Six Flags Great Adventure announces Looping Dragon roller coaster

Since when did the "Fireball" become a "Roller Coaster"? I still love Six Flags.

I don't use the term "meh" much.

But...

Meh.

Can't wait until they run it backwards for 2016!

I do love the name. Looping Dragons has a nice ring to it.

But it is just a Fireball carnival ride. I've already experienced a ride like this several times.

Which brings me to ask, will the public love it, hate it, or just be indifferent to it? I think it will still be popular, personally.

I don't think this is the Dragon Wagon that Vater had in mind.

Quite the innovators at Six Flags... Installing multiple versions of a ride that the kid from Big was too short to get on in 1988. Maybe next year we can expect a Gravitron or if we are really lucky a Zipper.

When are we getting a wing coaster here in the Northeast? At least Luna Park (Zamperla) has been dishing out decent coasters the last few years..

So who makes these Ring of Fire knock-offs?

I'm tempted to say they're the "next gen" Larson product....as in, not a knock-off at all. The real McCoy....

http://www.larsonintl.com/pages/giant-loop/giant-loop.html

Thing is, I think the general public will be a bit underwhelmed by this too. Fireball, Ring of Fire, we've all seen these at carnivals and state fairs.

I saw the one at Elitch and was tempted to try it. It had been down though, for an extended time, and when it opened that afternoon it might've been for the first time, I'm not sure. Anyway, the line was long and loading was slow. So, no.

These park models have a sturdier look to em, don't have those wires, and use the new back to back trains. The idea that they're counting it as a coaster makes me laugh out loud. Nobody will be fooled by that.

"Looping Dragon joins the park’s Golden Kingdom section, which is home to the world’s tallest and fastest drop ride, Zumanjaro: Drop of Doom, -OR- the world’s tallest and fastest roller coaster, Kingda Ka. But not both at the same time."

There. Fixed that for 'em.

When did dragons come to Africa? Their theming/ride placement is so effed up its laughable. Who pays these people?

Wrong continent :) . Golden Kingdom is Asian. Bangladesh, Nepal, etc..

At least, that's how I perceive it.

Zumanjaro sounds African to me, but Kingda Ka sounds Asian. But this isn't BGT, so who really knows/cares?

Currently, the only live dragons are across the Narrow Sea. We'll have to wait probably another year before we see what happens next. Perhaps if you read the books... but no spoilers.

You, sir, are wrong. I have 2 living, breathing dragons in my living room right now.

This has to be the greatest idea ever. By buying a traveling carnival "coaster," now they can buy one ride, and have a "new" coaster every year at the various parks. Next year, Magic Mountain will have another NEW COASTER. Even though Great Adventure will be losing one on its coaster count, no one will care since the ride is just one you can find at any carnival across the country! I wish I could have thought of that.

They already had this. It was unofficially called the "ride rotation program" back in the late 80's? They bought a bunch of rides and just moved them around parks year to year in order to have something new to advertise. It seemed like a good idea but maybe it wasn't actually cost effective?

I thought this addition was unacceptable. So I took the time to make a petition against this ride. Please check out my petition https://www.change.org/p/six-flags-great-adventure-don-t-give-us-looping-dragon

Instead of me explaining what I think we need instead, just please read the petition, and if you agree, sign it and share it with your friends please :)