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Sep 29, 2026
Jared LeeHOST
That would be awesome.
Jamie LeeHOST
And the attraction in this land, it was just basically the only part of this land that I can remember is Dueling Dragons.
Jared LeeHOST
I remember those.
Jared LeeHOST
I remember Dueling Dragons.
Jamie LeeHOST
This was originally called Dueling Dragons Fire and Ice.
Jamie LeeHOST
But it was basically two roller coasters that did go inverted named Fire and Ice that would pass very close.
Jamie LeeHOST
And I mean within feet away.
Jamie LeeHOST
You think?
Caden AielloHOST
This house also had...
Caden AielloHOST
the wet path, so you could either choose the dry or wet path at the end of the house, the two little split paths, a la Dueling Dragons from a couple, from a few years ago, um, and there was genuinely a path that would get you soaked, and for me personally, every time I went through it, I got really wet, I got really, like, I wouldn't say soaked, but I did get, I did get pretty wet on that wet path, um, Yeah, it was kind of crazy.
Caden AielloHOST
It was kind of crazy.
Caden AielloHOST
I know the water system for that was a little touch and go sometimes.
JarrettHOST
Mentioned that.
JarrettHOST
Dueling Dragons was mentioned a couple times, but I'll mention Jody.
JarrettHOST
So Dueling Dragons.
JarrettHOST
Lights, Motors, Action, Crystal.
JarrettHOST
Mentioned that one.
KobeHOST
Right, but everybody is wearing a sleeveless shirt or a dry fit t-shirt or whatever.
KobeHOST
You go back farther, like you watch any of the videos from like, there's a really good Q video of Dueling Dragons.
HollyHOST
Yeah.
KobeHOST
From like when it first opened.
Dean CoughlinHOST
Like, she'll go.
James KilvingtonHOST
There was only one I never went on, and I was annoyed at myself for not going on it in America, the Duel and Dragons.
James KilvingtonHOST
Do you remember that one?
Dean CoughlinHOST
I think I might have went on it.
BenHOST
First time I've done the standard queue and I don't know how long.
BenHOST
Maybe since it was Dragon Challenge.
BenHOST
The wait time for it was 80 minutes and we waited 70.
BenHOST
So... you know, it wasn't the worst way I will say without express the, the, the, the, the one thing, if I have to wait in a long line, at least keep me moving.
LeeHOST
Diverged a little bit from that.
LeeHOST
So with the Dueling Dragons house a few years ago, the Terrifier house last year, I also believe there's one this year, I can't remember which one it is, where there are two exit paths.
LeeHOST
Yes, you get a choice.
LeeHOST
I can't remember which house it is in this year.
Byron MarinHOST
Ultimately, Busch Gardens took an unexpected gamble.
Byron MarinHOST
You see, as the late-'90s approached, Universal was in the midst of constructing the second gate to their Orlando resort, one that was to feature two coaster models pulled directly from the Busch Gardens playbook, that being the Incredible Hulk Coaster, which was a B&M looping coaster that roared with the likes of Busch Gardens' Kumba, and Dueling Dragons, a B&M inverted coaster like Montu.
Byron MarinHOST
It is important to note that Dueling Dragons was indeed a dueling roller coaster, something that Montu was not.
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The thing that separates this coaster from other coasters is there are two coasters in one, completely independent roller coasters, and the close-proximity passes are the attraction.
speaker_12SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
On this coaster, above and beyond other steel coasters, was to make it quiet.
Barry MellonHOST
That's a universal idea, though.
Barry MellonHOST
They already had dueling dragons.
Barry MellonHOST
That was before it became the Harry Potter ride.
Barry MellonHOST
They also had issues with it causing people to have actual injuries and stuff, but that's a different story altogether.
Mako-chanHOST
Yeah.
Mako-chanHOST
Oh, is that the one, the roller coaster that was causing brain hemorrhaging? Yeah.
Barry MellonHOST
I can't remember if it was brain hemorrhaging, but I definitely know some people got very injured because the trick of it is, Dueling Dragons initially, back in the 90s, our young chatterinos, there was a coaster called Dueling Dragons, and it was because the coasters would loop so close together that if you reached your arm up, you could touch each other, basically.
Barry MellonHOST
Like, you could touch the other set of tracks.
AlexHOST
mention
SeanHOST
about Wildcat is that they have all those placards inside the queue for other wooden coves around the world, and I see there's some Chinese coves around there, Dueling Dragons, which also uses PTCs.
SeanHOST
It's like the famous racing woody that honestly never races, but it's in Wuhan.
SeanHOST
In Wuhan.
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