Six Flags' new record-setting theme park in Saudi Arabia has announced its opening date. As promised, the park will open this year... but just barely.
Six Flags Qiddiya City will open officially on December 31, the park announced today. While the park carries the Six Flags name, it is not being built by the Six Flags Entertainment Corporation. Six Flags has licensed its name to the the state-owned Qiddiya Investment Company, which is developing the park as part of a massive new entertainment complex.
Six Flags Qiddiya City will offer 28 attractions, including the record-setting Falcons Flight roller coaster, which will be the world's longest, tallest, and fastest when it debuts.
Other coasters will include Adrena-Line (Vekoma Suspended Family Coaster), Colossus (Great Coasters International wooden coaster), Iron Rattler (Vekoma Tilt Coaster), Saw Mill Falls (Mack Rides Water Coaster), Sea Stallion (Maurer Rides Spike), Spitfire (Intamin Launch Coaster), and Twilight Express (Vekoma Family Coaster). Interactive dark rides will include Triotech's Into the Deep, and The Enchanted Greenhouse from ETF Ride Systems, Jora Vision and Alterface.
The park's website says that tickets start at $79 per adult. However, the purchase function was not yet enabled when I just checked, so I can't say yet what the range of prices will be.
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@the_man25 - The early word is that the park hours will be limited to 4-11 (or perhaps as late as 1 AM) to keep guests out of the sun, While I know that developers really wanted to hit their 2025 projected opening, but when you build a destination park like this (and let's face it, a vast majority of guests to this park are going to be coming from OUTSIDE Saudi Arabia), you've got to give potential guests a longer runway than 6-8 weeks to plan a trip to this part of the world. While there have been plenty of leaks and rumors posted online hinting that the park was getting close to opening, showing riders on some of the big coasters (though no one has been spotted on Falcon's Flight), I don't think there was anyone in the coaster/theme park community that was going to drop everything and plan a trip to visit this park on New Year's Eve.
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This park is going to be empty all the time and lose a ton of money. But the Saudi media can't say that for fear they will get chopped into pieces, melted into acid, and poured down the drain.