They did it again! Bolliger & Mabillard once again proved with this ride, that they are able to build an ultimate world class rollercoaster.

the themeing of the coaster...

Like usual at Warner Brothers and Sixflags parks, the wild attractions are orienting itself on the DC-Comic characters like the Riddler, Lex Luthor, Batman, Joker or Superman… At the Warnerbros park near Madrid you will find two B&M coasters that are themed in the DC-Comics style. “Batman - La Fuga” is a wonderful B&M inverted coaster and “Superman” is Europe’s first B&M floorless coaster and takes you on the steel ride of the all time comic hero Superman.

The coaster has a large entrance-building in the style of a typical building from the Superman movies. Especially at night, this building looks awesome! (Like the rest of the park as well...). The coaster is painted in the colors red, yellow, blue and white, which are the main colors of the unique Superman dress and logo. So the ambiance is set right.

All the themeing in the park is at highest level. However the coaster track is built away from the rest of the park on a plain area with nothing but sand and stones. It is not possible to get near the coaster (except, of course for the entrance) as visitors are kept away from the coastertrack completely. (The coaster was actually very hard to photograph).

seven inversions - all floorless

This time they went for the full package and built an ultimate world class coaster with seven inversions in the best B&M style. Additionally, this coaster is a floorless coaster (Europes first), which means that the cars don’t have a floor and the riders are seated directly above the track. Especially in the first row this effect adds excitement to the thrilling feeling you get.

Beside the "floorless" feature, the coaster highlights especially because of its perfect inversions and layout. It features a wonderful "zero-g-roll" and B&M's famous "Immelmann" loop.

The "Immelmann" loop is a vertical inversion where the train enters from the ground and drives up into the loop, but after the top point of it, the train leaves the inversion with a turn sideways or almost into the opposite direction.

The "Immelmann" loop is almost similar to the B&M "Dive-loop", but on this inversion, the train drives through it from the opposite direction, and leaves it near the ground.

B&M quality!

I’m always fascinated about B&M's rollercoasters and Superman is no exception. It’s not only the massive construction, the comfortable cars and the wild inversions, but also the elegant looks and the smoothness as well as the perfect layout of the track. B&M manages always to build and design a wonderful ride experience and that's what Superman is... Simply a perfect rollercoaster.

SEE MORE OF SUPERMAN HERE...

the inversions:

1.) 360° vertical loop
2.) "Immelmann" loop
3.) "zero-g" roll
4. / 5.) "cobra roll"
6. / 7.) interlocking corkscrews