Negative-G - Busch Gardens Tampa Bay 2020 Page Twenty

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
Tampa, Florida
December 21, 2020
Page Twenty

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The Bolliger & Mabillard designed Kumba Roller Coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa, Tampa, Florida

After a spiraling hundred and thirty foot drop Kumba sends you up into the blue Florida sky into an inversion that is wrapped around the rides lift hill.

The Bolliger & Mabillard designed Kumba Roller Coaster at Busch Gardens, Tampa, Florida

Kumba slows as it crests the vertical loop giving riders a few moments to enjoy peaceful hang time.

The vertical loop is followed up by a dive loop before sending you spiraling through this zero g roll.

Kumba is located at the back of the park at the end of a dead end. It takes thirty-two guests for a ride every three minutes. With the rides location and capacity there never was a wait of more than ten minutes for Kumba even after Busch Gardens filled up with the guests for the Christmas Town holiday lights event.

The speedy low level run to and out of Kumba's cobra roll double inversion are squeezed right next to the Serengeti Express train tracks. Kumba speeds by the train heading into the loop, loops over the top of the train and then speeds back by the train as it heads out.