Theme Parks

The Tampa theme park is bring back the long-standing tradition through mid-July.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed legislation designed to make amusement parks safer.

Disney is in the midst of eliminating about 7,000 jobs as part of a targeted $5.5 billion cost savings across the company.

Other bills include state inspecting Walt Disney World’s monorail system, and one designed to bolster the safety of amusement rides.

It is named after a 14-year-old boy who died in March 2022 when he fell from a drop tower at ICON Park in Orlando.

TRON Lightcycle/Run, on the edge of Tomorrowland, is being billed as the Magic Kingdom’s fastest ride and among the fastest at any Disney park.

The Tyre Sampson Act takes a series of steps to protect riders. The teen fell from a ride that had been granted a permit to operate just two months earlier.

Sunday was the last day for the ride in the Florida park. Controversy surrounded the ride, based on the 1946 film Song of the South and its racist themes. It will relaunch as Tiana's Bayou Adventure.

The Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services says the operator of the drop tower - from which 14-year-old Tyre Sampson fell to his death - should never again hold a ride permit in Florida.

Tyre Sampson, 14, died in March while riding the 400-foot-tall FreeFall last March.

Theme park workers met in Orange County on Monday to discuss how inflation and an affordable housing crisis are making it harder for them to live and work in Florida.

The legislative framework designed to improve safety on amusement rides follows the death of a Missouri teen who fell off a tower-style ride in Orlando in March.