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My brother and I rode the Fire Dragon back to back all day once, I don't know how many times, but it was one of the best days of my life.

I say that's the king and highlight roller-coaster ride at the lagoon

You could put a good family thrill coaster where Whistlestop Park was (maybe a suspended coaster to make up for the inevitable removal of Batwing, but a boomerang would be almost ironic).

I'm the calm guy in the back, just smiling and enjoying the ride. No theatrics needed. 🎢

Wow I've never seen a coaster shooter before. That was really well done

On RCDB it says it was built by ART engineering. Was it really completely made by the park itself?

That looks awesome! It would have been better without the moron yelling "bang" every time he pulled the trigger.

the only unfortunate bit is its 3d is kinda crap

I know that ride at Lagoon

Haven’t you seen my score on the leaderboard?

Really good, but downright spectacular once you realize the park developed this in-house!

Lowkey Wonder Mountains Guardian 2.0

I understand that you're playing devil's advocate with how they handled Kingda Ka, I really do. The way they would have to invest in it for the offseason would have been ridiculously high if it was going to be replaced soon. THAT SAID, it is inexcusable to do it this way in EVERY situation. We will be finding out soon that Six Flags is doing this even with rides not as complex and expensive as Ka, and that it is the norm. We will be finding out about multiple Carowinds (3) and KD losses (2) soon. I'm not joking. For them to just be doing this to what seems like is most parks this offseason IS going to affect the parks for years. Nothing leaving is getting announced. This will greatly sour many people's view of the parks and entire company. While yes. It will ultimately recover, and yes, maybe be better than ever, the cost that these parks will be losing from dissatisfied visitors will be greater than allowing customers their final rides on major rides for a final season. It costs very little to make an announcement. Farewell mech and ticket sales will likely cover the costs associated with the maintenance to give customers a notification. It worked for BBW. Bgw saw an incredible spike in attendance for that ride. We can agree to disagree, but some of these rides are not expensive ones to allow a final season, and the opportunities to save face by informing people in a more respectful manner are lost by not being honest. Telling people that a ride will definitely be operating for the following season when it is not is a straight up lie. Consumers will remember these lies.

Lmao at thoosies thinking they're important to parks. Parks care about the GP and the almighty dollar. Thoosies are insignificant

Do people really care this much about rides..get a life people

Rather than mimicking Reptillian, I do think it would have been a better choice to go the Tumbili route and use a Swahili translation."Namiri" means panther in Swahili as Tumbili means monkey. I think Tumbili was easy for people to remember because it sounds like tumble, which is what monkeys do. Namiri would also be easy to remember because it starts with nam which is very similar to name, which this ride has now had 3 names in 3 years and going with Namiri would have given more purpose to the consecutive name changes. I suppose they can try Pantherian and change it to Namiri in 2026, haha.

We have to see how this goes. Cedar Fair overall made the wrong decision with Volcano's closure and have been doing damage control ever since. They've fallen way below Busch Gardens in the public eye, and even GP that I've talked to have refused to go back because "They closed the Volcano." The good thing is that KD has significantly course corrected itself and put tremendous quality and care into every new addition since and the future is finally looking bright. Great Adventure is in a worse shape than KD was in 2018. The park is a husk of what it once was. If they don't take this opportunity to make dramatic changes then I worry for the long-term life of this park.

You got a typo in your title. Should be close, not closed

I think rapterra will be better than volcano it has good hangtime just like volcano and it'll have wayyy better uptime than volcano so I'm not trippin over rapterra

You can’t tell me the guy playing bagpipes in front of it wasn’t amazing tho

You bring up some good points that a lot of people don’t realize or even think of. However I personally think the backlash is worse now than it would’ve been had they just made the announcement sooner.

They will never catch Seaworld ent. Or universal or Disney…. These people build experiences not just rides and when they do build rides they build great rides!!

Man cedar fair killing parks Lmmao killed kings dominion coasters now it’s killing ax flags coasters!

Any guesses as to what the new ride will be? Is it likely to be something unique or a clone of another ride. I would've even been okay with letting Kingda Ka sit there & not operate. Rather than lose KK, Green Lantern, and 3 other rides to make room for something new.

Didn't the former CEO say that he wanted less people in the park spending more money? Just like general politics, corporate politics has created division and hatred that has destroyed the peace of a whole nation. These parks seem to be more worried about public perception than quality and respect for its visitors, who without their support would cause these parks to go out of business. Cedar Fair has done so well that they had to merge with its main competitor to offset debt. The Kingda Ka, Zumanjaro closure handling was absolutely disgraceful. No, we should not be cursing executives just as we should not be cursing politicians that we disagree with. Respect goes both ways. Nobody should be afraid of being canceled for telling the truth, Period!

I’m not sure what your thought process is with the ‘don’t compare it to what it’s replacing’. That’s not how life works and it’s a very small minded way of looking at things. Of course people are going to compare the new ride to the old ride. As far as your whole opinion on people being pissed at the people in charge for making this decision, you just sound like someone who doesn’t see things from the public’s perspective and saying people can’t be pissed or criticize people for poor decisions or actions because they have a long career is again silly and small minded. That’s like saying a sports fan doesn’t know what they’re talking about because they haven’t played professionally. That’s not how it works

I feel like sure I may not agree with what six flags did, but yet again I don't know the exact reason why they shut it down.

