Problematic Roller Coasters - Kingda Ka Review & Technical Analysis - Six Flags Great Adventure

In this video, I give my review and a deep technical analysis of Kingda Ka, the tallest roller coaster in the world! Kingda Ka opened in 2005 as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster and also happens to be one of the most complex coasters out there!

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[ElToroRyan]

Update: My bad about the Swahili comment. I’m an idiot. Also, Kingda Ka and Zumanjaro are now allowed to run together!!

[ianlisle]

New Jersey: Rides over 400 feet need shoulder restraints.
Also New Jersey: *Only has one ride over 400 feet*

[MrFrankieFiggz]

That was me in the red shirt front row in the over dramatized Kingda Ka commercial from 2005. They brought in a chopper for aerial shots and I rode it 28 times in a row until I told the crew I needed a break because I had a severe headache lol.

[mikethewhizz]

This may be the most "coaster wars" coaster of all time. Why bother with long and complex layouts when you can just yeet people into the sky and back

[jenniferh]

POV: you’re at a music festival and the guy next to you starts talking about roller coasters

[tealishshark]

runs perfectly when park empty, gets stressed out and breaks when more than the crew shows up to ride.

[brokenteletooby]

*_"Buy one get one free admission monday through thursday with a CAN OF COKE"_*

[lanceanthony]

Attaching a drop tower ride to the structure of a massive roller coaster hill is the most six flags thing ever

[LUV-Collective]

Never thought i could get addicted to highly technical videos about Roller coasters but I was wrong

[Hyttelus]

I live in Denmark, and I went to the US with my family for the first time in 2016. We visited the park, but Kingda Ka was closed due to unannounced maintenance. We had driven up frrom DC, and I was pretty bummed, but nothing we could do, and there we're lots of other great rides, to go enjoy. We came back two days later just to ride Kingda Ka. We sat and waited pretty much all day, but the ride was closed all day due to technical difficulties caused by high temperatures that day. Lots of testruns, but never with riders.
We came back to the US in 2018, and obviously had to come back to Great Adventure. Kingda Ka was closed up until midday, and had been running testruns up until lunch. They did another run, and I shit you not, this time my dad pointed out that he could actually see people in it. After two failed attempts, me and my dad ran as fast as we could, to get that sweet Kingda Ka ride, and boy was it worth the wait.

[NigelMelanisticSmith]

I think the over-the-shoulder bar versus lap bar debate is the one thing that I don't get about roller coaster enthusiasts. I love shoulder bars, I always feel safer with them lol.

[thedwemercomrade]

"Why would a language as old as Swahili have a word for roller coaster?" Swahili isn't a dead language, they still make new words. Like French doesn't just stop making words.

[Silacide]

It’s a shame I didn’t ride this thing in the front and only one time... but hey can you blame me? El toro was calling me!

[fandomfancy]

You can thank Action Park for all the strict NJ ride rules 😑

[JohnCorsale]

**UPDATE

The 2011 shut down was a cable snap while me and my friends were on it. I got in the face with bits of plastic and water in the front row and we made it about 200-300 ft back and had to be let off the launch track down the maintenance staircase which I was told was the first and only time this happened. Once in life time experience. This was toward the end of the season. I believe it opened back up toward the end of Halloween. I had season passes there for years.

[phillippi]

I actually spoke with a technician who worked on Kingda Ka. He confirmed the reasons for the trim brake on top of the first hill. It's because of the g-force at the top of the hill. As you said, riders can get air time there. Slowing the train down reduces the amount of time where the rider is not in control of their body. This reduces the chance of the rider getting whiplash.


It's also part of the parks disaster response system. If something were to happen and part of the track breaks (think what supposedly happened at Son of the Beast.), that brake can stop the train without causing a lot of pressure further down the track. Basically, it reduces the chance of the track buckling on itself.

[matthewsouthwell]

Green Day made a whole entire album dedicated to this ride called '21st Century Breakdown'

[atribecalledjudah]

Kingda ka sounds like a bad Wu-Tang Clan member name.

[moonlightequilibrium]

I got on Kingda Ka in 2007. It was closed the entire day from opening until sunset, and then I was able to get on it at nightfall. I don’t regret a moment. This ride is outstanding.

[statistical-cats-sophia]

"Why would a language as old as Swahili have a word for rollercoaster?" English is super duper old and it has a word for rollercoaster 😂