Negative-G - Busch Gardens Tampa Bay 2020 Page Twenty-Four

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

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The Premier Rides designed Tigris roller coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa, Tampa, Florida

It is really fun to watch the horizon just roll....

The Premier Rides designed Tigris roller coaster at Busch Gardens, Tampa, Florida

...until you are upside down and just hanging from the restraints.

Tigris is a lot of fun with the exception of the restraints. All of the copies of this ride purchased by SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment come with a lap bar that restrains you and an additional "comfort collar" that is anything but comfortable.

In general adding "comfort" before something like "collar" and using it to describe something screams that it will be anything but comfortable. It is like adding "comfort" to a colonoscopy. That means it is going to be anything but comfortable. The lap bars hold you in just fine as the copy of this ride that Six Flags purchased for Six Flags Discovery Kingdom is comfort collar free. The big benefit of not having a heavy hard rubber "comfort collar" is when the ride whips you over this drop you actually get to feel the airtime.

Comfort collars or not Tigris is still a pretty fun ride and a nice addition squeezed into a small corner of Busch Gardens.