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Following up on this announcement which confirmed the closure of Kumba.
There’s mentions of “Kumba’s Revenge”…..
Could this be the long awaited Giga Coaster that people have been wanting?
News Project 2028 (?): Kumba’s Revenge (Giga?)
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Following up on this announcement which confirmed the closure of Kumba.
There’s mentions of “Kumba’s Revenge”…..
Could this be the long awaited Giga Coaster that people have been wanting?
I would say probably is the Giga, but I would realllllly love it if BGT got one of the first post-Clermont B&Ms and it was another pioneering looper. It's pretty out of style and I don't see it happening unless it's a wing coaster. To be fair Florida doesn't have one yet
In all seriousness- like TWO Fury325
So the 2027 water coaster, a Giga and 2 flat rides …. That’s 100 million.
This park does need new rides - and FAST!!!
reading this more as a full retrack over a new coaster.
I dont think saying new and innovating attractions, and talking about boosting guest expierence is calling forna retrack
I’m pretty confident it’s not a retrack, the language they’re using surrounding Kumba sounds final. There’s no “Kumba as you know it is retiring” or anything that leaves it up for interpretation (something like Cedar Points TTD closing announcement), they’re just directly saying that it’s done.
I mean Fury is more than a decade old now, tariffs are an issue as is overall inflation, and B&M is no longer manufacturing track in the US. I know they're both Mack Rides but I think Project Purple is supposed to be $50 million and Holiday World's 1700 foot water coaster is $22 million. $100 million might just be what any full-circuit giga costs nowadays
Project Purple vs a giga is an interesting question, because I'm curious how much of the cost of Project Purple is cost of the track and hardware and howich of the cost is the launch system and all of the complexities that comes with it.I mean Fury is more than a decade old now, tariffs are an issue as is overall inflation, and B&M is no longer manufacturing track in the US. I know they're both Mack Rides but I think Project Purple is supposed to be $50 million and Holiday World's 1700 foot water coaster is $22 million. $100 million might just be what any full-circuit giga costs nowadays
A Giga would be assumed to be traditional chain lift, which wouldn't have any of that.
On a limb here because I have not been to this park in 21 years 
- this leaves the park with their last MAJOR (not Phoenix) coaster investment as Iron Gwazi, back in 2020, correct?
Is the game plan to have a replacement by the end of 2027? I'm just gauging when I should even think to make the trip from VA to FL in the next 12-18 months...
- this leaves the park with their last MAJOR (not Phoenix) coaster investment as Iron Gwazi, back in 2020, correct?Is the game plan to have a replacement by the end of 2027? I'm just gauging when I should even think to make the trip from VA to FL in the next 12-18 months...
Kumbas Revenge will be 2028, there's a different new coaster opening next year.On a limb here because I have not been to this park in 21 years
Is the game plan to have a replacement by the end of 2027? I'm just gauging when I should even think to make the trip from VA to FL in the next 12-18 months...
If they don’t replace kumba with a Split T-Rex RMC they are dropping the ball big time , how kumba was amazing when it first opened and unique they could do the same again with the T-Rex , especially calling it Kumbas revenge like wildcats revenge , I’m hoping it’s a hint and the aireforce one closing on same day , This to me would get all eyes on BGT , look want iron gwazi did to the park it’s a lot of people’s top 3 coaster.
Isint RMC the only ride company who uses the "revenge" gimmick these days anyway...? I mean is it crazy to guess a t-rex?
For this park, don't make the trip. No balance in rides, terrible ops, horrendous lines. They've taken a beautiful, world class park, and run it into the ground. It's so hard to say that, because I grew up dreaming about going to this park.On a limb here because I have not been to this park in 21 years
Is the game plan to have a replacement by the end of 2027? I'm just gauging when I should even think to make the trip from VA to FL in the next 12-18 months...
I really have no idea what to make of this... announcement...?
First off, bad name.
Secondly, WTF even is this? Is it a Kumba retrack? The name sure suggests it, but the rest of the park's language around Kumba's closing sure doesn't. Assuming it's some other new coaster, why is it randomly going to be Kumba-themed? Are we talking about a new, super intense, inversion + positive-G + speed-focused multi-looper buried in the forest that runs through trenches and tunnels? Doubt it—in which case that's not Kumba.
If it's something big and new, it deserves its own identity—it's both disrespectful to the new coaster AND to Kumba to essentially steal it's identity to market something largely unrelated.
Also, the $100 million marketing point is such nonsense. They're just lumping a bunch of cap ex, maintenance, zoological, and likely other investments—culinary, marketing, landscaping, facilities maintenance—probably yes to all of the above—over some indeterminate number of years together to make it sound like some flashy, unparalleled thing. Who knows when this window started, who knows how many years that budget is slated to be spent over, and I can almost guarantee you that the $100 million number includes a ton of stuff that guests should reasonably believe to be the bare minimum of upkeep and operational funding—even if BGT hasn't actually funded such things in recent memory.
First off, bad name.
Secondly, WTF even is this? Is it a Kumba retrack? The name sure suggests it, but the rest of the park's language around Kumba's closing sure doesn't. Assuming it's some other new coaster, why is it randomly going to be Kumba-themed? Are we talking about a new, super intense, inversion + positive-G + speed-focused multi-looper buried in the forest that runs through trenches and tunnels? Doubt it—in which case that's not Kumba.
If it's something big and new, it deserves its own identity—it's both disrespectful to the new coaster AND to Kumba to essentially steal it's identity to market something largely unrelated.
Also, the $100 million marketing point is such nonsense. They're just lumping a bunch of cap ex, maintenance, zoological, and likely other investments—culinary, marketing, landscaping, facilities maintenance—probably yes to all of the above—over some indeterminate number of years together to make it sound like some flashy, unparalleled thing. Who knows when this window started, who knows how many years that budget is slated to be spent over, and I can almost guarantee you that the $100 million number includes a ton of stuff that guests should reasonably believe to be the bare minimum of upkeep and operational funding—even if BGT hasn't actually funded such things in recent memory.
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