Six Flags Great Adventure Brings Total Mayhem To Coaster Lovers

Roller coaster lovers, rejoice: Six Flags Great Adventure has more thrills in store for you.

The 510-acre theme park in Jackson -- billed as the world’s largest -- announced it will add its 14th roller coaster next spring: Total Mayhem, a 4-D free fly coaster, according to a news release.

The coaster will lift riders straight up a 12-story, 90-degree hill, and then “wreak havoc as riders flip head-over-heels at least six times,” a news release on the park website says.

The goal? A sense of weightlessness as you travel the track.

Total Mayhem will have one-of-a-kind onboard magnetic technology that will enable those head-over-heels free-fly flips to give riders the feeling of weightlessness; seats that allow riders to face each other as they tumble head over heels, and two beyond 90-degree “raven” drops giving the sensation of free-falling.

Thrill seekers will experience exhilarating leaps and dives along a horizontal plane, along with unexpected drops as they tumble from one level to the next, from wing seats -- the track is between two sets of seats instead of above or below the riders.

That will ”amp up the pandemonium since riders will experience all of this chaos with no track above or below – just the sky, ground and adjacent Great Lake churning around them,” the release says.

“We are thrilled to unveil one of the newest concepts in roller coaster engineering with Total Mayhem,” park president John Fitzgerald said in the release. “Six Flags Great Adventure’s world-renowned coaster collection will expand into the realm of insanity – or spinsanity – with this new, vertical coaster that delivers gravity-defying somersaults with utter unpredictability. It is the perfect addition to our dynamic line-up of award-winning roller coasters because this ride delivers next generation, cutting-edge thrills.”

The ride is expected to open next spring.