I’ve been so sad over the past week for losing such an iconic and special ride but I’ve been feeling better since thinking about it this way: Ka was never dethroned as the tallest coaster in the world. He was born as the King of coasters and he died as the King of coasters. Never in Ka’s career was he NOT the tallest and I find that strangely comforting.

I mean I get that it was expensive to operate but it should’ve been treated as a loss leader. It’s such an iconic ride, the name itself is one of those things that even non-enthusiasts know it by name. It was one of the defining features of that six flags

I feel like the Corporate Overlords dictated there would be no official announcement, but the local park management disagreed and left the partially disassembled train out in public view as a message to fans...

“Cedar Fair…I mean Six Flags” 😆 quite literally sums up everything I’ve been feeling about the abrupt and secretive closure of Kingda Ka, ZumanJaro and the other 4 rides.

Man, the Blue Train sitting the way it did in the station visible to the public's eye in that state, it spoke VOLUMES. Even before the markings appeared, I saw that as a direct message that something was going to happen. It's very unfortunate about the Zumanjaro situation halting Ka from running through HITP unfortunately.

Six Flags dropped the ball. HARD. And the worst part is that it's not legacy SF's fault. It was corporate legacy Cedar Fair who called the shots

The way this whole thing was handled was an absolute slap in the face to the loyal customers of Great Adventure. A company that wants to do wrong by its customers doesn’t deserve my business so I’m not going there next summer.

I saw a few videos on tiktok of people wondering HOW roller coaster enthusiasts could have known the ride was closing before any hint of an announcement. You all pay a ton of attention to ride ops for fun, makes sense you all would notice things were different eventually

Thank you Ryan for your efforts to inform enthusiasts of what was coming, and I'm sorry for any disrespect you endured from those who didn't believe you. Your content is consistently informative and insightful.

As for Kingda Ka, I'm devastated as an overseas enthusiast that this means that, with little warning, I have now officially missed my chance to ride either of the strata Accelerators. The decision-making from the Six Flags/Cedar Fair executives to close such a high-profile and beloved attraction without giving guests a chance to take last rides is baffling to me, and even with the explanation you've provided, I still don't quite understand how they came to that decision.

Long live the king, and here's hoping that whatever "record-breaking launch coaster" is taking its place will not just be some gimmicky record, but an actually world-class coaster that might help ease the pain of this tremendous loss.

Unfortunately I never got to experience this coaster, but from what I heard, it was a hell of a coaster. Long live the king!

5:33 “but doing so probably didn’t look good on an excel spreadsheet.”

Can’t wait to see their attendance numbers plummet next year. They deserve it.

Six Flags Great Adventure Golden Era is gone because of Kingda KA closing

I told coaster enthusists that this merger is going to destroy legacy coasters. Our community has absolutly no respect for the rides we claim to enjoy. The oldest rollercoaster on the planet is rotting away and we are doing nothing. I tried to get a group together to raise the money to restore it on formus and they all mocked me saying "its a shtty ride anyway thats why nobody goes to ride it" when in reality it was garbage park management that gutted the park and allowed the coasters to fall into such disrepair. Ace is a disgrACE and the coaster community should be ashamed of them selves.

NOOOOOO king da ka was literally my WHOLE reason to drive 900km all the way from Toronto Canada to six flags great adventure, now that its gone, my heart is so broken

This is exactly why I said the cedar Fair merger was a terrible thing to happen for six flags

When i was young kingda ka was my number one bucketlist item. I lived in Australia and had no way of making enough money to go. Overtime I forgot about this dream entirely, now i will never be able to go on it. Long live the king.

I honestly don't see any reason to return to Great Adventure anytime soon. They botched the 50th Anniversary in ways I couldn't even think were possible, and they've already been going downhill for years. Whether it's running rides at half capacity with one train and ultra slow operations, rides closed, broken, or delayed for reasons under the park's control, failure to complete off-season projects even close to schedule, tight-lipped and delayed communication practices, serious food and beverage deficiencies, reduced operating hours, lack of consistent and transparent pricing, and now, closure and demolition of not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but six rides all at once, including their star attraction, the product they have settled on simply isn't worth it anymore. I'm disgusted with what the park has become.

If I am ever to return, then they will need to rebuild the park's ride lineup, resolve all of the operational deficiencies, and start running it like a world class, destination theme park that it has all the potential to be, despite being kneecapped by awful corporate management over the last 15+ years.

The lack of an announcement still makes little sense if not even less based on the fact that the ride was expensive. If money is the issue, why wouldn’t they encourage people to visit the park before Ka closed for the sake of getting a little extra dough?

Nothing better than being a season pass holder for over 15 years and not being told one of the most popular rides in the park is closing until after it’s closed. Perfectly explains why Six Flags GA is struggling like it is.

Thank you so much for all that you (and other enthusiasts) did to spread awareness of the rumors. As someone whose home park is KD yet got into coasters too late to ride Volcano, I will always be sure to do what I can to ride a coaster before it closes down. Thanks to y’all, I was able to drive to GA for only the second time in my life to get a few more rides on Ka the Saturday before it closed! Please know that your publicizing the rumors was THE reason for this trip (which was one of my favorite park days ever). Thank you and keep doing the work you do!