A ride operator would call out to the console operator a row number and only that row and another would unlock. Instead of a long restraint release bar, 4 smaller bars were installed and this unlocks restraints by pair of cars. One interesting feature is that a visible pedal or handle was not included to manually release restraints. Over in the station, a moving metal floor was designed so that the clearances would be safe when moving trains in and out and to make it easier for shorter guests to sit. You can see the torsion bar at the bottom of the seats. provided us with this great shot of the train on Batman: The Ride at Six Flags Great America. Originally, a torsion bar installed under the seats to keep the seats in place, but eventually, it was removed from custom models by 1996 and by 2002, from the new Batman models. A new restraint with a redundant seat belt was designed along with the most comfortable seats in the industry was developed for the seats. The new layouts were calculated and designed so that seats could hang from the Zero Car and thus, the ride had increased capacity. The Zero Car is the decorative car mounted in front of the Stand-up coaster that is rigidly linked with the second car and provides the stable wheel base from which the other cars are trailered from. Known as the “Inverted Coaster”, the train would be trailered like their Stand-Up coasters, but the need for a “zero car” was eliminated. ![]() After Jim Wintrode and engineer Robert Mampe worked on the concept, B&M fleshed it out with 4 leg dangling seats suspended rigidly from a chassis. Arrow Development had tried to throw a barrel roll/corkscrew inversion on their swinging suspended roller coaster prototype and it did not work out. Since 2018, the track was sold and scrapped for good.After building another stand-up for KECO (Kings Entertainment Company) in 1991 at California’s Great America (Santa Clara, CA), Jim Wintrode, the general manager of Six Flags Great America went to B&M with a concept that would revolutionize the industry: a roller coaster with cars dangling under the track… capable of inversions. ![]() And besides, Six Flags stated that it wasn't worth constructing the coaster a fourth, and they basically told the new owners to do what they want with it. So the coaster was stored a vacant storage lot across the street, and for the next 12 years it was rusting away with no plans to reopen. After that, the coaster was planned to be reconstructed at Six Flags Darien Lake, but the park was put for sale by the time it got there. On October 30, 2005, AstroWorld would shut down for good due to parking disputes. In 2004, the coaster was repainted yellow and black to make sense with Batman's actual colors. ![]() In 1998, the Batcave would be eliminated for unknown reasons, possibly since Premier parks purchasing Six Flags at the time. Here you would find some of Bruce Wayne's computer equipment, a Batsuit replica, and even a full scale Batmobile. At this point, the park took the abandoned mountain from the old Alpine Sleigh Ride, and turned it into the Batcave. The queue line went through Arctic Park & the Gotham City Cold Storage, where guest would then board the train and escape, hence the rides name. Before guest enter the coaster itself, they had to attempt to outrun the villainous Penguin. The reason probably because of the Batman Returns movie being released at that time. When the coaster was getting built it was originally repainted plain white and themed to Batman. The coaster was at first relocated from both Six Flags Magic Mountain, then Great Adventure, where it was both called "ShockWave". Batman: the Escape was a steel Intamin Stand-up coaster in the European Section of Six Flags AstroWorld.
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