Florida Springs

Florida Springs (formerly known as Circus World Showcase, Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus World, Circus World, and Boardwalk and Baseball) is an amusement park located in Davenport, Florida with a Haines City mailing address.

History
The park opened as Circus World Showcase in 1974, built by Felds, then owners of Ringling Brothers. The park initially consisted of an IMAX theater inside a building designed like a circus tent. Over the next couple years, new displays and shows were added as well as a carousel, and the park was renamed Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus World.

The toy manufacturer Mattel took ownership of the park as it came with the purchase of Ringling Brothers from Felds. Mattel tried to sell the park but was unsuccessful. So to make the park more valuable, they expanded. By 1982 the park had two roller coasters, a diving show, a wild west show, animal displays, a petting zoo and a couple flats. The park was also renamed to just Circus World.

In 1984 Mattel sold the park to developer Jim Monaghan for $10 Million. Monaghan made various improvements from landscaping to the Weiner Looping roller coaster.

In April of 1986 publisher Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich (HBJ) purchased the park. This was part of sort of a buying spree on HBJ's part as they also purchased Sea World, Stars Hall of Fame, and Cypress Gardens around the same time. HBJ closed the park late in the 1986 season to start construction of the new "Boardwalk and Baseball" park. Circus displays were replaced with a turn of the century seaside boardwalk theme.

In 1989, HBJ sold off their amusement parks to Busch, who in turn closed the park in January of 1990 and relocated the park's three major coasters - Zoomerang, Florida Hurricane, and Wiener Looping - to other parks. A few months later, Baker Amusements offered to purchase the park for $60 million, and reopened it in 1991 as Florida Springs, giving the park a complete rehaul as well as a new wooden coaster, Florida Hurricane II.

Roller coasters

 * Florida Hurricane II (1991; A Dinn wooden coaster, retracked partially by CCI in 1998, the rest of the track was retracked by GCI in 2006, given Millennium Flyer trains that same year, the CCI parts were retracked by GCI in 2017)

Flat Rides

 * Carousel

Roller coasters

 * Florida Hurricane (1978-1990; A Michael Black and Associates wooden coaster, relocated to Magic Springs as Arkansas Twister, replaced with Florida Hurricane II)
 * Zoomerang (1977-1990; An Arrow Launched Shuttle Loop, relocated to Screamin' Safari [then known as Fun Spot] where it currently operates as Lion's Tail)