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Python
Steel Launched at Six Flags America, Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Opened 1993, closed 1998.
This ride has closed. It last operated at Six Flags America in 1998.
- Height
- 56 ft
- Drop
- 47 ft
- Top speed
- 45 mph
- Length
- 635 ft
- Inversions
- 1
- Ride time
- 1 min 6 s
- Designer
- Arrow Dynamics
Python ran at Adventure World, now Six Flags America, from 1993 to 1998. It was taken down after the park became Six Flags America and was later scrapped.
It was one track of Lightnin' Loops from Six Flags Great Adventure and ran at Adventure World, now Six Flags America, from 1993 to 1998. It was taken down after the park became Six Flags America in 1999, kept in storage, and removed for scrap in 2005.
Sources
- rcdb.com/152.htm (Python at Six Flags America: Arrow Dynamics Launched Loop; operated 1993 to 1998, removed; length 635 ft, height 56 ft, drop 47 ft, speed 45 mph, 1 inversion, duration 1:06; formerly Lightnin' Loops at Six Flags Great Adventure)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightnin%27_Loops (One track of Lightnin' Loops went to Adventure World as Python (1993-1998); scrapped in 2005)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Flags_America (Python, launched loop, 1993-1998, moved from Six Flags Great Adventure as half of Lightnin' Loops; The Wild One and Roar ran until the park closed permanently on November 2, 2025; no Go Gator listed.)
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