Batman Gotham City Escape Review - Europe's Answer to Velocicoaster?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 พ.ค. 2023
- Batman Gotham City Escape is the newest Multi Launch Intamin roller coaster to open in Europe and it's quite an impressive ride. It has been over 20 years since Parque Warner first opened and in that time, there hasn't been a major new thrill ride or major roller coaster added to the park, but all that changes now! (Bip bip isn't really a major thrill coaster of course!)
This new Batman Roller Coaster takes you on a thrilling escape from Wayne Manor after being trapped inside by Batman's nemesis, the Joker. The ride features airtime, Inversions and thrilling launches that take you up to a maximum speed over 64mph.
Oh, and it's my channel, so if I want to do a silly batman voice in the intro, then I shall!
Enjoy!
Velocicoaster feels like Universal threw a blank check at Intamin and asked for the best ride, no gimmicks involved, whereas Gotham City is an attempt at more unique ride with a few new elements (namely a spike as the brake and the holding brake on the top hat). For a smaller park with such limited space, being just a step away from the best of the best is an absolute compliment. Great review, David-- as always, your channel (despite being smaller than other coaster channels) puts out higher quality and more detailed content than all of them.
Thanks! I just wish the channel would start growing closer to some of those other channels!
Another superb review! 👏 👏 👏
Your reviews are always excellent & very thorough! Thanks. 👍
That airtime hill you referred to looks amazing!
It really is! Caught me off guard the first time!
The new intamin trains are the best in the business. Have ridden velocicoaster over 50 times. The trains make you feel secure yet so free.
Fantastic review, when a new ride opens there's always a lot of hype which can sway opinions a little bit, so I'm happy you touched on some of the minor issues with the attraction. It certainly looks like a great ride, especially that stall
It's an issue with media days I think, when people are invited to an event they're probably going to give a positive review so they get invited again in the future. I went after it had been opened to the general public so can hopefully be free of bias as much as possible.
Just a note about the spike, it is purely just for space reasons rather than an element designed to be enjoyable :)
Special thanks to MLDesigns www.youtube.com/@MLDesigns for help with the layout mapping
Great intro and great review as always. Must get back to Europe!
This looks good. I think his comparison to Pantheon seems about right. Velocicoaster looks like the stronger ride. Although I do have Fury over Pantheon. Interesting he talked about Copperhead Strike pretty highly.
@@alantrotter2077 Did he though? He meant Fury at BBJ being a multi launch coaster I think, not Fury 325! I thought he said it's easily better than Fury, Copperhead Strike, Operation Enterprise and many others (suspect he meant newer/ish multi launch coasters?). Those are mid to lower tier multi launch coasters if you compare it to the Intamins for example, in my opinion. I love Pantheon. I love Velocicoaster more though. Taron sits between those two for me. I've actually done all three of those with David now that I think about it. You should come join us for our Carowinds day in June! Maybe I'll change my opinion on Copperhead Strike this visit.
I should probably of clarified it was the Bobbejaanland fury I was referring to!
@@marty_nz when are you hitting up Carowinds? What other parks are you hitting up?
@@alantrotter2077 Middle of June. A few of the usual suspect and a few RMCs if you know what I mean. Dollywood just didn't fit within our plans so no LROD rerides sorry.
Gotham City Escape very well explained, thx a lot:)
Glad you liked it!
What a great review! Looks a fantastic ride but definitely some odd decisions were made.
Thanks!
That elongated stall over the plaza looks insane! I really hope to see a park get intamin to take all of the new technologies and elements they've been experimenting with and put it into one monster ride
Sounds good to me! Maybe we'll see that in a year or two!
Great review, looking forward to riding this sometime in the future. Most reviews seem to put this above Toutatis but you seem to put Toutatis higher. Rode Toutatis for the first time a couple of weeks ago and was blown away by it, rated it above Taron, Kondaa and just getting edged out by RTH, firmly sitting as my number two coaster.
FINALLY someone who recognises taron is slightly better hahahaha, I do think the same
If this coaster played Batman Arkham City’s main theme then this would be near the top of my bucket list!
Very nice review! I think you addressed my concerns about the smaller trains and the speed of which the top hat is taken. Pantheon is just outside my Top 10, Fury is in my Top 10, and Velocicoaster is #3, so it sounds like I have a pretty good idea of the quality of coaster we are looking at. I also tend to agree with you about Wayne Manor. The color looks out of place. Again great review!
Alan, Fury 325 is amazing. Fury at Bobbejaanland isn't close though!
Lol!! Is that your voice doing the Batman impression?! Not only are you doing the Batman rasp, but it’s a good American accent as well! 👏
It took a few takes to get the recording right!
@@RollercoasterDavid Heh. Just listened again and I think the rasp helps you disguise your normal accent - not a trace of anything Scottish or English coming through.
Wait... I'm in your video in 1:06 !! LOL
Congratulations! You're famous!
Is Gotham City Escape included in the express passes? Thanks for the brilliant review!
I don't think it is at the moment, I had a look on the website before going.
@@RollercoasterDavid Thanks
@@matthewblack2252 Someone posted in the CoasterForce forum that "the "one pass" for 19€ you can ride it ONE time, without waiting all the queue"
Just looking at it off ride I thought that they got the trim brake right this time!
They did indeed!
I get that this isn't Velocicoaster, but better than Fury 325 or Copperhead Strike? They're not even in the same ballpark in quality, but just so happen to be in the same park. With all your experience: how could you let that confuse you?
Fury at Bobbejaanland, not Fury 325. It's another multi launch coaster, hence the comparison!
@@RollercoasterDavid Thanks for the clarification.
Hard to judge when you haven't even tried the front row 🤦♂️
It wasn't for lack of trying! 🤷♂️
Personally i'm not a big fan of the slow top hat because you lose so much speed for the rest of the ride. I feel it could release the train a bit earlier than it does.
I suspect the forces from the beyond vertical drop and subsequent airtime hill might be a bit too extreme if they were taken any faster though.
Looks underwhelming
I feel there is no creativity here, like this will alwas be like a Velocicoaster little sister. Not to mention more and more rides like this will be opened in the next years. Im not here for it. Nice try tho
looks great but I think Velocicoaster edges it!
great review as always man!
Velocicoaster is tough to beat!
@@RollercoasterDavid yes sir! I recently got back from Japan and got to ride Hakugei, Eejanaika and Flying Dinosaur. I have no idea the order of my top 5 but those 3 plus Velocicoaster and GhostRider are in there!
@@darkwhale-og9ig Hint: Hakugei is #1 obviously. Sounds like you need to ride a few more wooden roller coasters, GhostRider is good, but theres much better woodies out there!
@@RollercoasterDavid I agree Hakugei is most likely #1. Sadly I live in Hawaii so rollercoasters are things I can enjoy only when travelling... yes I hope to ride T Express next year when I return to Asia and maybe one day I can ride The Voyage as well!
@@darkwhale-og9ig don't worry. David is wrong about GhostRider. Top 10 woodie for me.