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I know that we all want to laugh, but maybe he’s using a 56k AOL free trial dial up connection and he hit the post button 5 days ago. Be nice.

Finally got my Iron Gwazi ride. Waited about 35 minutes as soon as the park opened. When we got off the ride, it was 120 minutes. I liked it. Still partial to Steel Vengeance with the longer track length and the trip through the wooden structure. one this: they NEED a single rider line. The train before us had 5 empty seats out of 24. Fill every seat and reduce the wait times.

2022 Subaru Forester, replacing my wife's 2016 Subaru Crosstrek. The amount we locked in on our trade was ridiculous, and allowed us to close the gap to have the new one paid in full. If you're willing to wait, and you have a trade, now may be the time to buy new.

So with Corona still running rampant in Korea, and some of the parks still having reservation policies on rides that sell out instantly, my family and I have taken to checking out some of the smaller pay per ride parks that are littered around the edges of the country while also enjoying the ocean views and fresh sea-food restaurants that are there. It's been something I wanted to do for a while because these parks change rides so often that you never quite know what you're going to find there so it made sense to use 2021-22 to check out these less crowded places. The first TR is My Land located on the island of Wolmi, not too far from the international airport. This area is quite popular not being too far from Seoul and the China Town area for people who want a breather away from the city. The locals seem to realize this because on my way to the park in my car, every old lady was trying to wave me down to park at their restaurant for $2 all-day parking. Honestly, this park was a little weird both for the rides and the systems, it seems to mostly be owned by the same company since looking back at the park on street view the rides constantly change areas, but there were quite a few separate ticket booths so you had to first find the booth and buy a ticket for a specific ride at that booth even though prices were the same. The rides weren't exactly made by well known companies either and cycles could be really short, and though we found some nicer parks later that my son really enjoyed, I'm featuring this park first since it was probably the biggest out of all the parks we visited and for reasons you'll see later. Welcome to My Land. So straight away, you may have noticed something strange about this park. This parks claim to fame is apparently that it's Pirate ships swing up to 110 degrees when you ride them. This first Pirate Ship definitely tries to compete with the others by offering a pretty high swing. I keep saying Pirate Ship but I should be more culturally sensitive. In Korea, they've nearly always called Viking. Remember this if you ever visit, it's on the immigration test. Unlike most rides, this one had it's own ticket booth and sits on it's own outside of the park. I have no proof of this but since this one is named just Viking and sits outside of the park I've made up my own head canon that this was here first before all the others and has refused to move out as bigger and newer rides come in. It's the Carl Fredricksen of Viking rides and since I'm pretty sure no one else is going to trek out here to visit the park or do a TR, no-one can prove otherwise. Although it wasn't running too crazy on my visit, this ride does definitely swing pretty far, to match the posters claims. Onto the main area of the park and there's one of these that can be seen at a lot of carnivals but are actually pretty uncommon here in Korea. However, one thing that is common in Korea are the Tagadas/Disco Pang Pang. These things always attract a crowd, both of riders and people who like to watch people get tortured. This one came with a DJ who would pick on certain riders. They especially like to pick on foreigners. I was a coward and didn't want to ride. If I want to get ridiculed in front of a bunch of Korean's, I'd just go teach one of my classes. So why am I bumping this park's TR to today? It's election day in Korea which means interviews with AI's of previous/dead/imprisioned president's but the one that seems to make the international news is the election results full of the most random CGI situations. Previous elections had candidates on the roller-coaster T Express, duking it out Mad Max style or racing on a ski slope and this park popped up today as one of the graphics. I've instantly dated this TR! I feel like more people would watch the elections if they could watch Trump and Biden enjoy some rides together or duke it out Mad Max style as the results came in. It also seems like the US election in that a lot of people aren't too fond of either candidate. My favorite part is the minor candidates don't even get to ride, they just get CGI'd into observers on the other ride's platform. I wasn't kidding about Mad Max being one of the ways to announce election results. Let's move on, this park also has one of those frog hopper type rides, but it didn't seem too popular. On to the second viking. This one is different from the other one in that it's bigger. If that wasn't clear enough, it's also called Super Viking. I bet your wondering why the park would have two vikings but only one tagada... well don't worry the park balanced it out with a second tagada 50m from the first one. Next is another swinging ride. The park used to have an actual Huss Frisbee called Hurricane, but decided to replace it with this 90 degree swinging ride named.... Hurricane. This one had carnival levels of spin on the actual disc and could be pretty nauseating. There was also a merry-go-round at the park but I completely forgot to take a picture of it, so this is the closest thing for a park index photo. Rounding out the middle area is the chair swings. and one of those old simulators with gull wing doors that still live on in RCT. There was also this drop tower, that operated with a counter-weight and pulley from an unknown manufacturer. Fun Fact: Have you ever ridden a drop tower and wondered, what would happen if the tower didn't actually stop at the bottom? Happened on this ride. There's a 3rd viking, just in case the non-existent crowds at the other two make the lines too long. This one is called Eagle Viking. It's not tall or has a crazy swing like the others, so I guess it's just there for the people who really enjoy riding Pirate Ships but are disappointing there just isn't enough Eagle theming on them. The newest ride to the park was Mega Swing 360. This thing really lived up to it's name. In that on the day of my visit, you did literally a 360 swing and then the power got cut. Not just in terms of the swing but even the pendulum spinning or brakes. The disc starts spinning, you rotate back and forth a couple of times and do the 360 degree swing.... and then the disc locks into place, drop back to 90 degrees and you swing very slowly back and forth for the next 2 minutes until the ride stops wondering WTF just happened. Watching on YouTube, it doesn't seem to be the usual cycle but it definitely was the one given to all riders on the day I visited. Maybe it was a good thing, because the ride also seemed to be a knock off and required an over the shoulder seat belt that was put on after and over the restraints. I bet you're wondering, why does this park have only two Tagadas but 3 Vikings? Well don't worry because this new area of the park (that used to be the car park) also comes with a 3rd Tagada. This is that new area, they also moved the ejection seat from the main area of the park over to the side here. As you can see this park, is very big on its swinging rides. You can get an idea of the size of the park here. They really cram all of it into a very small space. Squid Game cash-ins were extremely common in the area. These used to be only a dollar but with popularity exploding, they were selling all alone the ocean front for $3-5. While at My Land they had adverts for their sister park only 400m down the road. After 3 Viking's and 3 Tagada's, and being so close to the other park I'm sure there'll be completely different rides to experience.... right?

