The Great White is an inverted roller coaster at SeaWorld San Antonio,[1] and the first roller coaster to be built at a SeaWorld park. It was the first inverted roller coaster to be built in Texas.[2]
Characteristics
Despite its shortened track length, The Great White follows an almost identical ride layout as the Batman the Ride coasters at numerous Six Flags parks. Within San Antonio, Six Flags Fiesta Texas operates the same model as the Chupacabra. At 2,562 feet (about 150 shorter than Batman's 2,693 foot layout), the coaster doesn't allow riders as much time to "recuperate" between inversions, consequently offering an extreme, forceful ride experience. Furthermore, The Great White sits lower to the ground, often deceiving its riders with elements such as "foot-choppers" as there are many trees and shrubs surrounding the coaster's track. The Great White is sometimes considered to be more intense than its cousin at Six Flags because of its added 8th row (Chupacabra has only seven rows per train) and shorter track length (2,562 feet, compared to Chupacabra’s 2,700 feet).