Goliath, Steel roller coaster at Six Flags Fiesta Texas, San Antonio, United States.
Goliath is an inverted steel roller coaster at Six Flags Fiesta Texas with a 2,693-foot (821 m) track, a 105-foot (32 m) lift hill, and five inversions: two vertical loops, a zero-g roll, and two corkscrews. Its yellow box-spine track and supports carry orange trains with black seats and yellow over-the-shoulder restraints. Bare tree branches cross in front of the structure.
The ride was originally built in 1995 as Gambit at a park in Japan. It relocated to New Orleans in 2003 and moved to its current Texas location in 2008.
The name Chupacabra, adopted in December 2024, refers to the legendary creature of parts of the Americas folklore. The ride is a mirror image of Batman: The Ride at Six Flags Great America, a 1992 design cloned to several parks. Its two steel and fiberglass trains each carry 28 riders in seven cars, four abreast, with yellow over-the-shoulder restraints.
The coaster runs two steel and fiberglass trains of seven cars, each seating four riders in a single row for 28 per train. Friction brakes slow the train on the final brake run before it returns to the station. One cycle lasts about two minutes, including the 105-foot chain lift hill.
The track was repainted orange in fall 2024, while the supports stayed yellow; before that the scheme was blue track with yellow supports since 2008. The track itself was manufactured by Clermont Steel Fabricators in Batavia, Ohio. The ride is a mirror image of Batman: The Ride at Six Flags Great America, and SeaWorld opened its own Batman model, The Great White, in San Antonio in 1997.
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