Superman the Ride is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags New England in Agawam, Massachusetts. Built by Intamin in 2000, it features a 208ft lift hill, a 221ft drop, and over 1mi of track. The park announced plans to change the name from Bizarro to Superman the Ride for the 2016 season, as well as adding a virtual reality feature to the ride, starting June 11.Superman the Ride has been voted the number one steel roller coaster in the world in Amusement Today's Golden Ticket Awards five times since 2003 and had not been ranked lower than #2 in that same poll until it was ranked at #3 in 2016. It has swapped with Millennium Force at Cedar Point for the top position five times in the last eleven years, with Fury 325 displacing both in 2016. Since its debut, the roller coaster has undergone several safety modifications as the result of two serious incidents.HistoryPrior to the 2000 season, Six Flags New England was known as Riverside Park. Six Flags purchased the park and added their own DC Comics theming. The site that Superman the Ride operates on is the former site of the Riverside Park Speedway. The Speedway was demolished after the 1999 season to make room for a new themed area, DC Superhero Adventure. As part of the $40 million expansion, the park built Superman: Ride of Steel. Six Flags worked with Swiss manufacturer, Intamin, to build and design the ride a year earlier. The final track piece of Superman was installed on March 27, 2000, about 40 days before opening day. The ride officially opened on May 5, 2000 as the tallest and longest roller coaster on the East Coast of the United States. The entrance and station were themed to Superman with Superman logos and a picture of him located above the entrance. The second tunnel also had a mist effect.
"SUPERMAN is pretty much the most extreme Super Hero working today: over-sized strength, mega speed, and pretty much at the top of his class when it comes to flying. It makes sense that the steel adventure bearing his name and famous logo would be just as extreme.Welcome to the world of the hypercoaster. This style of roller coaster is so intense they had to come up with a whole new category for it. Hypercoasters are the modern breed of oversized roller coaster that are pumped up to more than 200 feet tall. SUPERMAN The Ride easily clears that distinction, with a height of 208 feet and a mind-blowing 221 foot drop.At a whopping 77 miles per hour, you will zoom through a staggering 5,400 feet of twisting red track."
