Six Flags To Bring Record-breaking Roller Coaster To Famous Park

Six Flags plans to bring a record-breaking roller coaster to 1 of its celebrated parks, with building already underway.

The amusement parkland institution announced up of this year’s play that crews person begun to build nan yet-to-be-named coaster astatine Six Flags Great Adventure successful Jackson, New Jersey.

Crews were photographed assembling a purple beam onto short actual pillars.

Six Flags Great Adventure teased imaginable parkgoers connected Facebook connected Tuesday pinch a photograph of a monolithic crane shooting into nan sky.

“Ahem. Nothing to spot here,” parkland officials sarcastically wrote in nan post.

While Six Flags is keeping nan coaster nether wraps, location are a fewer things we do know.

The thrust will unfastened adjacent twelvemonth and will beryllium “one of nan astir eager projects successful parkland history,” nan institution said successful a press release.

It will beryllium 1 of nan tallest coasters successful nan world, Six Flags promises, pinch a “record-breaking multi-launch acquisition that will redefine nan park’s skyline.”

But nan thrust will beryllium much meaningful than conscionable thrilling guests for a nosy time astatine nan park.

Six Flags Great Adventure has teamed up pinch Project Purple, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting pancreatic cancer. The institution named nan coaster task aft nan statement and has made different moves to support its cause.

Six Flags Great Adventure and Project Purple are creating fundraising initiatives and different opportunities to support pancreatic crab patients and their loved ones until June 1, 2027.

“This business is particularly meaningful to maine personally, having mislaid my begetter to pancreatic cancer,” Mike Fehnel, parkland president of Six Flags Great Adventure, said successful nan property release.

“As Project Purple rises connected our skyline, we person an opportunity to raise awareness, animate support and create a meaningful relationship betwixt unforgettable experiences and existent impact,” Fehnel said.

The coaster is being built on Six Flags Great Adventure’s recently transformed Shorline Pier astatine The Boardwalk.

“This reimagined onshore blends nan timeless nostalgia and charm of a cleanable summertime time astatine nan Jersey Shore,” Six Flags Great Adventure writes connected its website astir nan remodeled area.

The coaster is portion of awesome changes astatine nan parkland successful caller years. In 2024, Six Flags Great Adventure announced it would discontinue its Kingda Ka and Green Lantern rides to make measurement for a “multi-record-breaking motorboat coaster.”

"We understand that saying goodbye to beloved rides tin beryllium difficult, and we admit our guests' passion,” Brian Bacica, Six Flags Great Adventure president astatine nan time, said successful a statement.

“These changes are an important portion of our maturation and dedication to delivering exceptional caller experiences," Bacica said.

Kingda Ka, nan world’s tallest coaster astatine nan time, was demolished successful a controlled implosion successful 2025. Within seconds, nan monolithic building came crashing to nan ground.