page_title: Batman The Escape
section_title: AstroWorld
hierarchical_section_title: Batman The Escape / History / AstroWorld
caption_attribution_description: English: The top of the lift hill.
context_page_description: Batman The Escape was a steel stand-up roller coaster that was moved to Six Flags Darien Lake amusement park in Darien, New York, after the closure of Six Flags AstroWorld in Houston, Texas, in 2005. It was located at Six Flags Magic Mountain where it operated from 1986 through 1988; Six Flags Great Adventure from 1990 until September 1992; and at Six Flags AstroWorld from 1993 until 2005. After being moved to Six Flags Darien Lake, it was never assembled, but put into storage in a lot across from the park and scrapped around 2018.
  Batman The Escape was designed by Intamin and featured one loop. This loop was followed by a diving turnaround, a midcourse brake run and a helix through the loop before returning through a straight away back to the final brakes.
context_section_description: Shockwave was dismantled in September 1992, relocated to AstroWorld in 1993 and reopened in 1994. The coaster was painted a blue shade of white, renamed and rethemed "Batman The Escape". A Batcave adjacent to the coaster was created out of an artificial mountain for a previous attraction and heavily themed as guests would prepare to ride the coaster.
  In 1998, the theming at the Batcave would be eliminated.
  On September 12, 2005, Six Flags CEO, Kieran Burke, announced that AstroWorld would be closed and demolished at the end of the 2005 season. The company cited issues such as the park's performance, and parking issues involving the Houston Texans football team, Reliant Stadium, and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo leveraged with the estimated value of the property upon which the park was located. Company executives were expecting to receive upwards of $150 million for the real estate, but ended up receiving less than half of that amount. After spending $20 million to demolish the park and clear the land, Six Flags received $77 million when the bare property was sold to a development corporation in 2006 (reported in a corporate earnings report). This transaction contributed to the decision by shareholders of the company to remove CEO, Kieran Burke, from his position on the board. He was replaced by Mark Shapiro formerly of Disney and ESPN.
caption: Batman The Escape, 2005
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