Yes....it shows greatly...

Sometimes things like that happen though. A bump in the road occurs (Volcano or Ka in this case) and the park will bounce back from it. As someone that grew up in the DC metropolitan, Busch Gardens has always been heavily favored over Kings Dominion in the public eye that much has not changed but still both are good parks and the things that Kings Dominion has been doing since 2014 have done nothing but improve the park significantly. I am sure Great Adventure can do the same.

@coasterfanatic3 they absolutely can. The question is will they? Great Adventure management has this far given me very little faith

I do believe that corporate will make Great Adventure one of there main parks. This is the biggest and best park in the New York area. New York has several smaller parks, but none are as good as Great Adventure. Yes the park needs to be cleaned up. It does need a lot of work, but I’m sure corporate sees the potential to have a great park near one of the biggest cities in the world.

Yeah I realized that and fixed it.

No, that was cool I did like that. There were parts of the send off that were incredible and some enthusiast handled it fantastically. This video was to address those that did not handle it well along with others that would enjoy some insight on the matter.

That’s a fair assumption and I understand where you are coming from even if I disagree.

No they are not. They have not killed Kings Dominion coasters and they will not with Six Flags. Some coasters like Volcano and Kingda Ka have a shellfire due to the fact they are extremely high maintenance.

Not 100% sure besides it will be a record breaking multi-launch coaster. If it's that Mack Rides coaster that is rumored to go in that land, I would've liked it to be a full circuit coaster for layout and capacity reasons. Honestly I am curious to see what they will go with.

Yes, that was the former CEO Salim Bassoul. His method did not worked in helping improve Six Flags at the time. When the merger happened, Bassoul became the head of the board of directors while Richard Zimmerman, the CEO of Cedar Fair, became the CEO for the merged Six Flags company. The parks are focused on brining in guests but what keeps guests coming back? In this day and age, it's all about the quality of experience. "Can these parks be enough for me to spend my money here instead of Disney and/or Universal but still have a similar experience". It is all about catering to the families, meaning rides that everyone can enjoy, great entertainment offerings or other activities for those that do not care about the rides. Great quality food options instead of the typical cheeseburgers, pizza, and chicken tenders. All of these things Cedar Fair has been doing to improve their parks, which it has tremendously even if they still had debt issues which is a whole other complex story. Six Flags was late to the game on this because during the 2010s it was all about adding a ride to a park every single year. This was good at first until the rides became cookie cutter and there wasn't any enhancements done to the parks as a whole. When they tried to follow the Cedar Fair model, they executed it poorly that ended them losing more attendance then gaining attendance and the company was in a worse situation that Cedar Fair was.

@@coasterfanatic3 In my opinion, they could have closed Green Lantern a couple of years ago, along with Skull Mountain and Joker, Cyborg, etc. They could have taken the money and properly fixed El Toro the first time it made headlines and may have possibly avoided the horrible event that occurred on it in 2022. I remember when the lines for Kingda Ka were so long that they had to be shut down because of being maxed out. I have costly legacy memberships that abruptly increased in price without warning. Imagine if they had done the right thing and brought in the GiGa this year to go along with Ka and Toro? This park had the potential of equaling or exceeding the thrills of Cedar Point. Instead, we have broken promises, a promoted ride for this year that won't open until next year, not to mention, the debacle of Top Thrill 2 at Cedar Point. Skull Mountain is outdated for this day and time and could have easily been replaced with a more up to date family coaster that would bring in more guests. if the security was better and ride staffing was better, than the park wouldn't smell like weed in public areas the way it did the last few years. Yes, you cannot please everyone no matter what, but when you show your clientele that you care about them and value and appreciate their business, then you don't have to worry about a lack of support, because people will spend their hard-earned money for quality over quantity. i am glad that I walked back there to Zumanjaro and got those rides back in April, because now it has unceremoniously been retired and is now defunct.

@@thomasnewcomb3632 I agree, tho I think they should keep Skull Mountain and enhance it in my opinion. But I do agree there are better ways to take care of the park that has not been done in previous years in my opinion and it has nothing to do with adding coasters. The park needs more entertainment, better food options (which they did this year to an extent) and needs a refresh on the aesthetics. One example is the queue lines and stations for the rides cough cough Nitro lol. Im curious to see how the park will be ran in the near future and see how they bounce back from this situation.

It is actually more small-minded to compare things to what they used to be rather than moving on. Judge a ride on its own merit and what the park wants to achieve, not on what used to be there just because "that ride had a special place in my heart so I will judge it on the old ride" because "how dare they remove a beloved ride". If you go into a ride with the expectations of it being on par or better than the previous ride, 95% of the time you will be disappointed as "it did not live up to expectations". There is a difference between criticizing and saying blasphemy statements like f*ck Zimmerman and "this is the downfall of Great Adventure".YOu can criticize a park I did not say you couldn't. If you watched the video I agreed that the park could have handle the situation better which is a criticism. I also never said pissed, I am disappointed at the reaction from enthusiasts because it is clearly based on raw emotion without any rational thought at all. Also, yes that is exactly how it works, the public/coaster enthusiasts have no idea how Theme parks are operated at all and only want to be catered to, that is small mindedness.

