I do find it interesting it went from being known as "project 2027" to "project purple" late 2026 opening perhaps?
News Project 2027/Skyland/Purple: Bakunawa (Mack Giga Shuttle Xtreme Spinner)
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Its cold asf up there past october. Better to open it at a time it can be open for more than a month just to reclose.I do find it interesting it went from being known as "project 2027" to "project purple" late 2026 opening perhaps?
I don't think this is going to open in 2026 but weather being a factor would not make sense to me. Nitro reopened last season with a week or two left in November, and frankly, fall in New Jersey is lovely and fairly mild (barring any hurricanes)
Wait is this SF mania? I used to support all of his headcanons before my permaban
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As much as I’d rather it just have the proper grand opening it deserves in 2027, a preview month could also be INCREDIBLY useful to work out the kinks this ride may have. Mack has never gone this tall or fast before, a launch with riders inverted has never been done before, and realistically it just wouldn’t be a park’s flagship attraction without some hiccups early on.
No. Ryan explained it's just to differentiate it from all the other projects and the new "coaster" coming this year. They liked the name when so many people (us) said how much we loved the purple color of the track when it started showing up.I do find it interesting it went from being known as "project 2027" to "project purple" late 2026 opening perhaps?
yeah, he used to post his ideas of what if time Warner still owns six flags and Warner bros movie world New Jersey (those are lost media now)
I'd love to see those tower footers. They looked like they were in view of them but I didn't see them in any video.
ElToroRyan had the best footage of them I've seen. Nothing super close, but you could get a sense for the scale of the footer spread from his video today.
He estimates 105 mph by his calculations but also says he modeled the stall to be 70-85 feet (which we now know is off), also idk if NL2 has spinning trains but if it does he's not using them
Thanks, I just saw it now! Such a massive tower or spike. I can't wait to see what it will look like. It's the most fascinating part to me.
Do we know for certain though? I feel like the height given by Coliwood was more of an educated guess than a certainty.
In that clip, Colin estimates 90-ish feet tall, and a voice beside him (off camera, I believe it's PR Guy Ryan) says "95" right after. I think that number checks out.
Around 5 Victor Wembanyamas shorter than Ka’s second hill
I mean that’s still around the same height as BTR and SUF, which isn’t bad at all
Expanding a little on the Project Purple moniker, I don't know how far in advance the decision was made, but Ryan wore a "Project Purple" shirt on opening day. He was present during an informal ACE meetup that afternoon, so the nomenclature spread pretty quickly.
With this being worked on almost every day and the park operating on its spring break schedule, we should get a healthy amount of updates during the coming week.
With this being worked on almost every day and the park operating on its spring break schedule, we should get a healthy amount of updates during the coming week.
Just a guess, but “Project Purple” doesn’t sound organic and was probably a thing while Kingda Ka was still sending trains. From the YouTubers pretty much announcing the KK closure, to the YouTubers climbing around on track pieces in the parking lot, it seems almost like some weird viral campaign from the get-go? Not that it means anything- just the marketing guy doing his job with a little help from his friends. The product of a reduced budget and some creativity.
It doesn't take long to get a custom shirt. The project has had a few names the community has called it up to this point but purple has stuck the most. With how often Ryan and Colin are probably talking with all the trips to record progress, Ryan probably just liked the name and got a shirt printed to wear around the ACE members and superfans.
We don't have to get cynical about whether a project name is organic from a youtuber or created by SixFlags henchmen brewing up a viral fake name when the real one is going to be announced in only a few months.
We don't have to get cynical about whether a project name is organic from a youtuber or created by SixFlags henchmen brewing up a viral fake name when the real one is going to be announced in only a few months.
I don't think it's entirely irrelevant to be considering the impact of this new protected class on either the project itself or the wider guest experience. It's pretty telling if the influencer crowd is getting to define any aspect of this project at all
Also Ryan's been using Project 2027 and Project Purple interchangably in podcasts/interviews, particularly over the last few months.
I'm sure it's in part that Project Purple flows much better than Project 2027, given the number of syllables and word phonetics.
You do realize they aren’t a “protected class”, they are just free advertising. In other professions influencers are paid to advertise products. But coaster enthusiasts love this stuff so much they are showing up to great adventure for tours to advertise to all their followers for free. It’s just good business practices. Six flags has done a poor job marketing for a while now IMO, this just makes sense to do.
One of the videos I watched yesterday even mentioned great adventure did not provide park tickets. However, they did get free fast lane. Which from a marketing perspective also makes sense, get these influencers to vlog their reactions to all of the rides with little to no marketing budget spend.
The external-facing (?) codename of a coaster pre-announcement has no "impact" on "the wider guest experience" and absolutely minimal impact on "the project itself."
I also think it's a little uncalled for to refer to the people on these tours as a "new protected class." I don't know what the qualifications for admittance to these tours has been, but the net does seem to have been cast very wide. I do think influencers should be disclosing any agreements they've made with the park—such as whether or not they've expressly agreed to the infamous, chain-wide, deeply problematic "Content Creator Guidelines"—but that's on influencers acting ethically, not SFGAdv.
Perhaps some solace can be found in the fact that we have seen a number of influencers who have both previously and have recently continued to flaunt those published "Content Creator Guidelines" on these tours. Hopefully that indicates that, despite corporate's stance, Ryan has been able to sidestep Six Flags' Cedar Point-style insistence on constructing a propaganda machine and punishing anyone who does not wish to participate.
It's 2026. Influencer society has completely warped and distorted the very idea of marketing and corporate communications. Anything that occurs in the year 2026 has been impacted by our current environment.
We've been using Project [Debut Year] 'round these parts since like 2010 across the industry to identify pre-announcement, in-development attractions. Unfortunately, the Heritage Foundation/the Republican party has done pretty grave harm to the Project [Debut Year] branding since 2025. The chance that the Project [Year] branding becomes a cyclical political issue is very real and, though I find it a very useful way to refer to projects in our industry, I do get wanting to find alternatives.
Ideally, I wish parks would just include a unique codename on the earliest filings relating to a project and/or file for a trademark early for a name to use during attraction development. Phantom Spire's existence, whether it becomes the final name or not, has been very useful in discussing the attraction and, if it isn't the final name, it will have been an absolutely sick codename for the ride.
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