The newest B&M floorless will soon grace SFFT.

    The coaster manufacturers B&M have truly started something with their new innovative floorless design. It all started with Medusa, at Six Flags Great Adventure. The floorless design is brilliant in its simplicity. They are simply slightly-reclined chairs with no floor, letting passengers dangle just feet from the speeding track underneath them. Add this thrilling element, plus many inversions to equal a great ride. Superman: Krypton Coaster all started as a few track pieces, that were spotted in an area at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio, Texas. Jason Knutson from Coasterphotos also took some pictures and put him on the site. They looked like the station for a floorless, but at the time this was happening, all of the floorless hype was over Kraken at Sea World in Orlando, Florida. That changed when SFFT released the scoop about Superman: Krypton Coaster.

    Located in the Rockville Section of Six Flags Fiesta Texas, near the rock quarry wall, Superman: Krypton Coaster will take full advantage of its ingenious location, by swerving into the wall, and by it at speeds of 70 m.p.h. The track, a wonderful looking red and blue, is starting to take form. The floorless trains will make their way up the 168-foot lift hill, on top of the rock wall. After making a quick turn-a-round,  and down, down, and away! Hitting 70 m.p.h. the train will then blast into the first inversion: a 114 foot tall vertical loop. Other inversions will include a zero-gravity heartline twist, a two-inversion cobra roll, a 96-foot-tall diving loop, and a few corkscrews. The 4,025-foot-long course also includes many banked curves and twists having some very close encounters with the quarry wall. Superman: Krypton Coaster will have an incredible ride time of 3 minutes and 20 seconds. I'm sure what Texas park most enthusiasts will be heading to in 2000 will be.

Click below for an awesome rendering of the finished Superman: Krypton Coaster!

Rendering courtesy Chris Wolf, ©2000. For permission to use rendering, e-mail Chris.

days until the scheduled Superman: Krypton Coaster opening!