B&M Center: Floorless

BKF (Batman: Knight Flight) is a unique floorless coaster. Instead of relying on the tried-and-true method of inversion after inversion, it breaks things up by using curves. Off the lift it drops right into a large vertical loop. Normally some sort of diving loop would follow, but instead the train takes a ground-level turn at high speed and then flies over the station at a high bank while continuing the curve. This manuever puts the train in the same direction as when it exited the lift and lines it up for a cobra roll. The mid-course brakes follow and then the ride finishes with two interlocked corkscrews and a mess of more curves and helices.

Name Batman:
Knight Flight
Opened May, 2000
Height 161 ft
Length 4,000 ft
Max Speed 65 mph
Inversions 1 Loop
1 Cobra Roll
(2 Inversions)
2 Corkscrew
Trains 3
Capacity 32 riders per train
Cost $12 Million

Name Kraken
Opened June 12, 2000
Height 149 ft
Length 4,177 ft
Max Speed 65 mph
Inversions 2 Vertical Loops
1 Diving Loop
1 Cobra Roll (2 inversions)
1 Heartline Twist
1 Corkscrew
Trains 3
Capacity 32 riders per train
Cost $15 million ?

My bro, me, and my step brother on Kraken at Sea World Orlando

It is 4177 FT. long. It opened in spring 2000. It is a great coasters that was built by B&M another successful coaster for them. It has a total of 7 inversions and is a little longer than Medusa (Also built by B&M). It is 149 FT. tall and it goes under ground 3 times including one time into Kraken's lair. This ride is very heavily themed. It gives u a story line and the ride is based on a myth.

Medusa is the first of B&M's floorless coasters. It is a cross between their traditional sit-down looper and their inverted coaster. The trains sit above the track, but higher than normal and there is no floor. Thus, the riders' feet hang precariously close to the track. The layout of the ride is similar to Kumba. It starts off with a curving drop and procedes to fly through a loop, heartline twist, cobra roll, and two corkscrews.
Name Medusa
Opened April 2, 1999
Height 142 ft
Length 3,985 ft
ax Speed 61 mph
Inversions 1 Loop
1 Diving Loop
1 Heartline Twist
1 Cobra Roll(2 inversions)
2 Corkscrews
Trains 3
Capacity 32 riders per train
Cost $12 million?

This Medusa is the 2nd floorless ride to be built, the first being located at Six Flags Great Adventure. Don't think this is a clone in any form, it is far from it. Starting off with a 150 foot straigh drop, a rarity among B&M coasters. It flies through a vertical loop, dive loop, a heartline twist, and then into a completely new inversion, the Sea Serpent. Not content with their "normal" cobra roll, B&M went and twisted it around and came out with this bizarre set of inversions. The trains enter like a normal cobra roll, but then twist around a corkscrew and end up exiting the same direction they entered. After the mid-course brakes are two corkscrews before the final station brakes.

Name Medusa
Opened April, 2000
Height 150 ft
Length 3,937 ft
Max Speed 61 mph
Inversions 1 Loop
1 Diving Loop
1 Heartline Twist
1 Sea Serpent(2 inversions)
2 Corkscrews
Trains 3
Capacity 32 riders per train
Cost $15 million

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