Batman & Robin: The Chiller

[Pineracer]

I was just on rcdb and it seems the park has rehabbed some smaller rides in the past, a  Schwarzkopf Jet Star 2 just before getting Chiller that they sold to another Brazil park that hasn't opened it and they other, A Zamperla Galaxy, they sold to a traveling fair. I wonder if they planned more to rehab Chiller when they bought it, but thought they could finally add a new coaster into the fold and gave up due to it's troubled past?

[aem7ac]

It appears that one of the trains has found its way to Six Flags Over Texas, to be used on Mr. Freeze. Picture on facebook

[The Master]

At least part of Chiller lives on. It really is something how the two Mr Freezes have been so much more successful designs than Chiller was. 

[DantheWoman]

Do you know if Moloko's "Fun For Me," Underworld's "Moaner," and Arkarna's "House On Fire" (from the Batman & Robin soundtrack) played in the queue? The Six Flags Wiki says this.

[Great Adventurer]

Unfortunately I haven't been able to read it due to lack of a subscription, but if anybody subscribes to the Asbury Park Press, they posted what looks like a nice retrospective on The Chiller today:

 

https://www.app.com/story/news/history/2019/11/27/batman-and-robin-chiller-ride-six-flags-great-adventure-brazil/3987179002/

[Pineracer]

You can only read it if your a subscriber, which is unfortunate.

[harry2004]

 

i know this is not the song to the chiller but this song reminded me of the chiller coaster

[DantheWoman]

LMAO! I'm still looking for what music played in the Chiller station. Apparently they also played the Riddler's Revenge station music?

[MarioSonic94]

RIP Joel Schumacher. 
 

You may have made a crappy movie. But that crappy movie resulted in a great ride!

 

 

Edited June 22, 2020 by MarioSonic94

[I Have No Name]

Given how we better understand LIM launches, could something like The Chiller work present day?

[DantheWoman]

Given my... ahem, "response" to El Toro, it's unlikely I would ever go on this ride, but I would love to if I were fearless.

[IgetAround]

On 3/20/2020 at 10:44 AM, DantheWoman said:

LMAO! I'm still looking for what music played in the Chiller station. Apparently they also played the Riddler's Revenge station music?

In my time visiting the park and working at the Chiller, I never heard it play any music in the station and or queue lines. The only thing close to music was the constant, low rumble and static sound effect emanating from the station building. (I have a recording of that somewhere)

 I also messed with many of the sound effects and automated queue spiels that had broken long before I worked the ride, and all I ever found was a loud "boom" sound effect and pre-recorded boarding and un-boarding spiels. 

As far as if the ride ever played music before any of that, (2005), it might have, but that was before my time. 

[The Master]

I suppose the boom sound effect was to be played during launches. I remember the old exterior humming that sometimes worked. The outside queue also used to have generator machines that had lightning tubes which broke. 

[DantheWoman]

Moloko would've played in the queue around 1998

[MarioSonic94]

This month marks the 25th anniversary of both the masterpiece of crap that is the Batman & Robin movie and the flawed but very fun roller coaster that was originally built to promote said movie.

[29yrswithaGApass]

The Batman and Robin logo that use to be on the ride's tower always looked big from the ground.  It measured over 30 feet wide and was huge as seen in this blurry picture of it on the ground before installation.