I feel like if they want to improve Great Adventure, then they should start with smaller things like removing the tacky advertisements or re-theming rides instead of removing their best coaster with a vague announcement of a “record breaking” launch coaster which could be the tallest, fastest, longest spinning coaster in NJ

Six Flags would have kept Ka and probably out did Top Thrill 2. Cedar Fair removing 6 rides at once is a disgrace. They own way to many parks everything was so much better with both of these companies separate. The cost to remove these rides and all the bad pr and new ride will cost far more than it was to maintain or upgrade KA. I don’t think you quite understand how bad it’s gotten literally anything Great Adventure posts on their social media platforms is flooded with complaints over KA. Dragster put a woman in a wheelchair the rest of her life yet that is still around. This just screams let’s eliminate anything that could outshine Top Thrill 2. You can’t compare valcano to KA people from all over the world came to great adventure for KA.

I would be willing to bet here was also a big issue with insurance as well - I am sure as they started to merge the SF parks into the CF insurers they were not too keen to insure a near twin of TTD which they had just had to pay out a large settlement for due to the accident - in their eyes KA was probably seen as nothing more than a huge liability

Kingda ka has to go at some point. I know kingda ka deserved a better send-off but I am way more excisted for 2026 for the new coaster. I have already ridden Kingda Ka 3 times in 2012 and in 2019 and at least I got a chance to cross it off my bucket list

Several records. Not world records I heard. American records.

It is disappointing for sure. CP is my home park and Dragster’s closure was even worse. There were no rumors, not even a hint of anything like this happening. The accident happened and then it was gone. I hadn’t had a chance to put in any kind of “last ride” like many people did in this case. So while I know the frustration people have here, it will be fine and there is no need to attack the park for the decision. I mean we got two rides out of it. Siren’s curse and TT2 (which by all accounts is a really good ride - it just needs to run 😂).

What about Green Lantern?

I understand kingda ka was a maintenance nightmare and was too expensive to run. I understand why they are getting rid of it. But I would’ve felt better with an announcement. I know I’m an enthusiast, and I got emotional knowing it was my last rides but the way they didn’t announce it was just disrespectful. I will still be attending next year regardless, but they could’ve handled it better with just a little post. Like no one wants to hear the news, but it’s better and more respectable if they would say something, so people could get their final rides

I heard there were several reason why it closed, why it wasn't extended, and why they didn't announce it. cost was main reason and the prices kept going up. they didn't want to pay for parts to just extend. the ride has it's own maintenance crew. they didn't want to have to fix it - if they gave a date and it wasn't reliable. people would be upset if they traveled to ride it and it was close - very bad pr. also, there was an issue with the drop tower and nj claimed that the ride, ka, couldn't go past a certain date unless they fix the other ride - as it uses the same structure. nj has a lot of laws on coasters.

The announcement said the replacement would be a multi record-breaking launch coaster. I don’t know if you can interpret that as a multi-launch coaster. It could be, but it sounds more like it would be a regular launch coaster that breaks multiple records.

I think the park without the merging would've taken this down anyway eventually

The spirit of Kingda Ka will never leave the park though

The replacement better be awesome and worth it.

I know losing Kingda Ka sucks but it makes complete sense! Why have a ride that costs that much to operate when it doesn’t even pull long lines? I think I read something that Ka only had about 12 million riders in 19 years, which is kinda terrible. They now have the opportunity to put a ride that will probably be an upgrade while also being reliable and cheap to maintain.

I was around for the Paramount buy out. I was around for Hypersonic and Geauga Lake and Son of Beast and everyone panicking... and ya know what? All these new thoosies who have nostalgia for Son of Beat and Hypersonic and Thunder Road and new intamin rides such... obviously never went to a Paramount Park... I mean those parks were operated HORRIBLY. I mean they were worse than anything back then and it showed in attendance. Back in the 2000s Volcano the Blast Coaster was a consistent walk on. It was BAD. I'd take KD as a park now than to take Paramount with Volcano back then any day of the week.

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Loch Ness is Busch Gardens The Old Country... When that coaster goes, it's over for the entire theme!

I agree! I think ppl just want something to complain about. They are on a roll with jungle X and I cannot wait to see what’s to come.

Good to see you guys out and about. What a cool ride. I guess I'll have to go sometime.

I did a mountain coaster in upstate New York in 2015. It was one of the first coasters I ever rode (I have it as 15, but may have ridden Great Bear in 2009 vs a few months later, but I believe that was the only a thought and decided against it)

Definitely feels like a city park turning into more of a theme park. Sure only 5-6 rides aimed at young families right now, but the Dino area slaps-probably worth admission alone once the boutique opens

Holiday World is incredible as a park. Their wooden coasters are just really well taken care of and all 3 are some of the best. Also word to Lamar Jackson being overtaken by Jayden Daniels... The future is now old man!

btw the A in Alpen is pronounced like an e it sounds like "Elpin Fury" or "elpen fury" when said