Six Flags registers the most ridiculous ride name ever
Okay, that headline might be a bit hyperbolic. But I'm sticking with it until someone convinces me otherwise.
Six Flags has filed a U.S. Trademark application for "Gargantuan Vertical Vengeance."
Please tell me that this is not the new name for the Six Flags Great Adventure "Project Purple" Mack Rides roller coaster that many of us has tipped to be "Phantom Spire," after a previous Six Flags trademark application. Please tell me that this is not the name for any new ride that Six Flags is building or planning to build.
Nevertheless, Six Flags is going for a trademark for the name. If Six Flags really is going to use this name, perhaps it intends for fans to use the initialism "GVV," and is just trademarking the full name to cover itself legally.
Still, to be fair, it's not like Six Flags is exploring any new ground with a name like this. With all those syllables, "Gargantuan Vertical Vengeance" is almost long enough to be a Universal theme park attraction name.
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I don’t know, Robert. I think “The Happy Ride with Baymax” still might be the lamest title for an attraction yet.
BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA GARGANTUAN VERTICAL VENGEANCE I'M DYING
I saw this online and came rushing over here to see if it's real or not. . . I can't believe that it is. . .
Beacher might be onto something with that semicolon, though. . .
Sounds like the sequel to Operation Epic Fury
IMHO Still better that "Alien Swirling Saucers" or "Monsters Inc Laugh Floor" (IYKYK) =)
That would be an awesome fantasy football team name.
I would have thought this was a prank, but given Tormenta Rampaging Run exists, it's probably not. Sadly, all these would have been better using the same words:
Gargantua
Gargantuan
Gargantuan Vengeance
Vertical Gargantuan
Vertical Vengeance
Vengeance
The extra sin if this is SFGAdv's ride is their last coaster was called Flash: Vertical Velocity, which is likely similar enough to cause confusion amongst the public. Hopefully it's either a red herring name or destined for a yet to be announced project.
A. J. mentioned it before I had a chance to do so, but this latest atrocity of a name is only marginally worse than Tormenta Raging Run. What next?
You typically don't see a company filing for a trademark without planning to use it, because the process has cost associated with it as well as time and effort to get it through the PTO. As much as this sounds like a potential ride name, I think this might be for a tag line or other slogan associated with the upcoming "Phantom Spire" that's used on merchandise or signage.
I had another idea: SFGadv needs a drop tower now, too, and "Phantom Spire" and "Gargantuan Vertical Vengeance" could work as drop tower names. My prediction is that one will be for project purple and the other will be for the future drop tower project.
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