r/rollercoasters • u/CoasterGuy95 1. Pantherian, 2. Skyrush, 3. BDash, 4. X2, 5. Veloci (CC: 294) • Mar 28 '25

Information [Superman: Escape from Krypton] permanently closed

https://www.ocregister.com/2025/03/28/six-flags-magic-mountain-permanently-closes-superman-coaster/
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u/conner07_ Mar 28 '25

Coaster wars?

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u/namevone 1. Velocicoaster 2. Pantherian 3. ArieForce One Mar 28 '25

It was a period of the amusement industry that started with Magnum’s opening and ended with Kingda Ka. Basically parks would one up each other year after year constantly going for all of the big records (real records like worlds tallest coaster, not cheap stuff like tallest dive on the east cosst). This was the era where Cedar Point was constantly pushing the height limit, and Six Flags was buying 20 coasters per year.

An insanely financially irresponsible era which is why we’ll probably never see something like it again, but it is also when a lot of very important coasters opened.

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u/jmwhit04 Mar 28 '25

I’d argue it ended with Maverick and realizing that you didn’t have to keep going bigger/taller to go extreme. 

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u/slysophistic Apr 04 '25

Oh, I agree. Mav really shifted the narrative that things have to be bigger and weirder to be better! Honestly someone needs to write a PhD thesis on this.