Six Flags Great Adventure and Wild Safari park in the US has revealed a new world's first: a roller coaster with a storyline.

Entitled Bizarro, the ride is based on a superhero from DC comics. Effectively the opposite of Superman, Bizarro has freeze vision and heat breath and lives on the planet Htrae.

The new ride stands 450 feet high at its tallest and has a lightning top speed of 61mph. By far and away the most novel part of the whole experience, however, is its audio accompaniment.

Larry Chickola, chief engineer at Six Flags, told nj.com: "There's an elaborate soundtrack that accompanies the ride, which ends with a Bizarro hip-hop song that was written specifically for the roller coaster. It's quite the endeavor, to tell so much of the story through sound. There's a mobile mp3 unit that had to be specially developed, which travels onboard the ride."

Chickola backed-up the theory behind the story-based rollercoaster with no uncertain enthusiasm: "If you put a rollercoaster in the middle of a field somewhere you'll get people to come and ride it, but if you can add a story into that, and allow riders to relive the story every time they ride it through characters and multimedia, you can get twice the bang for your efforts."

Open to visitors now, the New Jersey based theme park Six Flags is awaiting to see how the Bizarro goes down with its thrill-seeking clientele. Whether or not the narrative-coaster takes off in Britain is yet to be seen: maybe there's a twist ending to this tale after all.