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Kingda Ka Roller Coaster Onboard Video

Record-breaking roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure, New Jersey

From Six Flags

This video of an actual ride aboard Kingda Ka (as opposed to a video of a virtual CGI ride that Six Flags Great Adventure released before the coaster opened) shows the record-breaking coaster in all its big, bad glory. It includes long shots of the ride taken from the ground, but the video's highlights are its onboard point-of-view and rider-reaction shots. The Six Flags video is well produced and really gives a sense of the beyond-white-knuckle coaster and its insane stats: 128 mph in under 4 seconds and 456 feet tall. If seeing is believing, then you have to see this video.

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