The World’s Tallest And Fastest Spinning Rollercoaster Has Been Announced At One Us Amusement Park

Plans for nan world’s tallest and fastest spinning rollercoaster person been unveiled for an escapade parkland successful New Jersey.

Bakunawa, a caller thrill thrust inspired by a mysterious oversea serpent from Philippine folklore, is group to unfastened doors astatine nan caller Shoreline Pier astatine The Boardwalk area successful 2027.

Six Flags says it will break respective world records - including titles of nan fastest and tallest spinning - and will boast nan first free-spinning, floorless coaster vehicles.

This intends that its trains will rotate people passim nan track, truthful nary 2 will ever beryllium nan same.

Describing nan promised adventure, Six Flags said: “After an exhilarating 382-foot climb to nan spire’s peak, your spinning train pauses - face-up, face-down aliases sideways, depending connected your luck - earlier plummeting backmost down nan measurement you came.”

Bakunawa will guidelines 382 feet gangly and scope speeds of up to 100 mph on a 3,163-foot track.

It will usage 2 trains carrying 20 riders each, pinch each escapade lasting astir 2 minutes and 17 seconds. To beryllium allowed connected nan ride, a minimum tallness request of 48 inches is required.

“Ascend nan spire and divided nan entity connected Bakunawa - nan fastest and tallest spinning motorboat coaster successful nan world,” nan announcement said.

“Inspired by Bakunawa, a legendary animal of folklore, this coaster reimagines nan serpent’s coiling ascent arsenic it attempts to devour nan moon.

“Feel nan propulsion of nan eclipse arsenic you motorboat done nan world’s fastest inversion, reaching speeds up to 100 miles per hour. After spiralling 382 feet into nan air, you plummet backmost to earth, spinning to nan statement arsenic Bakunawa returns to nan sea.”

An nonstop day for Bakunawa’s debut has not yet been announced, but nan thrust is replacing nan park's legendary Kingda Ka, which was nan world's tallest rollercoaster earlier it unopen successful 2024.

Currently, nan “Falcon’s Flight” astatine Six Flags Qiddiya City successful Saudi Arabia, which stands astatine an astonishing tallness of 534.8 feet, holds nan record.

Runners-up are nan 420-feet-tall “Top Thrill 2” successful Sandunsky, Ohio, and “Superman: Escape from Krypton”, located successful Valencia, California, astatine conscionable 5 feet under.

The announcement comes conscionable complete a period aft nan world’s first giga dive coaster opened at Six Flags Over Texas.

The Tormenta Rampaging Run was officially unveiled connected June 26 successful Arlington arsenic nan centrepiece of Six Flags Over Texas’ 65th day celebration.