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 Review of Batman The Ride @ Six Flags Over Texas
-4 Rating Posted by: WAR2174 on 7/18/2005 2:04:00 AM
"Batman The Ride" is in a nutshell the reason why I dont like Six Flags parks very much. Dont get me wrong, I dont see there being anything wrong with a company being able to grow so big but I think they have lost sight of the goal. Six Flags has de-personalized theme parks. Batman, in short represents that. There are tons of these things. The same ride, drops, inversions, speed, everything is the same. So this has a different color? Big deal. It is the same ride. If a person was blindfolded and rode a Batman, you wouldnt know the difference. Batman has no personality. It is just too common. I cant believe that Six Flags wont build at least a few custom inverts. Especially at their founding park. I realize that buying the same ride probably saves money, but it kills the experience. You dont travel all over the place to ride the same rides, you want something unique. I wish Six Flags saw it that way.
 

Review Comments

BobFunland on 7/22/2005 2:24:38 AM said:
You know, when I first read this (at least I can read from my phone), I couldnt help but think that it is a poor review. First, there is hardly anything actually about the ride mentioned -- it is more a rant about how Six Flags ordered multiple installations of the same ride. If there was only one in the world would you like it? I dont know, the only thing I know about the ride after reading the review is that its a clone but its got a different color than most of the others. See, the way I see it, its about the money-making general public. Do they travel to tons of parks across the nation? Hardly. Have they been on three, four or even more Batman clones? Rarely. They dont mind even if they do know its unoriginal, it still delivers a solid, smooth intense ride to enjoy. Are you right about Six Flags? Well, I agree to an extent, but this isnt about Six Flags man, its about Batman at SFOT.

Anyway, Im not trying to take stabs at you, but I just want to see what you actually think of the ride itself, cloned or not.
WAR2174 on 7/22/2005 3:46:12 PM said:
I knew that a comment like this was coming. Not that its a bad thing. I wouldnt post stuff on the internet if I didnt want responses. While I loathe the one sentence reviews I also dont believe that every ride needs a 5 page disertation on elements, speed and g forces. So many Batmans exist, with so many reviews, what else is left to say. I just felt like writing something different than the usual stuff. I totally agree, this is an area for ride reviews, but there are 4 pages of reviews. I just wanted to give people a change of pace. If you think it is a poor review, that is fine, I understand so no hard feelings. At least you explained why.

Also about the parks. I think it does matter to people. Especially for families. Come on, didnt you ever take a summer vacation somewhere as a kid. Maybe not to a specific park but at least to a city to visit grandparents or something. If there is a park nearby, maybe you would go. Alot of people dont want to spend $30-50 on a park with stuff they have seen or done before. What makes Disney so amazing is that you may only visit it once or twice in a lifetime. The stuff there is unique. You cant find it anywhere else. Six Flags parks are mostly clones. It feels like if you have been to one you have been to them all. I just think it is important to have parks that are unique and special.
coasterf42 on 10/21/2005 10:03:22 AM said:
The fact that a ride is a clone should not drop it down to a five, but I think it should hurt its rating a little bit.
praxis on 3/2/2006 8:53:26 PM said:
I may get flamed for this :fire: but... if one thinks cloned rides are a bad thing (an honest opinion whether one agrees or disagrees; fair nuff), how come only 6 Flags gets dissed for it? How many rides at Disney World are clones of ones at Disneyland?
WAR2174 on 3/3/2006 7:13:44 PM said:
I personally think the Disney rides are more unique in their theme and experience. I realize that they have more money to play with but I always disliked how Six Flags just seems to have the same stuff. I say the same thing about Paramounts parks. If I owned parks and needed to save money I would probably buy identical rides too if it saved me some money. But that doesnt mean I have to like it.
coasterf42 on 3/4/2006 11:17:22 PM said:
Disney has a bunch of parks, 6 in the US and more overseas. Six Flags gets flammed for it, because they do it to SOOO many like BTR, SLCs, and the boomerangs. Paramount is just as bad, but they only have 5 parks. From what I have seen, Cedar Fair hardly clones anything.

From a business perspective, sure cloning makes more sense than it does from an enthusiests perspective. You also have to look at how far clones are from another. For example, Scream was cloned at Magic Mountain, and Medusa is over 3000 miles from it. Thats not so bad. But when a BTR appeara at SFOG, SFOT, SWSA, and SFNO, now then I think that something better could have been done. This also, IMO gives Paramount more of a right to clone, because all of their parks are pretty far away from each other.

I still see clones as pretty cheasy, but still necessary.
Predator on 9/23/2006 2:30:46 AM said:
It really should depend if you hate the ride or not. I dont like SLCs, and thus I hate that they are cloned. If you dont like Batman, you arent going to like anywhere else. There are so many options at parks that have the cloned rides like Batman The Ride.

I come from Great America as my homepark. I go to Magic Mountain, and there are how many coasters that arent cloned that Ive been on at Great America. They include Ninja, X, Psyclone, Colosuss, Riddlers Revenge, Scream, Gold Rusher (I dont like that the Gold Rusher isnt cloned after the one at SFStL, or SFOG.), Goliath, Flashback (Not opened however), Revolution, and Tatsu. Wow, they have Batman, and Deja Vu. Is this such a big deal??

At Over Texas, you have La Vibora, Mine Train, Runaway Mountain, Shockwave, and Texas Giant that I havent been on. That is still 5 roller coasters. I dont mind going on another Mr. Freeze. It all depends though if I feel those 5 coasters are worth going there. I can go to Six Flags St. Louis ride Mr. Freeze. The point is that clones are a lot of times great. I dont have to go to freakin Texas to ride Mr. Freeze!!! The problem is that coaster enthusiasts get just so darn greedy with rides. They want new coasters so they can add them to there list of coasters they have been on. I would rather have half Six Flags have the same rides if they were all great. Im sorry, but I think that Batman The Ride is a great coaster just like Mr. Freeze.

Lastly, I talk about Over Georgia. I love this park. Why? It does have a Batman, Superman Ultimate Flight, and a Deja Vu. However, it has a Mine Train (I love), Great American Scream Machine (Awesome wooden coaster), Goliath (This is just so darn great.), Georgia Scorcher (This is a better Iron Wolf, and of course Mind Bender. These five different roller coasters are totally worth going to this park plus the ones they have already. I like 9 out of 11 roller coasters. It doesnt perturb me from going there just because 4 are cloned. The other one I dont like is Ninja, and thats sort of like SFStL. Now, thats a horrible clone.
redwillow on 8/19/2008 6:50:59 PM said:
I'.m pretty sure ".The Great White". at Sea World San Antonio is a clone of this too.
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