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What was wrong with Rip Ride Rocket? Why replace it?

Do they really have to replace it because they have thousands of those sound stages next to it that they can remove and possibly keep rip ride rockit longer They should remove the sound stages instead

I will never go close to the new ride

I don’t understand how hulk Dueling Dragons and HRRR lasted below 20 years and Kumba is now over 30 years and Montu will be 29 this year and they’re all in the same state.

Rip ride rockit ate my glasses. Now universal eats rip ride rockit. Nature is beautiful.

I used to love riding this Rollercoaster

I think ghost busters should replace it, and I think it should be just as thrilling if not more thrilling than it already is.

Honestly this is just my personal opinion but I feel its going to be a vertical launch themed to fast and furious. I would rather have a theme like gladiator, johnny English or a modern horror since dark universe is going to be classics so something like insidious childs play or the purge but thats just me.

I think the vertical launch would be the best fit. It would still have a similar skyline and pay homage to the HRRR lovers.

Now that Blue Man Group is gone, it's now more than ever that Nickelodeon can come back to film and perform here. th-cam.com/video/sNTCLad8KAA/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared Rip Ride Rocket could be rethemed with orange track, with some slime moments. It can be called Nickelodeon Music Jam Rocket. Also, there can be a Mauer AG Spike Water Fight Coaster, a Zamperla Big Wavez and an Intamin Flume themed to slime. Mauer AG Spike Water Fight Coaster th-cam.com/video/-mQ3exAGeAI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=yM2LXlcKoXc8GX8p Zamperla Big Wavez th-cam.com/video/8IXdkf0BRHw/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared Intamin Flume th-cam.com/video/ljSIuo3YAic/w-d-xo.htmlsi=bbQXOyXUmZHl8fw7

I thought it was for Nintendo world?

It’s officially yes. September 2025. Supposedly it’ll be replaced by an Intamin coaster.

The official answer now is yes 😂

I hope they just retheme and fix it up

Why isn’t Red Force considered a strata coaster?

B&M Gigas are definitely overrated. They're just like their hypers without the airtime. Fury just meanders around not doing much. B&M hyper > B&M giga

Another red coaster why do they always go with red?

Fury325 is the most overrated coaster on the planet. I don't care what you say.

Millennium Force is better than velicoaster bye

With a height of 65 feet (a world record) and a top speed of about 30 mph (another world record), Geauga Lake's Big Dipper delivered an airtime adventure with about 12 hills. Today a coaster can be nearly 5 times taller, and fail to have 12 hills- let alone the 60 hills that are proportionately attainable. In other words, coasters are now more designed for bragging rights (transitory superlatives and lazy marketing) rather than for the Universality of joy (lasting happiness and nostalgia-based marketing). Maybe it is good that parks are struggling to go larger. Larger is not the answer. Better is. And better begins by coordinating with the rightful managers of the land... those who existed on the land many millennia before Christopher Columbus and his thieves decided that they absolutely had to be in charge... of driving ecological sustainability into the ground.

I think its because of Fury and Millennium Force. Millennium Force was such a big deal when it opened up, and everyone talked about it, making it overrated. Then Fury 325 showed what a giga coaster can really do, making everyone want a giga, despite the other 2 being just alright. Everyone wants more B&M gigas, but I'd love to see Intamin make another giga. With their blitz style rides combined with the speed, that would certainly make something special.

5:51, I like you kept the mistake in :)

weren't these plans scrapped ?!

I say keep it but please god let intamin do it if you retract it or redesigning if

I think you’re forgetting in a lot of documentaries they state for ka and dragster most of that price came from the launch systems which were about 15 mil a peice if you remove that you can cut down on the price.

Short term, I’m expecting parks to lean into novel features and theming.

A chain lift 400 foot coaster would be manageable but it would just cost an insane amount of money to construct

Aside from Kingda Ka's rumoured replacement, id say no. Steel costs are too high, and will only climb higher as the closed circular economy is implemented 2030-2050 to ensure no new raw minerals are mined outlined in UK Fires: Carbon Zero as one example. Energy prices and availability is then the secondary issue for LSM launches as they use so much power versus a lift hill. The issue then is balancing the cost of the steel for a large lift hill on a taller coaster versus an LSM launch, and with an LSM Strata youve got both costs plus expensive maintenance. I think storytelling and immersion is key with unique ride experiences as opposed to having the tallest or fastest rides. They can still be tall and fast, but the taller and faster you go the more people you exclude from potentially wanting to ride it.

That person might be me lol

What about herschend?

Even if they build another one the launches won't be the same since manufacturers no longer use hydraulic launches and use LSM/LIM launches.

If a giga/strata doesn't have to be a full circuit then I would consider Superman Escape from Krypton to be a giga coaster.

I have hope that another strata gets built and a park somewhere calls up B&M to build one. Kinda imagining it being a super sized version of Fury 325 or Leviathan with a height of 400 ft or higher and a very long layout packed with airtime and speed.

II honestly think it all depends on falcons flight honestly but at the same time as you say cost

Don't close rockit! It's a fun ride even though I've never done it. They should retrack it with a new manufacturer

Great Video, Jake! Eventually, we will see it again. (Most likely something surpassing the north american record, first) History IS cyclical!

Six Flags recently sent out surveys with a 400 foot tall mack rides tower coaster as one of the options, and I think it's very likely that ends up being Ka's replacement. Wouldn't surprise me at all if that's what Great Adventure gets in 2026

I don't think another strata coaster will be built new in the United States ever again. None of the big amusement companies seem focused on doing it and the smaller owned parks can not definitely afford it. Yes the RMC t-rex exists but that along with anything Intamin or S&S builds will likely be in the Middle East/Asia for the foreseeable future. Those countries aren't looking for costs or efficiencies. They want the best offered that can put them and their locations on the map for international travelers and bragging rights. An art that is lost in the US and will be for a very long time. I don't see a turnaround in the thought process of the industry. Unless a billionaire coaster enthusiast wants to d*ck wave

Maybe like the B&M and Intamin Giga

Who will build the next strata coaster and where?

I'm think Rip Ride Rockit Replaced by Super Silly Fun land Very similar to Universal studios Hollywood Features a Mega Play area a Family coaster by Vekoma Meet and greets and A Pets ride from Universal studios Hollywood Part of the minion land area

Gatekeeper beats Rapterra in all the stats (height, speed, length, inversions), but it doesn’t have a launch, so yeah, that’s a downside to Gatekeeper.

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I like it but I always get the rough ride on it

The official replacement will be a taller and faster roller coaster

So sad I rode dueling of the dragons fire and Ice.

Homeless shelters or a big jail.

Holy shit dueling dragons closed? I remember going on that well over a decade ago with my dad. Over and over and over again. This is actually sad

I like Rip Ride Rockit

my friends really wanted to ride this when we were there earlier this week, they all described it as "the average day driving in georgia"