Specific Type: Stand-Up Coaster
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Riddle me this: What is the world's tallest, longest, most twisted stand-up steel coaster, features over 4,300 feet of green track and makes its home at Six Flags Magic Mountain? That's right -Riddler's Revenge at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California debuted on April 4th, 1998 as the most record-breaking stand-up ride the world had ever seen. Coiling through six inversions and four types of inversions during the two-minute-long ride, Riddler's Revenge is a record-breaking coaster and a whole lot more. Six Flags Magic Mountain has always been known for outdoing themselves from year to year, and 1998 was certainly not a year for the park to break tradition. The Riddler dominates over Magic Mountain's Gotham City section and reduces the adjacent 1994 Bolliger and Mabillard-crafted inverted looper Batman: the Ride to a mere technological breakthrough of the early 1990s. Coming from B&M as well, Riddler's Revenge is the Swiss designers' latest stand-up multi-looping, multi-inversion masterpiece, with an inversion lineup of one Vertical Loop, one Inclined Loop, two Diving Loops and two Corkscrews, with 1,180 degrees of other non-inverting curvature contained in the course.
One of the Riddler's three trains are boarded, riders pulling down over-the-shoulder restraints in the stand-up position, then it's out of the station and around a right-hand curve to the lift. In route to the top, the lift-hill crosses first through the center of a Dive Loop then through a Vertical Loop. Once the 156-foot heights are achieved, it becomes apparent that the Riddler has had his revenge on Batman, as Batman: the Ride below cowers down in front. Without lingering for too long, Riddler's Revenge begins its first twisting descent and then blasts up into the first lift-encircling loop. Next is a first Diving Loop to send passengers twisting up and diving down in the opposite direction and right into a second Dive Loop, this time twisting around the lift. The fourth consecutive inversion comes with an Inclined Loop sending the train around and up to the left at a 45-degree angle. A quick hop leads the ride to an upwards spiral onto mid-course block brakes, but Riddler's Revenge gets going again with a head-over-heels Corkscrew flip into a banked curve to the left. Ascending a rabbit hop, the green track heads into a Carousel Cuve under the lift hill and through a final Corkscrew before the ride concludes with a 180-degree curve onto the brakes. |
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