Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey has changed its work permit application for the Kingda Ka roller coaster.
The permit application, which we told you about last month, had been for "alteration" of the now-closed roller coaster. Now, the permit has been updated for the ride's demolition.
Standing 456 feet, with a 418-foot Top Hat drop, Kingda Ka had been the world's tallest roller coaster until Six Flags closed it permanently on November 11 last year. The Intamin Accelerator also was America's fastest coaster, with a top speed of 128 mph.
The world's fastest roller coaster is Intamin's Formula Rossa at Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, which runs up to 149 mph. But the records for world's fastest and tallest roller coaster are about to fall to Intamin's Falcons Flight at Six Flags Qiddiya City in Saudi Arabia, which is expected to open later this year.
Six Flags Great Adventure has announced that it will open a "multi-record-breaking launch coaster" in 2026 after removing Kingda Ka and the attached Zumanjaro: Drop of Doom drop ride as well as the Green Lantern coaster and Skyway gondola ride. Later this year, the park will open Flash: Vertical Velocity, a Vekoma Super Boomerang.
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Even better if they sold lottery tickets to get to push the button to implode it.
No Loss. Out of the 5 or 6 times I got on line to ride Kingda Ka. I only got on once.
Every other time it broke down while I was on line. You will find plenty of people with similar stories.
I can understand why SF doesn't want to bring attention to its implosion, just like when they didn't want to bring attention to its closure. From a PR standpoint of course they don't want "worlds tallest and fastest roller coaster closing after corporate merger" all over the national news. Any type of attention they bring to it is naturally going to be bad attention...better to just sweep it under the rug as much as possible and hopefully the fanbase will be happy with whatever they replace it with.
I totally agree the_man7, but for a company that appears to be making decisions solely based on financial ramifications, you'd think they would want to leverage every available asset to the greatest extent. That's why I don't understand why they are not making these announcements before the parks close for the season, especially in the lighter attended late fall and early winter months when weather might discourage average guests from trekking out.
It really makes no sense to me that a company so focused on profits would let easy revenue generating opportunities pass by.
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It is very odd to me that they are planning to perform a "controlled implosion" of the structure instead of disassembling it. If SF had half a brain, they'd sell tickets to the event.