Remember Flashback at Six Flags Magic Mountain? Roller Coaster Front Seat POV!
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Remember Flashback at Six Flags Magic Mountain? It was a one-of-a-kind Intamin/Giovanola "Space Diver" roller coaster. It traveled around to several Six Flags parks and it was not known for being a "smooth" roller coaster! The ride closed forever in 2003. Here's some retro footage that was shot in 2000! Enjoy!
when i see this roller coaster, i suddenly think about RCT2 for no reason.
+116852200519581732535 ah, it makes sense.
Well the ride WAS in RCT2, so there is a reason why your mind would think back to it.
***** yes, i forget about it.
I want to go on something more thrilling than Twister Coaster 1.
Every time you start the game, it's right there on the intro screen.
I like how the camera zooms into Goliath at 1:34 because this was shot in 2000 which means Goliath was brand new
i feel like if it was remade today with a different track and train it could be a huge hit today for people who rode the original and newcomers to coasters alike
I remember riding this ride like it was yesterday. The skies were blue, the cold California air hitting my face as I heard the clicks of the chainlift. We finally made it to the top, mom and dad by my side and as the train approached the first dive, I woke up and realized that I never rode this ride bc I was born in 1996.
Will Kalili k
Will Kalili lol
"I see sky's of blue, red roses too."
World greatest memory song.
Will Kalili was it fun cause it looks fun I hate when close classic ride why not just expand the park? right
handsome purple shep based on what I’ve heard, it was a terrible ride.
If B&M made a wild mouse this is what it would look like.
actually this ride was built by Intamin
michaelsivan18 Kind of, B&M actually designed this while they worked for Giovanola.
or a Raptor track
@@michaelsivan184 he said IF B&M... KEYWORD IF. IFFFFFF IF
This ride was the best, at night they used to put strobe lights on it and they timed them to each of the sequences of the ride to repeat. Still one of my favorite coasters of all time!
I rode this exactly once, back in the 90s, and I still remember how much it banged up my head. You would never guess from watching this footage.
Went on this when I was 10 in the year 2000. I never ever got such a quick headache from a roller coaster but this one did me in. Not even Viper was that bad.
I can't believe this was an intamin, it looks like a deformed b&m
Yeah just what I was thinking bc of the track
surprise!
PixelBuster04 Giavonola came before B&M.
Well the ride was designed by b&m before they left giovanola to start their own....
In the 90s, intamin used that style of track
I'm getting flashbacks about this
That only took 6 minutes! lol
How long have you been filming rollercoasters?
Kingdom probably years before youtube he sold dvd list of coasters on amazon were it would show all the wooden coaster of englands or something like that
20ish years.
Theme Park Review Oh my freak, this rollercoaster is a retro of craziness, did you ride it ?
I miss this rollercoaster! Was one of my favorites at six flags back in the day.
Haha I remeber this coasters when I played roller coasters tycoon 2 back in the days :D
what type of coaster? i have the triple thrill or whatever
Steel Twister coaster... if you're still wondering.
It is also a pre-made coaster in No Limits 1.
yea I remember building this ride with large half loops
This coaster was physically painful to ride. I can't believe Magic Mountain kept it for as long as they did.
A lot of people liked it, and for awhile it was considered scary and extreme. I remember going to MM with a group of friends for a birthday and all of us being scared as the coaster roared by, asking each other if we were scared and saying we weren't. I must have ridden this 4 or 5 times over the years and don't remember it being painful. Viper, on the other hand, knocked my head back and forth onto the restraints.
@@PeckiePeck I liked it because I was 48 inches 🍆 at the time and too short to get hit my the OSTRs
Lol me and my friends called this the “pimp slap” ride after we rode it 3X
Oh man...this sucker hurt so much! Pretty sure the headaches I get today are still from the day I chose to ride this and Psyclone in one trip :o
YES OMG THANK YOU I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR A GOOD VIDEO OF THIS AMAZING OLD SHITTY RIDE
lel
I loved it myself
wow that was such a treat. I always remember this ride being closed. I never saw it running before they permanently closed it. I thought I'd never see pov footage of it. Thank you.
