Scorpion (roller coaster)

Scorpion at Busch Gardens Tampa (Tampa, Florida ) is a steel roller coaster from the Silver Arrow model from the manufacturer Schwarzkopf, which opened on May 16, 1980 along with the new Timbuktu topic. 2004 Scorpion was required for the renovation of the subject area of orange / black orange / blue umlackier.

From this kind of roller coaster, there are only three pieces worldwide. Besides Scorpion still called Twist and Shout at Loudoun Castle and a mobile version exists in Europe.

Layout

Scorpion has a simple twisted layout with a 12 m high loop as the main element. After the train pulled up to 19 m high lift hill, he drives the first drop down into the loop. After the loop follows a curve in the form of a pretzel ( a so-called Pretzelturn ) and the track leads through the center of the loop. A subsequent 900 ° -helix into the Endbremse.

Scorpion is navigated by two trains with five cars. In each car four people can (two rows of two people) take place. As a lap bar restraint system are used.