“I’m usually terrified of roller coasters, but this is awesome,” she said, before rushing to get back in line with her friends.īatman: The Ride, which opened this week, makes its home among the new DC Universe area of Discovery Kingdom. Even the time of day can impact how much you spin.”īay Area resident Ava Coronado, who just came off the ride, was eager to test out that theory. It depends on a lot of different variables, including weight distribution, where you sit on the ride and who you ride with. “You can ride it multiple times and get a different experience each time. “Every ride is different because of the way the car spins,” explained Marc Merino, a spokesperson for Discovery Kingdom. (Chuck Barney)Īnd apparently, you can’t even gauge what Batman will do from ride to ride. It was pretty cool flipping and spinning around in circles.” Nice ride - if you don’t like flips. So did the guys enjoy that unpredictability?
I thought it was going to flip when it was going down. With this, you couldn’t anticipate what was going to happen. “On other coasters, you can see the track ahead and what (the ride) is going to do. “It’s just so fast and everything is inverted,” said Josh Cuddy, a Brentwood resident, who rode Batman for the first time with Paul Rodriguez of Oakley. That feeling is what sets Batman: The Ride apart from other, more mammoth, coasters. But there wasn’t much time to enjoy the view because, suddenly, our car had us flipping head over heels.ĭisneyland is already decking the halls for the Christmas holiday season Ready or not, here we go: The ride began by rapidly thrusting us straight up into the air and presenting an incredible panorama of the park and the green hills beyond. So we decided to take our chances and board a couple of rotating winged cars that are suspended outward on either side of the orange track and face two other riders directly across from us.
(Chuck Barney)Īfter an initial hesitation, we figured that we’d experienced wilder thrill rides on the Bay Area freeways. Holy drop zone, Robin! The Dark Knight stands guard. No, our bulging eyes were riveted on Batman: The Ride, a new, cutting-edge roller coaster that towers 120 feet above the ground and features two 90-degree falls.
But we weren’t talking about a throw-down with the fabled caped crusader. That’s the question my son, Sam, and I confronted upon arrival at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo. CLICK HERE if you are having a problem viewing the video on a mobile device
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