Ive been to magic mountain of June 2019 Just gotta say, while the coaster WAS closed, I got to learn, and experience its neighbor Which, was a standing up coaster that gave you the ¨anal¨ treatment instead so learning about this leads me to belive that the two are secretly working together
I went to six flags with my wife many years ago. We saw a huge line for this ride but couldn’t see the actual ride at the time. We waited 2 hours for what ended up being the worst ride we’ve ever ridden on. Seeing this UA-cam video brings us closure. We can move on with our lives and finally begin to heal. Thank you.
I rode this years ago, got whiplash and my ankle smacked against something metal, causing a cut on my achilles heel. I got off the ride and showed my bloody sock to the ride operator. Guy was like “yeah, happens all the time.”
I'm convinced Green Lantern is a cursed IP outside the comics, given how the movie bombed, the cartoon was cancelled, and it had a horrible amusement park ride.
In a similar fate next to the Fantastic 4 movies as well as the infamous Captain Marvel movie (though to be honest, Fantastic 4 before the 2015 abombination was better than those two). Cursed would be somewhat an understatement and like Green Lantern, I pray one day that he will get a good film somewhere.
confetti scares the shit out of me ever since i saw that imgur post of that girl that ended up losing her eye because of one piece infecting her shit up
Me: Worst Six Flags coaster? This looks exactly like the one they're building at La Ronde Defunctland: The coaster was to be moved to La Ronde Me: SHIT
Hopefully it will be better there. The reason this ride is so bad is because California FORCED Six Flags to install weights that none of the other Zac Spins have.
@@user-fm7gu2vc6i eat some sandwiche with melted cheese and perfectly cooked ham, with a little bit of oil on each side of the bread and some juice, first thing in the morning.
My father hates rollercoasters and rides. Somehow I managed to convince him to ride this ride when we went in 2012. I regretted it. He regretted it. Never again.
I hope this channel looks into a coaster from the same park way back in the day named Flashback. It was track configured in a cubical shape overall with twists and turns going through the maze like pattern. EVERYONE came off that ride holding their heads and necks. It isas a whiplash and concussion simulator.
Balls were OBLITERATED on Iron Wolf in Six Flag Great America (Illinois). It was a standup coaster with a bike seat beneath your crotch. Backflips fucking sucked.
For anyone wondering what has happened since this video: La Ronde has cancelled their planned installation of the coaster as Vipère, as the coaster has disappeared from storage and the concrete footings were poured but later removed - probably for the best. Wonder Woman: Flight of Courage, a single-rail RMC Raptor, has been put up where First Flight (and Tidal Wave) used to stand and is using its queue building, obviously rethemed to Wonder Woman. EDIT: By "disappeared", I mean that the coaster's tracks and supports used to be just lying out in the open at La Ronde, but now they're nowhere to be seen. While it's theoretically possible that it has been moved or sold to another park, by far the most likely scenario is that it was sold for scrap.
From someone who go to La Ronde each year because there's nothing at about an hour or 2 from where i am , i'm glad we didn't get this monstrosity of a " coaster " , even if nothing replaced it , it's still better than wasting money on this ''coaster''
Definitely a stupid movie. I felt like it was just a movie of Seth rogen saying half way witty shit and being an asshole to an Asian guy who’s trying to be the new Jackie Chan.
Definitely a stupid movie. I felt like it was just a movie of Seth rogen saying half way witty shit and being an asshole to an Asian guy who’s trying to be the new Jackie Chan.
I literally blacked out on that ride because my cart was spinning so fast lol. So imagine not being able to see and getting your privates crushed at the same time lol
I blacked out on Goliath coaster during a Magic Mountain "free preview". Soon after I became coaster phobic and never went to amusement parks again. I remember how Goliath took a really long time to officially open although Taco Bell commercials kept saying coming soon to magic mountain. I was surprised how many people would tell me they were going to magic mountain for free to try out a rollercoaster, it was then I knew Six Flags Corp uses people as guinea pigs when there are complaints from humans.
@@trickwillis yeah same I passed out on that one too and I messed up my neck and it hurt really bad for the rest of the day. There was too much centrifugal force and I felt like my head was almost being ripped off and I got really scared for a moment
Same here. The ride was crushing my balls so hard I thought I was gonna lose them. But after going on it I never went on it ever again and good riddance.
I got stuck on this coaster in 2015 with my dad - face down at the end of the experience. When we finally got out of the ride, we agreed it was the worst coaster we've been on. I just called him to say "EVERYONE HATED THAT THING" and he was relieved we weren't out of line for saying so.
In my opinion, being stuck upside down is still better than being stuck on a singing ride. I got stuck on the singing heads portion of Disneylands Haunted Hansion for 10 minutes and euuuuuugh. Imagine hearing a single line of a song repeated for that long. I'm just lucky it wasn't Small World.
Jenazad I was actually just thinking that if Disney ever builds a Deadpool ride, they need to take a shot at this one in his typical fourth wall-breaking fashion. A ride based on an R-rated series might be a tough sell, though, so maybe it could be an overlay of another ride that’s only broken out during later hours. “Hello, and welcome to Space Mountain: the Deadpool Experience. Don’t worry, fellas: unlike that piece of shit coaster that one of our competitors eventually dumped on Ryan Reynolds’s home country, this one won’t try to scramble your eggs.”
“It is not often that the removal of a ride of any kind is cheered, but if there’s a silver lining to be had, unsuspecting guests would no longer be suspect to the pain and whiplash caused by Green Lantern… …so long as they DON’T WATCH the movie.” Possibly the best closing line in a Defunctland episode EVER!!
