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The Flash: Vertical Velocity
Steel Boomerang at Six Flags Great Adventure, Jackson, New Jersey. Opened 2025.
- Height
- n/a
- Drop
- n/a
- Top speed
- 59 mph
- Length
- 1,430 ft
- Inversions
- 2
- Ride time
- n/a
- Designer
- Vekoma
The Flash: Vertical Velocity is a launched shuttle roller coaster in the Movietown section of Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey. It is a Vekoma Super Boomerang, and the park describes it as the first ride of its type in North America. It opened in 2025.
History
The coaster was announced in 2023 to open in 2024, but its debut was delayed to 2025. It replaced Cyborg Cyber Spin, a ride that operated at the park from 2018 to 2023.
A single train of 24 riders is launched forward by linear synchronous motors at up to 59 mph, then launched backward up a vertical tower to run the course again in reverse. RCDB lists two inversions, a stalled Immelmann and a corkscrew, between vertical sections at each end, and a track length of about 1,430 feet; the park describes a 180-degree twisted drop and a zero-g roll. The park lists a minimum height of 56 inches, or 48 inches with an accompanying adult.
Sources
- sixflags.com/greatadventure/attractions/the-flash-vertical-v... (Operating (Movietown); Vekoma; boomerang coaster, first in North America; up to 59 mph; 180-degree twisted drop and zero-g roll; launched backward up the vertical tower; introduced 2025; minimum height 56 in (48 in accompanied).)
- rcdb.com/21088.htm (Vekoma Super Boomerang, shuttle; length 1,430.4 ft, 59 mph, 2 inversions; LSM launch, vertical rollback, stalled Immelmann, LSM boost, corkscrew, vertical rollback; one train of 6 cars, 24 riders.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Flags_Great_Adventure (Opened 2025 (Vekoma Super Boomerang); announced in 2023 for 2024 and delayed to 2025; replaced Cyborg Cyber Spin (2018-2023).)
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