Busch Gardens Shows Off Next New Thrill Ride

Promising a one-of-a-kind experience, Busch Gardens Tampa unveiled more info Tuesday and a detailed model of the park’s next thrill ride, Cobra’s Curse.

To open in 2016, the ride will have freely spinning vehicles and a 70-foot vertical lift.

“Busch Gardens Tampa is Florida’s thrill ride leader,” said Brian Morrow, Busch Gardens’ attraction creative designer. “And, withCobra’s Curse, we’re expanding the family thrill ride offerings. The multi-directional spins on Cobra’s Curse will provide excitement and fun for guests of all ages.”

Fresh details from Busch Gardens:

Instead of a gradual lift hill, more typical of a traditional coaster, each train is instead lifted vertically, to a height of 70 feet, and the top of the ancient temple.

During the three-and-a-half-minute ride, the coaster trains speed along at 40 mph, spinning backward, forward and then freely, according to a park release.

The track will put riders “perilously close” to the jaws of the 80-foot-tall statue of the snake king Venymyss, with an “outward-banked turn.”