"Some called the ride neutered, fitting considering that others began reporting that this is what the ride did to them" I wish I learned about this channel earlier
The water gushing out during the test run- I thought it was everyone on the coaster vomiting in unison. I wish I was kidding, but I'm simply trying not to laugh as I use voice to text for this comment.
tbh when I first saw this footage I thought that the car would come to a still stand at that point cus it takes quite some time for it to show up/move again
That distraught "THERE'S TOO MUCH CONFETTI! I CAN'T SEE!" so perfectly encapsulates the failure along with the lack of any real importance of the project. Timestamp: 9:28
Lawyers are usually the best at navigating the patent filing process. Abraham Lincoln was once a patent attorney, and he patented an invention to help boats over obstructions, making the only US president to have a patent.
My girlfriend is in law school and has friends who plan on going into patent law, almost all those folks have engineering/STEM backgrounds since it majorly helps to understand the science behind the products you’re helping to patent. My guess is that’s the case with this guy
2:38 You can patent anything, the office only checks for originality not pheasability. There was a psychist couple that patented a birthing chair that involved spinning the woman around and ejecting the baby using centrifugal force. No consideration was given to how that would be very uncomfortable for the woman and deadly for the baby. It was inspired by the wife's own labor and them going "what if faster"
“While there was a minority of people who enjoyed the ride.” Yeah Masochists. To some of the people in my replies,I don’t see how getting my balls crushed would be sexually pleasing.Especially on this train wreck of a ride.
Not gonna lie, I'm definitely part of the minority who LOVED this ride! It was just so dynamic, forceful, and just fun!! I might not be able to have any kids, but it was worth it!
ok so one thing that i learned with this video is that there are "four-dimensional" roller coasters, but funnily enough, arent actually 4D for obvious reasons. one day this gave me an idea. i will create a real 4D roller coaster, that will travel in time and take you to the point in the timeline in which you've finished riding the coaster. overall, you will experience nothing and the entrance fee will be $100,000.
Two points to make. First, as far as marketing goes, treating rotational displacement as a dimension is relatively honest. Second, I'd be impressed if anyone made a roller coaster that _didn't_ travel through time (at one second per second, if you aren't measuring with an atomic clock).
I hope defunctland looks into another former coaster from the same park named Flashback. It gave people whiplash and concussions on the regular. I don't know anyone who walked off that ride not holding their neck or head. The side of the foreheads would dribble back and forth between the neck rests, it felt like Manny Pacquiao was doing some insane multi combos to your head.
The coolest part of the Batman ride was the actual entryway. It was your standard warehouse batcave setup, but in the middle of the room was a hologram of the batmobile. While queuing up for a ride one time, I reached "into" the hologram and pretended to rotate it; upon doing so the hologram actually rotated with my hand! The unit they were using must have had some sort of motion tracking, although no attention was ever drawn to this feature by the entry setup. Just a neat little memory from high school this video brought up. It was a pretty fun coaster too, a little short but my friends and I had season passes so we'd always go on slow days and ride it till we got sick when it first opened.
Happened to me before I was 10 years old my mom started crying and holding onto me while we were in the middle of the air and they didn’t even do anything at the end
Exactly why i usually skip the Beserker (flat ride) at Kings Dominion. Hanging by a shoulder harness for seconds at a time on a 40 year old ride, yeesh. Haven't ridden in awhile, scary ride for sure!
as someone who has worked at Gröna Lund in Sweden, I can say that there is almost always something wrong with Insane, and a lot of staff are constantly betting on when it will stop working again
Americans tried to invade Québec twice, and now they''re sending us Green Lantern: First Flight? I'm really starting to doubt how friendly our southern neighbour really is...
The most brutal ride I've ever been on. Near got myself a concussion from how violent it whipped me and my siblings around. A true one and done experience. I never touched that again.
I went on it right before it closed and I also remember having fond memories of it. That was until the operator told me he hated the ride and after I got off... I had to agree with him.
I have worked as a ride operator on one of these rides in Europe and I can tell you that we picked people to try and balance it, NOT to make it lopsided to "maximise the spin". If you load the cars uneven they might get stuck when they return to the station and if a ride operator doesn't spot it and turn it right side up, it turns into a maintenance nightmare. Worst case you could get two cars stuck, one at the waiting section and one at the top of the lift. So no, we didn't pick people to make it heavier on one side.
That sounds like a nightmare in general. I had a little ride op job as a teen in the late 2000s going into the early 2010s. We had a zip line with seats that had a 250lb weight limit because anymore than than, the seats dropped too low to bring the platform back in once the ride was over. I hated guessing or asking weight and I was only dealing with 1 to 3 people 😩
I have sympathy for those who accept jobs at amusement parks. Ferris Wheels have the exact same problem and the one at my local park is partially slowed *manually*. In other words, if the weight is undisturbuted evenly, the wheel is MUCH harder to actually stop. So, when a young woman operating the ride for the first time tried to grab the seat rail to let the customers off... The wheel took her some feet off the ground before it stopped.
@@VerbenaHA I'll pay my respect to you too ;-; (I wasn't expecting so many amusement park employees, so from now on if you add your story I auto pay respects to you) F
man, I went on X2 with my family and none of us had a good time. I described it as someone sticking me in a jar and shaking it around- there was one point towards the end where my head kept getting slammed against the back of my seat and I started getting legitimately scared that I was going to get hurt. I can't imagine how bad Green Lantern must have been if it was worse
You know how at the bottom of X's first drop, you're flipped onto your back so you're not completely against the restraints? Imagine if it didn't do that, and all the ride's forces went to all the wrong places...throughout the entire ride. That should give you an idea of how bad GL was.
