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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.

Written by Devin Olson

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Type: Steel, Looping, Twister, Kilo-Coaster
Seating: Stand-Up, 4-abreast, 32-passenger
Height: 156' / 48m
Drop: 146' / 45m
Steepness:
Speed: 65mph / 105kph
Acceleration:
Positive G's: 4.2 g's
Drops:
Inversions: 6: Vertical Loop, Dive Loop, Dive Loop, Inclined Loop, Corkscrew, Corkscrew
Curves:
Crossovers:
Tunnels: 0
Length: 4,370' / 1,332m
Duration: 2min, 40sec
Area:
Weight:
Cost: $14,000,000
Designer: Werner Stengel
Manufacturer:
Color Scheme: Lime Green / Silver / Black
Soft Debut:
Official Debut: April 4, 1998
Other info:

Current Rating:
- 7.3 out of 10
- Based on 70 votes

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