Gwazi Lion Front Seat (HD POV) Busch Gardens Tampa Florida Roller Coaster

This is a POV of Gwazi (Lion) at Busch Gardens in Tampa Florida. Video Includes the ride's station and POV. Watch in HD.

Length: 3508 Ft
Height: 105' 5"
Drop: 91'
Inversions: 0
Speed: 51 mph
Duration: 2:30

Gwazi is a dueling wooden roller coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Florida. The name Gwazi originates from a fabled creature with the head of a tiger and the body of a lion. Accordingly, the two sides are named "Lion" and "Tiger". Often, the two tracks are called "yellow" and "blue", (yellow being the primary color of the Lion trains, blue being the primary color of the Tiger trains). It includes almost 7,000 feet of combined track and reaches speeds of 50 m.p.h. Both tracks have similar but nonidentical track layouts.
The roller coaster opened in 1999, a few months after Florida's only other dueling roller coaster, the Dueling Dragons at Universal Studios' Islands of Adventure. Gwazi holds the record for most fly-bys on a dueling roller coaster, with six. A fly-by is where the two roller coasters pass each other in opposite directions at high speeds, giving the psychological impression that the two will collide. It is the largest and fastest double wooden roller coaster in the Southeastern U.S.
Due to the Philadelphia Toboggan Company designed trains, which have been known to deliver rough rides on GCI designed coasters, Gwazi is known for giving rough (and at some points, painful) rides, similar to ROAR! at Six Flags America. At the beginning of the 2010 season, Gwazi was spotted with what appeared to be Millennium Flyer trains on the track, with water dummies on board. This has led many to believe that the ride will run with Millennium Flyers for the 2011 season. The park has confirmed the new trains on January 13, 2011.
In 2006, a 52-year-old Palm Springs resident collapsed and shortly died after riding Gwazi. It was determined that the ride (which was functioning properly) had aggravated an existing condition of high blood pressure. See Incidents at SeaWorld parks for more info.

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[LCNJTN01]

this ride looks boring on this video, but when your on it its actually really crazy and bumpy

[m3andmyfrands]

I know this ride is not in six flags though

[m3andmyfrands]

He or she must have did this all in one day cuz it looks rainey.On May 21 2012 this 2012 woohoo. me and my band members and teacher are going to the six flags in St.louis to play and go 2 their six flags

[m3andmyfrands]

didnt he say put it up

[dogsarecoolio2]

i loved the actual ride i went on it in febuary 20, 2012 and it was ok but to bumpy

[DakotaDAllen]

That announcement during the lift isn't standard, he was talking to you lol

[esthersimonato18]

@igrenade No...I'm not saying that the video shakes too much...I'm saying that the roller coaster shakes too much. I already visited Bush Gardens and I loved it, but I hated this roller coaster, 'cause it SHAKES TOO MUCH..ahahaha. Your videos are awesome, I love them.

[igrenade]

@esthersimonato18 it's a camera mounted on a passenger of a rollercoaster, what do you expect?

[esthersimonato18]

Too much shaking

[shaqman145]

@frizzyhead2 Yeah, unless you have the row to yourself then you get thrown around a lot.