Batman The Ride (Six Flags Great Adventure)
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| Manufacturer | Bolliger & Mabillard | ||||||||
| Designer / calculations | Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH | ||||||||
| Type | Steel - Inverted | ||||||||
| Product | Batman | ||||||||
| Riders per train | 32 | ||||||||
| Hourly capacity | 1280 | ||||||||
| Propulsion | Chain lift hill | ||||||||
| Height | 105 feet | ||||||||
| Drop | 80 feet | ||||||||
| Top speed | 50 mph | ||||||||
| Length | 2693 feet | ||||||||
| Inversions | 5 | ||||||||
| Duration | 1:30 | ||||||||
| G-Force | 4.9 G | ||||||||
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Batman The Ride is an inverted roller coaster located at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, USA. This ride, along with many other copies, was designed and built by Bolliger & Mabillard. It opened on May 1, 1993.[1]
History
In late 1992, Six Flags Great Adventure rethemed their Fun Fair section to Action Town, and introduced the Batman Stunt Show. Later, they announced the addition of Batman: The Ride, which had been a popular favorite at Six Flags Great America that year, in the coming year. To advertise, a statue of the Batmobile and a video screen showing footage of the Six Flags Great America version was put up in Action Town. Construction began shortly afterward.
On May 1, 1993, Batman: The Ride opened at Six Flags Great Adventure in the newly-christened Movietown section, replacing Lightnin' Loops. The queue line was themed to Gotham City, with a sign for Wayne Enterprises, a crashed cop car, graffiti, and a storm drain tunnel all elements in the set piece. The station was themed to the Batcave and featured the Batsuit. The queue line and station played Danny Elfman's score and Prince's soundtrack from the 1989 Batman movie directed by Tim Burton. Also, before guests departed the station, they would hear a recording of Alfred Pennyworth (Michael Gough) telling riders to "hold on tight, it's going to be a bumpy ride," referring to the storyline of the ride about guests escaping on one of Batman's many vehicles.
Sometime in 2004, the park started removing the extensive theming in the queue and changed the track's color from black to yellow. However, the score and soundtrack in the queue station still remain, as of May 2019.
Design
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Trains
2 trains with 8 cars per train. In each car, riders are arranged 4 across in 2 rows, for a total of 64 riders per train.
References
- ↑ "Batman The Ride". GreatAdventureHistory. http://www.greatadventurehistory.com/BTR.htm.
External links
- Batman The Ride on the Roller Coaster DataBase.