I just rode X2 for the first time a few days ago. I was feeling a bit anxious while waiting in line having heard about how crazy and possibly painful the ride is. My experience was that it was incredibly smooth and I had no had slamming even at the end part. I WAS sitting in an inside seat which apparently is smoother, but I'm sure one of your family members had an inside seat, so I'm not sure why some people have such a rough ride. I hadn't been to Magic Mountain for 15 years and X2 was the third ride I went on so I was also worried about getting banged around and feeling bad for the rest of the day in the park. The roughest ride I went on all day was my second ride, Viper. It doesn't seem to have held up so well over the years.
@@Speedfreak515 I've been to MM at least a dozen times (albeit not recently) and Viper always stood out as the one (non-wooden) ride my friends hated, as it is so rough. Though tbh I never minded it. I didn't know X2 had a bad rep at all, I always thought it was amazing.
I always go on X2, whenever it isn’t broken that is, but one time I felt like I got punched full force on the back of my head right near the end of the ride.
I typically don’t comment on videos but this one gave me such intense flashbacks I had to share. It had to have been 2015, so after the throwing star had been filled in to reduce spins. My sister, my mom, and I all decided due to both the lack of line and the fact we had never rode Green Lantern before, we would give it a shot. Suffice to say, we never rotated once on that ride, and my sister blacked out as the ride entered into its final drop. My mom had severe bruising on her chest due to her body hitting the restraints. I, meanwhile, did not get injured but Green Lantern left such a mark on us that we still call it the worst ride we have ever been on
Everyone is talking about their pelvis and genitals, but I can’t be the only one who got off this ride with both my ass AND head feeling painful after all the head knocking.
me: "Huh, a video that's just about a bad Six Flags coaster from 2011? That seems out of character for recent Defunctland..." video: "On May 29, 1973..." me: "ah, there it is..."
Honestly I believe Green Lantern coasters are just cursed. Here in Nj, I would say the worst rollercoaster is the Green Lantern one, which is just you getting you head smashed against the restraint for a minute.
I rode this years ago and all I remember was how much pain I was in when I got off. The back of my head got slammed so many times I wanted to get off as soon as the first turn came.
This makes SO much sense! I remember riding it when it first opened and it was super fun. Then when I went back years and years later I couldn’t understand why it had closed. Then again I’m a woman without balls so what do I know 🤷♀️
I remember going when I was little and feeling like I got kicked in the gut at the VERY end of the ride but that was the extent of my injuries as a woman lmao. Leading up to that point I didn't think it was that bad til the very end haha
I remember screaming on that ride. Not out of enjoyment, but pain. That momentum down would just force the restraint tighter down on your stomach/pelvis. Worst design ever
We have that at Great Adventure, too. I didn't go on it often (I've had seizures so I can't go on roller coasters anymore), but I remember that it replaced the universally-hated Great American Scream Machine. I hate those kinds of restraints.
It seems like this ride is the best non-waterpark way to recreate the awful feeling of being the guy facing backwards when the four-person innertube goes down a drop
@Kyle Forehard sounds rough... I hated every retail job I ever had bc of things like this... you have to ask people to do something basic for safety or health and they hate you... you can be subservient and likeable as you want and still get yelled at. :(
Execs will also pick and prod and make changes before the coaster is build too. I'm sure a lot of failed coasters were actually better in their first draft than they were by the time the blueprints got approved.
"Hyatt walkway collapse" was the Immediate, unbidden response from my brain upon reading this. Yes. Even the 'smallest' change to an engineer's design can have ridiculously extreme consequences. 🎓🍍
In my engineering classes we're literally taught to put the fear of hellacious lawsuits and terrible disasters into whomever is messing with our safety features. They make us do scenarios to practice being assertive with it and to not get unsettled when people push back. I think many engineering universities have started focusing more on safety training and our responsibility to put it before everything else without exception.
@@staringcorgi6475 the trains by all acounts were quite comfortable, but unfortunately because B&M had no experience building trains for wooden coasters, they were far too heavy and tore up the track. If Northridge '94 hadn't destroyed the ride's profile (that was a severe earthquake, by the way, not a hurricane...LA has never experienced a direct hit from a tropical storm in the modern era, and SFMM's inland mountainous placement makes storms even less likely to reach it), the trains would have.
As a massive green lantern fan, I was extremely excited to ride this coaster. Needless to say my disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined.
Girl here. I remember the one time I rode this with my aunt and sister. Even without the ball busting, this was painful. The whiplash was terrible. *Absolutely* terrible. Glad it's gone.
I rode this multiple times just cause it had a single waiter line and that means little too no wait time everyone knew this was bad but I didn’t know how bad the reputation was too be worst coaster on peoples list and coaster videos LMAO
14:21 I've seen funny comparisons, but the one person comparing First Flight to "a penny that accidentally got thrown into the washing machine" is one of the funniest things i've ever read.
@@otaking3582 can you explain why you get sexual pleasure from being in pain or humiliation? "a person who derives sexual gratification from their own pain or humiliation."
I rode this in California in summer of 2013 with my graduating class. I had no idea anything about the mechanics of roller coasters, including the way weight distribution works, so I'll leave out all those details that I may not remember accurately besides me always being a small girl under 110lbs. This ride for me and the group I rode with, was the absolute worst coaster we have ever been on. Even getting off the ride and speaking with other students we realized NO ONE enjoyed it. It was hands down the most painful thing. Some of us had bruises on the tops of our thighs by the end of the night because of the lock-down mechanism that dug deep into our legs every time the coaster forced our bodies up slightly from the seat. Similarly, I developed the largest headache of my life at that point even though the ride was less than two minutes long. I remember screaming because of the pain and just wanting it to stop. Every turn that you see on the tracks resulted in all the blood in my body going straight to my head, and my thighs being constantly jammed against the lock-down. I was almost in tears because of it. I was afraid it would damage my love for the crazy types of roller coasters but I just had to believe they really messed up on this one. I'm so glad no one is defending its existence.
