Decent chance that tomorrow will be the day. Explosives are being set.
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News The King Is Dead: Kingda Ka (& Zumanjaro) Closure & Demolition Confirmed
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Man, I am not ready for this. Still remaining optimistic about the future, but it’ll hurt watching the coaster that made me an enthusiast come down. At least it’ll be in fittingly spectacular fashion.
The demolition will demote GAdv to a mid tier park, hopefully only for this season.
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Ive followed CDI for a while, and since theyre the most qualified to take on a project like demolishing the King, i can say this. If they started loading shaped charges yesterday, the demolition likely wont happen today. The loading, fusing and prep of the structure took multiple days on previous demos and i would guess based on previous demolitions that we will see the demo happen within the week but not tomorrow.
Ill eat my words if im wrong but theyre pretty good at documenting their projects which helps with this project.
Ill eat my words if im wrong but theyre pretty good at documenting their projects which helps with this project.
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Youtube search CDI demolitions - you will see this will be their first roller coaster, but they did the wreckage of the Key Bridge collision last year masterfully, among countless other things like cell towers. It will be sad to see, but done carefully for sure with these guys involved.
I'm at Tommy's and there are probably about 30 people spread out between this lot and the one across the highway. Some workers who were doing demo on the ventilation systems under the ride claimed that the tower won't be coming down today. They believe they implosion is going to be delayed past the permit date. I'm inclined to believe them, but the intel hasn't dissuaded anyone (including me) into leaving yet.
GADV: “alright they’re gone. Blow it up!”
The Smooth Criminal strikes again! Waiting to detonate... It's definitely a very strange reality about to happen here.
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The way I see it, Ka's death could have gone a myriad of different ways...
A drone feed from about a half hour ago showed that the hydraulic room is gone. One support column that was above said room (bottom of the launch hill, not part of the tower) still remains. I don't think the structure is coming down today, but if it does, there are about 8 cameras set up and pointing at it from across 537.
They likely won't demo on President's Day. Tuesday and Wednesday will be clear but cold with below freezing highs. Thursday is supposed to have 3 to 5 inches of snow which probably has to be cleared next Friday.
Even Mother Nature hates Zimmerman and is doing her best to protect Ka.
A fitting bookend: the same thing that stifled Ka’s construction is the same thing that is slowing its destruction.
It would be interesting if increment weather keeps postponing the demo to opening day lol.
Coliwood Studios has a new video looking at new permits and the process
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The snow threat for Thursday has been downgraded. It should only hit Delaware and far South NJ.
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Add another element to this process - extending the FAA obstruction filing to the beginning of March was a wise move. Removal of the bracing supports is going to take some time.