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Batman: The Ride
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A vertical loop and corkscrew on the ride at 6 Flags Groovy America
General statistics
Blazon Steel – Inverted
Manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard
Designer Werner Stengel
Model Inverted Coaster – Batman
Lift/launch system Concatenation lift loma
Inversions 5
Duration i:45
Capacity 1280–1400[1] [ii] riders per hour
M-strength iv
Restraint Style Over-the-shoulder
Height restriction 54 in (137 cm)
Trains 2 trains with 8 cars. Riders are bundled 4 across in a single row for a total of 32 riders per train.
Height 100 or 105 ft (30 or 32 m)
Length two,693 or ii,700 ft (821 or 823 g)
Speed 50 mph (80 km/h)
Drib 84.five ft[three]

Flash Pass bachelor

Single rider line available

Batman: The Ride is an inverted roller coaster based on the DC Comics character Batman and plant at 7 Six Flags theme parks in the U.s.. Congenital by consulting engineers Bolliger & Mabillard, it rises to a superlative of between 100 and 105 feet (30 and 32 chiliad) and reaches top speeds of 50 mph (80 km/h). The original roller coaster at Six Flags Great America was partially devised by the park's general director Jim Wintrode. Batman: The Ride was the world's first inverted roller coaster when it opened in 1992,[four] and has since been awarded Coaster Landmark status by the American Coaster Enthusiasts. Clones of the ride exist at amusement parks around the world.

History [edit]

The concept of an inverted roller coaster with inversions was developed by Jim Wintrode, the full general managing director of Six Flags Great America, in the early 1990s.[5] [six] To develop the thought for the park, Wintrode worked with Walter Bolliger and Claude Mabillard – from Swiss roller coaster manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard – and engineer Robert Mampe.[5] The ride soft opened to the public on May two, 1992, with an official opening i week after on May nine.[v] [7] The ride price seven million dollars to build.[8] At the time, it was the single biggest investment made past Six Flags Great America on one attraction.[9]

Post-obit the ride's success, then-parent company Time Warner devised an expansion programme to install clones of the original at the rest of the US parks in the Six Flags chain throughout the 1990s. In 1992, Six Flags Bully Adventure appear the addition of Batman: The Ride in place of Lightnin' Loops.[ten] It opened to the general public on May i, 1993.[1] Half-dozen Flags Magic Mountain opened their installation on March 26, 1994.[11] [12]

On September 7, 1994, Half-dozen Flags St. Louis announced that they would exist receiving their installation of Batman: The Ride.[13] The attraction opened on April 22, 1995 and was the showtime location to feature a unique queue line.[14] 6 Flags Over Georgia announced the ride in 1996 as office of a new Gotham Metropolis section, which became the largest investment in thirty years for the park.[15] It opened for the kickoff time on May iii, 1997.[16]

Six Flags Over Texas announced a copy of Batman: The Ride on November iv, 1998. The ride would sit down side by side to Mr. Freeze, being located towards the back of the park in a new Gotham Urban center surface area.[17] Batman: The Ride made its debut at Six Flags Over Texas on May 26, 1999.[18] This location features a unique loading station themed as the Wayne Foundation Industrial Park, unlike the others which are labeled Gotham Public Works.[19] As new Batman films were being released, 6 Flags St. Louis opened their installation to coincide with 1995's Batman Forever, while Six Flags Over Georgia debuted theirs to coincide with 1997's Batman & Robin.

In 2002, La Ronde in Montreal opened a mirror clone of the ride under the name Le Vampire (The Vampire).[20] The name was the result of La Ronde, which is not a branded Six Flags park, lacking the necessary make licensing agreement with Warner Bros. and DC Comics.[21] It was expected to receive the Batman label when the park was scheduled to exist converted to a Six Flags park in the mid-2000s, however, the plans were abandoned.[22] Also in 2002, Warner Bros. Film Globe Madrid opened another clone named Batman: La Fuga (Batman: The Escape).[23]

The final installation was constructed at Six Flags New Orleans in 2003,[24] which was formerly located at Japanese entertainment park Thrill Valley, where information technology operated as Gambit from 1995 to 2002.[25] In 2005, the furnishings of Hurricane Katrina resulted in Six Flags abandoning the New Orleans park.[26] The coaster remained continuing unused for two years and was and then relocated to Half-dozen Flags Fiesta Texas, where it was refurbished and repainted. The ride reopened every bit Goliath on April 18, 2008.[27] [28]

From 2013-15, the Batman: The Ride coasters at v locations operated backwards at different times throughout the three years.[29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] On Feb 1, 2018, information technology was announced that the St. Louis location would run backwards for the first half of the 2018 flavor.[35]

Installations [edit]

Batman: The Ride at Six Flags Magic Mountain

Locations for Batman: The Ride
Park Area Opening date Status Refs
Half-dozen Flags Great America DC Universe [a] May 9, 1992 Operating [7]
Six Flags Great Chance Movie Town May i, 1993 Operating [ane]
Half-dozen Flags Magic Mountain DC Universe March 26, 1994 Operating [12]
6 Flags St. Louis Studio Backlot April 22, 1995 Operating [14]
Six Flags Over Georgia Gotham Metropolis May 3, 1997 Operating [xvi]
Six Flags Over Texas May 26, 1999 Operating [18]
Six Flags New Orleans DC Comics Super Hero Adventures April 12, 2003 Relocated[b] [24]

