#six flags great adventure

[tvneon]

[coloronthewallzz]

Long Live Kingda Ka! 🎢🐯👑💚

[mysterypigeon]

things are heating up in the rollercoaster fandom

[retrowave-racer]

Long Live the King

I don’t feel like I usually talk about events in the world of Themeparks all that much, but when I saw the at first rumors about Kingda Ka’s closure, I didn’t believe them, I felt they shouldn’t have been true. My brain felt as if such a thing should have been allowed to happen like this. A coaster this massive, not just in size but in impact, to not just thoosies but I imagine plenty of general public park goers too. This was, when it closed, the tallest coaster in the entire world. To watch it silently be closed, only known to the world by rumors and word of mouth, just feels wrong. I can only hope this does not become the standard for coaster closures going forward. I think this needs to be something we are loud about as a community, voice our disappointment and show companies that run Themeparks that we want respectful send offs to these massive and beautiful machines that mean so much to us.

I never rode Ka, and I didn’t ever find myself super emotionally attached to it, as I feel for other coasters. I would have loved to get the chance to know this coaster, and say I’d ridden it, but now I have no chance. I know this coaster impacted so many people positively, and shattered a lot of you to learn of its untimely end. So I wanted to illustrate something using my designs I created based on the ride back during the first @coastermaynia in 2020, as tribute. I know it’s been a few days since the news broke, but I wanted to spend some time on it and not rush it out. I hope fans of Kingda Ka can find some peace in tributes to this wonderful coaster. If anyone wants to come to me and vent your frustrations and feelings I’m here. I don’t know how much advice I have to offer outside of listening, but know that I am here, for anyone who needs a shoulder to lean on. 💚🧡🩵💙

[emaadsidiki]

Majestic Dusk Upon Six Flags Great Adventure (NJ)

[cannibalindsm]

Theme park lovers how are we feeling

[quiet-gal]

Help me

[rushthehollow]

25 days of coasters / 12. el toro, six flags great adventure # of rides: 103 / last ridden: fall 2024

absolutely relentless wooden coaster with some of the best ejector airtime in the world. those two camelbacks are some of my favorite airtime moments because of their sheer power. the twister section is also very fun & you'll learn very soon that i love rapid directional changes a lot!!

this ride also makes very important people in my life happy which is another big factor.

[hyper-coasters]

Do NOT talk to me about Kingda Ka's removal I am DISTRESSED

[boingfessions]

[cinelestial]

The iconic Six Flags Great Adventure ride Kingda Ka will permanently shut down and will be replaced by a new ‘record breaking’ roller coaster.

[flojector]

el toro i’m thankful for you

[quietgalcoasterss]

A Particularly Funny Ride on Nitro

I've been on Nitro a grand total of two times thus far (and unfortunately what you see above is the only photo I have of it as of right now). But even amidst everything I've been on, from Pantheon to Twisted Timbers, this thing is still such a grand slam. It's something I always put my hands up on, from start to finish. But during my second ride on Nitro this past summer, in which I went by myself, I was sitting in the same row as these 2 guys. I sat in the center-left, while they occupied the center and far-right seats. Initially I didn't pay much attention to them, but as the ops prepared to send us out of the station, their convos caught my attention. One of them said to the other as the ops checked our restraints "Bro this does NOT feel safe." Now just to make it clear, rollercoasters, especially modern ones, are arguably safer than airplanes. And Nitro was manufactured by Bolliger and Mabillard (B&M) , who are known in the industry and public for their efficiency, safety and fail-safes. But hey, for 2 scared guys, a big coaster is a big coaster, and I can't change that.

