Busch Gardens Tampa Makes Way for its New 2016 Coaster

Busch Gardens Tampa announced this morning that it has closed its Serengeti Railway to reroute the track to make way for a new attraction at the park.

Update: The Serengeti Railway will be temporarily closed as we start on the 2016 attraction! pic.twitter.com/10vhP4lZM5 — Busch Gardens (@BuschGardens) March 16, 2015

The new attraction is believed to be a Mack roller coaster, probably more of the family than the extreme-thrill variety. Busch Gardens earlier filed plans to expand the old King Tut building by 11,000 square feet and add additional paving in the area. The rerouting of the Serengeti Railway track in the Egypt section of the park is part of the project, to clear space for the development around the Tut building expansion. The railway will reopen once the new track is in place.

Though Busch Gardens is acknowledging the 2016 project, it has yet to formally announce the new attraction and reveal its name. Last month, the park closed its Gwazi wooden roller coaster, and its most recent new attraction, Falcon's Fury, opened to rave reviews... though after a several-month delay.

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