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Kumba, Tampa FL | Nearby Businesses


9841-9899 N 30TH St
Tampa, FL 33612

(888) 800-5447

Kumba is a Bolliger & Mabillard sit down roller coaster located at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, in Tampa, Florida. Opened in 1993, it stands tall and has a top speed of. Kumba features a total of seven inversions across the 3-minute ride.HistoryKumba was officially announced in November 1992 as a record-breaking Bolliger & Mabillard roller coaster set to become the park's signature attraction. The ride officially opened to the public on April 20, 1993. When Kumba opened, it featured the world's tallest vertical loop, and was also the tallest, fastest and longest roller coaster in Florida. In 1995, Kumba conceded the title of ride with the world's tallest vertical loop to Dragon Khan at PortAventura which features a 118ft vertical loop. In 1996, it conceded Florida's titles of tallest and longest roller coaster to Montu, a Bolliger & Mabillard roller coaster in the Egypt section of the park. In 1999, it conceded the fastest title to Islands of Adventure's The Incredible Hulk, yet another Bolliger & Mabillard roller coaster.CharacteristicsThe 3978ft Kumba stands 143ft tall. With a top speed of, the ride features seven inversions including a 114ft vertical loop, a dive loop, a zero-g roll, a cobra roll and two interlocking corkscrews. The vertical loop featured on Kumba wraps around the lift hill. Kumba was the first ride in the world to feature a number of now-common roller coaster elements, including interlocking corkscrews and a dive loop. Riders of Kumba experience up to 3.8 times the force of gravity on the 3 minute ride.

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10165 N McKinley Dr
Tampa, FL 33612

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Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
Distance: 0.4 mi Competitive Analysis
10165 N McKinley Dr
Tampa, FL 33612

(888) 800-5447

Busch Gardens Tampa is the ultimate family adventure park, featuring an unparalleled combination of animal encounters, live entertainment and world-class thrill rides. Thanks for connecting with Busch Gardens on Facebook. We’re glad that you are here! The Busch Gardens Facebook page is designed to be a fun community where members can engage in respectful and encouraging conversation. We expect our visitors to respect fellow members and Facebook’s posting guidelines. While we may not be able to monitor every post, please understand that Busch Gardens reserves the right to remove posts and all material deemed inappropriate, at our discretion. This includes, but not limited to, abusive, threatening, offensive, hateful, derogatory, spam, fraudulent, deceptive, disruptive, and marketing/advertising messages and content. Any violation of these rules may result in being banned, at our discretion.

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Scorpion is a steel looping roller coaster located at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida, United States. It opened in 1980 as a part of the newly added Timbuktu section that gave the park a complete circuit, linking the Congo section to the Nairobi section of the park. Scorpion, to this day, remains one of the most popular rides in the Pantopia section. In 2004,Before it was Pantopia as a part of the park's Timbuktu renovation, Scorpion was repainted from its original paint scheme of orange track and black supports to red track with blue supports (a paint scheme similar to SheiKra).The ride was designed by Anton Schwarzkopf as one of his Silverarrow model looping coasters. Only three of these exist today, this coaster, Twist n' Shout at Loudoun Castle in Scotland (which has closed as of 2010), and the other is known as "Looping Star" owned by the travelling fair Magic World in Africa.LayoutScorpion has a fairly simple and twisted layout involving a single Vertical Loop as the signature element. After the train is carried 60 feet into the air, riders twist down a drop and pass through the single Vertical Loop element. Following the loop, the train goes through a pretzel turnaround and threads the vertical loop. The train circles around a 900° helix and enters the brake run.

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