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Six Flags Qiddiya City
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The coaster opened on time with the park today.
I Need a daytime POV, also any idea how fast up the mountain launch is?
Also going down that hill and over the arch looks like it pulls some Gs
Also going down that hill and over the arch looks like it pulls some Gs
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A daytime POV with an overabundance of commentary. The view from the top is spectacular.
Direct Link to Embedded Media Source
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Yea im not watching theme park worldwide lmao
I believe it's 90-100mph. Watch on mute then! Unbelievable views on that.
But then I cant hear the launches
Do you mean North America? Don't forget about La Ronde (leased) or Six Flags Mexico. It is not really a Six Flags park though, they just bought the naming rights. Six Flags does not own or operate the park outside of a consulting role. Oversimplified, it is owned by an investment company which is owned by the Saudi Arabian government.
The Saudi Public Investment Fund is using the Six Flags brand under licence per this press release.
It's definitely interesting that they think the Six Flags name is valuable enough to be worth licensing. Maybe the familiarity of the name helps, despite the negative brand issues in the US.
I could’ve seen it go either way. Six Flags is getting a lot of brand recognition out of this, and the world’s tallest and fastest roller coaster pretty much just appeared in the desert for them, along with a park that looks quite nice and well planned out.
Guess it comes with a risk too if they are not involved with maintaining or operating anything.
Owned by Qiddiya Investment Company but Six Flags DOES operate the park under management contract.
Could you provide a source? I cannot find a press release, although I may have missed one. Wikipedia states it is operated by Six Flags Corperation, but does not cite a source.
No wonder I did not find it, I was not searching for stuff posted in November. I wonder why they did not post this on the corporate website?
From the second paragraph of the press release:
Operational support is not very binding language.
I think the only new (although expected) information in this press release is:
I don't think they are using the term "Official Operator" in the same context most of us are familiar with (for example Darian Lake or Frontier City).
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Very cool that there's a recorded POV of this.
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Rollback at 1:30
Informative announcement at 4:47
Reset for second launch at 9:40
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Rollback at 1:30
Informative announcement at 4:47
Reset for second launch at 9:40
