With this angle, I have a little more hope they'll connect Boardwalk to Golden Kingdom/Plaza with a path under the stall. Seems like the center of the inversion lines up nicely with the path to Toro, so hopefully management can do the smart thing and allievate the horrible dead end this area will be otherwise.
It makes too much sense so we may be silly to assume such logic.
You're going to be waiting a long, long time. Listen, I grew up going here as well...lived like 15 minutes away for most of my youth and teen years. Even worked there for 6 of them. I saw the park go through it's highs and lows, and now having traveled a good portion of the country and visited almost 70 different parks, there's one thing I've learned:
The only way it was ever comparable to the point was its 2000s coaster lineup, which was impressive back then, but has since peaked and isn’t as great in the year 2026. GAdv was probably the third best coaster park in the country at that time, behind the point and MM.
Figure they're actually assembling it chronologically from station to tower and when they get close in a week or two, at this pace, the big crane is called in.
With this, they can probably call the crane in whenever they feel ready. I have a feeling that when the crane is there, the announcement will be shortly after. Since they have it till July, and are moving so quickly with this, they might wait a bit.
They got a station to build, walkways, light poles, landscaping, utilities to run, etc. Plus work right next to it on the new pier area. They certainly could now spend months on the station end of things and continue on the tower whenever.
^This. I think folks are getting excited by the track going up so fast and forgetting how long the rest of the attraction is going to take. Ground work and foundations for the station platforms haven’t even been poured yet, and with the amount they’ve talked about theming, I expect at least a month or two of detail work. I fully expect to see this testing by the end of the year, but public rides? Those won’t happen until 2027
I don’t think they’ll be able to claim the length record because Cosmic Rewind is over 5000 feet. I think:Think we've figured those out:
1 Tallest Giga
2 Longest inversion
3 Tallest spinning coaster
4 Fastest spinning coaster
5 Longest spinning coaster
Holding Ryan to account, though: "bigger than" and "longer than" Ka? Seems unlikely but possible on both counts unless something changed since he teased those as recently as February. I'd have to double-check my math but 375' will fall short I think of exceeding Ka, even using the ride length vs track length fudge to get there. I originally calculated a 450' tower and it got the "longer than" record with many feet to spare.
The crane's FAA permit hasn't been approved yet, so they have to wait on that.
Please stop posting these I’m at work I’m not gonna be able to change my pants for 6 more hours
Thanks! Looking at the first two pictures, the launch out of the station into the stall entry is going to be great.
