After exiting the cobra roll, riders hit a short brake run. An element with two back-to-back inversions called a cobra roll followed.
Next, was the camelback hill designed for airtime. The ride opened with a wrap around corkscrew performed during the initial 145′ drop (pictured above). And so, Drachen Fire was born.ĭrachen Fire boasted several never-before seen elements. With the use of state-of-the-art computer modeling the company said it could deliver the unique steel looper. The designs for Drachen Fire were like nothing the veteran builders had done before. Busch had luck with Arrow on those two installations, so they were hired to finish the Williamsburg coaster. The result is my all-time favorite coaster Kumba at Busch Gardens Tampa.Įnter Arrow, the company we can thank for two of the park’s other gems: Loch Ness Monster and Big Bad Wolf. So, they decided to only work on one of the two projects. At the time they were a young company and had not done a sitdown looping coaster. They had ordered the two coasters from new-comers Bolliger & Mabillard. One was to be built at their African themed park in Tampa, Florida and one at their European-themed park in Williamsburg, Virginia. The story began when Busch planned to build two steel looping roller coasters. But here’s the folklore of Drachen Fire, the most famous defunct coaster of the past twenty years. I have no way of validating the B&M involvement part of the story. I will relay the background story I’ve seen several times on the coaster enthusiast circuit. While it had a short run, it’s easily one of the most well-known defunct coasters in past years. A Look Back at the Legendary Drachen Fire at Busch Gardensĭrachen Fire was an infamous roller coaster that lived in the Rhineland, Germany section of Busch Gardens Williamsburg from 1992 to 1998.
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