Flashback
Specific Type: Boomerang
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The Great Escape is a park owned by Six Flags up in a sleepy Adirondack town called Queensbury, NY. The Great Escape is different, it is a park without the Six Flags name in its formal title or logo. The park started out as Storytown USA themed after mother goose nursery rhymes. Many of those original attractions still stand and are beloved by young children and adults who visited way back when. To appeal to more than just young children they opened a ghost town area, an old west themed area. The park continued to grow organically looking at who they weren’t serving and adding those attractions until Great Escape appealed to any and everyone who may visit. In 1996 the park was bought by Premier Parks who later bought Six Flags. In 1997 they invested in their first roller coaster, it was to be the tallest coaster in the park, a Vekoma Boomerang model. It was originally called Boomerang Coast To Coaster, but the name was changed to Flashback in 2016. Both of these names have been used on boomerang coaster models at other Six Flags Parks.
Guests enter the queue area by passing under the Flashback sign held up by beautiful stone pillars. The path is paver stones that winds around the ride, and flanked by tall wrought iron fences lined with trees. At the station guests can board the single train, that can accommodate 28 riders. The ride begins with a backwards climb up the 116.5 foot tall spike, hauled up by a catch car. At the top the train is still for a moment and then the train is released. It rips through the station rattling guests waiting for their turn, at 47 MPH. As the train emerges from the station it suddenly swerves into a cobra roll, without a chance to orient yourself the train goes directly into a vertical loop. The train is now pointed skyward as it ascends the second spike. As the train loses momentum riders hear the familiar sound of the chain dog as the anti rollback clicks, and a chain lifts the train to the top of the spike. When it reaches the top the train drops without warning backwards down the hill to do the whole course backwards. After passing through the station backwards the catch car grabs the train, and lowers it back into the station to unload. Guest are left dizzy and confused as they depart the train making way for the next batch. |
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