Six Flags Great Adventure Rollercoaster Introduction: Part 13

It seems like a good idea to give up hope on someone posting a proper on-ride video of the parks newest rollercoaster The Dark Knight Coaster so soon after its opening, so this and an upcoming bonus introduction won’t get delayed any further. Luckily I have found a few videos in which the whole ride is photographed with a backward facing camera provided by the park. In my opinion the best of those can be found here and embedded below. You should also check out this official promotion video, since it has footage of the ride’s Dark Knight movie themeing and queue area. So the Dark Knight Coaster is the park’s newest ride and it opened just three weeks ago. As you can see from the video, it’s an enclosed ride with cars that look like Gotham City Rail cars. This Wild Mouse rollercoaster travels the 1213 feet long twisting and turning steel track full of sudden drops and unbaked sharp turns, with a maximum height of 45 feet, in two minutes and reaches a top speed of 30 miles per hour. So the ride will definitely be wild even though the stats are nothing compared to the big rollercoasters.

The ride and especially the queue area are heavily themed with props and effects from the movie and Batman’s hometown. Things like a TV screen, where you can see yourself and your friends wearing Joker masks, entertain the guests as they wait in line. The Joker can also be seen during the ride in several hallucinations and even lurking in the structures of the ride. This notorious jokester also wreaks havoc in a several minute long pre-show presentation, which gives some insight in to the movie premiering this July. The general consensus of the Dark Knight Coaster seems to be disappointment in its shortness and lack of intensity, but I believe it will be a fun and surprising experience, when you don’t expect it to feature massive high speed drops or inversions, but instead unseen drops and turns, the excitement of darkness, and a strong versatile themeing. I have yet to find a proper or good sized picture from inside the ride, and have to settle for a medium sized outdoor photo (above), but several small sized construction photos are available, and also a video, which features some on-ride footage too.

New One Must Fall Video Finally Ready!

Since my rollercoaster introduction series still has to be on ice due to the fact that no on-ride video from the newest rollercoaster has yet been uploaded to Youtube, I decided to release a new self-made video instead (embedded below)!



It’s the long-awaited third part to my OMF2097: Secret Characters of the Secret Master’s Tourney series (playlist embedded below), and it features lots of cool stuff and that weren’t in the first two, all thanks to the Sony Vegas editing software. It has some funny comments too and stuff that aren't really possible in the game. I hope you enjoy and stay tuned, because my next new self-made vid is coming soon.

Six Flags Great Adventure Rollercoaster Introduction: Part 12

Once again next up is one of the slower rollercoaster of the park… Or actually the slowest of them all. Built in 1999, Road Runner Railway is a slow family coaster designed mostly for children, so adults are not allowed to ride unless they’re accompanied by a child less than 54 inches tall. So if I or any of my friends want to ride it, we’ll have to lure a shorty to accompany us, perhaps with some treats :D! The end result will probably lead to the park jail for at least questioning, so I don’t recommend it unless one of us wants to get to know the US justice system up close and personal :D!

Road Runner Railway is such a low intensity ride, that info on its top speed isn’t available, but fortunately some other statistics can be found. It has the shortest train of all the rollercoasters in the park with only six cars. The train rises up to an astonishing height of ten feet and goes around the 280 feet long track twice in 40 seconds, whoop-di-doo. Still Road Runner Railway has been described as a particularly rough ride, especially for adults, which probably has something to do with its limited leg room. Anyways we’ll probably pass up on this ride, but hey, at least that’ll leave more time for other fun stuff! On the other hand, no on-ride video exists on YouTube or Google, so maybe that could be a suitable challenge for us :D?

Spartans...

...Tonight we dine in hell! Guess what movie that immortal quote is from? Yup, Frank Miller’s 300 and tonight we dine on videos related to that awesome movie. First up is the spectacular trailer embedded below.



Rarely have I seen such an awesome trailer, so it’s no wonder the audio from that version has been used to make adaptations such as the astonishing Simpsons 300 Trailer below…



…and my most recent discovery, Ron Burgundy is the King of Sparta, which is from the hilarious comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, which I recently purchased.



