Six Flags films roller coaster video before finishing track
Who needs to finish building a roller coaster track before filming the on-ride POV video?
Not Six Flags.
Thanks to a drone, Six Flags Over Texas today released a partial real POV video for its upcoming, record-setting Tormenta Rampaging Run roller coaster. The Bolliger & Mabillard dive coaster will set records for that model, with a height of 309 feet and top speed of 87 mph.
The coaster also will be the longest of the model, with a total track length of 4,199 feet. Not all of that track is in place yet, but workers have completed the ride's Immelmann inversion, which - at 218 feet - will be the highest installation of that roller coaster element in the world.
It's that Immelmann that Six Flags is showing off in its new POV video. Again, that track is not complete yet, so Six Flags cannot run trains. But it can simulate a run on the coaster with a drone.
Six Flags' drone skims the track at what will be riders' eye level when Tormenta Rampaging Run opens later this year. From the top of the 309-foot hill, you can sample the view that riders will enjoy before dropping at a beyond-vertical 95 degrees at 87 mph into that Immelmann.
And beyond that? Well, you will have to wait until later this year for Six Flags to complete that track.
For more about the coaster, including the CGI full on-ride POV, please see our previous post, Six Flags introduces Tormenta, the world's biggest dive coaster.
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@rpicuniversefan - My guess is that SF must have signed a multi-coaster agreement with B&M a few years ago to install multiple Dive Machines around the chain. Parks have done this before - in fact, Busch Gardens/Sea World famously signed an exclusivity contract with B&M when they installed SheiKra and then Griffon a couple of years later to make the pair the ONLY examples of the coaster type in North America for 10 years. Universal did the same thing with Hagrid's and Velocicoaster, which were installed under the same contract with Intamin to replace the 2 B&M coasters that were removed to make way for Hagrid's (Dragon Challenge). My guess is that Tormenta is part of a multi-coaster arrangement between the chain and B&M, and whether the SFoT is the last installation to fulfill the deal or just another along the way is unclear. However, the fact that B&M Dive Machines have been installed at SFFT, SFGAm, and now SFoT in the past 3-4 years would suggest that it's part of a larger contract.
Don't forget Dorney Park!
I also think the continuous hype SF is drumming up for this ride is because it doesn't have any other major additions for '26. It's either this or, like, quantum accelerator.
Iron Menace at Dorney Park was designed when the park was under Cedar Fair (not Six Flags), and while it opened after the merger announcement in fall 2023, it would not have been under a multi-coater contract between SF and B&M - the 2 companies didn't officially merge until July 2024, which was 2 months after the coaster opened.
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what's the big deal about Tormenta? from what I hear, it has nothing that special, and yet there hyping it up a lot. is it just six flags getting desperate, or am I missing something?