JustLarry
Roller Poster
Wasn't there a rumor/disgruntled employee leak a year ago, that Great adventure was getting Mack water coaster to replace the parachute tower and twister?
Kingda Ka and Green Lantern's removal for new 2026 record-breaking coaster (page 7)
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owenstreet7
Mega Poster
This actually lines up with the proposals pretty well - I'd say the Water Coaster could come to either Carowinds or CW whichever doesn't get the Super Flume or that they both get Super Flumes.
At least Carowinds are learning from the time they removed every water ride from the park. It's not something Alton Towers or Dreamworld in Australia (who have removed most or all of their water rides) seem to have considered however hopefully will follow.
The main reason I thought it was a reimagining of Kingda Ka of some sort was because it mentioned record breaking.
The Tower Shuttle Spinning Coaster could be classed as record breaking however the record would be "World's Tallest Spinning Coaster" which would be quite a gimmick compared to Kingda Ka. It would be disappointing.
I'm hoping it is something that will be better than Kingda Ka and grabs records similar to Kingda Ka.
JoshC.
Strata Poster
Another record they can claim, assuming whatever new thing ends up being bigger than TT2, is that it's the world's tallest Strata Coaster. A pretty nothing claim, but it sounds cool, is accurate and keeps attention on it.
No different to parks claiming they have the tallest hyper coaster or something.
No different to parks claiming they have the tallest hyper coaster or something.
Aaron Smith
Mega Poster
I truly don't want that Tower coaster. In a park like Great Adventure, where ops can be bad depending on the ride, they need something with good capacity. Flash is going to be a capacity nightmare, just like Joker and Jersey Devil (unless it's running all 4 trains which I haven't seen since Passholder previews). I'm prepared to be extremely disappointed in the new coaster coming in 2026 but hopefully I'll be surprised.
Rupert
Mega Poster
Yeah I’d agree - whilst the idea of a 400ft Ride To Happiness would be pretty awesome (so a longer more interesting layout), my main memories of Kingda Ka - beside the unbelievable rattle - are the abysmally slow ops. A world away from something like Nitro which was eating people. I’m not particularly sad because I thought it was such a poor ride experience, especially compared to TTD, but I agree it’s a real shame that many of those who did like it weren’t able to get last rides in. It wouldn’t have cost the park anything to give some advance warning.
Ridiculously I don’t have any memories of Green Lantern because we forgot it was there and left the park without riding it.
Do we have much faith in the $50 million budget? By this I mean will it be inflated like Merlin like to do, or do we assume that figure may be semi-accurate but spread over the coaster, supporting rides and whole area refresh?
Ridiculously I don’t have any memories of Green Lantern because we forgot it was there and left the park without riding it.
Do we have much faith in the $50 million budget? By this I mean will it be inflated like Merlin like to do, or do we assume that figure may be semi-accurate but spread over the coaster, supporting rides and whole area refresh?
owenstreet7
Mega Poster
It would be good if it was the inversion record as I haven't seen a coaster with more than 8 inversions in North America yet, 9 if we count AlpenFury.
None of the Intamin 10 Inversion models seem to have come stateside as of yet.
Intamin Forever
Mega Poster
I can honestly see Great Adventure getting an AlpenFury mirror or something... with an extra inversion and an extra mph... would be typical of Six Flags to be fair... 
owenstreet7
Mega Poster
Crazycoaster
Giga Poster
Surely they wouldn’t build another shuttle coaster after they’re finishing up construction on one? 
Tallest and fastest, with Formula Rossa being SBNO.Shoutout to Red Force being the tallest operating coaster in the world!
I really wonder if Ferrari Land saw that coming. When it was built, Red Force was the fifth tallest and fastest coaster in the world, and now it suddenly claims both top spots, with some margin. It is 30 km/h faster than Steel Dragon 2000, and 12 m taller than Fury 325. Superman: Escape From High Maintenance Costs By Launching At Half Speed can technically claim a taller structure, but its cars aren't anywhere close to scaling it.
Interestingly, depending on how fast Superman: Half-Arsed actually launches these days, PortAventura can actually claim to have the two fastest launch coasters in the world. With the closure and SBNO-ness of all these super-accelerators, Furius Baco is listed as the third fastest launch coaster on RCDB. The next few spots on the list are claimed by the various S&S creations in China.
As for the second tallest (full-circuit) launch coaster in the world now, if I'm reading RCDB correctly, it's ... Stealth at Thorpe Park. Granted, it's a tie with Beyond The Cloud at Suzhou Amusement Land Forest World, but still ... congrats to Thorpe, I guess.
Back to Red Force, though, I recall the notable indifference by the coaster goondom when it was built. It was a smaller and slower version of much greater coasters, didn't do much interesting, and it was in a park with no other notable rides. Oh, how times have ... uh, not changed at all. Aside from the tallest and fastest coaster in the world, Ferrari Land can only boast a dingy little SBF Visa Racer whose only notable feature is the sheer variety of countries in which you find obscure little parks that host one of its clones.
Now waiting for Red Force to have a mishap and Fury 325 to snap a support again, so it will be Nagashima Spaland's time to look at the global coaster situation and confusingly find themselves on top once more. One really would think that the last 25 years would take coasters much farther than Steel Dragon 2000, and apparently they did, but here we are back again.
Steely Dan
Mega Poster
We might've run into some financial limitations on what parks are willing to spend for the never-ending maintenance on these super-fast coasters.
Extreme speed is expensive to build, but it's even more expensive to maintain, year after year, decade after decade.
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Yeah, a similar lesson to what was learned about wooden coasters. 20 years ago, they were all racing to build the tallest all-wood coaster out there, and nowadays, those same coasters still hold the records. Well, those that are left among them, at least. Quite a lot happened with hybrid woodies, at least, but those aren't doing too hot in recent years either. RMC has built three of them in the past five years, compared to 4 in the 2016 season alone.
RollerCoastersFrolicking
Mega Poster
I wish I could join in on the congratulations, but Superman: Escape from Krypton is still operating. Regardless of how high up the vehicles climb the tower, I can't post that Red Force is the tallest on our social media without getting crucified. However, I can post that it's the fastest until Formula Rossa is operating again.
"Tallest full circuit" then.I wish I could join in on the congratulations, but Superman: Escape from Krypton is still operating. Regardless of how high up the vehicles climb the tower, I can't post that Red Force is the tallest on our social media without getting crucified. However, I can post that it's the fastest until Formula Rossa is operating again.
Edit: Or follow the lead from the park - https://coasterforce.com/forums/thr...rari-land-new-area.37538/page-32#post-1180615
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