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Phoenix Rising
Steel Inverted at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Tampa, Florida. Opened 2024.
- Height
- 80 ft
- Drop
- n/a
- Top speed
- 44 mph
- Length
- 1,831 ft
- Inversions
- 0
- Ride time
- 1 min 26 s
- Designer
- Bolliger & Mabillard
Phoenix Rising is a family inverted roller coaster in the Pantopia area of Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida. Built by Bolliger & Mabillard, it opened to the public on July 21, 2024, after previews for passholders and media from July 17. It stands on land once used by the Sand Serpent wild mouse coaster, which closed in 2023, and the Phoenix looping ship ride.
Riders sit two across in seats that hang below the track, in a train of ten cars. After a chain lift hill, the coaster reaches a height of 80 feet and a top speed of 44 mph over 1,831 feet of track, with no inversions, and a ride lasts 1 minute 26 seconds. It has been described as North America's tallest and longest inverted family coaster, and the ride has four phoenix themes, each with its own on-board soundtrack.
The park's minimum rider height is 42 inches and the maximum is 77 inches.
Sources
- buschgardens.com/tampa/roller-coasters/phoenix-rising (Park page: operating family-friendly suspended roller coaster in Pantopia; up to 44 mph; 42-inch minimum and 77-inch maximum height.)
- rcdb.com/21221.htm (RCDB: operating since July 21, 2024; Bolliger & Mabillard family inverted coaster; length 1,831 ft, height 80 ft, speed 44 mph, 0 inversions; chain lift; onboard sound.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Rising_(roller_coaster) (Soft opening July 17, 2024, public opening July 21, 2024; on land of the former Sand Serpent and Phoenix rides in Pantopia; one train of 10 cars, two per car; duration 1:26; four phoenix themes with different soundtracks; 'North America's tallest and longest inverted family coaster'.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Serpent (Sand Serpent closed July 9, 2023 to make way for Phoenix Rising.)
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