![]() Without lingering any longer, the car takes on the vertical feet in reverse and Superman: the Escape becomes Superman: the return. The weight of the ride vehicle brings it to the point of reversal and puts riders at advantage to take in the over six seconds of airtime bliss. Nearing the Man of Steel himself standing and staring authoritatively from the pinnacle of the coaster's structure, the car reaches 300-foot altitudes and begins to slow. Soon, riders say goodbye to the park and hello to the sky and travel straight up towards the clouds. Once the ride reaches the top speed of 100 miles per hour, the car begins to put some distance between it and the launch track, beginning a gradual slope from horizontal to vertical. ![]() Linear Synchronous Motor stators pass beneath the car at a gradually-increasing rate as passengers speed along the horizontal portion of Superman's layout. After pulling down simple T-shaped lap bars into place, the 15-passenger car is blasted from the station area and out into the daylight to begin the acceleration. The line for Superman takes queuers into a station themed to resemble the Fortress of Solitude where cars will be boarded on the parallel tracks in each side of the station area. With two identical tracks running parallel along the course, this ride also gives passengers on either side the occasional opportunity to race one another while cutting the ride waiting time in half. ![]() From there, the ride's vertical L-shape of a layout carries the car up - straight up and to the end of the shuttle-coaster's run, but not before serving up a record 6 seconds of negative g's. Utilizing Linear Synchronous Motor technology, the coaster is launched off at an acceleration clip of 14.3 miles per hour per second delivered by a series of rare earth magnet 'stators' to attract and repel the car and get the ride up to speed in seven seconds - a slower but also effective acceleration. Superman came from the designers at Intamin AG as one of only two coasters like it in the world, the other being its smaller counterpart ride located at Australia's Dreamworld park. Towering vertically to 415 feet in height and accelerating to reach speeds of 100 miles per hour, the 20-million-dollar Superman: the Escape raised the bar in the race of extreme rides to a truly unprecedented level and set new limits for coasters worldwide. The gondolas then come to a halt just before they return to the station. When the ride vehicles of Superman: Escape From Krypton and the Lex Luthor gondolas operate simultaneously, the steel framework of the tower will sway as much as 2 feet side to side.On March 15, 1997, Six Flags Magic Mountain would reach new heights - and speeds - with the tallest and fastest steel-tracked ride the Valencia, California park or anywhere else on the face of the earth had ever seen. The gondolas are then released and riders are dropped rapidly into a 5-second free fall descent, attaining a terminal velocity of 85 mph. "Today is your lucky day, today your life changes forever and this may very well be the high point of your insignificant existance. Guests have to be '48 inches tall in order to ride.Īs they reach the apex, riders are greeted with an ominous score and an audio spiel from Lex Luthor, himself: Riders are harnessed by shoulder restraints as the gondolas are then hoisted up the tower for approximately 1.5 minutes before reaching a dynamic height of 415 feet. Both rides feature a single floorless gondola seating 8 people allowing up to 16 riders maximum on both lifts at any given time. Lex Luthor: Drop of Doom consists of two free fall drop sections, with each mounted to a lateral flank of the Superman structure. The latter portion is outdoors where guests baording the gondolas are visible. The setting is creates a dark, unsettling atmosphere akin to ride's namesake supervillain. The attraction puts guests in the premise that they are volunteering for an "experiment". ![]() Various inventions and projects of the comapny are put on display with an audio greeting from a company spokeswoman. Guests enter through the main doorway indicated by the ride logo above. The first portion of the queue is the LexCorp terminal. Lex Luthor's armor on display in the queue. The attraction is located in the Colossus County Fair section of the park just as you pass under the Superman tower toward the west. Throughout all of June, the gondolas were added to start testing before finally opening to the public on July 7, 2012. Pieces of the ride were continually added via helicopter. From February to July 2012, Superman: Escape from Krypton was temporarily closed to allow construction for the drop tower. In late 2011, Six Flags announced plans for a drop tower attraction, built by Intamin that would be integrated onto the sides of the Superman ride tower was in the works.
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