Six Flags Great Adventure officially announces end for Kingda Ka

If Top Thrill 2 was a huge success, does Kingda Ka still get removed?

Related:

https://x.com/marcusleshock...7713068387

Richard, TimChat posted that tweet already. My gut tells me some Chicago based news guy is jumping to an incorrect conclusion.

Pagoda Gift Shop:

If Top Thrill 2 turns out to be a huge success, does Kingda Ka still get removed?

FTFY.

The data is not in yet.

Vater:

That's how I riot.

Quietly.

C'mon, Feel the Noise.

Vater:

My gut tells me some Chicago based news guy is jumping to an incorrect conclusion.

Marcus Leschock isn't just some Chicago based news guy. He's a coaster nut. He may be right or completely wrong. For the record he was spot on with the SFGAm announcement this year:

Mulfinator:

Marcus Leschock isn't just some Chicago based news guy. He's a coaster nut.

LOLOL

Oh…you’re serious. Does he have an ACE card?

Your cynicism is exhausting sometimes. :)

He regularly does reports on theme parks on the WGN morning news here in Chicago. His knowledge of the subject is readily apparent. That's it.

Intamin did a nice post - https://www.facebook.com/sh...AgtfrZfuJ/

Mulfinator:

Your cynicism is exhausting sometimes. :)

Agreed, 100%.

I did actually know he was a coaster guy, but I think his tweet (or...X post?) is a false correlation. "Completely new coaster" doesn't necessarily mean (or even imply) that Kingda Ka's entire layout is coming down.

The fact that it's lost on people that the park has yet to release anything saying that the ride is being "removed" is exhausting.

ApolloAndy:

C'mon, Feel the Noise

Slade, if Quiet ain't your thang.

Apropos of nothing, I've gone back through my records and it seems that I rode Kingda Ka 26 times during the commercial shoot in May 2005, and never bothered riding it again – despite several trips to Great Adventure over the years. I won't be mourning its passing.

I’m sure someone here will know the answer to this. Has the record holder for tallest or fastest ever been removed while the ride still held the record? This is a first as far as I’m aware.

The Guinness Book of Records used to list the Blue Streak at Woodcliff Pleasure Park as the tallest coaster ever built. (The Guinness Book in the 1970s was an authoritative book, unlike the versions produced today.) RCDB doesn't list a height, but says it was demolished in 1941. The park was apparently closed that year. So that would qualify, if the height reported by Guinness is correct.

Since then, the only one-time record holder I can think of that has been demolished is the Chapultepec ride. Maybe there was an Arrow looper in there that I'm forgetting?

(Depending on whether you count the spike in various Schwarzkopf shuttles.)

Son of Beast was torn down while holding the wooden speed record (78mph), and appears to have lost it in the process. The fastest listed wooden coaster now is either Goliath (RCDB) or Lightning Rod (general Googling).

I don't think the purists would consider LR wood, as the running surface is steel (in at least some sections).