Batman The Ride at Six Flags Great America
Upside down 5 times Small ride, huge forcesfeels way faster than its 50 mph

Six Flags Great America, Gurnee, Illinois

Batman The Ride

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Back row
Always finish my night on it.
What riders love
  • Pulls more Gs than you’d expect, and feels way faster than the real 50mph.
  • The first loop is the only element at Great America that makes me gray out.
  • I had heard beforehand that the Batman clones were intense, but I did not expect this coaster to run as fast as it was on a cold fall day, it was absolutely flying.
  • Didn't expect much but those dang inversions are crazy!
  • This ride is just a blur with intense inversions and amazing G’s.
  • The layout is nonstop fun with fast, whippy inversions.
  • Got to love the Gotham City theme though!
  • The queue theming is the best of the bunch.
  • This being the original batman, has the best theming out of all the other batman clones.
Batman The Ride Watch Performance Should I ride it? Specifications Reviews Planning History

Watch POVs and more

2019 Batman the Ride On Ride Front Row HD POV Six Flags Great America

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Batman The Ride - Six Flags Great America - Back Row (4K HD POV) - June 2024

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Batman The Ride Review Six Flags Great America 2017

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Six Flags Great America commercial - "Batman: The Ride" (1992)

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Batman The Ride at Six Flags Great America on June 28, 2022

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Performance

Vs. other coasters at Six Flags Great America

It’s forceful, the inversions are great, the theming is immaculate, the layout is amazing, the pacing is incredible, and it’s extremely smooth.

Lettuce Two

Batman became popular due to its inverted trains, but also its unrelenting intensity and smoothness.

Theme Park James

This thing threw my head around like crazy the first time I rode it and my dad next to me asked if I was OK afterwards while laughing his butt off.

Bryce Fourn

Yes, there’s a little bit of head banging and rattle if you don’t position your head correctly, but as long as you keep your head back, you should be fine.

Kyle Fax

As with any attraction featuring this layout, this ride is incredibly fast-paced and intense considering its small stats.

CoasterKing

A very intense ride that I love; however, there is a huge missed opportunity for theming, as this is the original.

Cal Schattschneider Jr.

The layout is intense and whippy, packed with g-forces and a terrain layout, with portions going over the water.

Elevator, Alarm, Coaster and Animation Productions

It is very intense with plenty of cool gravity moments and bone crushing inversions.

Kyle Fax

The original Batman is kinda forceless.

Aric The Kakapo

I had heard beforehand that the Batman clones were intense, but I did not expect this coaster to run as fast as it was on a cold fall day, it was absolutely flying.

VelociGOAT

...but the OG isn’t as good as Montu or Deuling Dragon I’ll even put Banshee over The batman but I’ll say their isnt much Rattle and the pacing is really good so this Batman ride is a thumbs up for me

Stormin Norman

Lots of larger coasters have opened since, but this one is still fast and really really fun.

Scott Gordon

Good pace, good inversions, but for a steel coaster it is not very smooth.

Matthew Richter

For being such a small ride it has amazing intensity and pace, the only dead spot being that elevated turn, everything goes together so well, the second loop, the helix, and those two corkscrews are...

Ibraheem Mustafa

But the line is super long, one of the longest in the park usually.

Brady Lew
Height fear

This ride is super fun, and not too scary either.

@alexandrasmith4666

Loved this ride no its not scary the drop you just feel a tingle nothing big everything is fine after that

@sFDomo002
Worth the queue

Went on this last week tuesday, well worth the wait!

@sncorrea

My review ride was the very front and I think it’s worth the wait.

Max S.
Motion sickness risk

i almost passed out on this ride the other day, the loops and inversions are tight so i started to black out + i was dizzy afterwards.

@HornetHK

The only thing is, with all those loops and turns in such a compact space, you’re bound to come out pale looking and slightly nauseous when the ride is over.

@MontenegrinIcon

Should I ride it?

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Specifications

100 ftHeight
202 RagingBull 185 Flash:VerticalVelocity 180 Wrath ofRakshasa 175 Maxx Force 165 Goliath 100 Batman TheRide
84 ftFirst drop
208 RagingBull 180 Goliath 172 Maxx Force 171 Wrath ofRakshasa 160 Flash:VerticalVelocity 84 Batman TheRide
50 mphTop speed
Maxx Force78 Raging Bull73 Goliath72 Flash:Vertical Velo…70 Wrath ofRakshasa67 Batman TheRide50 078 mph
5Inversions

What riders say

Praised for

IntenseGreat inversionsFeels fastGreat themingLess scary than it looks

Criticised for

Head bangingRider fit issuesMade riders sick

It was actually good and intense, in comparison to something like Patriot at WoF.

