Iron Gwazi

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Iron Gwazi (formerly called Gwazi) is a steel-track hybrid roller coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, a theme park in Tampa, Florida, United States. The renovated ride opened to the public on March 11, 2022, following a passholder soft-opening a month earlier on February 13. Development of the original Gwazi began in July 1998, when Busch Gardens announced that it would build a wooden roller coaster on land formerly occupied by the Anheuser-Busch brewery. Great Coasters International (GCI) built Gwazi, a wooden dueling roller coaster with two separate tracks. The ride's name refers to a mythical creature with a tiger's head and a lion's body. Trains riding on both tracks, respectively named Lion and Tiger, reached a height of 105.4 feet (32.1 m) and a maximum speed of 51 mph (82 km/h). Gwazi received positive reviews from critics and the public when it opened on June 18, 1999. Over time, the wooden roller coaster became difficult to maintain, resulting in the Tiger side closing in 2012...

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