Flashback (Six Flags New England)
Flashback is a steel roller coaster of shuttle design currently in use at Six Flags New England. The ride has one train with a capacity of twenty-eight riders, two across in each row. When the coaster starts, the train is pulled backwards up the lift hill, then dropped through the loading gate through a cobra roll and then one loop. At the end of this cycle, the train is pulled up the lift hill at the end of the track, then released, allowing the train to go back through the loops backwards, hence the name of the coaster. The ride is an off-the-shelf Vekoma Boomerang design common in many amusement parks.
History
The ride started out at Nanhu Amusement Park in China, but was sold soon after opening because guests were too afraid to ride it. Before it moved to Six Flags New England, the roller coaster was located at Kentucky Kingdom where it was known as The Vampire, with its controversial slogan "Give blood at your local park".[1]
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