Superman Ultimate Flight Review, Six Flags B&M Flying Coaster | America's First B&M Flyer
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- Superman- Ultimate Flight is the Bolliger & Mabillard flying coaster found at Six Flags Over Georgia, Six Flags Great Adventure, and Six Flags Great America. The original in Georgia hugs the terrain while the latter two clones have some key differences. I have ridden all three versions and in this video, I will discuss which one is the best.
Video Credits
Galactica Off-Ride (Coaster Focus via No Copyright Coasters)- • Galactica - No Copyrig...
Stealth Off-Ride (psyclonesteve)- • Stealth, Paramount's G...
Superman Off-Ride, Great America (Justice League: Battle For Metropolis Expert)- • Superman: Ultimate Fli...
Superman Off-Ride, Over Georgia (Justice League: Battle For Metropolis Expert)- • Superman: Ultimate Fli...
Superman POV (Six Flags Over Georgia)- • Six Flags Over Georgia...
X-Flight Off-Ride (psyclonesteve)- • X Flight, Six Flags Wo...
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the one at great adventure was my first thrill coaster and i love it to this day. the pretzel loop is one of my favorite elements ever
It's an incredible inversion.
@@CanobieCoaster indeed
A lot of people consider these the worst flyers but having ridden all of the ones in America I don’t think there’s too much of a gap! Underrated clone without a question
I much prefer Tatsu and Manta myself.
I freaking love them. That pretzel loop is one of my favorite elements on any coaster.
Agreed!
These rides I find are really underrated, they're just so fun!
They are fun.
and terrifying lol
Front row or outside seat makes this ride so much fun. Last row interior seat not are good. So are trees at SFGrAm versus open lot at SFGrAd. I will ride SFoG next month and I've riden Tatsu...but somehow Superman at SFGrAm is my favorite as the trees get closer to the train every year. I like the inline twist more than the pretzel. Great vid...
Over Georgia's is the best of the Supermen.
@@CanobieCoaster it doesn’t have the intensity of row 8 which takes away from it
The memories I had riding this. I remember my first experience on a flying coaster was when I didn't know it would be a night ride cause I waited 2 and a half hours for this lol. But boy I'd almost say those 30 seconds were worth the wait. This was the only time iv blacked out on a coaster cause I had zero clue what to expect with the pretzel loop. The drop gets so close to the ground. The pretzel loop is nowhere near as intense anymore but it's still a freaking pretzel loop. The turns flip you toward the sky and get so close to the ground and trees. And it ends with a nice twist at the end. As I prefer rides like Manta, Superman is a great ride that I don't care at all about that they cloned. This may not have the Over Georgia terrain but it's better than Great Adventures cause it at least has trees.
That pretzel loop is mainly why I ride Superman.
The pretzel loops are insane as you feel like your head is going to explode when the blood rushes to your brain
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I've been on the one at Great Adventure, and while I've always liked it, I do rank it the lowest of the 5 B&Ms in the park.
Understandable
I rank it as the 2nd best B&m in the park behind Bizarro. Batman and Green Lantern hurt my feet and bashed my head around and Nitro was a snoozefest
I apologize for commenting this twice, but I’m genuinely curious about your opinion on Six Flags New Orleans, if you have visited it of course. That is (unfortunately) my home park, and it hurts to pass by it almost everyday and see how dilapidated it has become. I’m very interested in how people enjoyed the coaster lineup, specifically Mega Zyph. Mega Zyph is a beautiful and picturesque CCI, and I wonder if it rode well at all. I was 3 when Hurricane Katrina hit, so I have no memories of it. Louisiana is a pretty bad state to be a coaster enthusiast, especially if you aren’t able to travel. But, it is nice to live vicariously through you and other enthusiasts. This community really does hold a special place in my life.
I never made it there unfortunately.
@@CanobieCoaster no worries! Not really a park worth visiting in all honesty. Depending on how mega Zyph rode, the best coaster in the park was most likely Batman the ride. Batman clones are great rides, but not worth traveling all the way across the country when you have one not too far from you at SFGAdv. Guess I’ll have to make due with Louisiana’s finest, a vekoma boomerang!