My head and neck remember
What happened to them
This was the worst ride there. It literally felt like someone was hitting you in the ears for 5 minutes straight
@@essel23fly I liked it myself & thought revolution was worse for ear bashing
It was like a real life simulator of what your head and neck goes through when you're in a Ford Explorer that flips several times (only an least nobody died on this ride...that I know of).
I kind of understand why this ride wasn’t a huge hit. It was basically a painful, glorified diving version of wild mouse.
I feel like if a ride like this was made today, it would have been smooth and fun!
It looks not like the smoothest but i see other coasters more garbage
First coaster ever with that B&M style track! Look at them now
This isn't a B&M coaster.
Thatsmallcessna he said track
@@thatsmallcessna8300 it was designed by B&M
I got to go to magic mountain several times in the early 2000sand while the lines for Goliath, Riddler's revenge, and Superman were crazy long, there was virtually no line for this ride, we rode it about 10 times in a day. It's still one of my favorite theme park memories
And to think this was the first ever coaster to use what we now known as B&M track. We've come a long way from seeing how crappy this style of track was 30 years ago to seeing it as one of the best styles of coaster track ever created, that shows how much the technology has improved
I was thinking that looks like B&M track but I had a hard time believing they’d make something so bad!
@@danadoyon2530 It is B&M track, because even though this POS was an Intamin coaster, Walter Bolliger and Claude Mabillard started out at Intamin before branching away and starting B&M.
Anyone who's been on a B&M stand-up, even if it's been converted to a sit-down, knows B&M is still capable of making complete crap fests
I'm from Atlanta and I remember this as Z-Force!
First ride we went on when my friend and I visited Magic Mountain in 1998. I was not keen at all and swore I wasn’t going on any other ride. My friend made me and long story short we did every ride several times that day and left looking decidedly green! Great memories.
Damn that looks fun. And a little brutal.
The poor children in the background getting in so much pain
I only know this ride from RCT2
RightHearted me too! Now I'm sad that I never got to ride it.
I_am_maybe_a_slice_of_pie same
I remember being the only person who would ever want to ride this. After whichever group I was with would get off this ride they would complain how painful it was. Maybe I was the perfect height or something cause I always enjoyed it. :-o
I wish they'd bring back an updated version of this ride. Seems like a really fun concept.
It feels very weird watching a POV with an audio and camera quality that can still be compared to modern standards from 2003 or before.
Such a classic Intamin! Reminds me of Shockwave at Drayton Manor!
I could be wrong, but it might be the same layout?
@@concertino58 Shockwave has a much more drawn out layout with standup trains. Just the track profiling and support structure remind me of it.
This is the closest I will ever get to riding Flashback. Every time we ever went, it was always closed for maintenance.
Same. 😔
It was only able to operate during the winter and fall season because it made too much noise at the waterpark
It was my favorite ride back in the 90s
Jesus, Rob. That brings back memories.
Sure does EO! ;)
Theme Park Review please reply, I've been watching since 2011, and I love this coaster!
ok
Theme Park Review do you have any footage from other defunct coasters
Oh my, this was one of the most roughest roller coasters that ever existed made by Six Flags Magic Mountain..
yup, i loved this ride. One of my personal favs, even with the pain.
This is definitely one of the coasters😎🤙😎🤙
Am I the only one who thinks this looks like B & M track?
Jesse Fuir That's what I was thinking, and so does the Intamin stand ups
Lukas Tolly it's because Bolliger&Mabillard were former ingeneer for Giovanola and Intamin before founding their own business, which is B&M, with a bunch of other people from Giovanola/Intamin and took the square beam design with them
Nicolas CW, that explains why Goliath and Titan look like B&Ms, because they're Giovanola's
Jesse Fuir yep!
Actually, Giovanola was the company that produced steel for both Intamin and B&M. However, Giovanola made their own rides as well like Goliath and Titan
This coaster along with Psyclone spoiled a lot of fun trips to Magic Mountain when I was a kid.
Thanks for the upload. Didn't see this when it was open, but it always took my interest
I liked to think that it was called Flashback because your life flashes before your eyes before the imminent death from the bludgeoning you get on the ride.
