Iron Gwazi vs New Texas Giant

Vintage is the reversed stat — the older ride wins. Every number here is the same one printed on the card; see /methodology for how Build Cost and Throughput are sourced.

The verdict

Iron Gwazi takes it 4–2, and the 2 New Texas Giant does win are the whole of its case.

Iron Gwazi is a hybrid IBox Track (Gwazi conversion) coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, US, built by Rocky Mountain Construction. New Texas Giant is a hybrid IBox Track (Texas Giant conversion) coaster at Six Flags Over Texas, US, built by Rocky Mountain Construction.

Both are in US, which puts them in the same conversation for anyone planning a trip there.

They come from the same drawing office: Rocky Mountain Construction. That makes the gaps below a question of brief and budget rather than engineering house style.

Both are hybrid-track, so nothing here is the usual steel-versus-wood argument in disguise.

Stat by stat

• Height goes to Iron Gwazi at 206 ft against 153 ft — well clear.
• Speed goes to Iron Gwazi at 76 mph against 65 mph — well clear.
• Iron Gwazi inverts 3 times against nothing at all from New Texas Giant — the widest kind of gap there is on this stat.
• Throughput goes to New Texas Giant at 1,400 rph against 1,200 rph — well clear.
• Build Cost goes to Iron Gwazi at 30 $m against 10 $m — in another class entirely.
• 11 years separate them, and because Vintage rewards age it is New Texas Giant (2011) that banks the point, not Iron Gwazi (2022).