News: Kingda Ka

I think it's really cool how the trees get blown around when the train flies by them...it looks kind of mysterious I guess. Also, Gigaforce, what do you mean by a 310 foot arch cancelling out the effect of height?

Stale Force said,

"Gigaforce, what do you mean by a 310 foot arch cancelling out the effect of height?"

Been to CP 2 times once in 01 and in 03. In 01 MF toward over every ride 2/3 taller than the magnum. In 03 MF was 3/4 the height of TTD. With a 310 foot rollercoaster a 400 footer just is not as impressive. I can't imagine seeing a 400 footer just sticking out. Next tallest at Great Adventure Nitro 230 feet. Thats 200 plus feet more. From a distance Ka will look huge! Also CP has PT.

Well, you can't do any height comparisons when you're standing under it... which is incredible.

MF was never 2/3 taller than magnum, it was a third taller, right? Magnum was 2/3 the height of Millie.

Big D:
What moosh said! There were plenty of people that speculated and swore this thing wasn't going to be higher than TTD, that it was just going to be a taller exact clone, etc., and no one is harping on them.

I do feel like going back and quoting you to put a final nail in the coffin on this debate, and like moosh said, Beaver will let bygones be bygones, but you need to see the one final lesson before I call it quits on this debate.

First, on page one of the Stealth thread, it was you that stated that Stealth was on the packing slips. I'm not saying you were lying, but you were the only person that ever said you saw the packing slip. It could have been, but no one has proof, so you had no credibility right there. Yet you went on to say that "Now we have pretty solid proof. The codename that Intamin provides never lies."

No one had any proof. What we had was hear say. Joe de-bunked you, as the rest of Those in the know (tm) just looked and laughed.

You then went back on your own word and pretty much said you didn't know what you were talking about when you said "I'm not SURE of anything, I am sure that it is the codename."

In that same post, you talked about the non-existant overbank.

Next, both Moosh and Impulse-ive both said that the "overbank" support looked like something on TTD's support structer. You came back with an attitude by saying "You obviously havent been following the construction now have you?"

No, they haven't been to the site. But just because you had didn't mean you were an expert. Joe even went on to kind of help your cause, but not alot, since Joe knows. Joe always knows. Brett came back with an explination, and you come back and tell him he was wrong(which, in the end, made you more wrong, and Brett more right, might I add). You were very rude with him and told him to do his research.

So far, this is only the first page. Need I continue? You went on to say that the construction didn't look like Dragsters. Were you @ TTD's construction? People tried to get you to stop, but you wouldn't. You even deleted one of your posts that was really rude, that I commented on, but I dont' remember what all it said.

No one has a problem that you speculated. We had a problem because you were arrogant and rude and argumentative about something you didn't know about. Incase you haven't figured it out yet, there were people on this site (and no, I'm not one of them) that had actually seen what the blueprints looked like and knew more about the ride than other people that knew stats, height, etc.

Yet you kept arguing and being very rude about it, even when we told you you were wrong. Then you disappear for a couple days after the announcement to try and save face.

Guess what? It didn't work.

And as far as I'm concerned, bygones are bygones, and I'm over this debate about a silly little coaster going into a park I've never even seen before. *** Edited 10/3/2004 4:20:10 AM UTC by ***

You will be facing tons of parked cars that will look like ants so thats enough height effects I need for a ride. Its gonna be next to GASM 173' and RT 96'so when your looking at that and comparing it to them you would know how high it is.

wow tekno, you are probably the most annoying person i met on the forums. I done argueing with you, but all i have to say is...

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DERF.

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Gigaforce1, How can you judge KK when it hasn't even been built yet? The jungle theme looks awesome, And if they do it right it might beat out TTD easily. You don't know what kind of "anticipation sounds" they are going to have on this.

And you are acctually saying that this will have worse reliability then TTD. You have to remember this is 2nd genenration rocket coaster and has been totally redesigned. Storm Runner ran flawless this season, I have no reason to believe this won't run about the same.

Ha! You got served and some crap!! ... followed up by mmmkay?? ... priceless!

Tekno's the most annoying person? Nah I would say that you do a pretty damn good job at claiming that title about every other time you post.

As is typical with you, your picture references mean nothing to anyone but you - I can't see crap on that picture other than a closeup of a box with some condensation on it. Now I don't know which is worse, that you tresspassed to get that close to a shipping crate inside a construction area, or that you're trying to prove something with a picture that means nothing to anyone but you.

Tekno said many times when people were asking him about it that his sig had nothing to do with what is now known as Kingda Ka. So what happened with tht is that it hasn't happened yet, so keep your trap shut.

You've been proven to be a tool, proven to be wrong, proven to have argued very rudely (and annoyingly! Imagine that ...) and yet won't back down. You have still yet to prove how this construction is different than Dragster's or where your all-glorious overbank is at. Hmm? Hmm? Thought so.

Just for hilarity's sake; you got served and crap, mmkay?