Clayton Rosone, Captain Coaster review

This was very fun but people keep messing with seatbelt making click nosies and the worker yelling and the wait place is creepy looking and so crowded and plain also has random nosies at entrance Wich sacred me

Nora Westfall, Captain Coaster review

Batman the ride is a great coaster with an snappy little layout with great inversion which it is constantly throwing at you.

Tom Fairnie, Captain Coaster review

Batman became popular due to its inverted trains, but also its unrelenting intensity and smoothness.

Theme Park James, published review

As with any attraction featuring this layout, this ride is incredibly fast-paced and intense considering its small stats.

CoasterKing, Captain Coaster review

Themeing was awesome, ride was awesome, but as this being the FIRST interverted coaster ever, there is a rattle to it.

Derek Stearns, Captain Coaster review

Photos

Batman The Ride at Six Flags Great America
Wacky Windjammer, CC BY-SA 4.0
Batman The Ride at Six Flags Great America
Jim Trottier, CC BY-SA 2.0
Batman The Ride at Six Flags Great America
Wacky Windjammer, CC BY-SA 4.0
Batman The Ride at Six Flags Great America
Wacky Windjammer, CC BY-SA 4.0
Batman The Ride at Six Flags Great America
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Batman The Ride at Six Flags Great America
Wacky Windjammer, CC BY-SA 4.0
Batman The Ride at Six Flags Great America
Wacky Windjammer, CC BY-SA 4.0
Batman The Ride at Six Flags Great America
Wacky Windjammer, CC BY-SA 4.0
Batman The Ride at Six Flags Great America
Wacky Windjammer, CC BY-SA 4.0
Batman The Ride at Six Flags Great America
Wacky Windjammer, CC BY-SA 4.0
Batman The Ride at Six Flags Great America
Wacky Windjammer, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Planning your ride

History and awards

May 9, 1992Opened

A inverted coaster, built by Bolliger & Mabillard, designed by Ing.-Büro Stengel.

$7 millionTo build
4 gStrongest force on riders

Golden Ticket Awards, top steel coaster: ranked in 3 polls, 1998 to 2005

23rd1998, its first poll
45th2005, most recent

Sources

Restraint types: Captain Coaster. Height requirement: Six Flags Great America. Specifications and status: Coasterpedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Also read: Captain Coaster (converted to feet and mph). Rider sentiment and performance scores: rider reviews on Captain Coaster, themeparkjames.co.uk, read and scored by AirtimeFever.

Photographs via Wikimedia Commons: Wacky Windjammer (CC BY-SA 4.0), Jim Trottier (CC BY-SA 2.0). Video thumbnails remain the property of their channels and link back to them.

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What riders love, by theme (themes in the order riders pick them most on Captain Coaster): Evan G., rider review on Captain Coaster: “This thing is super whippy and an intensity machine.…”; Angela Sanchez, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Pulls more Gs than you’d expect, and feels way…”; Michael M., rider review on Captain Coaster: “The first loop is the only element at Great…”; VelociGOAT, rider review on Captain Coaster: “I had heard beforehand that the Batman clones were…”; CoasterKing, rider review on Captain Coaster: “However, the amount of whip that the inversions carry…”; Kevin, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Didn't expect much but those dang inversions are crazy!”; Mik Gov, rider review on Captain Coaster: “This ride is just a blur with intense inversions…”; Rollertoaster, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The layout is nonstop fun with fast, whippy inversions.”; Elevator, Alarm, Coaster and Animation Productions, rider review on Captain Coaster: “I really love the Gotham City queue theming, such…”; Matthew Richter, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Got to love the Gotham City theme though!”; Eric Esty, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The queue theming is the best of the bunch.”; Adrian Sokol, rider review on Captain Coaster: “This being the original batman, has the best theming…”; Angela Sanchez, rider review on Captain Coaster: “I adore this ride. Always finish my night on…”.

The photo slider at the top and the fading stills: ThemeParkMark's back row POV, Batman The Ride - Six Flags Great America - Back Row (4K HD POV) - June 2024 (YouTube), and the page's Wikimedia Commons photographs.