The Bat (Kings Island; opened 1993)

The Bat's official logo is displayed at the entrance to the ride queue, and the queue of the defunct Son of Beast can be seen to the left. The pathway has many turns and curves, and guests will eventually reach an underpass that features a painted American Flag. A staircase at the end leads into the station.

When the ride opened as Top Gun, guests walked through an exhibit depicting an aircraft carrier control room prior to reaching the staircase. Access to the control room exhibit was blocked off from the queue several years later, some time before Cedar Fair purchased the park in 2006. Music from the motion picture, which originally played throughout the queue, was also removed during the theme transition to Flight Deck.

The ride begins with an ascent up a 90-foot (27 m) chain lift. At the top, the train dips slightly and turns roughly 225 degrees to the right. The train then drops 70 feet (21 m) into a valley banking right at the bottom as it begins to climb into the horseshoe element. The cars swing up and around to the left exiting the horseshoe parallel to same position during entry. Dropping back into the same valley, the train makes another banked turn to the right followed by a slight turn to the left as it passes by the observation area located near the exit.

The last part of the ride takes riders through a final series of sharp turns, each sending the train swinging quickly from one side to the other. At the ride's farthest point from the initial drop, the track makes its sharpest turn sending the train back toward the loading station. Afterward, the train navigates two more inclining turns before stopping abruptly at the brake run. The sudden brake right out of the last turn causes the cars to swing briefly even after the train has stopped moving forward.

The Bat has a similar layout to the Vortex at Canada's Wonderland, which was built two years earlier. The Vortex, however, has one less car on each train and excels in height, speed, and track length.