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- From: buckley@powdml.enet.dec.com (Bill Buckley)
- Newsgroups: rec.roller-coaster
- Subject: Re: Batman Ride at Astroworld
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.181813.22944@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 17:14:55 GMT
- References: <1993Jan7.171510.25910@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- >Does anybody have any details about the Batman ride
- >at Astroworld/Houston? I know that it will include the stand-up
- >rollercoaster (Intamin?) from Six Flags in New Jersey. I've
- >heard sketchy plans of converting the Mountain (from the
- >defunct Alpine Sleigh Ride) into a fully themed Bat Cave
- >which will precede the coaster. When I was there a few weeks
- >ago for Holiday in the park, they had a VERY realisitic Batmobile
- >sitting in front of the Mountain.
-
- My details are still skety as well. I also heard the mountain was
- going to be converted into a "Bat cave" queue area. I also heard
- plans that the lift hill may be enclosed in a tunnel. They are
- definitely going to put a tunnel on the ride SOMEWHERE. It was
- even speculated they may do TWO tunnels -- one at the
- beginning of the ride, and one towards the end (in a somewhat doggy
- section of trackwork).
-
- Myself?? I hope they get rid of that damn trim brake that SF
- put on there when it was in NJ. It kind of killed the 2nd half of
- the ride, which looks like it could be real fub at higher speeds
- (like the 2nd half of those B&M standup rides ... remember, they
- all are trim brakeless!).
-
-
- Cheerios,
- Buck a roo
-