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Batman: The Ride is a world class 4D Free Fly Coaster that thrusts you into a totally immersive, high-speed Gotham City adventure. You’ll board Batman’s latest creation – a mind-warping thrill coaster loaded with special effects and cutting edge construction. The utterly innovative design of the ride delivers a brand new coastering experience that is the only one of its kind in the world. Magnetic fins cause you to flip as you fly over the top of a 12-story hill and two beyond vertical drops.
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It's totally immersive. Can't tell at all who is in marketing there. :)
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I think X is exactly what Schike wanted the way he wanted it. He even said to me at one point it was a bit before its capabilities and indeed it was a few years before the retrofit with lighter stronger trains and the other blah blah that went with it.
This isn't exactly free spinning as it uses its forward motion and a set of magnetic brakes to upset the apple cart, We all know nothing about how many trains this thing will run. But to have any kind of capacity, It's going to have to have three, with one on the course at any given time. Eight riders per cycle? I thought the Invertigo's were bad but this, I would of at least thought to sit riders on both sides.
Anyway, Looks like a great ride and possibly a way to bring the 4D type ride to a lot more markets without increasing the number of moving parts that the X's have
It says something about magnetic fins causing you to flip... Maybe the magnetic drag rolls the seats over but the seat pivots are not mechanically controlled? Does that make sense? After the "magnetic flip" the seats pivot, rock, and flip based solely on momentum and weight? Or I could be entirely wrong.
But then again, what do I know?
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