Our train pulled out of the station and began to climb the chain lift. I was growing more and more excited as I do, but those 2 were not exactly having the best time. Both of them were going "ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit" throughout the climb, and although I was keeping my eyes on the road, I'm sure they were trying not to look down and only make their panic worse. I'll link a POV of Nitro below, so you can get an idea as to how big its lift hill is:

So yeah, pretty long climb. We finally crested the hill, I raised my arms, and they started screaming. They weren't high-pitched screams or anything, more so a constant "OHMYGODOHSHITOHFUCKOHSHITOHMYGODOHMYGODOHFUCK-". Plus, I'm fairly certain they were deciding what was better throughout the ride: holding onto the restraints for dear life, or flailing their arms in an attempt to fly away from the coaster. Now, I'm the kinda girl who laughs on a coaster, with the occasional woo! thrown in. And it's hard to say when the shift occured, perhaps on the hammerhead turn back to the park, but my laughter eventually turned from "oh my god this is so fun" to "oh my god these boys are going apeshit." I wasn't looking at them or anything, but every so often I would see a hand flailing around to my right. And it wasn't like their screams were being muffled by anything; eeeeeeeeveryone in the train could hear them.

Once we hit the final brake run, I was still laughing hysterically. I looked to my right, and they looked like they'd seen a ghost. They were limp in their seats and almost hyperventilating. I tried to calm down as much as I could, and asked them if they were okay. Their response?

"Blgrhub" I think they were okay.

They quickly vanished after I left the station, and I unsurprisingly never saw them again. But wherever those 2 are now, I hope they're still okay. Maybe they're back at Great Adventure right now for Holiday in the Park and are once again riding Nitro; it's one of the few coasters they still operate at this time of year \o/

[heartsoulrocknroll]

Infuriated and devastated over the mere idea of CEDAR FAIR removing this iconic, one-of-a-kind ride without any announcement whatsoever. Don't have the words. Sick to my stomach that I can't be there today. I've been crying like an idiot all weekend. Long live the King of coasters.

[tacoma-narrows]

hrrm random number (for coasters), #25

also is it very difficult to rank things of that quantity?? I wouldn't know where to put what ahh

Number 25 is Jersey Devil at Six Flags Great Adventure! I ride that, from what I've heard, most people don't like as much as the other RMCs, but I really enjoyed! I only rode it once, and that was in the front row on a day in late November, so it most definitely was not running at its best. But if I liked it that much when it wasn't running at its peak, then I imagine I'll like it even more if I ride it on a hot summer day! I remember it having a really great mix of elements, and it being a single rail Raptor model was cool too! I like the smaller Raptor I've ridden (RailBlazer at California's Great America) more since it whipped through it's layout faster, but Jersey Devil did not disappoint! One of my fav names for a coaster too :3

As for ranking all of them, it does take some time, but when I refreshed my entire list last year, I had a process for it. I had every ride's name on a slip of paper and split them up based on which ride was at which park (one group for all the coasters at Cedar Point, one group for Kings Dominion, etc.). I ranked each park's coaster list from fav to least fav since those only had, at most 20 coasters each, making it a lot easier to sort. Then, I just looked at whichever coaster was at the top of each list and decide which out of those I would like to ride most, and slot that in on the main list. I'm not sure I explained that super well but that's the gist of it lol.

But huge full list overhauls are not super common. When I just ride one/a few new coasters, I look at my list as a whole, moving down until I find a spot where I think the new ride matches in quality to the rides already on the list. Using Jersey Devil as an example, when I went to rank it, I basically thought to myself "What would I rather ride? Copperhead Strike at Carowinds, or Jersey Devil?" I'd prefer Copperhead Strike, so Jersey Devil drops down another spot. Then repeat: "Would I rather ride Thunderhead at Dollywood, or Jersey Devil?" And I'd rather ride Jersey Devil, so it goes in the list between Copperhead Strike and Thunderhead! Again, I hope that makes sense lol. I usually also draw a lot of comparisons between new rides and ones I'm more familiar with, so that helps to give me a ballpark idea of generally where I'm gonna rank it too haha

Also monkey brain just loves to rank and categorize things in general, so that's part of it too lmao

[haveyoubeenonthisrollercoaster]