Specific Type: ZacSpin
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With the addition of Green Lantern: First Flight in 2011, Six Flags Magic Mountain recaptured the record for the amusement park with the most roller coasters than any other park in the world, which is eighteen. This coaster addition is also the first Zac Spin style roller coaster to come to the United States. A replica to Green Lantern: First Flight would be "Insane" at Grona Land, which is located in Stockholm, Sweden. These small four dimensional coasters have low ride capacities, but they offer a very unique experience that a regular roller coaster does not. The seats rotate based on gravity and balance, so riders experience this all while moving along the track, giving the extra dimension, making these coasters "4D."
With Green Lantern: First Flight being the first Zac Spin coaster to come to North America, it is actually the second 4-dimensional coaster to strike the continent. Conveniently, the continent's only two 4D coasters are at Six Flags Magic Mountain itself, with the other being the very much larger and recently upgraded X2. The new coaster will be located pretty closely to Riddler's Revenge as well as their own Batman: The Ride, two other popular coasters at the park. The blueprint of Green Lantern is virtually nothing seeing as it is mostly a vertical ride and all of the track is on top of itself in layers. Riders will be taken through 825 feet of zig zagging track, all while rotating upside down and around multiple times in their rotating seats, giving this ride its 4D effect. Once the eight riders are loaded into the very compact vehicles (2 riders ride together: 4 on each side of the track with each pair of two with their backs to each other), they are taken up the very steep lift to the top of the structure to a height of around 107 feet. Once at the top, the ride starts out slow and a small hump down officially starts the ride. Once across the top of the structure, a "180 degree drop" is experienced, but riders do not actually feel this as they are not facing the drop and are constantly spinning in their seats while this is all happening. The trains travel over a couple small humps underneath the "2nd layer" of track, and then dive down another 180 degree drop to the next layer of track. Riders will reach a top speed of around thirty-seven miles per hour. throughout the course of the ride. Once on the third layer of track, the trains are now back on top of the track. A small break run slows them down before the last part of the ride is experienced. After the break run, the trains dive down to another layer through a 180 degree drop element. This layer is a very quick layer as their are no little "hops" on it. After going back up a bit, the trains enter the near vertical final break run which slows them down as they make a slow entrance back into the station. |
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