Themeparkfanatic | The Bat at King's Island @woodencoasterfan | Uploaded July 2018 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
This is the Bat at King's Island north of Cincinnati, OH, USA. It was built by Arrow Dynamics and opened here on April 9, 1993 as Top Gun. It ran under that name until 2007which was the year Paramount, then owners of the park, sold the chain to Cedar Fair. The name changed to Flight Deck and it ran under that name until 2013 when it was changed to the Bat in 2013. The Bat name has some history with the park and the amusement park industry as a whole as it was the world's first suspended coaster. Just so you know, there is a difference between a suspended and a inverted coaster. A suspended coaster is one where the entire train is suspended below the tracks but allows the individual cars to swing freely and there are no inversions on the coaster. I inverted coaster is like the suspended coaster in that the train hangs below the tracks but here is where the two are different. A inverted coaster train cars are fixed and cannot swing freely and there are inversions. The Bat originally opened where the Vortex coaster currently sits and in fact, uses the same station that the Bat originally used. It opened as the world's first suspended coaster on April 26, 1981 and closed in 1983. The current Bat coaster is 2,352 ft. long, 78 ft. high, has a top speed of 51 mph, and a total ride time of one minute and fifty two seconds.
This is the Bat at King's Island north of Cincinnati, OH, USA. It was built by Arrow Dynamics and opened here on April 9, 1993 as Top Gun. It ran under that name until 2007which was the year Paramount, then owners of the park, sold the chain to Cedar Fair. The name changed to Flight Deck and it ran under that name until 2013 when it was changed to the Bat in 2013. The Bat name has some history with the park and the amusement park industry as a whole as it was the world's first suspended coaster. Just so you know, there is a difference between a suspended and a inverted coaster. A suspended coaster is one where the entire train is suspended below the tracks but allows the individual cars to swing freely and there are no inversions on the coaster. I inverted coaster is like the suspended coaster in that the train hangs below the tracks but here is where the two are different. A inverted coaster train cars are fixed and cannot swing freely and there are inversions. The Bat originally opened where the Vortex coaster currently sits and in fact, uses the same station that the Bat originally used. It opened as the world's first suspended coaster on April 26, 1981 and closed in 1983. The current Bat coaster is 2,352 ft. long, 78 ft. high, has a top speed of 51 mph, and a total ride time of one minute and fifty two seconds.