I’ve been on the Terra Mitica version which looks less extreme but it was terrible, felt like being in a car crash and being wrenched around with every spin. That was a few months before the boy fell out and died.
I thought it should have been themed after Two-Face, because you would basically flip a coin and it would be either be a fun experience, or a horrible one.
it’s funny that the ride will be renamed to vipère. there’s another ride at magic mountain that’s historically painful to ride, though it’s more of a brain scrambler than a nut crusher, it’s name: Viper
Viper slams your head around between the overhead restraints but it's still one of my favorites and I go on it every time. One of these days it will concuss me.
I rode Green Lantern First Flight in November, 2011. It was terrible! The pain and pressure I felt on my chest and in my head was close to unbearable, especially on that last element. We finally stopped in the upside down position which only added more pain to the already painful experience. I celebrated when the ride was closed in 2017.
Fun fact: I was slightly under the height limit when I went on this ride and legitimately almost fell out lol I was holding on for dear life :)))) fun times
I went on the splash mountain ride at disneyworld and I almost fell out of the seat at the drop, my butt literally came off the seat and I had to wrap my hands around the lap bar to hold on.
I remember on a highschool trip, a friend kept teasing me about being scared of rollercoasters so to shut him up I randomly picked one to go on. I picked the green lantern and he went off about how it was the worst ride ever and that he rather die than go on it. It stopped the teasing but I also never got the experience the horror that is this ride
Yo, can talk about how the standing green lantern ride is also horrible. Whenever you go down slopes it feels like the ride is trying to rip your ankles off. My third time riding it with family I dreaded going down the hills and I was actually terrified to learn my restraint had come off on the final loop. I hope they close down that coaster.
Yeah this ride almost scarred me into hating rollercoasters. The fact that I was bouncing in the seat for having too much space where I could've slipped out and the workers there didn't want to help. I legit said before the ride started "welp this is my fate."
@@ChristelVinot there not saying your tought because its a scary good coaster there saying your tough because you survived the ball breaking experince of riding this shite ride
There was a similar Green Lantern ride at a theme park in Australia and i remember it being really fucking rough too. At one point I felt like I was going to fall out of the harness.
It’s still there! At Movieworld. I’ve never had any troubles with it but it’s different for everyone as all bodies are different. I mean, it was rough and jerky but I just assume all coasters are like that and figured it was that way because of how compact it is lmao but maybe I’m missing something? 😂
That ride malfunctions so often, I've never been on it because I don't trust it. It's broken down mid-ride MANY times, and that's just fucking terrifying. Same with the Scooby-Doo ride. It doesn't break down as often, but it's so fucking rough. Some of the dips are really sudden and can make your head be thrown into the seat, and also the section where it has the violent turns and it feels like you're about to fall off of the ride.
@@ebsii0687 Never been to the gold coast but this made me really want to get on that coaster lol. i want rides to excite me not put me to sleep. Breaking down in the middle sounds fun to me.
15:25 this is the only type of 4D coaster we got in Planet Coaster and it is surprisingly difficult to build right. It's a very fine line between fun and vomit for these things
I actually hate that it's closed. Now you have to pay WAY more to get a vasectomy.
this is so good
And I guess you know that from experience Benji.
Pretty sure joker at great adventure is same ride so you may be able to do a road trip 😂
Yep. You got me!
Good. Vasectomies are cringe and gay.
"There's too much confetti! I can't see!"
I don't know why but that killed me.
Well now I know what I'd use if I ever became a supervillain
9:28
Hilarious 😆👍
Should have used confetti in front of the green lantern's unit as the spandex didn't hide it
A Ghost In The Machine, a rhyme
It can't be that bad right?
"It knocks you unconscious and bursts your fucking nuts"
......ok.
You had me at CBT
Just what we need now that no one wants to work.
Ive been to magic mountain of June 2019
Just gotta say, while the coaster WAS closed, I got to learn, and experience its neighbor
Which, was a standing up coaster that gave you the ¨anal¨ treatment instead
so learning about this leads me to belive that the two are secretly working together
So true, that ride is the worst. Def fucked up my neck and balls.
Well damn
I went to six flags with my wife many years ago. We saw a huge line for this ride but couldn’t see the actual ride at the time. We waited 2 hours for what ended up being the worst ride we’ve ever ridden on. Seeing this UA-cam video brings us closure. We can move on with our lives and finally begin to heal. Thank you.
I laughed so hard at this. I’m sorry you guys wasted so much time.
i like how you used the words
"begin to heal"
like the roller coaster divorced you or something
@@SinisterBlitzo9 😂😂😂
Lol I are so much
This is so dramatic and I adore it, thank you
I rode this years ago, got whiplash and my ankle smacked against something metal, causing a cut on my achilles heel. I got off the ride and showed my bloody sock to the ride operator. Guy was like “yeah, happens all the time.”
this proves too me that they don’t care about the people that are riding this stuff & acting like everything is normal !
shit is your ankle alright now ?
Imagine catching bloodborne illness from Green Lantern: First Flight.
This is what happens when you put your life in their hands!😓😼
You could have made a shit load of money off that.
I'm convinced Green Lantern is a cursed IP outside the comics, given how the movie bombed, the cartoon was cancelled, and it had a horrible amusement park ride.
Emerald Knights was ok.
It's a shame because it has good lore.
In a similar fate next to the Fantastic 4 movies as well as the infamous Captain Marvel movie (though to be honest, Fantastic 4 before the 2015 abombination was better than those two).
Cursed would be somewhat an understatement and like Green Lantern, I pray one day that he will get a good film somewhere.
JojoMonReturns91 Captain Marvel was not THAT bad lol. Green Lantern is far worse and this is coming from a DC fan.
