Dark Knight at Six Flags Great Adventure
Gotham's subway insidecity cutouts, fog, flashing lights

Six Flags Great Adventure, Jackson, New Jersey

Dark Knight

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What riders love
  • The cars are train themed and the layout is supposed to be Gotham’s subway system. The city cutouts, fog, and flashing lights add to the decent theming this ride does.
  • Probably my favorite wild mouse to date because of the great theming.
  • It’s indoors and it’s covered in gotham theming.
  • I loved what this ride was when the pre-show and ride effects were all working. It was a blast!
  • This is the best traditional wild mouse I've been on, and proof that wild mouse coasters can be fun.
  • It has some pretty good theming with a great drop with some great ejector after the first few turns.
  • Right before you reach the station and leave the darkness, a loud horn blares and the lights of a prop subway car flash on.
  • The lift hill launches right off, then slowed down... then shoots off again, then the turn afterwards was sloped which got me off-guard.
  • The fact that it takes place in a dark room makes it much better.
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Dark Knight Front Row POV [5K] | Six Flags Great Adventure 2023

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Six Flags Great Adventure - The Dark Knight Coaster Commercial (2008)

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Dark Knight - Six Flags Great Adventure - MACK Rides - Wilde Maus / Compact Mobile

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Performance

Vs. other coasters at Six Flags Great Adventure

It has some pretty good theming with a great drop with some great ejector after the first few turns.

Lightning Productions

the cars are by far the bost comfortable of any wild mouse which surprised me considering some of the bad experiences i’ve had.

Luke DiCola

...as a con not because the ride itself hurts, in fact the one good thing about the coaster is that it’s butter smooth and it doesn’t have any bad transitions, but because the horn is actually painful.

Carter Eckhart

There’s no trim brakes and it’s actually comfortable (unlike other wild mouse coasters) so this was a pleasant surprise.

Jonas

I’ve had decent rides on this one before, but this ride was really uncomfortable, and kept breaking down.

Sigma Skibidi

Little pops of airtime, jerky turns, and not much intensity for those beyond small kids.

Matt Rappaport

It’s already my least favorite wild mouse because it pulls zero force, even the hairpin turns give no laterals.

Carter Eckhart

It’s good for a wild mouse coaster but don’t expect anything too thrilling.

angela

Maybe it’s the fact I rode this when no one else was at the ride but the fact it went so fast through the layout and you could not see what was coming up was an amazing combination.

Alex MeaLynk

You start off with a very fast lift into some hairpin turns which are decent.

Caiden Brauchler

This video doesn’t do the ride good, it actually goes a lot faster.

@scarymuffinz

Then unfortunetly, there are some trim brakes before the big drop, but that’s ok. Then you turnaround only to go through the rides biggest drop.

Incredible Coasters

The capacity is also pretty bad (as per usual with Wild Mouses) which may cause some unsatisfactory waittimes.

John Amirante

I’d recommend skipping it due to the ridicously long line that this ride usually gets.

Incredible Coasters

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Specifications

45 ftHeight
230 Nitro 181 El Toro 172 Flash:VerticalVelocity 142 Medusa 130 JerseyDevilCoaster 45 DarkKnight
30 mphTop speed
Nitro80 El Toro70 Medusa61 Flash:Vertical Velo…59 Jersey DevilCoaster58 Dark Knight30 080 mph
0Inversions

What riders say

Praised for

FunGreat theming

Criticised for

OverratedWeak themingWeak layout

It’s my favorite wild mouse, although that isn’t really saying much.

Ethan, Captain Coaster review

The turns and drops are still predictable so they’re not that surprising in the dark, but the theming is cool so it’s a decent family ride.

CoasterKing, Captain Coaster review

I got there on its grand opening, and while I was enthralled with the movie in the queue (Aaron Eckhart <3), I realized the ride itself was just a cheap ass Crazy Mouse.

Yuuki Takemoto, Captain Coaster review

The theming is kind of fun, but it’s really just going back and forth on flat hairpin turn backs for most of the ride.

Richard Buman, Captain Coaster review

The city cutouts, fog, and flashing lights add to the decent theming this ride does.

Clayton Latone, Captain Coaster review

The attention to detail in the theming actually blew me away; I did not expect that from a Six Flags park.

MapleFlakes, Captain Coaster review

Planning your ride

History

May 15, 2008Opened

A wilde maus, built by Mack, designed by Ing.-Büro Stengel.

$7.5 millionTo build

Sources

Restraint types: Captain Coaster. History, incidents and awards: Wikipedia. Height requirement: Six Flags Great Adventure. 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, incrediblecoasters.com, read and scored by AirtimeFever.

Photographs via Wikimedia Commons: Jeremy Thompson from United States of America (CC BY 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): MapleFlakes, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The attention to detail in the theming actually blew…”; Clayton Latone, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The cars are train themed and the layout is…”; Isaiah White, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Probably my favorite wild mouse to date because of…”; CoasterKing, rider review on Captain Coaster: “It’s indoors and it’s covered in gotham theming.”; Alex MeaLynk, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Maybe it's the fact I rode this when no…”; Em McMahon, rider review on Captain Coaster: “I loved what this ride was when the pre-show…”; Jonas, rider review on Captain Coaster: “This is the best traditional wild mouse I've been…”; Lightning Productions, rider review on Captain Coaster: “It has some pretty good theming with a great…”; John Amirante, rider review on Captain Coaster: “It's even better because it's super dark, making the…”; Luke DiCola, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Right before you reach the station and leave the…”; Vinnie T, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The lift hill launches right off, then slowed down...…”; Jonas, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The fact that it takes place in a dark…”.

The photo slider at the top and the fading stills: Coliwood Studios's front row POV, Dark Knight Front Row POV [5K] | Six Flags Great Adventure 2023 (YouTube), and the page's Wikimedia Commons photographs.