Superman Ultimate Flight

Superman Ultimate Flight opened in 2003 using Bolliger & Mabillard's flying coaster format, a design in which riders are secured lying face-down in a prone position for the entire ride rather than the usual seated orientation. The train rotates riders forward into that position just before the lift hill, so the first big sensation is the climb itself — chest toward the track, arms and legs extended as though genuinely flying.

Along the Boardwalk, the coaster's 2,800-foot layout uses pretzel loops and sweeping turns engineered specifically to exaggerate the sense of low-altitude flight that defines B&M's flying coaster model, a design category the manufacturer had only introduced a few years earlier with Superman: Ultimate Flight installations at sister parks. The Superman branding leans directly into that flying sensation, framing the ride as an authentic simulation of the character's signature power rather than a generic thrill ride with borrowed IP.

Because flying coasters require unusually complex restraint and rotation mechanisms, only a small number of B&M installations exist worldwide, and this one remains a defining attraction of the Boardwalk area more than two decades after opening — one of the more technically ambitious coaster formats still represented in the park's current lineup.