Though, I still enjoyed it the more I rode it. Perhaps because the concussions made me believe so.
This ride was so bumpy!
I never had a chance to ride this coaster (those times I went to Magic Mountain it was always closed), but it obviously was open during the time period I attended that park in since I visited both pre and post the installation of Goliath, which you see in several of the shots. I remember seeing this coaster there, though, and being very curious about it because I'd never seen another one like it, one that was so pointedly compact. I'm glad I found this video ride through!
It is my favorite ride to watch in RCT2.
This coaster looks really fun tho, wish I would've had a chance to ride it
Ulises Equihia same
Ulises Equihia ya
Trust me, you don't want to
It was fun for me
No you don't
My husband and I rode this back in June 1992. I hated it. It was so painful. After the first drop I was so ready for it to end.
Flashback may be closed, although, there is one remnant left of it. If you go inside the gates next to bugs bunny world you'll see the fright fest maze condemned which is the loading station for flashback. You can also see it during fright fest if you go in the maze or if you are in Hurricane Harbor, you can spot it as well, look closely to your left and you will see it.
Maybe I'm a freak, but I kind of remember enjoying this ride - thought it was kinda cool.
This OG was a Painful but Fun memory
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Member when a marriage was only between a man and a woman
As a kid, I wanted to ride this so much as I watched VHS tapes from the 90's about it. I was so confused to see the park as it is rather than how I always thought it was.
A remastered version of this would be better than any 4d free fly, right.
HAHA Flashback had some sick advertisements and that was when I first went to 6 flags... it knocked you around and would give you cauliflower ear
What a great ride. Really sad to watch this and know I'll never ride it again. RIP. For real.😟
I feel the same & I'm not the only one who liked it then.
This ride was my favorite!
This ride was so bumpy! So epic to see!!
that view of Metro at 1:00 omg. Magic Mountain desperately need a ride like Metro! Should have kept up with it or updated it. Not removed it!
Honestly even though it was painful, the utilization of space was top notch for the time
rode this brain machine once. Thats all i needed
MM: "OK Mr engineer, we need a Rollercoaster but only have 100 square feet of space.."
Engineer: "is it ok if the ride is painful?"
😂
I don't understand how this ride was so rough, while Giavanola has Titan and Goliath that are incredibly smooth compared to this. But that being said, some of B&M's early coasters had fabricated steel from Giovanola and those were pretty rough too.
my home park!! sadly i never came to the park until 2015. this looks so fun
This was the very first coaster I ever went on.... Thankfully I went on vine shortly after and released there were better less painful coasters.
Hey rob, can you do more videos like this? Like with the old footage?
I have tons of old footage! :)
Theme Park Review I'd love to see some more defunct coasters like this!
Me too!
oh wow! for a while I thought this became the Green Lantern....
Was lucky enough to have ridden this in the mid 80's. Thought it was pretty cool, although the trim braking kind of killed the momentum. In a way, this is a predecessor to the Zac spins (without the spin- so maybe not). Anyway, thanks for the memories, Rob.
Yeah I do remember this ride 100%. Thanks for the "Flashback" no pun intended. lol xD
I rode this back in 1999.
I found it strange and not very pleasant but was so star struck of being at amazing Magic Mountain my childhood dream coasterpark that I didn't mind it. On every level it makes you go "this can't be.. you wouldn'taaaaaaa".
From todays perspective, smaking my head against the headrest was a pain, but Viper does it too, to this day.
Wasn't this thing SBNO for like 5 years just to keep MM with the same coaster count as CP?
G Gerrit it was. They even kept listing it in their park maps until 2007/2008.
I heard this ride used to beat you up lol. Was it true?
Kitsune91 it certainly looks that way :p
Yes. Yes it did. Especially your neck.
Yes. It was brutal. I hated it.
Yes, a helmet would of helped a little
Kitsune91 Yes!!
I remember this ride when it first came out! Long ass lines for a weak ride. It’s like a wild mouse ride
I sure do remember this! That bastard was rough!
