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Gwazi - BGT

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Postby w00dland on December 19th, 2014, 4:37 pm
Gwazi, the pile of wood that some people still call a roller coaster is finally being town down at BGT. Can't say it was a surprise considering they "retired" one side of the coaster nearly two years ago (literally built a bridge for fast pass queue guests over the track).

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Postby Guy_With_A_Stick on December 19th, 2014, 6:55 pm
To "Let it snow"

Oh looking at it was frightful,
but riding it was far from delightful.
The one thing the park'll have heard:
Let it burn, let it burn, let it burn!

The one thing we liked was it stopping,
I brought popcorn to see the workers start chopping.
Quite a few people would keep it in an urn,
so let it burn, let it burn!

We'll be happy for saying good bye,
For all the bad memories of the ride.
But once the wood is warm,
All the way home I'll have joy.

And the ride sure won't be missed,
nobody will be holdin' up fists.
If anybody does, they'll learn,
let it burn, let it burn, let it burn!

We'll be happy for saying good bye,
For all the bad memories of the ride.
But once the wood is warm,
All the way home I'll have joy.

Aw, the fire is slowly dying,
but at least nobody's crying.
The one thing the park'll have heard:
Let it burn, let it burn, let it burn!

Yeah, either that or RMC it.
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Postby Iron Wolf 90-11 on December 19th, 2014, 7:06 pm
Isn't it not actually being torn down? It will just be SBNO if I'm correct.
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Postby Guy_With_A_Stick on December 19th, 2014, 8:06 pm
I know. I'm just expressing my feelings for it in the form of a song.

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Postby Dan The Coaster Man on December 20th, 2014, 2:05 pm
What I read was that it would be SBNO because they can't afford to tear it down with the little money they have.
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Postby FParker185 on December 20th, 2014, 10:05 pm
Within a year of it opening I found it to be a borderline top 10 coaster. Of course I haven't been to FL since 04 when it was already getting pretty rough, I hear it turned into quite the crapfest since though.
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Postby Coaster Justin on December 21st, 2014, 8:33 pm
I rode both sides in 2012 and didn't love or hate either side.


I'm more annoyed with the Business behind closing it.
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Postby Iron Wolf 90-11 on December 21st, 2014, 11:01 pm
Coaster Justin wrote:I rode both sides in 2012 and didn't love or hate either side.

At least you got to ride the Tiger side before they shut it down later that year.
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Postby Ace on December 22nd, 2014, 10:05 pm
I had the misfortune of riding both sides, and hated both. I am glad (if nothing else for the sake of their patrons) that it will no linger be running. They can use that space for something nice.
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Postby Iron Wolf 90-11 on December 22nd, 2014, 11:33 pm
Ace wrote:They can use that space for something nice.

Once they get the money to tear it down and then to build something there.
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Postby Chitown on December 23rd, 2014, 5:06 pm
Bring back the brewery!!!!! :D
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Postby Ace on January 9th, 2015, 9:36 pm
According to their facebook Feb 1 is the last day to get a ride on Gwazi.
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Postby BLADE on February 20th, 2015, 11:33 am
Ace wrote:According to their facebook Feb 1 is the last day to get a ride on Gwazi.


I say good riddance. I rode this piece of junk both before and right after the millenium flyer trains were installed. They didn't help. It has extremely poor ridership and takes up a ton of room. I think BGT needs to use this large space to finally get a hyper/giga in Florida. It's ridiculous that there is not one in the entire state.
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