GREEN LANTERN
The new GREEN LANTERN stand-up coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure towers
15 stories high and sends you through more than three quarters of a mile of twisting green steel. Unlike traditional seated coasters, GREEN LANTERN lets you to stand throughout the entire course of the ride that delivers a experience unlike any other.
Take a look at how the GREEN LANTERN coaster developed.
April 2011
Ride photo booth begins construction.
Entrance view of GREEN LANTERN with station construction in the background.
Corkscrew
Ground view of corkscrew.
Overview of the site with final track pieces awaiting installation.
March 2011
Dive Loop construction underway.
Second loop is topped off.
Crew secures track in place.
Dive loop is completed.
Construction on the turnaround begins.
First drop is completed.
Installation of the first loop begins.
Track pieces for the first loop's entry and exit are secured.
Top half of the first loop is installed.
Overall construction progress.
February 2011
Support columns are installed in the free run track.
Steel beams are erected for the transfer shed.
Construction on the for the first drop continues.
Track pieces for the banked turn leading into the first drop are secured in place.
More track pieces are installed on the first drop.
Overall view of first drop.
Overall construction progress.
Construction begins on the first drop.
January 2011
GREEN LANTERN's lift topping begins.
The lift's crown gets secured in place.
Workers remove crane harnesses after track is secured.
Aerial view of lift construction.
Crew secures lift track pieces.
Cranes continue to lower lift pieces into place.
First lift hill support beam secured.
Aerial view of the construction site with first track pieces installed.
Workers prepare a section of the left catwalk for installation.
Steel lift beams begin to be secured.
Crew begins to build out from the station track to the lift.
Construction crane lifts the first piece of track in place.
December 2010
Concrete is set and forms are removed from their piers.
The construction team begins to fill-in and level the ground around the footings.
The next section of footings await forms to be built around the GREEN LANTERN's remaining piers so concrete can be poured.
The final stages of setting the anchor bolts that support the columns have begun. This is where the highest point in the first turn will be. You will reach a speed of 63 mph on the down side of this first turn.
Here the anchor bolts are set and two mixer trucks are feeding a concrete pump that fills the forms, in a few days the forms will be removed.
Overall construction view.
Train frames are stored and await assembly.
Maintenance teams work hard painting and assembling the GREEN LANTERN cars.
Cars are moved to one of maintenance’s winter shops where seat padding and harnesses are attached.
Freshly painted fiberglass train elements are set aside to wait for final details and installation on the
GREEN LANTERN trains.
November 2010
Excavation in full force.
The first sections of track are laid out in preparation for installation.
Plots are dug for the GREEN LANTERN footings.
