The Riddler's Revenge

The Riddler's Revenge opened in 1998 as Magic Mountain's Bolliger & Mabillard stand-up coaster, asking riders to stay on their feet through six inversions on a dense green layout next to the park's growing DC hillside. Stand-up trains were already a known B&M product line, but this installation leaned into sheer size — a tall lift, a long first drop, and a footprint that still reads clearly from the midway decades later.

The Riddler theming has always been lighter than a full dark-ride queue: paint, logos, and DC branding do most of the work while the ride's intensity comes from the standing restraint and continuous inversion sequence. That formula kept the coaster relevant even as Magic Mountain later added floorless, flying, launch, and single-rail steel around it.

Today it remains one of the park's longest-running modern steel credits and one of the clearest surviving examples of the late-1990s stand-up boom, still listed among the core DC Universe attractions on the official Six Flags site.