Batman: The Ride

Rockville

48" Height Requirement

Over-the-Shoulder Restraints

High Thrill

Flash Pass Attraction

Ride Lockers

Opened	May 23, 2015
Ride Type	Steel 4D Free Fly Coaster
Ride Height	120 Feet
Drop Height	54 Feet
Track Length	1,019 Feet
Top Speed	38 MPH
Inversions	Varying
Cars	5
Riders Per Car	8
Manufacturer	S&S
Track Color	Yellow
Support Color	Black

Replacing an Opening-Season Attraction

When Batman: The Ride was announced in 2014, it marked the end of the Motorama Turnpike, a Morgan sports car ride. Motorama Turnpike is one of the park's original attractions, opening in 1992. The ride featured many 1950s-themed vehicles that guests could drive around the ride’s layout. Today, only the walkway bridge that went over the old Motorama Turnpike ride still exists between Batman: The Ride and Poltergeist.

Batman: The Ride as seen from the park’s iconic quarry wall.

Batman: The Ride’s entrance takes riders through a Rockville building facade.

Batman: The Ride features a vertical lift hill.

The First of its Kind, Unique Ride Experiences

Batman: The Ride opened in 2015 and is the first roller coaster of its kind in the world. At present day, many other Six Flags parks are beginning to add this model to their coaster collections. In 2016, Great Adventure added one of these attractions, originally intended to be named Total Mayhem. However, the ride was quickly renamed to The Joker during construction. In 2017, both Great America and Six Flags Over Texas added the roller coaster under The Joker theme. Six Flags has continued to install this unique roller coaster in other parks across the chain.

Previous “4D” roller coaster concepts featured mechanisms that controlled the ride’s inversions. X2 at Magic Mountain, for instance, features a second set of rails intended to exclusively determine the orientation of ride cars. S&S 4D roller coasters are mostly aided by gravity and weight distribution. Though ride car orientation is controlled in the station, the only other mechanism to aid flipping are magnetic fins throughout the track layout. The rest of the ride experience depends on how the riders themselves are placed, guaranteeing that no two rides on Batman: The Ride are the same.