Last year, I wrote about my fantasy Dark Knight Rises-inspired wing coaster. Earlier this year I decided to illustrate that idea by using Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. Yes, some of us still play the game.
Watch a video of The Dark Knight Rises Coaster in action below:
Guests traverse through Gotham, across bridges, and into the city’s sewers as they approach the station. They will then board “The Bat” which seats 32 riders, with no track above or below them.
The “Bat” train departs the station before climbing nearly 100 feet into the air. After passing through Wayne Enterprises Headquarters, the train plunges over 90 feet, spiraling into the coaster’s first zero-g inversion.
Riders maneuver through a giant flat spin, before immediately entering a dive loop element. An over-banked turn directly leads into a world’s first element for a wing coaster: the elongated batwing inversion, which inverts riders twice.
A tilted helix leads riders into an indoor sequence where they come face-to-face with Bane and his mercenaries in the sewers of Gotham. Light and water effects heighten the cinematic experience as Batman decides to take on his archenemy.
The train emerges from the sewer as riders climb to a max height of 117 feet. Guests encounter a stunning view of the surrounding scenery, but the tranquility is brief, as the train inverts into a dive drop element, plunging riders 11 stories into another giant flat spin.
Riders speed through another zero-g roll before completing two over banked turns, the last of which leads back into the loading station.
At 4,466 feet, The Dark Knight Rises Coaster would be the longest wing coaster in the world. With eight inversions, it would turn riders upside down more times than any other wing coaster.
Watch a full on-ride POV of The Dark Knight Rises Coasters below:
Here are the coaster’s statistics:
HEIGHT: 117 feet
SPEED: 58 mph
LENGTH: 4,466 feet
INVERSIONS: 8, including world’s first “elongated batwing” double inversion
DURATION: 2 minutes
TRAINS: 3, 32-seat wing coaster trains
MANUFACTURER: Bolliger & Mabillard
What do you think of my idea for a Dark Knight Rises-inspired coaster? Could you see Six Flags building a (very slimmed down) version of this? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.
How did you make a winged coaster in RCT3, I play RCT3 and there are no winged coasters. If you know how, please respond.
That looks like a very fun ride!