Incredible new views thanks to The Coaster Spot's new video, absolutely wild seeing it from other places inside the park.
News Project 2027/Skyland/Purple: Bakunawa (Mack Giga Shuttle Xtreme Spinner)
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Good god I can not wait for next season. There’s been a part of me missing without a Great Adventure trip in the past four years.
Coasterspot on-site close-up look at the tower from yesterday....
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Pretty wild looking in the park.Looks like the drop will be near vertical for 150 to almost 200 feet, should be insane. One thing about Ka and TTD is the spiral kind of takes away from the drop in my opinion, and having been on red force as well it’s really cool to have a more traditional drop. Additionally, it seems like this one will be even more straight down considering it’s leveling out straighter and isn’t turning 90 degrees like Red Force. No way to know until we ride but this could truly end up being one of the best drops on a coaster anywhere when you factor in the spinning as well.
I see the connections for the track at the top, but cannot for the life of me picture how that's going to go. This looks absolutely insane.
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Per thecoasterspot on Instagram, there are only 10 pieces of track left to be put in place.
Is that 10 pieces of track total, or ten currently on site? If it’s 10 total I couldn’t see it doing more than one orbit of the tower at the top
On-site. There's probably more track to come. The supports are close to 300' with the track under 300' today, and the tower height will be 375'. Maybe the train goes up to 350-360' in the end. And that's doing one to possibly two rotations around a narrowing tower in the last 75' feet. I'd be surprised if 10 sections of a few straight and bunch of curving track on-site are it to reach the end of the line.
From everything I've analyzed on the site, I believe there are indeed 10 total pieces of track left to install.
Piece #49 is the last purely vertical piece (highlighted white here), and #59 is the final piece of track that has the bumper on the end. See here, the segments separated by the blue discs and the support connections are the red diamond:
Piece #49 is the last purely vertical piece (highlighted white here), and #59 is the final piece of track that has the bumper on the end. See here, the segments separated by the blue discs and the support connections are the red diamond:
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I agree with your analysis. But we know the tower will go to 375' and it's just a little over 300' right now. Doesn't make much sense for the remaining track to level out at 320-340ish and have a ton of tower above that not used for the ride, essentially. An additional 6-10 pieces to complete another trip around the probably narrow tower by that height would fit pretty nicely to get the track up to 350-360'. Either that, or the last 10 don't level out much and the tower narrows significantly from here on up, so the last 10 get the cars up to 350 or so. I could see that if it really spires to a point in the remaining 50-60' and the track wraps sharply up like the top of a soft ice cream.
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h/t Rich Petrillo on Great Adventure Connoisseurs, misdirection or a hint?
It's a misdirection, should be the SS Tom Phan
SS Minnow too old school, I guess
That drop when the train comes back is going to be nuts if this is what it's going to actually look like
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The Coaster Spot's video gives good close-ups of all the remaining track and support pieces.
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What could this have possibly been in response to LOL
Good work
But I’ll be honest, there’s just no way the tower is supposed to got 375 feet while the track caps at like 320 feet
That would be a massive let down and they know we’d be pissed by it.
It needs to go around the tower at least twice to be worth it