If I didn't live 30 minutes away from Busch Gardens Tampa, I would've canceled my annual pass YEARS ago.
News Leadership Changes
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TAMPA, Fla., June 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Busch Gardens Tampa Bay today announced the appointment of Jon Vigue as the park's new President, ushering in a new era of growth and innovation at one of America's most iconic theme parks in the midst of a more than $100 million investment in new attractions and park enhancements.
https://www.unitedparksinvestors.co...-JON-VIGUE-AS-NEW-PARK-PRESIDENT/default.aspx
https://www.unitedparksinvestors.co...-JON-VIGUE-AS-NEW-PARK-PRESIDENT/default.aspx
Hopefully we see some changes, I remember the "$40 million park transformation" of last year where the only positive we got was reopening Kumba and a preexisting play structure
One of the biggest changes I expect is a new park president some time in the next year or so.
He was the Chair of the Food & Beverage Committee for IAAPA. Please tell me that means good food will come back to the park 
BGT getting a new park president is how I remember to rotate my tires.
Looks like its happening faster each time if the rumors are true
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Edit im starting to believe there is a curse on BGT park president like hogwarts with the dark arts teacher
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I don't understand why corporate wants this park to fail so badly. They were turning things around with the new president and now all that is gonna be reversed.
I refused to visit BGT this year. This is the first year I won't be setting foot in this park since I moved to Florida in 2016. I even visited after I moved back to Virginia including COVID. It's a shame. I like the park but I hate seeing the direction it's traveling in.
I refused to visit BGT this year. This is the first year I won't be setting foot in this park since I moved to Florida in 2016. I even visited after I moved back to Virginia including COVID. It's a shame. I like the park but I hate seeing the direction it's traveling in.
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Tracks with what I’ve heard. Absolutely fucking insane, pardon my French
havent set foot in BGT since iron gwazi mostly due to i4 traffic. i just hope brad does not have to run 5 parks now and a replacement can be found sooner rather than later
Is corporate allergic to any good news coming out of any park that isn’t Williamsburg? Literally, it seems like it.
Why does it sound like it might be a little worse than losing a park president again?
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im just curious if they are currently listening to offers on the land like cedar fair and cga for the land value. i just know the ceo earlier this year has mentioned they had offers on the land in florida but there might be a little more at play than the leadership changes
Do I want Jon Vigue out? Definitely not. Will it be really fucking funny if BGT has lost another park president after mere months? Hell yes it will be.
Place is a neverending trainwreck and I just can't look away.
Place is a neverending trainwreck and I just can't look away.
united parks in general with private equity in charge. at the current rate might as well sell the land of the seaworld parks and bgt and just give bgw to hershend.
There are three universal constants in life: death, taxes, and a head of lettuce lasting longer than the bgt park president-
I assume that once any new park president is hired and on-boarded they learn about a locked, walk-in freezer in a shadowy corner of the park's backstage areas where the park has stashed the bodies of all of the poor Hillsborough County health inspectors who have died in the line of duty on the park premises over the last decade.
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Presumably the immense weight of carrying such a horrifying secret drives these poor park presidents to flee the industry within months of being hired time and time again.
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Presumably the immense weight of carrying such a horrifying secret drives these poor park presidents to flee the industry within months of being hired time and time again.
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