 Last week, Steve and Jennifer headed out to Busch Gardens Tampa to take in this years Food and Wine Festival. Of course, that meant getting some awesome pics of Iron Gwazi construction. Who's ready to ride this beast? We sure are!! Take a look. Written by Steve Burant Last Friday we went to Busch Gardens for more Food & Wine fun, but really it was to take some well-lit photos of the current progress on Iron Gwazi's construction.  This ride is going to rape my face, and I'm going to love every second of it.  Still not crazy about the name, but the logo and sign look good.  Look at those coordinated twisties!  The station fly by where the two old Gwazi trains used to fly by each other.  Give me all the overbanks. All of them.  I mean technically we were here for this. What a sign!  Even the moon is like, "Hey there, looking good."  "HEY! What if the moon were made of Iron Gwazi, would you eat it??"  Mooooooon Gwaziiiiiii, shorterrrrrr than a mileeee............  Until I get a better lens, this is the best I can do with moon photos, so I'll take as many as I can during the day.  This is the barrel roll under the lift hill. One could expect a bevy of loose change to be under this element in the near future.  RMC's famous wrong-way banked airtime hill. This is the 2nd hill of the ride and will be sure to provide some fantastic hairtime.  Some ridiculous type of inversion formulated in the same secret lab as Covid-19.  This photo brought to you by PPE.  Steepest hybrid coaster in the world by a whopping 1 degree!  *chef's kiss*  I wonder if the manufacturers who build these terrible wooden coasters are secretly proud that their monstrosities were the foundation of incredible creations by a better engineering firm.  That's enough of the 2nd hill for now. This element will rock my socks.  And the last look at the first hill that will surely be phenomenal.  This barrel roll will also be spectacular.  And whatever the hell this element is called will be scrumptralescent. (RIP James Lipton)  Related Videos
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 Over the weekend we were invited out to Busch Gardens Tampa to experience this years Christmas Town. Lots of food and fun was in store and we can't wait to visit more this season. Written by Steve Burant and Jennifer King-Burant Chicken and Waffles go with Beer Cheese Soup right? Because both were amazing.
A Christmas Town Tradition  Loaded Mashed Potatoes with Turkey and Gravy, shredded cheese, bacon and sour cream. No diets during the holidays!!
 It's the Christmas Turkey!!  Sing Along Train!!   Lots of lights to see everywhere   Oh, we had to take a look at Iron Gwazi construction. Don't forget, train reveal tomorrow at IAAPA!!      The cracker of nuts  You had us at Penguins!!    Model trains are the best  Saturday night was pretty busy, so we came back on Monday night and as you can see, the crowds were nice and light.  No melt snow people. Snow Persons?  SANTA! I KNOW HIM.  Lots of pretty lights to see as the sun goes down   Welcome to K758U QXAZ! Or could it be the North Pole?  Yeah, you're gonna have a lot to eat.  Thanks Busch Gardens for having us out to enjoy the event. We love it!!  Related Videos
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 This morning we were invited out to Busch Gardens Tampa to hear the announcement for their newest coaster, and to get a behind the scenes look at Iron Gwazi. So no fanfare, just pics of the news RMC masterpiece. Enjoy. Written by Steve and Jennifer Burant  Busch Gardens Tampa has something very exciting on the horizon for 2020!  It's Iron Gwazi, the newest and biggest RMC conversion!  Either these guys are trying to get an exclusive look at the construction, or they're working.  Clearly they're working.  We were treated to a behind the scenes hard hat tour of the construction site!  In case you needed help remembering who's building this beast.  This will be the tail end of the barrel roll that goes underneath the lift hill.  Almost all of the footers for Iron Gwazi are the original footers from Gwazi. Florida is a recycling state!  The crane of destiny.  This is the part where the train flies off the track and explodes like in Roller Coaster Tycoon.  A little close up coaster track porn.  More footers and more track waiting to be put into place.  Happy to see they'll be reusing the station "fly by" element from the original ride.  Looks as if most of the support structure is new.  This is still some original wood, and a very tight turn.  Can't wait to ride this thing!  The large gap in the structure there is where the lift hill will be.  Something completely illogical will happen here. Come out to Busch Gardens Tampa next spring for the new RMC hotness! Related Videos
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