Credit: Six Flags Coliwood Studios
(Jackson Township, NJ) – Six Flags Great Adventure is opening its new highly anticipated roller coaster that’s a first of its kind in North America. The Flash Vertical Velocity is a super boomerang coaster. It includes four vertical launches, has several times when riders are upside down and can reach 60 miles per hour. The brand new ride will be ready when the park opens for the season on Saturday, March 29.
The coaster starts by taking riders out of the station forwards before launching them backwards. Then it’s back through the start point, much faster this time, before going upside-down. From there, there’s a camelback, a barrel roll and a sharp turn upward — before going backward through it all over again.
The Flash is not the only new coaster coming to Great Adventure. After demolishing Kingda Ka and some other rides over the winter, Six Flags is working on a multi-world-record-breaking coaster that will occupy that space. That new coaster is set to open in 2026.