Here's our multi-angle POV from Emperor!

^My bf and I go every year, although we haven't yet gone this year. A few posts back, I think it was Canobie Coaster, said that LR had been finnicky when he went a week or two ago but it was also combined with some weather issues as well. LR will be LR. It's the best steel coaster I've ever been on, but yes it sees a good amount of downtime. If you're there an entire weekend I think you'll get to ride it. We've always had really good luck with it but there's always at least some time during our visit when it's down. Walk to the right when you walk in the past and ride it first, at least a few times. The TimeSaver pick-up area is on the way to it. Weekends can be unpredictable for the park. Buy TimeSaver Unlimited at least 3-5 days in advance, they sell out fast. But the price is very reasonable and even if the park isn't that busy, you'll walk past a 15-20 minute LR line and ride it over and over again. If the park is slammed, you'll be glad you bought it, as I've been there on weekends when even Tennessee Tornado had 60+ minute waits. Not too sure about the app or photos, as after one year of making the mistake of not getting TimeSaver and it being sold out, we never made that mistake again. With TimeSaver Unlimited, you won't wait at all for the attractions on it, so we don't even look at wait times.

The new paint on that Arrow looper looks amaaaaazing.

Would make complete sense as SEAS has recently put them in at BGW and SWSA. I am all for them adding Screaming Swings to all their parks, they are one of my favorite flat rides.

Just thought I'd bring this account out of the woodwork and confirm that Cedar Fair has indeed quietly moved their headquarters to their Charlotte office. A few corporate departments remain in Sandusky but majority of them have transferred to NC.

the facade artwork

Alright… Now that the rumor has been debunked, let’s move away from talking about rumor sites and keep the conversations on this thread focused on Busch Gardens Tampa Bay and all things related.

I know we have our own opinions but I feel Screamscape does deserve some respect in the coaster community. Lance was (and still is in some capacity) one of the only main source of coaster and theme park news AND RUMORS site that has survived all these years. Hell, he's been around as some of longer than some coasters lol. I don't see the need to rag on the site as if it purposely states things as truth and leads people on. And c'mon, making a joke that it still looks like the same site from 1995 lol. Does it really matter that he focus more on content than aesthetics? I mean TPR looks the same and I have no issue with either it or screamscape finding what works for them and sticking with so an iconic design. With a lot of new and info site for coasters and parks dwindling, I have nothing but respect for Screamscape and TPR because they have proven one thing, they are two powerhouse in the community and you don't have to have a flashy site when your name supersedes itself.

Very glad to hear Kumba will be sticking around, glad this was just a rumor. Seems like screamscape got trolled.

Busch Gardens' social media has been awesome lately, whoever is running that should get a raise. They are engaging and fun but still tasteful. Very happy to see this rumor get shut down. Screamscape really is clowning right now after both the Ride of Steel and Kumba removal rumors both being shut down by their respective parks because they spread so much.

Busch Garden’s and Sea World’s social media presence is insane, they posted that quick lol. I’ve also had BGT like serval of my tweets I don’t think I’ve ever had any other park do that once.

And we’re moving on…

So they repainted Kumba in 2019 and it still looks brand new (seriously, it looks great and you can still tell that it was *just* painted) but they had initially planned to paint it again this year for no reason and the unnecessary repaint was cancelled because the ride is closing forever? Does this story seem odd to anyone else?

What lmao?? Kumba just was repainted and they just got to 10 coasters for the park, it isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Pretty sure B&M coasters have a long life span as well. It is also running very smooth then in previous years and there is only one rough spot that could be fixed with two track replacements. I don't believe this one bit.

They just repainted Kumba like 3 years ago. Give me a break...

From Screamscape I really hope this is just "Screamscape nonsense"...

OMG such drama! He’ll be fine.

Management *hates* this park. .we never get anything. (Mgmt spends lots of $$ repainting and repairing areas of the park) Management *hates* this park. . .we never get any new rides. (Mgmt announces new ride, a very unique one in the Six Flags chain) Management *hates* this park. ..it's not a coaster, and it's not the largest version of this ride avaialbe (Yes, but it's a unique ride in the Six Flags chain, and will give thrill seekers another specific reason to come to THIS Six Flags park) Management *hates* this park. . the queue is going to be boring.

I went to a homicide training/seminar last week. Long story short, one of the incidents involved parents pushing their deceased infant through the park in a stroller, knowing he was dead. True story. Enjoy your next visit. Cheers.