Six Flags' new dive coaster gets its opening date
Update (June 19): Just got an email from Six Flags postponing the June 25 media preview. This suggests that the June 26 public opening will not happen as announced, either.
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Tormenta: Rampaging Run now has its opening date.
Six Flags announced this morning that the new, record-setting Bolliger & Mabillard dive coaster will open officially on Friday, June 26 at Six Flags Over Texas.
Tormenta: Rampaging Run will be the tallest, fastest and longest of its model, reaching 309 feet tall and running up to 87 mph on 4,199 feet of track. The initial drop on the coaster will release riders at 95 degrees 285 feet toward the ground.
The coaster will anchor a new Rancho de la Tormenta Plaza area, themed to a Spanish village. Here is the concept POV for the ride, courtesy Six Flags Over Texas.
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Dive coasters are all the same.
Go up Hill, stop for 8 seconds, drop to a roll. Over.
Hoping there's no rattle!
After all these years of countless B&M dives of varying heights and layouts .... Oblivion still rules :)
Genuine question: why do people like Oblivion so much? It's shorter, in height and duration, technically has a shallower drop, is the only dive coaster without any inversions, has no significant theming elements, and the only argument I've heard for it- the tunnel- can be found on Sheikra and Gryphon (albeit on the second drop) and I'm sure many others. Is it just Home Park Bias?
AT was my 'home' park when I lived in the UK, but it's not that. It's the simplicity of the ride. "Don't look down" fog rising out of the pit, people standing all around watching you dive into the abyss. And yes it's short, but who needs all that track after the drop. Get me back to the station, and let's do it again.
And of course it's a tad bit of nostalgia. It was the first dive coaster.
So, uh, anyone gonna be in the Dallas area on the morning of June 25? Email me.
It's an $850 flight from LA right now, and after paying for my flight to Shanghai, I'm looking for an alternative to buying another airline ticket this month.
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Looks like a blast until the break hill. My opinion. Just not a fan of stopping a ride and killing the momentum. I freely admit that I understand why these are there, as space constraints and the need to slow up before re-entering the load station make it a necessary evil. I’m just not a fan myself. At least this one happens towards the very end though, and those opening couple of inversions look pretty impressive.