@@JojoMonReturns91 Captain was bad? it has average reviews and WAY better than GL and oh yeah, MADE A BILLION DOLLARS. How is that bad? lol
"Honey, it's 4PM. Time for your pelvic nightmare."
"Yes, dear."
the original CBT Machine
"This tainted the ride for many guests"
Ball crusher go brrrrr
"Hey sugar, you know what they call me? ... 'The Pelvic Nightmare.' Awww yeah."
Woah I'm the 2000th like, neat
"An attorney that patents coaster designs in his spare time" Wake up babe new Ace Attorney character just dropped
theyll be prob named rollo coaser
@@blueskeles Rolf O'Coastr
I simultaneously hate and love how right you are
@@soogymoogi oo thats good lol
dude has connected roller coaster boppers on his head
"There's too much confetti, I can't see!"
- Distressed Six Flags Magic Mountain Guest, 2011
Haha
“I want to get off this ride”
haha that was so funny.
confetti scares the shit out of me ever since i saw that imgur post of that girl that ended up losing her eye because of one piece infecting her shit up
@@connorgillispie7128 I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride!
Me: Worst Six Flags coaster? This looks exactly like the one they're building at La Ronde
Defunctland: The coaster was to be moved to La Ronde
Me: SHIT
Lmao rip us montrealers
@@ultragaming9233 They doing us good lmao. Fuck La Ronde
Hopefully it will be better there. The reason this ride is so bad is because California FORCED Six Flags to install weights that none of the other Zac Spins have.
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv plus, it's cheaper to make improvements and modifications when the ride is already being reassembled, and not already opened
@@ultragaming9233 Not a Montrealer, still like visiting La Ronde when I'm in town; will be avoiding this one unless they fix it haha
"There's too much confetti! I can't see!" With how intensely he screamed, I thought the confetti was going to cause some horrible accident.
I’m so hungry
@@user-fm7gu2vc6i eat some sandwiche with melted cheese and perfectly cooked ham, with a little bit of oil on each side of the bread and some juice, first thing in the morning.
Lol that’s what I was thinking too I was like omg what’s going to happen with all this confetti
Great idea, also fry it up in a pan with around 50g of butter so it gets soaked up in the bread 😋
Me too.
"It was a pelvic nightmare. This *tainted* the ride for many guests."
I see what you did there.
@@natinajohnson6462 how old are you?
Well, she hasn’t changed her username
@@Deeheeheee that could be too young or too old
@@Handles-Are-A-Stupid-Idea aaaaand she’s deleted the reply
It should’ve been cold cock and ball torture the ride
My father hates rollercoasters and rides. Somehow I managed to convince him to ride this ride when we went in 2012. I regretted it. He regretted it. Never again.
No more roller coasters after that huh?
That's too bad because most roller coasters are fun! Just not this one! XD
You just didn’t want another brother, did you? Who would have thought the CBT machine was real
And that's why you don't have any siblings
Well, I hope you didn't want a younger brother or younger sister...
Dude.
That was A LOT of confetti.
Only a country's worth of confetti for Hal Jordan's CBT Experience
WHAT? I can't read your comment. There is too much confetti!
more than esport world finals lmao
I hope this channel looks into a coaster from the same park way back in the day named Flashback.
It was track configured in a cubical shape overall with twists and turns going through the maze like pattern.
EVERYONE came off that ride holding their heads and necks. It isas a whiplash and concussion simulator.
Too much confetti.
I feel so vindicated. I rode this once back in my teens and complained to all my friends that it hurt my balls so much. They didn’t believe me
Ahaha you don't need that kind of negativity and doubt in your life
Send them all this video
You’re not alone haha
Balls were OBLITERATED on Iron Wolf in Six Flag Great America (Illinois). It was a standup coaster with a bike seat beneath your crotch. Backflips fucking sucked.
@@MellowJelly they didnt even say anything wrong or negitive. Just the truth
For anyone wondering what has happened since this video: La Ronde has cancelled their planned installation of the coaster as Vipère, as the coaster has disappeared from storage and the concrete footings were poured but later removed - probably for the best. Wonder Woman: Flight of Courage, a single-rail RMC Raptor, has been put up where First Flight (and Tidal Wave) used to stand and is using its queue building, obviously rethemed to Wonder Woman.
EDIT: By "disappeared", I mean that the coaster's tracks and supports used to be just lying out in the open at La Ronde, but now they're nowhere to be seen. While it's theoretically possible that it has been moved or sold to another park, by far the most likely scenario is that it was sold for scrap.
"Disappeared" lmao
From someone who go to La Ronde each year because there's nothing at about an hour or 2 from where i am , i'm glad we didn't get this monstrosity of a " coaster " , even if nothing replaced it , it's still better than wasting money on this ''coaster''
“Dissapeared”??? What do you mean “Dissapeared”??? It’s just GONE??? How does one just “Dissapear” a ROLLERCOASTER
@@cyiowell if it’s bad enough, I don’t think many people would notice lol
@@cyio I imagine one would disappear it into a warehouse or the nearest scrapyard.
Six flags: it’s 100% safe
The test dummies:
* slowly nodding*
I’m your first comment reply
@@BulletAgario thank u?
Wow I just saw all these likes-
@@lora1002 Yeah it’s weird how you have so many like but barely any replies
@@viksplosion7105 maybe it’s one of those comments you quietly laugh at and then move on. A mental chuckle if u will.
The fact that it’s Green Lantern themed and failed is just the cherry on top. Never seen a more cursed superhero franchise than GL.
2nd most cursed comicbook character in franchise attempts, after The Fantastic 4. If Disney-Marvel's MCU can't make it work, then nothing will.
Definitely a stupid movie. I felt like it was just a movie of Seth rogen saying half way witty shit and being an asshole to an Asian guy who’s trying to be the new Jackie Chan.