@ no I’m sorry you aren’t looking at things realistically. Everything is compared to what it replaces in every facet of life. When I replace something I and everyone else compares it to what it is replacing and when it comes to something that broke world records and closed with little notice and fanfare because the corporate behemoth that operates it wants to be cutthroat, the replacement better be at minimum on par. And I’m not sure what’s up with you calling it blasphemy to say something profane and rude about a multimillionaire corporate officer. Coaster enthusiasm isn’t a religion and the people in charge aren’t gods or disciples so, little bit weird there. Also, considering Mr Zimmerman is a multimillionaire and a businessman in the entertainment industry I think he and everyone else can handle a couple of coaster bros making some rude chants about him on the last night of operations for a world record breaking attraction that was also a state icon that is closing with zero notice. I did watch your video and you did criticize them for the closure but you followed it with a ‘but’ a few times and made a claim that if they gave it a farewell year the rude comments and nasty chants would have happened anyway which is just a) naive because people will always complain about change and b) you just making stuff up because those nasty chants and saying were clearly a reaction to the company and park not being truthful on the matter and downright lying about the ride not closing this year. It was good to see a take from someone who isn’t a big creator but I don’t think you’re on the right side when it comes to how you talked about fan reaction.

That is a fair assumption

They will prolly remove the advertisements too. I'm sure if they could keep Ka they would but the cost was just too great to deal with and the company saw that there was a better outlook on removing Ka and replacing it with something else rather than keeping Ka. We will know more about this coaster in the summer of 2025 so we will have to just wait and see.

Dude this is not la la land. They did not remove Ka to make Top Thrill 2 the record breaker, that is childish and terrible for business. You think the PR is bad now imagine had they announced before its closure? The only thing I was comparing to Ka and Volcano was how special they were to the public and the outcry from it. Of course Ka is more special than Volcano I did not say they were the same. You clearly took the wrong points I was trying to make in the video. You think they want to remove rides just to remove them? The park would only remove rides if there was a necessary reason to. Sometimes it's better to spend the money to remove a ride and replace it with something else than it is to keep a ride running.

The funny thing is, people act like, Six Flags management, (aka, legacy cedar fair.), has the same attachment to Dragster. The people who run management now are completely different now than they were back then. The entire philosophy of management is drastically different than it was back then. Dick Kinsel was a coaster enthusiast and that was the philosophy back then. Even then, he said TTD was a huge mistake, because of the expense. Even Intamin doesn’t offer the hydraulic launch anymore. They obviously see the technology as not worth the expense to build and maintain. One of the reason people complain so much is they only see things from their own perspective. You have to see all perspectives and all sides to understand.

Potentially that could be it too, and on top of the expensive maintenance on the ride they just could keep the riding running. It sucks cause it did not get the proper set off but sometimes that's how the cookie crumbles.

They could be removing that along with Ka for future expansion. I do not know much about Lantern besides the fact I did not like it as a stand up coaster and was such an eye sore. I wish they could have re-themed it and gave it sit-down trains since they already have a floorless coaster, or convert it to a floorless coaster and send it to another park but oh well it is what it is.

I agree

Whatever ride is added there. Make sure we judge the ride on its own merit and not comparing it to the ride that was there before hand

I think it's the idea of a proper send off. Also, most of the ridership is due to maintenance, and it did have good lines. And it's also the ride that attracts people there in the first place I never rode it though in my 18 years, I was too scared to

I cannot speak for myself on Volcano's line during the Paramount era. My mother who was a huge Volcano fan did claim Volcano always had a line during the paramount days. But I whole heartedly agree that Kings Dominion is in a far better situation than during the Paramount era. It took some growing pains but the park is in its best state ever.

@@history_leisure I agree. Plus expansion with a new ride and other features. Who know there’s definitely growth. Also all the animal exhibits are with charge.

Hey it’s that person that has the most comments on tuberides.

It’s the vibration from the guns when you are hitting a target

the one who built the new coaster also built i305 at KD for intamin. Adena Construction.

I recently rode Iron menace and while yes the back wing seat was something to behold, the middle seats on rows 1 and 2 were butter smooth for me…except for that last turn lol. But I have ridden 3 of the 4 wing coasters that at one point had a rattle especially X-Flight and it wasn’t too bad. Even if this ride gets a rattle, for me personally, I’ll prolly look past it and enjoy the ride for what it is as most B&M rattles don’t ruin the ride for me. But yeah I’m excited hopefully the renderings come true. Im sure they’ll be some good theming as they did a good job with Jungle X in 2022