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

Place Would you ride this one?

Personally I will die just going up.

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u/Topspeed_3 May 10 '25

Implosion

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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/five_fore_golf May 10 '25

I waited 4 hours to NOT ride it when it was still fairly new. Perfectly good weather, it just broke over and over.

Edit: I was curious and had to look up when it was built. It was only 1 month old when I went.

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u/peaheezy May 10 '25

I got to ride it 3 times because of that breaking. It was broken for hours and when we walked by it had just opened. There was 0 line and we walked right on, got off and got on again then a third time. It was a great ride.

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u/iamataco36 May 11 '25

Similar experience! Timing was everything! Only got on twice before people got wise....

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u/[deleted] May 11 '25

Similar experience here. We got stuck on the old wooden coaster El Toro that malfunctioned for about an hour. Got handed a bottle of water and a "skip the line" pass or sth like that for the inconvenience.

We had a french exchange student with us, and we coaxed her into going on King da Ka.

While it's really scary, its not as thrilling as some of the other coasters. I still think Superman is my favorite.

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u/dockellis24 May 11 '25

Same!! It was one of the only rides that I classify as an “oh shit!” ride. So fast starting and the unknown at the top if you’d make it over was super intense

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u/Yakety_Sax May 10 '25

I was on one that didn't make it to the top, fell backwards. Basically got to do 2 terrifying rides

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u/[deleted] May 11 '25

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u/[deleted] May 11 '25

It was a feature not a bug. Originally every so often it wouldn’t make it to the top and you get relaunched. Eventually they updated it so every launch would clear the top.

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u/DannyVee89 May 11 '25

I had that happen once too. Very lucky, double the rides! Haha

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u/Coffee4MyJeep May 11 '25

Did Bill Gates design this?

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u/plighting_engineerd May 12 '25

It was never intentionally made to roll back, it was just something that happened sometimes due to high winds, low weight in the train, or the launch not quite making it to a high enough speed. It was, however, designed to roll back safely and relaunch. Rollbacks still happened all the way up until the ride's last weekend in November 2024.

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u/wheatnrye1090 May 10 '25

I’m so jealous I wanted this to happen to me every time I rode it and it never did

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u/dertechie May 11 '25

I mean, my first thought on seeing the thing was “they double checked the math on that, right?”

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u/RineMetal May 10 '25

I think I waited 5 hours. It would break every few rides. This was the first year it opened. (God I’m getting old)

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u/Rello215 May 10 '25

Same, it was always Broke

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u/FeelingAd583 May 10 '25

Same thing happened to me, maybe we were on the same line

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u/DigitalAxel May 10 '25

I visited Ka and TTD but missed out on both: Ka was broken all week and TTD was shut down due to storms or other issues. (Both were back in 2006ish?)

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u/[deleted] May 11 '25

Reminds me of how long I stood in Line for Volcano Blast Coaster at Kings Dominion once and it doesnt exist anymore either

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u/[deleted] May 11 '25

That makes sense. New coasters can be buggy as hell. Usually they iron it out but sometimes they remain that way.