![]() ![]() Without lingering any longer, the car takes on the vertical feet in reverse and Superman: the Escape becomes Superman: the return. The weight of the ride vehicle brings it to the point of reversal and puts riders at advantage to take in the over six seconds of airtime bliss. Nearing the Man of Steel himself standing and staring authoritatively from the pinnacle of the coaster's structure, the car reaches 300-foot altitudes and begins to slow. ![]() Soon, riders say goodbye to the park and hello to the sky and travel straight up towards the clouds. Once the ride reaches the top speed of 100 miles per hour, the car begins to put some distance between it and the launch track, beginning a gradual slope from horizontal to vertical. Linear Synchronous Motor stators pass beneath the car at a gradually-increasing rate as passengers speed along the horizontal portion of Superman's layout. After pulling down simple T-shaped lap bars into place, the 15-passenger car is blasted from the station area and out into the daylight to begin the acceleration. The line for Superman takes queuers into a station themed to resemble the Fortress of Solitude where cars will be boarded on the parallel tracks in each side of the station area. With two identical tracks running parallel along the course, this ride also gives passengers on either side the occasional opportunity to race one another while cutting the ride waiting time in half. From there, the ride's vertical L-shape of a layout carries the car up - straight up and to the end of the shuttle-coaster's run, but not before serving up a record 6 seconds of negative g's. Utilizing Linear Synchronous Motor technology, the coaster is launched off at an acceleration clip of 14.3 miles per hour per second delivered by a series of rare earth magnet 'stators' to attract and repel the car and get the ride up to speed in seven seconds - a slower but also effective acceleration. Superman came from the designers at Intamin AG as one of only two coasters like it in the world, the other being its smaller counterpart ride located at Australia's Dreamworld park. Towering vertically to 415 feet in height and accelerating to reach speeds of 100 miles per hour, the 20-million-dollar Superman: the Escape raised the bar in the race of extreme rides to a truly unprecedented level and set new limits for coasters worldwide. On March 15, 1997, Six Flags Magic Mountain would reach new heights - and speeds - with the tallest and fastest steel-tracked ride the Valencia, California park or anywhere else on the face of the earth had ever seen. ![]()
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