Last season, I ended up being the unlucky one who got to sit on the brake run for 20 minutes while a technical issue was worked out. I normally don't mind delays like that, but on these flyers it's particularly uncomfortable.
That sounds uncomfortable.
That was my first experience with one of these, at Georgia. It was about 20 minutes, and it was brutal. Tatsu is very sensitive, causing them to have to re-check several seats many times on every cycle, so if it's on 2 trains, be prepared to sit on that brake run for 10 minutes, even without a breakdown.
After the ride we were stuck in flying position in the station for 5-10 minutes and it actually wasn’t that bad, it was kind of cool. Yeah it’s a little uncomfortable, but nowhere near unbearable
Glad you mentioned how terrible that brake run wait can be. It broke down on my first trip to Great Adventure and we were on the brake run for about 15 minutes. I don't know what my phobia is called or if it even rises to the level of a phobia, but I don't like to be restrained, particularly in positions where I cannot access parts of my own body visually or physically. So those cuff restraints are a big hell no for me as is. I had a mini anxiety attack hanging there for so long. Hyperventilating, sweating, feeling hyper aware of my surroundings. I didn't scream or anything, but definitely let my cousin know with my panicked tone. Worst of all what I think was a stress induced itch began on my ankle and being unable to get to it, it just spread like a wildfire. I basically kissed the ground when they finally got us off. All that said, I still go on them. SeaWorld was my main park for a little while and in the beginning I'd usually give Manta a single ride. I just close my eyes, fully relax my body, and do some deep breathing when it hits the breaks. Never much of a wait on that one that I've experienced.
Oh no! Yeah that position isn't comfortable to get stuck in.
Hey, you should review more roller coasters at Six Flags St Louis like Ninja, Screamin Eagle, and the River king mine train!
I want to reride those ones before reviewing them.
Now this coaster looks really interesting. I would love to ride it. B&M flyer would be good for Canada's Wonderland. Fun.
It's solid.
I enjoy riding these if they don't have a long wait, which is rare, but it's happened. I agree that the middle section is a whole lot of nothing at GAd/GAm. Also, I hate sitting on the brake run in a prone position for so long, which happens a lot. Tatsu was having 10-15 minute dispatches with 2-train ops. That was brutal. I loved when Manta was running 1 train on my last visit, because the line was still short. I like that Batwing & Nighthawk will have us on our back if we have to wait for a 2nd train. Also, Batwing rode glossy smooth for me, and I love that layout.
Manta is the one where I usually get stuck on the brakes. It was rough after they initially reopened from covid and you had to wait for the next train to be cleaned.
I have a bit of a bone to pick with this coaster. Supposedly DC editor Dan Didio saw the description for the early 2000s version of Supergirl in this ride's que and didn't like it, so he had her written out of the comics and erased from existence, so the best character in the Superman mythos has been gone for nearly 20 years because of this roller coaster.
Interesting!
I've only ridden the one at Six Flags Great America. I'll be checking out the one at Six Flags Over Georgia this summer.
Enjoy!
i went to Great Adventure on April 3rd and it was a rainy day and everything was 5 minutes on the app the longest wait that I had to wait to go on a ride was like 3 minutes for jersey devil also it was 1 train ops to thats how dead the park was and superman was 2 minutes
Wow, that's lucky!
These look like fun rides, but I'm worried that I won't like the pretzel loop.
Do you like forceful vertical loops? Imagine experiencing one in reverse.
@@CanobieCoaster Yeah I do. That helps me visualize it more.
love this
It's fun.
I agree, of course, that Georgia’s version is the best of the three in the U.S. But I have to say that I made the mistake of riding Tatsu before I rode any of these and it totally spoiled me. I suspect I would have found these more impressive if I’d ridden them first.
Thankfully I rode these ones first.