Characteristics [edit]

An overview of the ride's get-go drop and vertical loop at Six Flags Great Chance

Construction [edit]

The original installation of the ride at Six Flags Bang-up America features a maximum height of 100 feet (30 grand), while the installations to follow reached 105 feet (32 m). Each installation of Batman: The Ride has a rails length of approximately ii,700 feet (820 m). The rides reach a top speed of 50 miles per hour (80 km/h) and exert up to 4 times the force of gravity. At that place are five inversions, which are 2 vertical loops, a zero-g ringlet and ii corkscrews.[36]

Batman: The Ride clones operate with 2 steel and fiberglass trains, each containing eight cars. Each car seats iv riders in a single row for a total of 32 riders per train.[36]

The ride's original layout was specifically designed to fit in the DC Universe (formerly Yankee Harbor) themed expanse at Six Flags Great America, on the space previously occupied by Tidal Wave. The layout for each successive attraction is either identical or a mirror image of the original.[37]

Color scheme [edit]

While some afterwards Batman: The Ride clones opened with dark bluish track and supports, the originals were all black. Over the years there have been modifications in Batman: The Ride colour schemes, with more incorporating yellows, blues and purples. The original ride at Six Flags Great America retained the original black color scheme until 2004, when the track was painted yellow and supports dark regal.[7] Six Flags Neat Take a chance's originally featured a blackness color scheme with yellow rails until 2004, when the runway was repainted yellow.[i] For the 2010 season, the clone at Six Flags Magic Mountain was repainted medium blue with black supports.[38] Every bit of 2019, the only installation of Batman: The Ride to retain its all-black colour scheme is Six Flags St. Louis.

Ride experience [edit]

Queue [edit]

Batman: The Ride theming at 6 Flags Great America

The decorative theme of Batman: The Ride attempts to capture the spirit of the fictional Gotham City for those queuing to lath the ride. As the queue moves through Gotham City Park,[39] the theme transitions from bright and peaceful, to nighttime and ominous.[40] Modeled after Nigel Phelps' award-winning fine art direction on the 1989 film Batman, the atmosphere indicates a crime-ridden and dirty environment, with discarded pieces of equipment, aging concrete, and in some versions, a Gotham City Police Department motorcar riddled with bullet holes.[forty] Afterward the outside queue, guests enter the ride structure through an entrance themed after an admission to a tempest drain.[forty] The ride passenger loading area is modeled after Batman's Batcave and features a replica of the Batsuit from the 1989 film.[39]

Layout [edit]

Batman: The Ride begins with the track floor in the station descending. The train moves out of the station and up a chain lift hill. At the top of the hill, the train dips downwardly through a Bolliger & Mabillard pre-drop, coasts down a 190-degree swoop to the left and drops into the first vertical loop. It then flips through a Heartline Spin (zero-Thousand gyre), followed by another vertical loop. The train then travels upwards around a tight screw to the left, then through a wider plow to the correct, drops slightly and quickly turns through the first corkscrew (referred to every bit a "flatspin" by the manufacturer). Following this is a tight right plow and another flatspin, then a tight left turnaround earlier the railroad train enters the concluding brake run.[36] [41]

Incidents [edit]

  • On May 26, 2002, a 58-year-old park employee working in the roller coaster's restricted surface area at Six Flags Over Georgia was killed after being struck in the caput by the dangling leg of a 14-year-old girl riding in the front. The daughter was hospitalized with a leg injury.[42]
  • On June 28, 2008, a 17-year-old South Carolina teenager was decapitated after being struck past the Batman roller coaster at Half-dozen Flags Over Georgia. The teen, who was on a trip to the park with his church building's youth group, scaled two fences with a friend into a restricted area and walked into the ride'southward path. Although witnesses stated he was trying to retrieve his hat, a Cobb County law spokesman reported the teens were attempting to take a shortcut into the park.[43] [44]

Reception [edit]

Batman: The Ride has by and large received positive reviews. The Dallas Morning News stated the ride "is proof that new thrills on the cut border of applied science generate excitement". They also praise the theme of the "smooth-riding coaster" stating "the mysterious crime-fighter is a proven crowd-pleaser".[45] American Coaster Enthusiasts accept likewise praised the ride, awarding information technology Coaster Landmark status in 2005. They draw the ride as a "revolutionary design" which offers "unprecedented intensity, while maintaining remarkable smoothness, condolement, and pacing".[5] [46] Ultimate Rollercoaster describes Batman: The Ride as "the ride of your life". They land "the awareness created by an inverted coaster is very dissimilar from that of traditional roller coasters. It is a sensation that every coaster fan must feel".[40]

Awards [edit]

In Amusement Today 's Golden Ticket Awards for All-time Steel Roller Coasters, Batman: The Ride ranked in the belatedly 1990s before dropping off the poll and returning one time in 2005. The original installation at Six Flags Great America was ranked 23 and 25 in 1998 and 1999, before returning in 2005 at position 45. In 1998, the Six Flags Great Adventure and Six Flags St. Louis installations ranked 19 and 21, respectively.[47] [48] [49]

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Originally Yankee Harbor until the 2022 season.
  2. ^ The roller coaster was relocated to Half-dozen Flags Fiesta Texas.

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External links [edit]

  • Official website for beginning installation, 6 Flags Cracking America

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_The_Ride

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