I love the whole aesthetic of the area around the coaster. It feels industrial in a good way
I rode Texas Stingray 12 times over Wednesday and Thursday and it was absolutely fantastic. Best GCI I’ve been on of the 6 I’ve ridden beating out Thunderhead. Definitely worth stopping into SeaWorld San Antonio if in the area.
I rode this last year, and it puts Invadr to shame. Definitely worth a visit to SWSA to ride this coaster! Looking forward to riding it again this weekend, but sad I am missing out on the Vanilla Ice concert in Orlando.
SWSA also had a bigger open space to install this coaster, unlike InvadR which had to be squeezed in around Caribou Station, the backstage area and Le Scoot. Texas Stingray is also 1,261-feet longer than InvadR.
OT: Pantheons spot should have been used for an elite woodie coaster.
Wouldn’t mind a gravity group or GCI on the scale of some of the ones over in Asia!
Random thought I had...we know that two of Gwazi's millennium flyer trains were shipped to BGW for Invadr... were the other two used for Texas Stingray? Gwazi had two MF'ers on each side, and I'm near certain that BGW didn't receive all four.
It is my understanding that they were former Gwazi trains, yes.
Then what’s the one in the parking garage? It’s just the fronts, so maybe they didn’t use them?
Some of Gwazi's trains were reused on Busch Gardens Williamsburg's 2017 wooden coaster InvadR. However, GCI CEO Clair Hain stated in an interview that the frames were the only part of the trains that were reused. Some of the ride's trains were also later reused on Texas Stingray, a 2020 wooden coaster at SeaWorld San Antonio. - per Coasterpedia.
Which means there are still 8 more cars wandering around somewhere!
I like to think that those 8 extra cars made a spare train for InvadR so if they need to they still have 2 train ops.