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Six Flags Quiddiya

The only way this gets beaten is if the UAE decide to engage in a coaster war with their neighbours.

Dont see Six Flags (the real one) going anywhere near the scale of this thing given their financial state in America. Disney? Not a chance. Universal? Slightly more chance than Disney but still incredibly doubtful.

I think this is the concorde moment personally. Nobody is taking that height / length record any time soon. The only record that could be topped is the speed.
 
Benjsh said:
The only way this gets beaten is if the UAE decide to engage in a coaster war with their neighbours.

Dont see Six Flags (the real one) going anywhere near the scale of this thing given their financial state in America. Disney? Not a chance. Universal? Slightly more chance than Disney but still incredibly doubtful.

I think this is the concorde moment personally. Nobody is taking that height / length record any time soon. The only record that could be topped is the speed.
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Or they could go for the inversion record? Not that hard when you have unlimited space, no planning laws and unlimited money.
 
Benjsh said:
The only way this gets beaten is if the UAE decide to engage in a coaster war with their neighbours.

Dont see Six Flags (the real one) going anywhere near the scale of this thing given their financial state in America. Disney? Not a chance. Universal? Slightly more chance than Disney but still incredibly doubtful.

I think this is the concorde moment personally. Nobody is taking that height / length record any time soon. The only record that could be topped is the speed.
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Only park I can see taking the height record is Cedar Point, and that's only because Top Thrill 2 would take back the record if Falcons Flight became SBNO.

Been a strange year of so with Kingda Ka closing Red Force became the worlds tallest operating coaster, then with it reopening in May TT2 became the worlds tallest, and now its Falcons Flight.
 
I wonder if we’ll ever see a 200mph coaster.

Cars comfortably exceed 200mph now, so on paper, I don’t see why a coaster launch couldn’t reach 200mph. But in terms of practicality, the only way I can see a 200mph coaster being feasible is if you did an obscenely tall, drawn out equivalent of the Kingda Ka/Red Force layout. Anything else would require a huge amount of length that likely isn’t feasible.

I could potentially see height and speed being beaten, but I think length is a record that Falcon’s Flight is very unlikely to ever lose. Obscene length is a record that has a surprising amount of longevity compared to height and speed (Steel Dragon 2000 is 25 years old, and it’s worth noting that the current 2nd longest coaster in the absence of The Ultimate is The Beast at Kings Island, which opened way back in 1979), likely because it costs a lot more to achieve than height or speed (with height and speed, you can just build a Kingda Ka-style ride and be done with it, whereas length actually requires a substantial ride), and Falcon’s Flight broke the record by such a decisive margin (almost 6,000ft when the existing holder is only 8,133ft long!) that I’m not sure I ever see it being beaten.
 
Also you get fast enough and it's just......fast unless it's immense acceleration. Bit like most of the time going above about 250ft doesn't feel that much higher even when you go much more over. TT2 doesn't feel all of its height higher than Orion.
 
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