And Moosh, you way underestimate my desires for revenge ;) I don't kick 'em when they're down, but if they refuse to go down, I'll keep trying.

Andy, Andy, he's our man, if he can't do it ... uh ... well that's going nowhere, but was just trying to provide you with some cheering on ...

Tresspassed. Again, You never been to the construction site so you don't know. That crate is right next to the fence of the PUBLIC parking lot.

Oh and I was right that there would be extra element.

Seriously though, Its pretty funny that you are jumping on my speculation that turn out to be wrong, Yet almost everybody else did that. Not to mention Impulsive made some senseless claims. BTW, A few people were argueing that it would be only L-TH-B and a few others were argueing that it wouldn't even be a record breaker. As i remember you were argueing that the infield footers were for equipment or somthing. So you were as wrong as I was, so...HAHA.

I'm cracking up reading these posts, Seriously. *** Edited 10/3/2004 3:49:08 PM UTC by Big D***

Uh, ok, so if they're not for transfer tracks, station or equipment, what are they for? Did you look at the same video as everyone else? Because I still saw two parallel track lines, one just happens to jump up then come into the brakes ... I'm seriously confused.

No, you weren't right because you never said there would be an extra element, you claimed it was an overbank and nothing else. You weren't arguing up and down that it was a what, 128' high "bunny" hill just before the brake run. You said, flat out, overbanks, or even in one of your more brilliant moments, a second tower I believe.

Please point out my senseless claims? Or if you can't back them up, then from now on, I think everyone should believe that you have a tail, because of course, it's the internet and anything I claim even without backup must be true. Yup.

And uh, as far as I saw, it is L-TH-B, or did I miss something? No loops, no overbanks, just rising track before the brake run.

I'm glad you're cracking up, because all of us are too ...

If you think Tekno is the most annoying person, count yourself lucky you weren't around a few years ago when a few certain individuals were around :)

Tekno said,

"MF was never 2/3 taller than magnum, it was a third taller, right? Magnum was 2/3 the height of Millie."

It's called a typo! Magnum 200 MF 300 TTD 400 ( approximately) In 01 MF 1/3 taller than MG in 03 TTD 1/4 taller than MF. You should no that!

Big D said,

"Gigaforce1, How can you judge KK when it hasn't even been built yet? The jungle theme looks awesome, And if they do it right it might beat out TTD easily. You don't know what kind of "anticipation sounds" they are going to have on this."

Yes it's possible But I find it very unlikely. To me dragster sounds create more anticipation than do jungle sounds.( in terms of speed) And the animation shows that you can't be as up close to KA when it's at full speed then you can be to TTD when it's at full speed.

In terms of reliability. Will come on. before the announcement 99% of you people where talking about how this ride was going to be down all the time.

I wouldn't call Dragster's pre-launch sounds the end-all-be-all. They're a cool touch, but the simple "Ready? Let's go ... " on Storm Runner is so low key and sort of "hey what did that guy say?" that you're barely ready for the launch (if you don't know that it's 1..2.. from the rock-back of the catch car). There's a lot you can do with the pre-launch - it might even be cool if they don't do anything for it! Just send ya!

Actually, I like the heart beat sound Storm Runner has as the train rolls from the station onto the launch track. The simple tree lights on XLC with just the beeping sound works nice too..

I have ridden TTD only once. I bet I am the only one here who never so a rollback. They happened several times when I was there. When ever I was not looking they happened it seemed. (others telling me)

When I rode TTD I didn't understand how you could tell when it was going to launch. Their the lights on the tower and the christmas tree, but I did not know that then. An extra thrill!

The tree on HSXLC is really cheap. Its just painted lightbulbs and the timing is horrible. I don't think a tree would work with the jungle theme. Unless they make multi colored tiger lights ;)

There will probably be roaring tiger sounds instead of the revving TTD has.

As for the downtime, Most of the people saying it will have horrible downtime either couldn't take the fact that TTD was about to get beaten out or they have something against SF. I still have hope in them, Especially if Intamin made the rockets more "Plug n' Play"

Why couldn't the motive of those saying there would be downtime just be seeing that a high maintanence ride is going to a park that has not had all trains in the park running on the same day since...ever??? *** Edited 10/3/2004 10:30:55 PM UTC by RavenTTD***

Big D said that Storm Runner ran flawlessly this season....and thats a pile of CRAP, lol. i was at Hershey back in June, and it was down ALL DAY. and ive talked to many others who experienced the same thing.....granted it wasnt as down as much as TTD, but it still had quite a bit of downtime this year.....so dont go presenting an arguement without facts, Big D....

and for the record, RideMan (Dave) blows me away, i wish i had that much ride knowledge, lol!! it was fun sharing Maggie 1-3 with you at Cmania ERT dave!!

On my first ever visit to Hershey, September 4th, Storm Runner was fine all morning, but broke down three times in the hour from 2-3 pm. The last incident closed it for good that day. Is that normal, or was it a bad day?

Storm Runner was also closed ALL DAY on my only visit during an incredibly busy Saturday in August.

^ bad day