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Six Flags’ iconic Kingda Ka roller coaster — once ranked the tallest and fastest in the world — has been reduced to mere rubble in a caught-on-camera implosion. Footage of the dramatic ...

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Kingda Ka, once the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world, is now a pile of rubble after it was imploded at New Jersey's Six Flags Great Adventure on Friday morning. The implosion ...

It’s the end of an era for one of the tallest, fastest and most popular roller coasters in the U.S. Six Flags Great Adventure, located in Jackson Township, New Jersey, imploded its Kingda Ka ...