Batman - The Dark Knight — Attraction in Agawam

This is an enjoyable, relatively compact Bolliger & Mabillard floorless coaster with five inversions. (It is not to be confused with the identical B&M inverted coasters called "Batman: The Ride" at several other Six Flags parks; this one is different.)

It's a floorless, which means that you're riding above the track but in a train with an open construction, so that your legs are hanging out with no floor beneath you or car shell surrounding you. To accomplish this effect, the station has a movable floor that folds away once the ride ops have you secured in the over-the-shoulder restraints. Once that's done, you head up a steep lift hill to a swooping drop that curves sharply off to the left, directly into the first inversion, a forceful vertical loop.

This ride is all about inversions, which are tightly constructed and most of which pack powerful positive Gs pushing you down in your seat. There's the vertical loop, a dive loop, a zero-G roll and finally a pair of intertwining corkscrews. If this is your bag, Batman: TDK delivers. There's not a lot of negative G-force, but that is not the aim of this ride.

My favorite thing about Batman is that it has a single-rider line! If you don't mind riding by yourself and sitting where the ride ops tell you to sit, you can pretty much skip the line entirely. Go in the coaster's exit, then follow the signs for single riders up the stairs on the right and tell the ride ops you're a single rider. They'll wave you right on, probably on the next train. You could marathon this without waiting.

Another fun fact: the largest roller coaster in India, Nitro at Imagicaa, has a slightly larger, somewhat refined mirror-image of this...

𝐻𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑜. 𝐼 𝒶𝓂 𝒟𝑜𝒸𝓉𝑜𝓇 𝒵𝑜𝓂𝒷𝑜𝓈𝓈, 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝓂𝓎 𝒻𝒾𝓇𝓈𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝓋𝒾𝑒𝓌𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝓆𝓊𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒. 𝒯𝑜𝒹𝒶𝓎 𝓂𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝓎 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒶𝑔𝓊𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓁𝓋𝑒𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓅𝑒𝒸𝓊𝓁𝒾𝒶𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂𝑒 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓀, 𝓌𝑒 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓆𝓊𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓉𝓎𝓅𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝑒𝓃𝒿𝑜𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 ‘𝑅𝑜𝓁𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔𝒸𝑜𝒶𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇’ 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓆𝓊𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑒𝓍𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒! 𝒲𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝒶 𝓃𝑜𝓃 𝓃𝑒𝑔𝒶𝓉𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓇𝑔𝑒𝒹 𝑒𝓍𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑒𝒹 𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓁𝓋𝑒𝓈 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓇𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝑜𝓃𝑒, 𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝟦 𝒹𝑒𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉𝒻𝓊𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒯𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓈! 𝐼𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓆𝓊𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝒶 𝒾𝓃𝒹𝓊𝒷𝒾𝓉𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝑒𝓍𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒, 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒶 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒹𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝒾𝓈𝓈𝓊𝑒 𝓏𝑜𝓂𝒷𝒾𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒷𝑒 𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒹𝑜, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓈𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒾 𝒶𝓂 𝓈𝑜 𝓈𝓅𝑒𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓁 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝓂𝓅𝑜𝓇𝓉𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒸𝑜𝒶𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒻𝑒𝒸𝓉 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓂𝑒. 𝐼 𝒸𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓏𝑒 𝑒𝒶𝒸𝒽 𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒 𝒾 𝓇𝑜𝒹𝑒 𝒾𝓉, 𝐼 𝒸𝒽𝑜𝓇𝓉𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒! 𝒲𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒹𝑒𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒾𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝓇𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃, 𝒴𝑜𝓊’𝓇𝑒...

Brilliant ride - really enjoyed this. It was smooth and easy on the body whilst pushing the adrenaline g force. The seats were comfortable. There is a locker at the bottom for loose items and bags, there isn’t anywhere to put things when you get to the car. There are plenty of seats with extra harness space. The purple track is nice but doesn’t stand out too much and as this ride is tucked at the back it doesn’t look as imposing as it could do. As with all the Six Flag rides there is nothing ‘dark knight’ about it other than a cut out at the front. Well worth a...