Six Flags Supes

Six Flags Supes is on a mission to be photographed in front of interesting places (or with interesting people) from around the world before returning home to GC5GHT0, Man of Steel in Southampton, Massachusetts!

Prior to the 2000 season, Six Flags New England was known as Riverside Park. Six Flags purchased the park and added their own DC Comics theming. The site that Bizarro operates on is the former site of the Riverside Park Speedway. The Speedway was demolished after the 1999 to make room for a new themed area, DC Superhero Adventure. As part of the $40 million expansion, the park built Superman: Ride of Steel. Six Flags worked with Swiss manufacturer, Intamin, to build and design the ride a year earlier. The final track piece of Superman was installed on March 27, 2000, about 40 days before opening day. The ride officially opened on May 5, 2000 as the tallest and longest roller coaster on the East Coast of the United States. The entrance and station were themed to Superman with Superman logos and a picture of him located above the entrance. The second tunnel also had a mist effect.

Six Flags transformed and rethemed Superman: Ride of Steel into Bizarro at the start of the 2009 season. They had to work with the Zoning Board of Appeals to file a permit for the new effects because the ride sits on the Connecticut River floodplain. Although no changes were made to the track layout, a new theme highlighting Superman's evil clone, Bizarro, was added. The track was repainted purple with dark blue supports and multiple special effects were added, including building structures that give riders the impression of speeding through a city, rings in the shape of Bizarro's S shield that the train passes through, and flame effects. The two trains were repainted purple with new on-board audio. Six Flags introduced an "alternate reality game" to market the re-themed ride. Bizarro opened on May 22, 2009, at the start of Memorial Day weekend.