USA: Six Flags Magic Mountain Features New Freefall Tower VR Experience

Visitors to California’s Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park can enjoy a new Virtual Reality (VR) experience with the park’s existing freefall tower attraction. Dubbed “DC Super Heroes Drop of Doom VR”, the new experience, which was launched this past Monday and which will be available for a limited time, offers riders a virtual experience at the side of Superman and Wonder Woman, battling against their nemesis Lex Luthor.

According to the storyline, villain Lex Luthor levitates riders with his anti-gravity ray gun so they began to float upwards, rising high above the skyscrapers of a virtual city. At the same time, the seats of the attraction start to go up the tower. In the air, it comes to an epic battle between the DC heroes and Lex Luthor, climaxing in a drop of approx. 122 meters (400 feet) at a maximum speed of 136 km/h (85 mph) – in the virtual and in the real world. To enjoy the new thrill experience, which was created in cooperation with Germany’s VR Coaster GmbH, riders must be at least 1.2 meters (48 inches) tall and 13 years old.

“[…] Combining the most iconic DC Super Heroes, Wonder Woman and Superman, with state-of-the-art technology, DC Super Heroes Drop of Doom VR delivers an awe-inspiring new thrill for spring 2018,” stated Neal Thurman, Six Flags Magic Mountain Park President.

On the other side of the world, at Korea’s Lotteworld, visitors have been able to enjoy a similar drop tower VR experience since the end of 2016: As the first free fall tower in the world, the attraction was also equipped with VR technology by VR Coaster (cf. our special feature on Virtual Reality in EAP, 3/17). (eap)