I always considered B&M to be the "Cadillac" of coasters while Vekoma the "Chevrolet" Though Vekoma HAS stepped up their game. As I've stated before. B&M loves a challenge! Throw an "impossible" terrain surface at them. Their like, HERE, hold my beer! No you have ppl lining up for hrs. to experience coaster "ecstasy" Canobie, as coaster enthusiasts we CAN be greedy on expectations. LOL! I'm greedy in the fact that I want the steam locomotives back. Even AstroWorld ran theirs once a month until 2005.
B&M is pricey, but they deliver a reliable product and they've shown they can work around crazy terrain.
(0:26) OMG IT IS HAULING!
Yes
I'm not really a huge flying coaster fan however I still like superman.
I love the pretzel loop.
I honestly prefer the flying dutchman model. It's way more forceful, and when you make a turn, it ACTUALLY feels like your flying. With the B&M models, I find them pretty boring except for the pretzel loop. The turns on the B&M models don't make you feel like your flying at all.
Plus I find it more comfortable laying on your back going up the lift hill, opposed to laying down. It really hurts my chest
Overall, I think the only advantage B&M flyers have is the technology on the coasters.
I prefer the Dutchman layouts, but the comfort of the B&Ms.
Hey are u gonna have a chance to review Alpengeist if u ridden it I’m interested to see it plus u did InVadR Verbolten Griffon Apollo’s Chariot and even Big Bad Wolf
I plan too sometime in the next few months.
I’ve only ridden the New Jersey one, and I thought it was lackluster.
6/10 for me
Fair
At Six Flags Over Georgia, to ride, what do you think about: Superman Ultimate Flight, Great American Scream Machine, Dare Devil Dive, Batman the Ride, and Goliath?
I'd ride any of those.
For whatever reason, the pretzel loop hurts my back whenever I ride this. It’s not unbearable, but that combined with the super long waits it can get, I skip this ride on most of my trips to Great Adventure. I don’t hate it, I just think the other coasters are worth my time more.
If I skip it, it's because of the waits.
first
do you think you could review the New Revolution or Tatsu? just asking
I have reviewed Tatsu already.
@@CanobieCoaster but new revolution
Superman or Galactica?
Superman
This the one that should of been the one in santa clarita
I like Tatsu more.
@@CanobieCoaster what i m saying is the one in santa clarita made it just go up when they could done a viper, tatsu or riddlers revenge type coaster
I didn’t know it was a clone 😢
It is the same layout at 3 Six Flags and a park in China.
New gen vekoma flying coasters are much better than the b&m flyers since the b&m ones havent changed much smaller-vekoma cheaper-vekoma smoother-both
I don't want to judge the Vekoma model alone off FLY since future installations may not have the same caliber of theming, but the ride system is fantastic.
@@CanobieCoaster agreed
I rode superman at my home park at great America a few time in the past till I rode in the back and hated it I did not like it at all and never rode it ever again after that and I've skip it I'll sit in the front or somewhere in the middle but not the back on a B&M flyer ever after that one ride in the back row it was too much and I swore like a sailor
Was it the pretzel loop?
@@CanobieCoaster oh yes big to and boy did I flipped out I've done golith in the back no prob raging bull i'll giving it anoth go but superman forget it and that goes double for tastu as well if I travel to California but the only one I would like to try is Air at alton tower and F.L.Y. by Vekoma
Torture machines, all of them except maybe FLY
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CAN-O-BEAST!!! My main man. I gotta say, I've never ridden a B&M flyer, but they really look like garbage rides. Dutchmen flyers were just silly stupid.
El Toro Ryan's "Problematic Coasters" episode on Superman Ultimate Flight is coaster-nerd heaven. Best video out there for technical information.
That video is awesome.
This coaster model is okay. Other than the pretzel loop, it’s pretty forgettable.
The final inline twist is good too.
Bowling ball
Not quite.
anyone else thinking aba
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@@CanobieCoaster oh i meant to say anyone else not knowing which clone is which
I hate the Superman, you gotta wait 3 hours for a 30 second ride
It has a super long wait most days.