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Busch Gardens Tampa has revealed their new for 2024 attraction, a family suspended roller coaster called Phoenix Rising. The ride will be manufactured by B&M, making it the fourth ride to be created by the company for the Tampa-area park. Phoenix Rising will also be Busch Gardens Tampa’s 10th roller coaster.
The attraction will be geared towards a more “family-friendly” demographic, and will be built in the Pantopia area of the park. This land is already home to more extreme rides such as Falcon’s Fury, a gigantic tilting drop tower ride, and Scorpion, and sit-down roller coaster with a loop.
According to Busch Gardens Tampa, the coaster will continue the Serengeti Plain theming of the area. It will also be the first roller coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa to feature on-board audio, which will hopefully make the ride even more immersive.
Phoenix Rising will be built in the former spot of the Phoenix flat ride and the recently removed SandSerpent roller coaster. SandSerpent was a wild mouse roller coaster, which sees riders swerving back and forth through incredibly tight turns. Wild mouse coasters tend to be geared towards families, so the park won’t be losing anything when it comes to the amount of rides for different ages.
In addition to taking up this plot of land, the ride will also extend over a service road and above an area previously used for animal habitats. Obviously, there will be no animals below riders as this would pose a threat to the animals. Overall, Phoenix Rising will be 1,831 feet long and reach a top speed of 41 mph. This is on the shorter side for roller coasters at Busch Gardens Tampa, but it will be a great entry level attraction for younger audiences.
B&M has only built two suspended family coasters, both of them in China. The first was added to Happy Valley Shanghai in 2014, which was followed by one in Happy Valley Beijing in 2018. However, the press release for Phoenix Rising asserts that the cars will “swing side to side” during the ride, suggesting that this could be a prototype for a new family suspended coaster. This sounds a bit like Seven Dwarf’s Mine Train at Magic Kingdom park in Walt Disney World. Though, while that attraction is a sit down family coaster, Phoenix Rising is suspended.
Phoenix Rising will open at Busch Gardens Tampa in 2024. Fun Cards, the park’s version of an annual pass, are now available for the 2024 season on Busch Gardens Tampa’s website.
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