Next up is 300 World of Warcraft, a WoW adaptation of the same trailer, which is pretty cool too.



The next one is called 300 Trailer- Best Parody EVER, and as the name says, it's a parody of the same trailer. Funny stuff and really well made.



Last but not least is an old favorite, This is SPARTA!!!-techno song, a really funny techno version of the infamous kicking scene. This is SPARTAAAAAA!!!



In hopes of more similar videos, I created a playlist for all these 300 related videos as seen embedded below.

First "MY RCT2" Video Complete

I have finally completed the first of many RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 projects, which I mentioned earlier. It’s called My RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 Ghost Town and is divided into three parts because of its length:

My RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 Ghost Town (Part 1/3)
My RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 Ghost Town (Part 2/3)
My RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 Ghost Town (Part 3/3)

Everything you need to know about these videos is in the video descriptions. I highly recommend watching them in high quality (red circles in the picture above), but unfortunately for some unknown reason the audio volume level sometimes changes rapidly. Since choosing between high and low quality is a rather new feature on YouTube, I certainly hope this is just a bug which will be fixed soon. In the meantime you can download the original video from FileFront in one continuous high quality presentation without any audio problems.

These RollerCoaster Tycoon videos are only for those who are at least somewhat interested in the game genre or subject, so if you aren’t interested at all, please refrain from giving the 1-3 stars I know some of you want to give, and instead for example watch my newest smash hit Star Wars Battlefront: Darth Vader Just Got Owned! (magenta outlines in the first picture), which has already gathered 13 thousand views and achieved the status of 8th most viewed and 5th most discussed of all my videos, FUCK YEAH =)!

Six Flags Great Adventure Rollercoaster Introduction: Part 11

The superhero theme continues with Batman: The Ride, an inverted steel rollercoaster opened in 1993 which resembles the Tornado rollercoaster at Särkänniemi, Finland. Besides the size and form the main difference between the two is that where in Tornado each car has two rows of two seats, Batman accommodates four rides in the only row of each car. Batman: The Ride climbs up 23 feet higher than Tornado up to 105 feet and picks up a top speed of 50 miles per hour being only 4.4 mph faster. Tornado is approximately 400 feet shorter and takes 25 seconds less to complete, but both of them have five inversions. In Batman’s case, two loops, two corkscrews and one zero-g roll.

But since everything is bigger in the US – including rollercoaster’s building budgets – Batman: The Ride’s surrounding and queue area are littered with scenery from the world of Batman and the Batman movie. Music from the film can also be heard in the queue are, so even queuing won’t be boring at all. But the queue area might become a bit too familiar, since Batman: The Ride will probably be one of my favorites because of it’s likeness with Tornado. On the other hand may time bigger rides, like Nitro seen in the background of picture above, will probably steal most of the focus since something like them can’t be experienced in Finland.

Six Flags Great Adventure Rollercoaster Introduction: Part 10

Next up is Skull Mountain, the only enclosed rollercoaster in the park at the moment. Because of it’s enclosed status, Skull Mountain very much resembles a rollercoaster called Linnunrata (Finnish for Milky Way), in the Linnanmäki amusement park. Both of them feature sound effects and strobe lights, but due to fear of epileptic seizures, the strobe lights were removed from Skull Mountain some time ago. Therefore the ride takes place in total darkness, so in order to see anything beforehand; I chose a video shot when the (normal) lights were on.

Opened in 1996, with the lights on Skull Mountain is one of the more mellow rollercoasters in Six Flags Great Adventure, but with the lights out the intensity is probably a lot higher, especially for first timers. Since Skull Mountain is enclosed, it is the park’s only rollercoaster which operates even during thunderstorms, when all the other coasters are closed and of course also during rainstorms, when the more than ten times taller Kingda Ka is closed. Skull Mountain rises only 41 feet, but manages to reach a top speed of 33 miles per hour. It has a length of 1337 feet and takes a bit over two minutes to complete.