brothers favorite ride! Though when we went tiger was only open. Hopefully we can try lion too when we go in march!