I’m still skeptical of this being built alongside ka. If Ka was not going too last much longer anyway as mentioned in interview, it would seem smarter to build this after Ka removal to fill the void and have a new coaster ready the next year. Also demolishing Ka would have been more challenging to not interfere with spire. It’s interesting they keep saying now, that this never was supposed to be KA replacement. They even hinted on facebook that we could see a coaster taller than Ka. Honestly, I can’t see there being some huge plan all along to build a KA 2. Unless…this truly was a project planned before the merger to GA and the new company is planning on building something insane (unlikely in today’s economy).
News Project 2027/Skyland/Purple: Delayed “World Record Breaking Coaster" (Phantom Spire?)
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Where on Facebook did you see someone with the park hinting there could be a coaster taller than Ka?
I bet Ryan was not happy he alluded to the height
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
Possibly the tallest giga ever, I can’t exactly see anyone going taller than this but not 400’.
Im just going to say it’s the tallest purple coaster in the world.
Oh man.....how trivial do we want to get?
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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.
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.
totally on board with calling this project peepee by the way. idc if that's a redundant acronym. PIN number
I Like how in the video it’s subtly implied a roughly 60 second launch interval.
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.
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.
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.
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?
It woulda killed ya to get to 400'?! That said, Fury 325 got a lot of hype, and still does, for being the tallest traditional-style giga coaster. If we were getting Nitro's big brother that topped Fury, I'd rightly buy into such hype. But in fairness, getting the giga record isn't nothing. It's just it reminds us of what was, and what could have been with this ride in the early stages of hope and vague teasing PR about being "bigger than Ka," etc. If you made me choose one record of all those they'll tout for this, giga height is the only one I'd have a little pride in. The rest are weak sauce to me.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
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...
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...
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Y'know, you're allowed to have more than one personality trait.