Scorpion

Scorpion is a steel looping roller coaster

Scorpion is a steel looping roller coaster... located at Busch Gardens Africa in Tampa, Florida, United States.

It opened in 1980 as a part of the newly added Timbuktu section that gave the park a complete circuit, linking the Congo section to the Nairobi section of the park.

To this day, remains to be one of the most popular rides in the Timbuktu section.

In 2004, as a part of the park's Timbuktu renovation, Scorpion was repainted from its original paint scheme of orange track and black supports to red track with blue supports (a paint scheme similar to SheiKra).

The ride was designed by Anton Schwarzkopf as one of his Silverarrow model looping coasters.

Only three of these exist today, this coaster, at Loudoun Castle in Scotland, Twist N' Shout at Loudoun Castle in Scotland,

and the other said to be in a traveling carnival overseas.

Layout.

The ride has a fairly simple and twisted layout involving a single Vertical Loop as the signature element.

After the train is carried 60 feet into the air, riders twist down a drop and pass through the single Vertical Loop element.

Following the loop, the train goes through a pretzel turnaround and threads the vertical loop.

The train circles around a 900° ...helix and enters the brake run.

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