I bet Ryan was not happy he alluded to the heightSo Stephen said nearly 400 feet tall.... wondering if it indeed will be a 375 foot tall tower?
I bet Ryan was not happy he alluded to the heightSo Stephen said nearly 400 feet tall.... wondering if it indeed will be a 375 foot tall tower?
Even so, PP will take the title as tallest Giga coaster in the world, whatever exactly just under 400' it ends up. For what that's worth.I bet Ryan was not happy he alluded to the height![]()
Definitely the tallest. Fury 325 has the giga record.Possibly the tallest giga ever, I can’t exactly see anyone going taller than this but not 400’.
Oh man.....how trivial do we want to get?Im just going to say it’s the tallest purple coaster in the world.
If you go on Facebook, someone was saying they thought it would be taller than Ka and they commented we are just getting started to build. Its was indirectly hinting at it.Where on Facebook did you see someone with the park hinting there could be a coaster taller than Ka?
Oh, that's just them teasing Project Purple, but don't take the responses literally. The official account also commented on Instagram a while ago similar things to everyone's comments about PP. Someone commented there something like "I hope it's taller than Top Thrill 2" and Six Flags wrote back "Stay tuned!" They also wrote "stay tuned" to one person's comment, "I hope it's a full circuit coaster!" They're just being vague and teasing the ride, though. It won't be taller than or as tall as Ka, and they aren't planning another coaster taller than or as tall as Ka.If you go on Facebook, someone was saying they thought it would be taller than Ka and they commented we are just getting started to build. Its was indirectly hinting at it.
Well, HUGE updates out of this interview by Fred Fishkin of Techstination with Ryan AND the construction manager(!).
The bottom lines:
Ryan:
Construction manager Stephen Kolczynski:
- “Hoping to open in 2027”
- “Going significantly vertical in the coming weeks”
- “100.5 feet tall” inversion
- Announcement in June; story, manufacturer, record details, etc. Want to close the book on Shoreline Pier before moving on to Project Purple.
- Limited announcement about “PP and its significance” “probably mid-May.”
- Original plan was to announce PP mid-spring, but didn’t want to mix SP and PP. Memorial Day [weekend?] is the target for SP to open.
- Has a design/conceptual plan with PP and Kingda Ka side-by-side. PP was “vetted” in 2022.
- PP will hopefully be here for "decades"; KK "didn’t have much time left even if it survived ’24 and ’25."
- "ride erection" is 60% complete
- “Near 400 feet tall in height”
- Building foundations for load station to start in a couple weeks
- Memorial Day weekend goal for Shoreline Pier
- Large crane to arrive soon
- 80,000ft of electric cable being installed; most still to-be-done
- Weeks and months heading into Frightfest all this work will continue
- 1100 yards of concrete for the tower footers; more than usual
- 40x40x15 spread footings for the tower
- KK spread footings still in the ground
- Unexpected utilities found digging for PP delayed progress; infrastructure for GASM and GL were found and had to be removed
- BESS battery storage system first in US to power PP
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I could totally see this being something the park leans into. “World’s tallest giga coaster” sounds like an insane record, even though we know it’s not.Even so, PP will take the title as tallest Giga coaster in the world, whatever exactly just under 400' it ends up. For what that's worth.
Grimace must be the designer of the rideIm just going to say it’s the tallest purple coaster in the world.
I could totally see this being something the park leans into. “World’s tallest giga coaster” sounds like an insane record, even though we know it’s not.
Do you really think most guests know or care what a stratacoaster is?
To be fair, I think we're not impressed in this context because we had Ka and this ride is almost the same in its main features but is significantly shorter. So, giga height record......uh, thanks, I guess?Exactly. “World‘s tallest giga coaster” sounds more impressive than it is because most guests don’t know what a giga coaster is.
We know that “giga” means 300-399 feet and that if a coaster reaches 400 feet, it’s no longer a giga coaster. But I bet the average guest either has never heard of the term “giga coaster” or just thinks it refers to some kind of massive coaster. So hearing that it’s the “world’s tallest” giga sounds like a big deal.
Arguably, “world’s tallest giga coaster” would for that reason be a little misleading, but so are all the other flimsy, qualified records (e.g. “world’s fastest multi-launch coaster”) that all these chains are guilty of claiming.
I agree......I had heard that Great Adventure had plans before Phantom Spire of a 350 foot giga coaster at the front of the park. Additionally, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but Great Adventure had also planned a 400 foot full circuit coaster next to Medusa where the old theater is. I forgot where I heard this but definitely would have been interesting. Regardless, I think project purple is a beautiful coaster with the color and that insane upside down launch! I hope the park has that zep powder on hand at the station for housekeeping duties lol
Y'know, you're allowed to have more than one personality trait.It's fun that we keep prejustifying unmade claims under the assumption they'll be necessary to aggrandize an underwhelming product. Again I understand sometimes I like to poke fun at the stupidity I anticipate, just seems odd to explain why a misleading record claim (with no agreed-upon technical definition from any veritable authority, afaik) is "technically accurate"
Thank u for daring to recall a time when there was hope, the sky was still blue... even in the face of relentless corporate austerity there were once dreams to be dreamt...
I have come to the conclusion project peepee is like if Benson Boone were a machine... a very low (high? I'm trying to say unrelatable if familiar) denominator that isn't even common, a project forced on the masses as if it represented something that came from their ranks... a "pleasant" diversion that is only a rule breaker by the strictest, most arbitrary moral code prone to bending and breaking and soaking... novel only to those ignorant of Freddie Mercury's very existence...
I think you heard two versions of the same plan. The cancelled plan was for a Nitro-style giga along the lake over by the log flume/arena area. It was a giga but wasn't going to get close to being a strata. Not sure how close it really got to realization. This was all pre-merger under the former leadership in the late 2010s.I agree......I had heard that Great Adventure had plans before Phantom Spire of a 350 foot giga coaster at the front of the park. Additionally, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but Great Adventure had also planned a 400 foot full circuit coaster next to Medusa where the old theater is. I forgot where I heard this but definitely would have been interesting. Regardless, I think project purple is a beautiful coaster with the color and that insane upside down launch! I hope the park has that zep powder on hand at the station for housekeeping duties lol
Y'know, you're allowed to have more than one personality trait.
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