Six Flags Qiddiya

[Disneyhead]

Maybe I'm mistaken, as I'm really not a huge coasterhead or anything. The few hyper and gigas that I've ridden are generally just variations on the same glide-y experience. I don't really believe that adding another 200 ft to a coaster will change that very much at all. It's maybe a few seconds difference during a drop at those speeds.

It'd be neat to see something like this built somewhere else, but I'm not losing sleep over not riding this myself.

This coaster is 20% OMG! We're gonna die, and 80% Hiccup's Wing Gliders.

 

[AvoidTIMtation]

I wonder how many coaster Youtubers had their trips paid for by the Saudi government to attend the grand opening.

 

[xtpower]

I wonder how many coaster Youtubers had their trips paid for by the Saudi government to attend the grand opening.

Considering how many of the 'reviews' on twitter sounds like marketing speak, I'd say the majority of them. This is a genuine example of what I mean:

Iron Rattler is an amazing Vekoma Tilt Coaster at Six Flags Qiddiya City It’s my first time experiencing one of these and it didn’t disappoint with wonderful elements, airtime and very detailed theming!

There's zero opinion and personality to that post, it reads like ChatGPT did a short review.

 

[Jake S]

Y’all are going to be disappointed when you find out this is literally how all influencer (and most media) content gets produced. The number of publications paying their own way to review [insert thing] is vanishingly small.

 

[xtpower]

Y’all are going to be disappointed when you find out this is literally how all influencer (and most media) content gets produced. The number of publications paying their own way to review [insert thing] is vanishingly small.

I can grudgingly accept them not going on their own dime, but just parroting obvious PR reviews is too much. At least make me believe that's your actual opinion and not something you copy/pasted from some PR person.

 

[Jake S]

Totally. My point isn’t that we should excuse or accept crummy, uncritical reviews. My point is that we see that exact same thing happen here all the time when assorted media are invited to [insert place] to review [insert thing]. It is, unfortunately, the way of things now in a much more pronounced way that in the somewhat recent past.