Definitely a stupid movie. I felt like it was just a movie of Seth rogen saying half way witty shit and being an asshole to an Asian guy who’s trying to be the new Jackie Chan.
@@rodleypumpkins4174 you're thinking of the Green hornet my guy...lmao.
@@LilyApus you are 100% right. Lol
I literally blacked out on that ride because my cart was spinning so fast lol. So imagine not being able to see and getting your privates crushed at the same time lol
That's my kink
@@tremorlok6659 haha
Some people pay handsomely for this service.
I blacked out on Goliath coaster during a Magic Mountain "free preview". Soon after I became coaster phobic and never went to amusement parks again. I remember how Goliath took a really long time to officially open although Taco Bell commercials kept saying coming soon to magic mountain. I was surprised how many people would tell me they were going to magic mountain for free to try out a rollercoaster, it was then I knew Six Flags Corp uses people as guinea pigs when there are complaints from humans.
@@trickwillis yeah same I passed out on that one too and I messed up my neck and it hurt really bad for the rest of the day. There was too much centrifugal force and I felt like my head was almost being ripped off and I got really scared for a moment
ON GOD this ride busted my balls like nobody business I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought this
thank God it didn't jank your jizz like that poor fellow. Green Lantern, A film that assaults your good senses and a ride that impedes the seed.
Word choice…
me too
Phrasing mother
Same here. The ride was crushing my balls so hard I thought I was gonna lose them. But after going on it I never went on it ever again and good riddance.
"Rumors circulated that a woman had hurt her back on the ride, and was suing the park"
And that woman’s name........was Michael Eisner.
But this time, it wasn't Michael Eisner's fault!
@@triplej755 and yet somehow it still is
Boom! (Title Card): Defunctland Season 4: The Revenge of Eisner
@@maddiewettach4954 The Return of the Eisner
Eisner Strikes Back
"No, Kevin. *I* am your father."
I got stuck on this coaster in 2015 with my dad - face down at the end of the experience. When we finally got out of the ride, we agreed it was the worst coaster we've been on. I just called him to say "EVERYONE HATED THAT THING" and he was relieved we weren't out of line for saying so.
666 likes on your comment. That makes you the devil.
Omg same thing happened to me, I got stuck upside down with my friend and it was just awful! I am terrified of coasters malfunctioning.
In my opinion, being stuck upside down is still better than being stuck on a singing ride. I got stuck on the singing heads portion of Disneylands Haunted Hansion for 10 minutes and euuuuuugh. Imagine hearing a single line of a song repeated for that long. I'm just lucky it wasn't Small World.
Ayyyyyyy. We got him to do the ball crush ride.
Psst, hey, Ricky Rat, where are the fast passes for Mickey's Dick Smasher?
CBT: COCK AND BALL TORTURE
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lmao I remember all my brother's friends always came off the ride walking funny 😂
"Until one day it was remodeled and renamed "Deadpool: The Much Better Flight." and it quickly becomes the park main attraction."
I think, given Deadpool’s style of humor, they would play up the ball trauma aspect and name it Deadpool’s Dick Smasher in 4D
@@nilus2k LMAO
Jenazad I was actually just thinking that if Disney ever builds a Deadpool ride, they need to take a shot at this one in his typical fourth wall-breaking fashion. A ride based on an R-rated series might be a tough sell, though, so maybe it could be an overlay of another ride that’s only broken out during later hours.
“Hello, and welcome to Space Mountain: the Deadpool Experience. Don’t worry, fellas: unlike that piece of shit coaster that one of our competitors eventually dumped on Ryan Reynolds’s home country, this one won’t try to scramble your eggs.”
@@TBustah I never knew I needed this until now.
@@TBustah 🤣🤣🤣🤣
“Wonder Woman was there! Aqua man was there! And green lantern was there!”
Robin:
Am I a joke to you?
@@calipurnioelreydelodio7141 Batman: "...Do I have to answer that question?"
SHUT UP DAMIEN!
apparently robin has a super power now, invisibility
He had homework.
"This coaster SUCKS"
Canada: "We'll take it!"
Eh?
BYEECRCVG
when ur home park is la ronde :( i feel so sad we only have shit coasters...
Finally we have something to roast Canada for
@@NoemieRousseau Gods, same. I have to drive like 2-3 hours to get there but it's still the closest one... at least we have Vampire?
“It is not often that the removal of a ride of any kind is cheered, but if there’s a silver lining to be had, unsuspecting guests would no longer be suspect to the pain and whiplash caused by Green Lantern…
…so long as they DON’T WATCH the movie.”
Possibly the best closing line in a Defunctland episode EVER!!
“An attorney that apparently just patents coaster designs in his free time.”
Why do I feel like that guy must have some crazy life stories...
Maybe he's just doing a bad job to get more clients?
Lmao he must just really like coasters
he probably plays a lot of rollercoaster tycoon
@@flop7676 🤣
Mans is probably loaded and doesn’t have to work anymore
"Some called the ride neutered, fitting considering that others began reporting that this is what the ride did to them"
I wish I learned about this channel earlier
"It was a pelvic nightmare. This _tainted_ the ride for many guests"
@@AdamPriceOregon Superb phrasing right there
defunctland is a damn treasure. welcome.
How many takes did that take for him to not corpse, I wonder?
@Get on the cross and don’t look back
Praise Satan Instead.
“Aqua Man was there, Wonder Woman was there.”
(Robin behind them)
“And of course the Green Lantern was there.”
Robin: :(
If Robin is lucky, Batman would had banned him from this ride anyway
Didn't your neighbor paint your profile picture or am I tripping?
