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BIZZARO
Rollercoasters remixed in New Jersey and New England
Six Flags New England
Six Flags Great Adventure, Jackson, New Jersey, has unveiled For the launch of the ride the park introduced a unique multimedia,
Bizarro. Themed around the DC Comics character of the same name, interactive marketing campaign, encouraging participation via an
this newly-enhanced rollercoaster now features high tech special effects online alternative reality game (ARG). After an intense five months of
and on-board audio system to assault the senses. Originally introduced participation from more than 500,000 players, Six Flags Great
in 1999 as Medusa, the ride was the world's first floorless coaster from Adventure hosted a final in-park scavenger hunt rewarding 30
Bolliger & Mabillard and totals 3,985ft in length. individuals exclusive access to the grand opening.
Known as a peculiar Superman-like creature from a parallel Earth,
Bizzaro believes in "doing the opposite of all Earthly things." Because he The debut of the ride in New Jersey coincided with the grand opening
is the imperfect duplicate of Superman, his powers and abilities manifest of Bizarro at Six Flags New England in Agawam, Massachusetts.
themselves as opposites of Superman's powers including freeze vision, Formerly Superman: Ride of Steel, it is considered by many (Park
heat breath, spotlight vision and x-ray hearing. World’s own Paul Ruben among them) to be the world's best
The Bizarro experience at Six Flags Great Adventure begins the rollercoaster.
moment guests enter the queue through a custom-created comic strip Now the Intamin ride features custom audio built into each headrest.
designed exclusively for the park by DC Comics. The ride itself stats with After a menacing climb, riders plunge 221ft into the first of two fog-filled.
a pulse-quickening climb before plummeting 61 mph through Bizarro's Throughout the three-and-a-half minute journey, passengers fly 77 miles-
freeze vision "cool zone." The rush continues as riders twist and turn per-hour through high bank twists and turns while soaring through bizarre
through seven loops, blast past bursts of fire and race by other illusions building structures and sprinting through open-aired “S” shields.
and effects. The journey concludes as riders are sent head first into a The thrills continue as the train enters a “spaghetti bowl” of twists and
spiked-shaped “Auger of Doom” set inside interlocking corkscrews. turns that trigger fiery flame effects programmed perfectly in synch with the
"With this transformation, no other coaster compares," reckons Six Flags heart-pumping audio. The journey is capped off with a second plunge into
Great Adventure's Mark Kane. a tunnel of effects before returning to the station house and back to
“Earth.”
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