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Flashback

Six Flags Magic Mountain

This "Space Diver" roller coaster is one-of-a-kind and advertised as the world's only hairpin drop roller coaster. Flashback's stacked design features six steeply banked vertical 180-degree dives which are entered from the top. This innovative design produces a powerful freefall experience as trains plunge through the turn. Fast steel switchbacks connect the turns just before the trains lunge into a gravity-defying 540-degree upward spiral. To increase the diving sensation the coaster uses trains with four abreast seating expanding the width of the train.

Related: See Flashback Review for photos.

Flashback Details

Year	Track	Type	Designer
1992	Steel	Space Diver	Intamin AG

Roller Coaster Stats

Height: 86 feet	Top Speed: 35 mph
Length: 1,900 feet	Trains: 3 - 20 passenger
Train Mfg: Giovanola	Ride Time: 2 minutes

More Facts About Flashback

Trains have five cars with one row each, seating four abreast per row.

Ride capacity: 1,100 passengers per hour

Height requirement: Must be at least 48 inches tall

1985 - Built and operated at Six Flags Great America under the name Z-Force.

1998 - Relocated to Six Flags Over Georgia where it operated through 1990.

1991 - Z-Force is placed in storage for a year before its move to California.

1992 - Relocated to Six Flags Magic Mountain and renamed Flashback.

2002 - The last year Flashback operated at Six Flags Magic Mountain. It remains standing at the park, but not operating.

January 2007 - The park announces that Flashback will be dismantled and removed to make room for future expansion.

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