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As much as I dislike the region, there has been some pretty impressive progress on the tallest/fastest coaster ever built. I think the lift on the left side of the image will be ascending the cliff face. Looks gigantic!

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[–] Sea_pop@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm super torn on this one. I know it is probably in my best interest not to go to this park, even this region, but this is super tempting. It is going to be a record breaking ride in a truly groundbreaking park. If this does even remotely well we will probably see a lot of interested parties trying to build things where things don't deserve to be. Really a massive act of hubris and pure stubbornness.

With that said, hopefully people realize how insanely irresponsible and unrealistic this is.

I do want to go if only to be able to travel and see a part of the world I would have likely never been to.