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Six Flags Great Adventure | Unknown | Unknown Kingda Ka replacement | 2026+

I don't think a ride needs to occupy the exact same plot of land to be a "replacement". If a park builds a new carousel before removing their existing one, that's still the replacement. It's just a replacement with good planning. A spiritual replacement if you want to get pedantic.

Ka already had shaky economics given it's cost of maintenance versus declining draw/ridership/reliability. No way the plan was to continue pumping millions into Ka each year with this sitting right beside it.
 
rollercoaster.jpg said:
I don't think a ride needs to occupy the exact same plot of land to be a "replacement". If a park builds a new carousel before removing their existing one, that's still the replacement. It's just a replacement with good planning. A spiritual replacement if you want to get pedantic.

Ka already had shaky economics given it's cost of maintenance versus declining draw/ridership/reliability. No way the plan was to continue pumping millions into Ka each year with this sitting right beside it.
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That's exactly what im saying. Sorry if I started drama in the thread, i'll see myself out.
 
This configuration is giving "Ka but move it twenty feet to the left so we can expand Golden Kingdom into Ka's plot." With Ka and Zumanjaro gone, I feel like this is the next spot we see something interesting added, not even a coaster necessarily just an expansion of sorts.
 
Jarrett said:
This configuration is giving "Ka but move it twenty feet to the left so we can expand Golden Kingdom into Ka's plot." With Ka and Zumanjaro gone, I feel like this is the next spot we see something interesting added, not even a coaster necessarily just an expansion of sorts.
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I don't know exactly how good it was because I never made it to Ka, and as much as it pains me to say it, I doubt we will see anything as intricately themed as Golden Kingdom added to SFGAdv ever again.
 
Matt N said:
Whether it’s related to this ride or not, I don’t know, but Six Flags has filed a trademark for the name Gargantuan Vertical Vengeance:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02LuhAkHKa2fvh3mhTjbg9iCE3BrpRrJ4yXEwrTcEgRQbG9esoGqwbQ93MBZYUMDpGl&id=100063855810903
If that is the name for this ride, it’s a little bit of a tongue twister…
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Are they crazy? No one is going to call it that!!! I'm gonna keep calling it project purple. I can understand maybe that being the thrill glider at Magic Mountain, but not Project Purple. It is literally just a synonym for goliath.
 
Surely this has to be something different? Phantom Spire is a far better and more fitting name, and if anything, Gargantuan Vertical Vengeance feels like it spits more in the face of Kingda Ka than the park already has.

The only thing I can think of is that a Six Flags park has a drop tower planned. It'd be easy to think that they bought the old Orlando Freefall, but that ride has an awful reputation (and deservedly so) and that's probably the last thing this company needs.

Why would they trademark Phantom Spire and then seemingly change their mind?
 
Matt N said:
Whether it’s related to this ride or not, I don’t know, but Six Flags has filed a trademark for the name Gargantuan Vertical Vengeance:
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US chain parks continue to have this recent obsession with often unnecessarily long multi word names, even when there's no IP related reason like "The Ride".

Barracuda? No, it's gotta be Barracuda Strike. Tormenta? No, Tormenta Rampaging Run. Phoenix? No, Phoenix Rising. Stingray? No, Texas Stingray. Rakshasa? No, Wrath Of Rakshasa. It drives me nuts. Or even Canada with Yukon Striker (???)

But at least sometimes you can easily shorten them to just the first word or something. What are you gonna shorten that name to since the first two words are adjectives and you can't just call it Vengeance? I know we dunk on Merlin a lot but Smiler, Galactica (or formerly Air), Oblivion, Wickerman, Hyperia, Swarm, they know how to make memorable and snappy names at least.
 
To be fair to Six Flags, I think the most egregious word salad ride name is probably still Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure… the ride is brilliant, but the full name is dreadful!

Although I think Gargantuan Vertical Vengeance comes close… that is a lot of syllables!
 
CanobieFan said:
I mean, it would have been weird to replace a ride named Phoenix with another ride named... Phoenix
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In response I was gonna say that instead of naming the new coaster after an old flat they could've just named it after something actually African since it's an Africa themed park and Phoenixes come from Greek mythology.

But then realized it's not like Busch Gardens really cares about actually keeping true to that Africa theme anyway? Since they've now had two rides with tigers as the theme despite tigers never having a range even close to Africa in the past never mind now. I mean, they even came up with a fake mythological half tiger creature in said "Africa" themed park and you still encounter park nerds who think a gwazi was a real mythological creature. What next, Kingda Ka actually means king of coasters?
 
jackdacoasternerd21 said:
I heard that king da ka and this was supposed to be together, this isn't a replacement for king da ka, I wonder what the replacement for it will be.
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It is the replacement. They just didn't want to have the negative Ka demolition backlash tamper with the reception of this. The plan was to have both open for 1-2 seasons, before Ka would be demolished, but the merger accelerated Ka's fate.
 
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