# @cowmissing on YouTube - **Type:** Video - **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=YKB2h3-DWr0 - **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/75901380-cowmissing-youtube - **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/5e16dd5136.jpg - **Posted:** 2025-03-28T03:12:18.000+00:00 - **Account Owner:** Cow Missing (@CowMissing) — https://gondola.cc/CowMissing ## Caption Nitro is a steel hypercoaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey, built by Bolliger & Mabillard. The ride opened to the public on April 7, 2001, and has since been a top contender in Amusement Today’s Golden Ticket Awards, once ranking as high as third among steel coasters. Construction for Nitro began in August 2000 with land preparation behind several maintenance buildings. In September, concrete footers were poured, visible from the patio of Captain Jack's restaurant, while work continued in the nearby forest and along the shores of Prospertown Lake. By December 2000, vertical construction had commenced, and the new ride was set to occupy 6 acres (2.4 ha) of land. On February 1, 2001, Six Flags Great Adventure officially announced that the attraction would be named Nitro and confirmed it as a hypercoaster. This addition marked the park’s third Bolliger & Mabillard coaster, following Batman: The Ride and Medusa, and was promoted as the most explosive coaster in the world, representing the park’s most significant single investment in 27 years. Nitro was completed on schedule and opened to the public on April 7, the start of the 2001 season. A special event on April 11 featured former WWE wrestler Mick Foley sliding down a detonator handle as fireworks lit the sky above the queue and one of the trains departed the station. After leaving the station, the train makes a left U-turn before ascending a 230-foot (70 m) lift hill. At the peak, it plunges 215 feet (66 m) down a 68-degree drop to reach speeds of up to 80 mph (130 km/h). The ride climbs a 189-foot (58 m) hill and turns left into a dive over another prominent airtime hill. Nitro continues with a hammerhead turn—a sharp U-turn to the right—followed by a camelback hill, an S-curve, and a 540-degree helix. After a mid-course brake run, the coaster traverses three more camelback hills before entering its final brake run and returning to the station. Six Flags Great Adventure is an amusement park about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Trenton, in Jackson Township, New Jersey. Owned and operated by Six Flags, the park is between New York City and Philadelphia and features a water park called Hurricane Harbor. It opened in 1974 as Great Adventure under the direction of restaurateur Warner LeRoy and was acquired by Six Flags in 1977. The park is conveniently located near Interstate 195 and Monmouth Road (County Route 537). In 2012, Six Flags merged its 160-acre Great Adventure with its 350-acre Wild Safari animal park to create Six Flags Great Adventure & Safari. Covering 510 acres (210 ha), it became the second-largest theme park in the world, following Disney's Animal Kingdom. On April 1, 1998, Premier Parks acquired Six Flags from Time Warner and Boston Ventures. The new management team introduced a dozen flat rides and launched a "war on lines" initiative the following year. The Adventure River complex was retired, but the flume ride and Congo Rapids remained. Additionally, a new kiddie water play area called Looney Tunes Seaport was added, along with a junior roller coaster, Blackbeard's Lost Treasure Train (now known as Harley Quinn Crazy Train), and a kiddie roller coaster, Road Runner Railway. The park's highlight attraction at the time was Medusa, a floorless steel roller coaster featuring multiple inversions. No major changes were made in 2000, but across the property, a new water park called Hurricane Harbor opened in late May. This separate, gated area required its own admission and featured a dozen waterslides, a kiddie water play area, and a wave pool. In 2001, the park introduced the state-of-the-art roller coaster Nitro. The following year, Batman & Robin: The Chiller was revamped with new trains, removing the over-the-shoulder harnesses for a smoother ride. In 2003, the park added Superman: Ultimate Flight, a coaster similar to ones at Six Flags Over Georgia and Six Flags Great America. In 2004, new harnesses were added to the Runaway Mine Train, and a new upcharge attraction, erUPtion, was added to the Boardwalk. In 2005, the park unveiled Kingda Ka, the world's tallest roller coaster, and dismantled Viper. Kingda Ka's construction led to the closure of the season pass holder entrance, as its footprint covered the area. A new children's play area called Balin's Jungleland was also added. In 2006, the park introduced El Toro, a wooden twister coaster that replaced Viper, a new themed area, and a revamped kiddie ride area replacing Bugs Bunny Land, which was retired at the end of 2004. © 2001 Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (https://www.sixflags.com/greatamerica) Posted for entertainment and educational purposes only. No copyrights were infringed. All works are the property of the company listed above. Please do not reproduce without their expressed written consent. #SixFlagsGreatAdventure #GreatAdventureNJ #SixFlags #ThemePark #RollerCoaster #Nitro #TVC #tvcommercials #cowmissing ## Stats - **Views:** 1,907 - **Likes:** 29 - **Shares:** 0 - **Comments:** 2 ## Credits No public credits are recorded here. This does not identify who made the post. ## Tags sixflags, rollercoaster, greatadventurenj, themepark, tvcommercials, tvc, nitro, cowmissing, sixflagsgreatadventure --- Copyright (c) Gondola