Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Shaquil Barrett just lately turned the primary Buc to board the brand new Pirate River Quest boat journey at Legoland Florida.
The NFL participant and his household took the 20-minute expertise that travels through canal by the Cypress Gardens space of the Winter Haven theme park amid Lego-themed adventures and floating household actions.
“It’s chill, for positive. It’s a pleasant, enjoyable journey. However it’s additionally participation. You get to take pleasure in it collectively as a household,” Barrett mentioned. ”It’s sort of like a contest, too, so there’s a bit little bit of all the things in that journey.”
He additionally famous a punny joke midstream that performs off the phrase “buccaneer.”
Pirate River Quest, a captain-guided journey that additionally has a stretch onto Lake Eloise, debuted in January.
Barrett, who performed faculty soccer at Colorado State, has performed on two Tremendous Bowl champion groups, the Bucs of 2020 and the Denver Broncos in 2015. His 2022 season was abbreviated by an Achilles harm.
Barrett and household’s photograph on the attraction is a part of the Sentinel’s “Stars within the Theme Parks” photograph gallery, just lately revived beginning with celeb visits of 2023. The pictures will be seen at OrlandoSentinel.com.
E mail me at dbevil@orlandosentinel.com. Subscribe to the Theme Park Rangers e-newsletter at orlandosentinel.com/newsletters or the Theme Park Rangers podcast at orlandosentinel.com/journey/points of interest/theme-park-rangers-podcast.
()