News Project 2027/Skyland/Purple: 375-ish Foot Tall Mack Rides Spinning Shuttle Coaster (Phantom Spire? Gargantuan Vertical Vengeance?)

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I still just think the "Vertical Vengeance" part is way too similar to The Flash: Vertical Velocity.
Unless that's the point. They're both shuttle coasters and maybe the park wants to make them feel related.

Or maybe they're planning to start renaming all their coasters with "Vertical" subtitles:
"Nitro: Vertical Volatility"
"El Toro: Vertical Vehemence"
"Joker: Vertical Villainy"
etc, etc.
 
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I still feel like “Rising” may be a part of the name if it isn’t the two potential red herrings. A lot of the marketing has used the word and some of the verbiage in interviews has been intentional in including that. But, that could just be in reference to the tower rising. Worth a thought I suppose
 
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DWNitro said:
I still feel like “Rising” may be a part of the name if it isn’t the two potential red herrings. A lot of the marketing has used the word and some of the verbiage in interviews has been intentional in including that. But, that could just be in reference to the tower rising. Worth a thought I suppose
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Oooh, Deep Rising. Nice late '90s cheese with a tentacled sea monster. Octalus! 😄
 
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I’m more curious what the station and queue theming is gonna look like if it’s fully enclosed like a lot of folks seem to think it will be. I could see anything from a very natural dark sea cave to a marine research lab. What I HOPE they do is theme it to some sort of old boat house and very much lean into the maritime vibe.

I’m thinking Mecalodon at Walibi Belgium with a bit more of an American East Coast vibe:
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Either way I think the park could do this ride a huge service by REALLY leaning into its presentation. That’s how you set it apart from Ka. You’re already dropping a ton of money on this massive ride, go all out and give your park a true flagship entrance-to-exit experience.
 
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I know we've all been geeking out over the completion of the spiral these past few days, but now that the track is complete I can't get over the 300'+ 90-degree drop we're going to experience during the second half of the ride. I feel like that element is going to be insane, especially on a spinning train. I have a feeling this ride is going to be better than Kingda Ka.
 
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Clear said:
A genuine 1.5 second google search for sea monster and Jersey shore net these results:

  • The Absecon Abyss
  • The Cape May Kraken
  • The Manasquan Maw
  • The LBI Leviathan
  • The Sandy Hook Serpent *
  • The Barnegat Behemoth *
The last 2 are actual jersey shore lore of sea monsters both are significant better lore and story wise that tied into the area. They used the Jersey Devil…. Why not do the same here?
Even if you didn’t like the tag line for each of these, you can give it a play on other mythological sea creatures like for example Charydbis (which I personally think would be cool since you can Americanize the spelling to be like KA’ribdis to play on Ka …)

Now obviously there’s probably better names we can come up with but I would’ve loved to seen ACTUAL jersey shore lore here tied into the name. Not some vertical vengeance tag line like this is a game of laser tag from the 90’s
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I return this to the forefront
 
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dwillt said:
They're both shuttle coasters and maybe the park wants to make them feel related.
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If that’s actually their reasoning for this decision (assuming GVV is the name) then it’s most likely just an excuse they came up with in their heads to justify not caring about giving the ride a good name
 
The sun reflecting on the outer bank makes it look awesome. Really hope all cars experience it. I think GP at first glance may see that track and assume the train is facing inward to the structure. It really is insane how much outerbanked track there is.

From the drawn out upside down launch to the extensive outer banking, this coaster will definitely bring a unique ride experience.
 
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I've been thinking more about the theme for this ride. If the ride really is leaning into some kind of offshore investigation / sea creature anomaly concept, something along these lines could make sense as the pre-ride narrative:

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Out beyond the coast, where navigation charts fade into empty blue, something is moving beneath the surface.

For months, the Shoreline Pier Beach Patrol has recorded a growing anomaly: sonar returns that do not hold shape, vessels reporting sudden silence in their instruments, and pressure shifts that behave like something vast is passing just below the hull. What began as isolated incidents has become a pattern.

They’ve designated it as Operation Darkwater, a coordinated mission into a restricted offshore corridor to identify this deep-sea disturbance.

You are being assigned to a response craft as part of the next deployment cycle. Your vessel is a high-speed, deepwater intercept craft that is experimental, compact, and engineered for rapid deployment from the patrol’s primary command ship, the SS Phantom. Designed to skim above unstable water zones, it is equipped with reinforced stabilization systems, emergency vector thrusters, and real-time acoustic mapping intended to stay ahead of anything beneath the surface.

This disturbance is not listed in any marine database. It is not classified as a known species. But the last transmission from the outer buoy field ended with a single line:

“Whatever it is… it’s already inside the corridor.”
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If something like this ends up being even loosely on track, the ride could be heavily story-driven around the encounter with this sea creature rather than just a standalone name/theme around the creature itself. Considering the amount of time they've allegedly spent on the theme, I think this could be a creative angle beyond the generic sea-monster tropes we see with coasters.

At this point though, given all the teasers and stuff, I’m not convinced Phantom Spire or GVV are going to end up being the final name for it. Of the two, if those are the only options, I think GVV is more likely. But truthfully, I think there's a third name we haven't seen yet and won't see until the announcement.
 
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Yeah, I'm very confused by that 382 claim... We have the FAA permit for 375, right? It's literally not allowed to be 382, no? Feels like there has to be some funny business being done with the math here.
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The FAA filing, 2026-AEA-4253-OE, is for 375' (it's still in evaluation, but the crane's permit took a while, and this was filed after). The ACE posts and videos also list the 375' number. I heard they added another platform to the tower. I haven't seen any pictures/videos of it so maybe it sits above track level and that's the cause of the extra height?

If the height is actually 382,' we should see an amended/new FAA filing that replaces 4253 in the near term. Ka, for example, had a secondary filing to update the lat/lon because the original filing had an inaccurate location.

Speaking purely from conjecture, if it is 382' and it's not a platform/non-structural element, I wonder what went 'wrong.' That's a 7' delta with the filing, so it can't just be that the footers are slightly higher than expected. And the FAA filing is from 2026-04-02 when track/structure was already arriving (and given ride production times), so the height would've been known. Unless they just messed up the filing (maybe some original plans had the ride slightly shorter?) I'm curious to see how this shakes out.
 
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Maybe someone converted from metric to imperial wrong.

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The ACE posts and videos also list the 375' number. I heard they added another platform to the tower. I haven't seen any pictures/videos of it so maybe it sits above track level and that's the cause of the extra height?
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You can see it in the photos sfgadvfan91 posted, it's lower than the highest track piece.
 
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Hear me out

Coliwood has been teasing the whole gargantuan thing for a little bit now. So much so that it seems too obvious he’s in on the gag.

What if, and it’s a big what if, but what if the 382 ft video is really teaser and a riddle….

They’ve done crazy things before for marketing campaigns

I googled what the numbers 3,8 and 2 have to do with sea creatures and this is what came up

“In the ocean, the numbers 3, 8, and 2 directly refer to the anatomy of the octopus. The octopus uniquely possesses 3 hearts and 8 arms (sometimes colloquially called tentacles). The 2 refers to how the hearts are split: 2 branchial hearts pump blood to the gills, while 1 systemic heart circulates blood to the rest of the body.“


Now what legendary sea monster relates to an octopus?

“The octopus has long inspired tales of terrifying sea monsters, most famously the legendary Kraken of Scandinavian folklore”

🤯

Insanely unlikely but we have less than a month left so let’s have fun with it.
 
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