Busch Gardens Tampa 2016 Permits Found

Permits have been found for what Busch gardens Tampa new attraction for 2016



a better image of what it would look like



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I feel like its going to be something similar to laff trakk at Hershey park but who know what's going to be in the building as long as its a coaster but I never seen any park reroute there railroad before but im happy there finally getting a chance to remove the old station there that they use as a smoke area but im wondering what the trenches will be used for

Screamscape say's its supposed to be an improved version of Manta (San Diego). I don't really understand why they need two multi launch family coasters though.

[mkingy]

CoasterGuy2000 wrote:

Screamscape say's its supposed to be an improved version of Manta (San Diego). I don't really understand why they need two multi launch family coasters though.

Maybe they already had a deal with Mack - given their financial constraints it may have been the only/best option forward.

Still, they make other rides that aren't already at the park. I think they should have gone with a water coaster personally.

They already got more water rides than seaworld I feel like a spinning coaster will do great for the park or a fury 325 but spinner will do

[Paradox]

Yea. They totally have enough money for a giga.

[Mikey]

Moving that railroad track is not a big deal. Digging and building bridges is where the money is going to go.

All that's Florida is is sand mixed with dirt the only thing I worry about is a lot of sink holes since water is under the state

[TTD03]

Interesting what will go in here.

deere839 wrote:

All that's Florida is is sand mixed with dirt the only thing I worry about is a lot of sink holes since water is under the state

....that is geologically incorrect.

[Metazoanhaddock]

Rickrollercoaster wrote:

deere839 wrote:

All that's Florida is is sand mixed with dirt the only thing I worry about is a lot of sink holes since water is under the state

....that is geologically incorrect.

+1

deere839 wrote:

All that's Florida is is sand mixed with dirt the only thing I worry about is a lot of sink holes since water is under the state

If that were true, why were there no sinkholes when building any other ride?

[TTD03]

More info on this...

Busch Gardens Tampa is planning a new attraction at the theme park for the 2016 season, at least according to new plans filed with the Southwest Florida Water Management District.

The plans are only related to drainage for the 2.65 acres of the park that will be affected - meaning we're talking about where concrete will and won't go, not any specifics of the attraction outside of that.

As this only paints a partial picture of what's being planned there's still a lot of mystery around exactly what this will be - but there are some definite clues and items worth pointing out. Let's take a look, shall we?

The work site for the 2016 attraction is in the Egypt section of the park, focused on the building that housed the King Tut's Tomb walk through attraction - located just next to the Crown Colony Restaurant. From the plans it appears as though that building will be doubled in size, with the adjacent train track moving slightly to accommodate the expansion. The above image shows this section of the park, with the building in question on the left. You can see the Montu inverted roller coaster on the right.

Here is a section of the plans that have been submitted, a bit confusing I know. The big white building is the one that will be expanded; the top half with the extension pointing outward to the right is the new part. Upon much closer review it is also noticeable that there are two trenches that will be created next to the structure, and above it one labeled as "RR Bridge/Tunnel." I would assume that means that the railroad will pass over a third trench in this area.

To make things a bit easier on the eye I made this little comparison. The top is a current image of the park, the bottom is the 2016 plans. The colors I'll explain.

?????? The red building in each is the original King Tut's Tomb building, and the yellow structure is the large themed wall that you pass under to get to Montu. Both are here to orient your eye in both images.

?????? The blue lines up top are the new location of the railroad tracks, bumped upward to accommodate the expansion.

?????? The green building is the expansion that will go onto the Tut building.

?????? The pink lines represent the three trenches that can be seen on the plans. The top one goes under the railroad tracks, where a new bridge will be built for the train to pass over.

So while this helps us line things up nicely, it doesn't clarify much of what this may be. However...

If you take one more look at the plans you can notice that there's a purple box labeled "maint. stairs." If the new green building were to say, be a station, there's often maintenance stairs leading up to the top of a lift hill. (ride path shown in orange) That lift hill would leave the station through the strange shaped part of the building, probably a big piece of theming. If you move backwards from the supposed station, you could see how some brakes could take place after that final trench of zig-zag track.

As for the rest of whatever this is... well after the potential lift hill there's plenty of space for 'stuff' to happen that would connect the two ends of this hypothetical ride path. The yellow in the image above traces the boundary of the work site, so as you can see they are allowing for plenty of room for this 'stuff' to take place in. Still, I don't expect this addition to be huge, neither in height or length... perhaps more of a family-oriented addition.

Okay - I've said enough purposely-vague stuff for now and hopefully got your imagination going at this point. If you'd like to peruse the public documents that have been filed, follow this link. I'm excited to see Busch Gardens Tampa planning another expansion and can't wait to hear more!
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[Coasterkidmwm]

deere839 wrote:

All that's Florida is is sand mixed with dirt the only thing I worry about is a lot of sink holes since water is under the state

It's probably something like limestone that makes those sinkholes. Everywhere has groundwater with rare exceptions.

Coasterkidmwm wrote:

deere839 wrote:

All that's Florida is is sand mixed with dirt the only thing I worry about is a lot of sink holes since water is under the state

It's probably something like limestone that makes those sinkholes. Everywhere has groundwater with rare exceptions.

I learned over the years that Florida has tons of caverns under it handbags why we don't have basement with a low water thing I forgot what it's called