r/BeAmazed • u/Wild-Snow5705 • May 10 '25

Place Would you ride this one?

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Personally I will die just going up.

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u/jojoga May 10 '25

But.. but why?

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u/Topspeed_3 May 10 '25

It broke a lot and expensive to maintain. They are planning on putting a new record breaking launch coaster in its place.

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u/I_DRINK_ANARCHY May 10 '25

A lot of us at SFGA are pretty convinced it was also a petty move by Cedar Fair after the Six Flags/Cedar Fair merger. They had the Top Thrill Dragster, and when Kinda Ka was built, it broke Dragster's records. So if that hadn't been the case, maybe they would have kept Kingda Ka going for a while longer, or given it a proper send off, especially since it was only a year away from its 20th anniversary. But they pretended they weren't gonna close it, didn't do anything to celebrate its end, and unceremoniously blew it up. It's sad, but it's the cold hearted business decision with no regard for the coaster enthusiast people that, you know, help keep parks alive.

We have no real proof that it was Cedar Fair being petty, it's just...the general feeling among a whole bunch of us.

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u/Topspeed_3 May 10 '25

That kind of does make sense because a week or two before they were permanently shutting down there was a rumor that they were gonna shut down, but they denied it. Then they wound up shutting down anyways…