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Six Flags Great Adventure announced Tuesday morning that the cars on the 100-foot inverted Batman ride will be flipped around and riders will get to experience the 50 mile-per-hour tops speeds in reverse, for a limited time.
Read more from The Times of Trenton.
I'm not going to lie, I have a really hard time with backward on most rides. The inverted boomerangs feel super weird to me.
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Looking forward to it.
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It was almost inevitable and I cringe at the thought. As a season pass holder I'll simply have to ride it the usual way as much as possible before July. As Vater said, the ride is incredibly intense as is. I can't see how further intensifying it will in any way enhance the ride experience. Quite the contrary. I would expect this to increase the feeling of disorientation to the point of being nauseating.
Bobbie
HnB nailed it. NJ will find a way to delay or deny this.
Then again, Batman is kinda forceful and I'm kinda old. I'll tough it out once, won't enjoy it, but want to at least have the experience somewhere.
That being said, delan's suggestion of Horntail (Fire Dragon, dammit, LOL) is a good choice if you're going to reverse an invert. Like Great Bear, or even Alpie, in that there's a less intense ride to begin with (but with the Universal ride, there's floater air and it's delicious forward or backward).
I'd argue that Ice Dragon, or whatever it is now, would probably benefit more from it. I'd think they'd be better suited to its milder intro and outro maneuvers.
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I rode it once last summer at SFoT and once was definitely enough. It wasn't the intensity or the orientation, it was the "meh." I've ridden a million things backwards (and felt meh about most of them) and a million Batman/Namtab clones (and felt meh about most of them) and putting them together is exactly what you'd expect.
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