Tim Drake didn't need to be done like that omg lol
When somebody copies your comment nearly word for word but somehow gets 3 times more likes than you
(╥_╥)
*Everyone felt that*
Press F To Pay Respects
The water gushing out during the test run- I thought it was everyone on the coaster vomiting in unison. I wish I was kidding, but I'm simply trying not to laugh as I use voice to text for this comment.
Hell if that ride can make crash test dummies puke,
what chance do puny humans have..?
Lol, that's hilarious, thanks for the laugh.
I've watched that probably ten times and laughed harder each time, thank you for pointing that out
I thought the same thing
8:02 for reference.
"...there were a few kinks to work out."
=
🤮🤮🤮🤮
"There's too much confetti, I can't see!!"
Why does he sound so panicked lmao
I think he was trying to get video footage of the first public run.
Because he's driving, obviously.
He has a confetti phobia & can't ever go to parties. Poor man :(
"AHH MY EYES!!!"
tbh when I first saw this footage I thought that the car would come to a still stand at that point cus it takes quite some time for it to show up/move again
That distraught "THERE'S TOO MUCH CONFETTI! I CAN'T SEE!" so perfectly encapsulates the failure along with the lack of any real importance of the project.
Timestamp: 9:28
That part made me want to know more about the bad decisions leading up to blinding guests with bits of plastic! 😂
That exclamation was hilarious!
Was looking for this comment lol
It was soon followed by screams of terror.
Timestamp?
The concept of a random lawyer creating innovative roller coaster designs is wild to me
when it fails and there is lawsuits, do you sue yourself?
@@MrWolfSnack might be able to make money with that…🤔
suprising number of folks in those kinds of jobs who find a creative outlet, this guy just knew how to file the patents for his.
Lawyers are usually the best at navigating the patent filing process. Abraham Lincoln was once a patent attorney, and he patented an invention to help boats over obstructions, making the only US president to have a patent.
My girlfriend is in law school and has friends who plan on going into patent law, almost all those folks have engineering/STEM backgrounds since it majorly helps to understand the science behind the products you’re helping to patent. My guess is that’s the case with this guy
2:38 You can patent anything, the office only checks for originality not pheasability. There was a psychist couple that patented a birthing chair that involved spinning the woman around and ejecting the baby using centrifugal force. No consideration was given to how that would be very uncomfortable for the woman and deadly for the baby. It was inspired by the wife's own labor and them going "what if faster"
WHAT THE FUCK
“Guys, this ride sucks and everyone hates it… let’s send it to Quebec!!!”
The six flags in Quebec aka six flags la ronda I think is the name has the worst coaster collection in all off six flags it’s six flags trash field
Love that !! Quebec does suck
@@CJ-fs1zr i've stopped going soon after six flags bought it
The French Canadians are under attack!
The only good part of Canada gets all the crap
“It was a pelvic nightmare.”
“This tainted the ride”
You know what you did.
so what you're saying is this coaster never should've been erected
@@fluffywolfo3663 I mean, it's a hard thing to say.
@@FrahdChikun they sure did drop the ball on this one
@@seasons1745 They've must've been nuts to think anyone would get a kick out of it.
@@BlakouttheMM no
“While there was a minority of people who enjoyed the ride.”
Yeah Masochists.
To some of the people in my replies,I don’t see how getting my balls crushed would be sexually pleasing.Especially on this train wreck of a ride.
Christian Grey is a huge fan then.
@@UncoordinatedPixie he was the operator
😂🤣😭
@dorothydreams oftornadoes lol
Ah, so controversial, yet so funny
Not gonna lie, I'm definitely part of the minority who LOVED this ride! It was just so dynamic, forceful, and just fun!! I might not be able to have any kids, but it was worth it!
LMAO
Who wants kids anyways. Have you SEEN tik tok?
They did you a favor 😂
It was crazy intense! I loved it. After a few rides on it I figured out you can lean into the flips to make them more intense.
Eh, the world is overpopulated anyway. 😛
i didn’t realize so many people hated it, but then again i’m a girl so i didn’t have “goods” to lose 😂
ok so one thing that i learned with this video is that there are "four-dimensional" roller coasters, but funnily enough, arent actually 4D for obvious reasons. one day this gave me an idea. i will create a real 4D roller coaster, that will travel in time and take you to the point in the timeline in which you've finished riding the coaster. overall, you will experience nothing and the entrance fee will be $100,000.
"Time travel (small print: at one second per second)"? :P
I mean, given that the "4D" coaster this video is about was entirely vertically, it's more like a 2D coaster with spinning seats...
anshhs
🤣🤣😂😂
Two points to make.
First, as far as marketing goes, treating rotational displacement as a dimension is relatively honest.
Second, I'd be impressed if anyone made a roller coaster that _didn't_ travel through time (at one second per second, if you aren't measuring with an atomic clock).
Damn, it seems like every green lantern-related thing that comes out just gets assblasted
Nutbusted
I mean if you watched the video apparently the ride was the one assblasting people...
see this one: ua-cam.com/video/n-eu4DhdtlQ/v-deo.html
I never would have guessed a character whos power is imagination would have shitty movies and attractions
They now need to make a ride after Tremors since you made that commrnt
"I have balls of STEEL!"
Green Lantern Coaster: We'll see about that!
Green lantern will tear you to fucking shreds
I have not finished the video yet.......
Your comment scares me, but in the same way that rollercoasters scare me.
Edit: I was not disappointed.
Lol I got stuck upside down at the end of the ride when it goes into the loading terminal.
Emirl Sanchos lol it’s at 666 likes
I hope defunctland looks into another former coaster from the same park named Flashback. It gave people whiplash and concussions on the regular. I don't know anyone who walked off that ride not holding their neck or head.
The side of the foreheads would dribble back and forth between the neck rests, it felt like Manny Pacquiao was doing some insane multi combos to your head.