Rode this a few times during my childhood. I always found it to be intriguing and appealing because it was so unique and creative. However, the pain and rattling took away most redeeming qualities. Also, unless you get the front wall, the tall cars made visibility zero as you were staring at a giant fiberglass wall the entire time.
Thats the most claustrophobic roller coaster i have ever seen... :P
This was originally the "Z Force", built for Six Flags Great America (Gurnee, Illinois) in 1985... It lasted until the 1989 season when it was replaced by Iron Wolf, a stand-up roller coaster... Z Force wasn't a bad ride, but it wasn't all that great, either, as it would kind of toss you around on the dives...
Never was a good ride but I am happy I got to ride it. The initial Hairpin drop is something I would like to see again on another rollercoaster.
X2 wasnt even there and Viper looked fresh! I like how it has banked turns and that it packs a punch in a small space. I just really dont like the layout
Theme Park Review thank you sooooo much I've been searching for decent POV of this!!!.
The only flashback I have about this roller coaster is how painful that thing was. It was fun for the first turn then slammed us into the side and everyone was like ok thats why this shit is never open. That ride dislocated my spinal cord almost.
😆 yeah that second one looks rough.
Omg do I remember this. It brings back so so so many memories.
That is a bizarre coaster. Probably the weirdest layout I've ever seen and it was when Intamin still used Giovanola track. Basically looks like the deformed outdoor cousin of Space Mountain.
Dude I remember this ride it really tweaked my neck .
This was my first steel coaster. It was Z force at SFOG back in May 1989 during my 8th grade end of the year trip.
Favorite coaster to watch in rollercoaster tycoon lol.
I was lucky to ride this back in 1993 and hell it left u marks on your shoulders 😀
i love rollercoasters,and this has been the only one I remember not enjoying. There was an unpleasant physical sensation to those accelerated sharp turns at the ends . None of my friends suggested we ride it again.
Another problem was that because the sound of the coaster was loud to the life guards at Hurricane Harbor, it was generally closed from May to September everytime the water park was operating during the summer.
People that complain about the coaster at New York New York have never ridden flashback. I was never so beat up in my life. Waited hours for it. So glad it is gone, where did it end up?
I was 13 when this was new and still remember the brain rattle I got riding that POS once. If you ever wanted to know what it would be like to take a left hook, right hook combo from Mike Tyson, ride Flashback at Six Flags.
one of two of the most roughest roller coasters I have beem on. This and there version of the wooden coaster Cyclone which both are no longer at Magic Mountain.
Cyclone is apocalypse now
@ Kenzie Backlin Wrong. They're two different rides. Psyclone was a Summers/Dinn creation, and Apocalypse (originally Terminator Salvation: The Ride) is a GCI
I've been on Psyclone 10 times in a row as there was no line at all. I loved the shakieness but Flashback was already SBNO in 03. :(
Never rode it, but it was stashed unused in Hurricane Harbor for a while.
this was the best ride there...
Remember riding this coaster on more than one occasion. Man, it was so painful. Surprised it lasted as long as it did.
That looks like fun. Too bad they got rid of it. When did this coaster actually come out?
It came out in 1992.
Take my word for it: This thing wasn't fun at all. It was rough, painful, and had some of the worst use of over the shoulder restraints on a coaster.
Underrated track. But if you didn’t keep your head back, your ears got pounded into the sides of the cart. That’s why the ride failed.
It doesn't look like it aged well. I rode it when it opened as Z-Force at Great America near Chicago, and it was one of the few roller coasters I could actually handle. It didn't seem especially brutal.
I remember riding this. I also remember thinking that it wasn't very exciting.
I heard a rumour(dunno if it was true)that one reason they eventually got rid of it because they kept getting loads of complaints from people in the water park because of the noise from the ride, and even complaints from staff working there as well because it was too noisy. Never got a chance to ride it, went once in 2002, but ride was closed. Looks like I never missed much
oh good ole CONCUSSION! glad they finally got rid of it. Rode once never went back.
I never got to ride it because it was always closed. But I love the compact repetitive design, its unique and cool.
rode this as a kid.... good times lmao