Six Flags Qiddiya

[SkiBum]

I doubt that I'll ever get to this park but Falcons Flight looks intense, insane, or stupid. Check out The Coaster Kings (not my site by any means). It's nuts.

 

[shiekra38]

I doubt that I'll ever get to this park but Falcons Flight looks intense, insane, or stupid. Check out The Coaster Kings (not my site by any means). It's nuts.

Lol it looks like one of those insane Planet Coaster projects you see on YouTube

 

[GAcoaster]

I wouldn't read too much into the visuals of that video. They JUST contracted with Intamin to design the coaster: Six Flags Qiddiya begins design of world’s fastest roller coaster

They claim it will be the tallest, fastest, and longest in the world, but until it's actually built I wouldn't count on any of that being necessarily true.

 

[Magic-Man]

Never. Going. Here. Would probably get arrested on the spot.

 

[shiekra38]

Never. Going. Here. Would probably get arrested on the spot.

I've only been to Dubai once and don't really have the desire to go back, never been to Saudi Arabia though

I enjoyed my time much more in the Asian countries I visited

 

[Freak]

I have one word that sums up how I feel about this:

WHY?

Why, of all countries, would they think of putting this in Saudi Arabi? Why are they going through with this? Why not Dubai as that would be a FAR more logical place for this park/coaster? Unless I'm missing something I don't see a huge tourist market for this. I don't see anybody turning to their wife and kids and tell them, "Pack your bags and load up the van! We're going to SAUDI ARABIA!!!!!!"

I don't care how awesome this ride is. I'm not going. This ride looks ridiculous in that it looks like a pipe-dream design made on RCT3 by some kid hyped up on Monster and a Snickers bar who wanted to make "teh world's tallest fastest and SCARIEST and most Loop-de-loopiest ride EVAR!" It looks fun, but frankly ridiculous in that sense.

Again, I would like to ride this, but Saudi Arabia!? Yeah, I'm not going to take chances getting arrested for sitting on the handrails in the queue. I can't believe they're actually going through with this. If this gets built before epic universe I will eat my hat.

 

[GAcoaster]

Saudi Arabia is paying for it. Their government wants to show they can compete with Dubai. They have tons of money and are looking to spend it to show they are part of the modern/western world in their own way. Six Flags is just licensing the name and sharing their expertise on running a park.

 

[Michael S]

^Exactly. Wouldn’t be surprised to see Saudi Arabia try their hand at something like Dubai Parks and Resorts in the future.

 

[shiekra38]

I don't see anybody turning to their wife and kids and tell them, "Pack your bags and load up the van! We're going to SAUDI ARABIA!!!!!!"

This is the exact perception they are trying to change with creating tourism destinations

Dubai and Saudi Arabia are beautiful countries and extremely safe (I can only speak personally for Dubai, but I've had friends that enjoyed Saudi)

 

[GAcoaster]

Well, I guess it's really happening now--



That is an impressive looking coaster car!

 

[AvoidTIMtation]

The Defunctland video on Falcon's Flight is going to be incredible

 

[Freak]

The Defunctland video on Falcon's Flight is going to be incredible

I hope it shuts down because if it does, that means I’ve been on the world’s tallest coaster by default (Dragster [Unless they pull a Kindga Ka on it])

 

[AvoidTIMtation]

I hope it shuts down because if it does, that means I’ve been on the world’s tallest coaster by default (Dragster [Unless they pull a Kindga Ka on it])

I think this ride is absolutely ridiculous and will be a permanent walk on once all the youtubers and enthusiasts get their rides in. Just doing routine maintenance on parts of it will be next to impossible and the average theme park visitor won't even go near it. But the Saudis clearly only care about setting the records and as long as they don't tear the thing down, they could run it once every few months and they'll still own all the records.