Six Flags looks to craft the perfect coaster storm with Tormenta
It's finally time to ride the world's biggest dive coaster. Tormenta: Rampaging Run opens officially tomorrow morning at Six Flags Over Texas, outside Dallas.
Tormenta has been in soft opening for Six Flags members and passholders since last weekend. The park previewed the coaster for invited media this morning.
Tormenta: Rampaging Run at Six Flags Over Texas. Photo courtesy Six Flags
I could not make it to the preview, but Six Flags did provide us with an on-ride POV, which you can watch below. The ride starts slowly, like most dive coasters. But dive coasters are the drama queens of the roller coaster world. It's a long, 309-foot ride up to Tormenta's max height, from which riders will hang face down for what seems like forever before plunging into the ride.
The stats on the Bolliger & Mabillard dive coaster are ridiculous. A 285 foot drop at a beyond vertical 95 degrees awaits us, followed by a top speed of 87 mph on nearly 4200 feet of track. We get four inversions along the way, including the world's highest Immelmann inversion and tallest vertical loop.
Six Flags is calling this the world's first giga dive coaster, and that seems appropriate. Tormenta offers what looks like a great blend of the pure speed of a giga along with the fun twists and flips of a classic B&M dive machine. If Six Flags can preserve the opening-day, glass-smooth experience that B&M once was known for as this ride ages, Tormenta should become a great addition for the park.
Enjoy the ride.
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The early reviews indicate this is not as shaky as Wrath of Rakshasa, unless your sitting on the very outside of the train, which is reportedly pretty wobbly.
Thanks for posting the POV video. Imagine having to walk down the stairs from the top of first incline if anything went wrong (it happens, but thankfully rarely).
I believe this among many other dive coasters have an evacuation cart that lifts riders up and down without using the stairs. You can get a glimpse of the track for it (far left past the stairs) in the pov before the track obscures it. I believe this is what's used for evacuations and inspections.
I've always wanted to go up a dive coaster in one of those. . .or do any lift walk, for that matter. . .
Busch Gardens Williamsburg does a coaster tour where you ride to the top of the lift in the trolley on Griffon, and I’m pretty sure Cedar Point offers a similar tour that includes a ride to the top of Valravn.
This looks pretty good. Sorry I'm not on the media list for this park, as SFOT is by far one of my favorite parks.
Fantastic edition to the park. Was on it Friday. It actually loaded faster than anticipated, and it opened about 15 minutes after park opening. Unfortunately many other attractions were down and wait times for some were unreasonable. Tormenta is what that park needed.
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This looks like a great addition to SFOT. The ride looks great, the theming, while not over the top or anything, looks nice and compliments the ride, and if operated properly has decent capacity.
This reminds me of SF in their prime in the 1990s. More of this please, Six Flags, and no more of the low effort carnival sh*t you were doing in the 2010s.