Kingda Ka and Green Lantern's removal for new 2026 record-breaking coaster

[ViperGTS500]

Extremely expensive to run vs the ridership it was actually getting. Six Flags was happy to run it as a loss leader for as long as it did and probably would've done so for longer, but the new bosses from Cedar Fair saw the numbers and were like no.

If it wasn't for CF, wasnt SF going to completely refurbish the ride for next year: reconstruct the launch building, repaint the whole ride, etc...?

 

[TPoseOnTantrum]

I imagine that it loosing it's title as worlds tallest coaster was also a factor in what value keeping the ride open had.

Lol no. That wasn’t going to change the numbers in any way.

 

[Pokemaniac]

Extremely expensive to run vs the ridership it was actually getting. Six Flags was happy to run it as a loss leader for as long as it did and probably would've done so for longer, but the new bosses from Cedar Fair saw the numbers and were like no.

Gotta wonder how Falcon's Flight will be different in that regard. If the world's tallest coaster can't draw enough people to New Jersey to be worth the operational costs, I can't imagine one will draw enough people to Riyadh to cover operational costs that will surely be three times as high.

 

[Hyde]

Maybe the world record was the friends we made along the way.