Tempesto • Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Tempesto features
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Reviews 81
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Intensity Harness Discomfort
Tempesto is like Tigris at my home park. This is your typical Sky Rocket II by Premier. The launch is great, there is great hangtime, a nice inversion, but best of all, it’s an intense ride. However, the harness is uncomfortable, and discomfort is a problem in riding. It’s a quick ride, but that is normal with Sky Rocket II models. Premier Rides has done excellent with these models, and while I’m not in love with it, I don’t hate it, so Busch Gardens Williamsburg and Premier Rides did a good job on Tempesto.
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Airtimes Launch Hangtime Too short
The launch is great great airtime in the front and back and the launches are forces full.
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Launch Intensity Hangtime Too short Harness Discomfort
This is a short but sweet ride with some good launches, a great inline twist, and good forces. The comfort collars are a bit annoying especially if you're short but they're bearable
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Airtimes Intensity Hangtime Too short Harness Discomfort
Tempesto provides some great forces and transitions in a small footprint, but it is unfortunately hampered by the awful comfort collar restraints. Tall riders like me will be in pain almost the entire time. There is an extreme lack of legroom and the collars provide some neckchopping. It is also a pain to get in and out of. That being said, though, it is a fun ride otherwise.
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Intensity Layout Ejectors Too short Harness
This ride is super underrated. All though I've been going to Busch Gardens since 2019, I haven't appreciated this ride until my 2 most recent visits during their halloween event. I love the layout. You have two great ejector moments going up into, and down out of the heartline roll. Said heartline roll gives awsome hangtime. The launches are fast and fun, and there are lots of great positive gs. My only complaints are that the trains are very inconvenient to get in and out of. They don't harm the actual ride for me, but the train design is very annoying. The ride is also pretty short. If it was like Galeforce, and had a second lap, this might be top 10 for me. So despite being a flawed ride, this ride still has very strong pros that put it in my top 25.
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Inversions Launch Capacity Harness
I'm just not a huge fan of this or Tigris. The restraints are uncomfortable and the trains are too tight of a squeeze. These rides have potential but I just don't enjoy them.
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Harness Discomfort Lap Bar
This ride is unbearable. It really sucks because I think the ride would have great forces but I honestly don't know because the only thing I could focus on was the immense pain in my thighs. These restraints are the worst ever, the comfort collar and the shin guards don't bother me, but the lap bar portion will crush your thighs so hard its 10 times worse than Skyrush or T3. If the thigh crushing alone wasn't enough the position the restraints had your legs in made it even more uncomfortable and awkward. There is also no way to stop yourself from getting stapled as soon as you start getting positive g's that lap bar will come down and crush your thighs. At least on other rides that are uncomfortable I can still enjoy the elements and ride defensively if I have to. On Tempesto there is no way to avoid it, it hurts the whole ride and its simply unbearable.
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Launch Hangtime Capacity Harness Discomfort
Tempesto is a great ride marred by poor train design. The ride provides excellent hangtime. The launch sequence is incredibly fun. The restraints are terrible. I'm a tall guy, so the lapbar can crush my lower legs at times, and provide an uncomfortable sensation on my hips. And the comfort collar is dumb and stupid. The layout is great, and I look forward to riding a Sky Rocket II without comfort collars, because the ride should be more fun than it is, and it's the restraints that kill some of the fun.
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Launch Intensity Hangtime Harness Discomfort
Surprisingly intense, a shocking amount of hangtime on the twist, and then a wild ride through snappy vertical transitions make for an insane, if not exactly the most comfortable, ride.
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Launch Hangtime Too short Capacity Harness
Tempesto is an underrated coaster that offers a variety of sensations in one short ride. Whether it be hangtime in the slow twist up top, the forwards and backwards launch sequence, or the bizarrely whippy vertical transitions, Tempesto tries to hit all the marks — and it doesn’t do a half bad job at it. However, the real bad job on this coaster is its train. The “comfort” collars aren’t too terribly uncomfortable themselves; however, it is a huge pain to squeeze into and exit out of the EXTREMELY cramped cars. As for the poor capacity, I hurried to this coaster as soon as possible and secured the back row — all on the second public train of the day. Tempesto is a fun coaster, but the tight train and slightly detractive “comfort” collars ruin it somewhat.
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Airtimes Capacity Harness Discomfort
The "comfort collars" are some of the least comfortable redundant restraining devices I've ever encountered on a coaster. Additionally, they make the trains nearly impossible to get into or out of. Combinded with what is a very lackluster experience otherwise, there is very little to love about Tempesto.
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Launch Hangtime Capacity Pointless
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Launch Headbanging Harness Discomfort
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Launch Capacity Discomfort
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Inversions Fun Capacity Harness
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