Six Flags Qiddiya City
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The windshields show how we are hitting the limits. And it's still only a 4.5 hour drive to the tallest coaster without a windshield and fastest without goggles -- although due to a little water spray that came from who knows where my last front row Ka ride would have been better with protection.
I just don't think it's big enough to pull off the miracle they want!
I just don't think it's big enough to pull off the miracle they want!
looks amazing and I hate to be that guy but I just don't care what it looks like cause short of a an earth shattering social change I will never have any desire to go ride it no matter how great it is.
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Yeah, no way I'd go there even if I had the money for such a trip, but I do hope the model is a success and then we get one here.
Yeah, it definitely is. The track appears to be a significantly wider gage and the trains are radically redesigned.
I can't imagine any park in the US that would benefit from such an attraction even if you could get the price somewhere reasonable. Bigger parks wouldn't see much of a bump in revenue for the investment and a small park would have to revamp the rest of their offering to get any sustained growth. Saudi Arabia and maybe some other places with terrible tourism numbers are about the only places that make any sense as a desperate attempt to kick start their image.
I can’t see a US insurance company insuring anything remotely similar to a ride like this.
Why? You think they’re so stupid that all they’ll see is “ooh scary tall” and say no? I see zero reason why something like that wouldn’t pass
I mean personally I am thinking more in the context of "Falcon's Flight" where it involves a long sequence going up on a large rock cliff. But also......I would use nicer words than that. I also can't see any of the parks that are owned by publicly traded companies building something like this without a damn good presentation on the return on investment for the shareholders. That is A LOT of steel.
Bad News for everyone!!! That Falcon's Flight was disqualified from lists of World Tallest from Record Holders by Roller Coaster Database.
How is this bad news for anyone? SFQ will still market it as such and most people, enthusiasts included won't bat an eye. And RCDB, while absolutely a useful resource that I respect, is not the be-all-end-all for these things.
I'm also curious what RCDB's reasoning could be. A very cursory google search didn't show anything.
(You're probably not being too serious when you say "bad news" but I initially read it as serious, and my reaction is more fun if I assume you're being serious.)
IIRC RCDB uses track level above grade. While FF has that big hump and big drop, because the top part rests on a plateau to make the 600+ft drop it's looking like it's no more that 100-ish feet above grade during that.
Isn't the giant camelback alone taller than Kingda Ka?
Until someone provides a source for the RCDB claim, it is my assumption that @Coasterumor is wrong/trolling.
Falcons Flight, assuming it opens, appears as though it will be the world's tallest coaster whether judging by max drop height (the correct way) or by height above grade (the incorrect way). We know it wins max drop height (read: tallest coaster) based on the cliff dive. It is my understanding that the camelback after the cliff dive is expected to easily exceed Ka as well—making it the tallest coaster above grade too.
Falcons Flight tops RCDB's drop height records listing already but does not yet appear on their height above grade listing. That is almost certainly not because it is "disqualified" or whatever, but because, as far as I know, the height for the camelback has yet to be announced.
Falcons Flight, assuming it opens, appears as though it will be the world's tallest coaster whether judging by max drop height (the correct way) or by height above grade (the incorrect way). We know it wins max drop height (read: tallest coaster) based on the cliff dive. It is my understanding that the camelback after the cliff dive is expected to easily exceed Ka as well—making it the tallest coaster above grade too.
Falcons Flight tops RCDB's drop height records listing already but does not yet appear on their height above grade listing. That is almost certainly not because it is "disqualified" or whatever, but because, as far as I know, the height for the camelback has yet to be announced.
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Taken from this Business Plan document, the arch will be 162m/531ft; and 185m/607ft at the cliff. This could have changed, but it's the most solid figure I know of. RCDB's claim of ~640ft elev. change is probably correct, as the thing does dive under the park's entrance path.
So regardless of the vertical cliff drop (of which 200-300ft is vertical, then it gradually slopes out and boosts downhill), the arch hill alone still claims the tallest single point and largest drop.