The coolest part of the Batman ride was the actual entryway. It was your standard warehouse batcave setup, but in the middle of the room was a hologram of the batmobile. While queuing up for a ride one time, I reached "into" the hologram and pretended to rotate it; upon doing so the hologram actually rotated with my hand! The unit they were using must have had some sort of motion tracking, although no attention was ever drawn to this feature by the entry setup.
Just a neat little memory from high school this video brought up. It was a pretty fun coaster too, a little short but my friends and I had season passes so we'd always go on slow days and ride it till we got sick when it first opened.
Wow. RIP to the man who died in Spain from the accident. Having your restraint fly open is everyone's worst fear on a coaster.
That is the resons I disliked rollercosters
Oh hell no
Happened to me before I was 10 years old my mom started crying and holding onto me while we were in the middle of the air and they didn’t even do anything at the end
@@justleo5411 Jesus...glad you survived that
Exactly why i usually skip the Beserker (flat ride) at Kings Dominion. Hanging by a shoulder harness for seconds at a time on a 40 year old ride, yeesh. Haven't ridden in awhile, scary ride for sure!
"Hits below the belt"
"This tainted the ride"
I see what you did there.
dude i died when he said taint so casually like that
THERE’S TOO MUCH CONFETTI!! I CANT SEE!!!
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@@breakingbacon658 This is seven months late but I literally spit out coffee reading this
"Pelvic Nightmare"
"An attorney that apparently just patents coaster designs in his free time"
Uh... what?
Alexander Lee we need a whole video just on that lawyer
This is the Rollercoaster Patenting Lawyer, and today we're looking at the 4D coaster...
@@GeorgeBPryor I even read it in his voice...
*AN ATTORNEY THAT APPARENTLY PATENTS COASTERS IN HIS FREE TIME*
@@GeorgeBPryor hah! Nice spotting another lpl fan.
as someone who has worked at Gröna Lund in Sweden, I can say that there is almost always something wrong with Insane, and a lot of staff are constantly betting on when it will stop working again
The fact both these companies didn’t call one of their coasters “shuriken” is a missed opportunity
They were probably afraid no one would know what a shuriken is.
poor excuse to not name your coaster that
For 'sure -it-can' be called a missed opportunity.
Or something even more obvious, like "Buzzsaw"
@@Awesomeasumpta13 I dunno, by 2011, I think more people would've recognized that "shuriken" is the name of the "ninja star".
The quote "Squeezing a lifetime of action into 90 seconds" is woefully underappreciated, holy shit.
That’s what your mom said.
And then people turned it into “Squeezing the ability to make life out of you in 90 seconds.”
Seeing COVID-19 show up in a “retrospective” gave me whiplash. Not as bad as Green Lantern did, though.
I'm pretty sure all videos are going to be like this in future. Be forewarned
L a n t *e* r n
The coaster or the movie?
Seriously, hearing COVID-19 in a Defunctland video...
you can tell they had a lot of fun writing this one.
Despite being rough.
@@elevatoralarmcoasterandarc1214😂
but nobody had fun riding it.
So is no one gonna talk about “in brightest day, in blackest night, in spandex that hide nothing from sight”?? XD
That was what made me subscribe lol
And the overall history that was presented of course.
That is awsomr
"May those who worship bulge's might, beware his power! Green Lantern's tights!
Had I known *THAT* was walking the grounds of Six Flags in the past...I would've gotten season passes.
He one of those free flying cosplayers
Americans tried to invade Québec twice, and now they''re sending us Green Lantern: First Flight? I'm really starting to doubt how friendly our southern neighbour really is...
You later burned down the white house, I think we're cool.
@@hoodedman6579 I was about to say this. Lol they were still under British rule at the time. If it counts for anything. Lol
Let’s face it, Canada is the cool apartment above the meth house.
@@hoodedman6579 you invaded us first! We, with all the might of His Majesty’s army, returned the favour 😅😅
ya'll are the one who BOUGHT the coaster LOL
A ride that crushes your privates. Almost as painful as watching the movie.
The coochie and cock destroyer as we used to call it. *CCD*
@@officerminiwheats This comment has chaotic neutral energy
...Almoooost.
They really captured the spirit of the movie!
The most brutal ride I've ever been on. Near got myself a concussion from how violent it whipped me and my siblings around. A true one and done experience. I never touched that again.
"In brightest day, in blackest night, in spandex that hid nothing from sight" sent me and my fella into fits of laughter 🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂
U gay???
You a scouser?
u a kid?
@@bibianaguadalupeislasherre9880 a......mmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I saw the title and was like: "What I remember loving that ride"
Then I read the comments and remembered I was 10 when I rode it. Before puberty.
hehehaHAH, haha!
Back when your pp was smaller than your pinkie toe
I went on it right before it closed and I also remember having fond memories of it. That was until the operator told me he hated the ride and after I got off... I had to agree with him.
I had a similar experience with the joker the new england version of it. I thought it was fun
@@xyzzymeme5328 that's a different ride and system. That one was an sns sansei system.
I have worked as a ride operator on one of these rides in Europe and I can tell you that we picked people to try and balance it, NOT to make it lopsided to "maximise the spin". If you load the cars uneven they might get stuck when they return to the station and if a ride operator doesn't spot it and turn it right side up, it turns into a maintenance nightmare. Worst case you could get two cars stuck, one at the waiting section and one at the top of the lift. So no, we didn't pick people to make it heavier on one side.
That sounds like a nightmare in general. I had a little ride op job as a teen in the late 2000s going into the early 2010s. We had a zip line with seats that had a 250lb weight limit because anymore than than, the seats dropped too low to bring the platform back in once the ride was over. I hated guessing or asking weight and I was only dealing with 1 to 3 people 😩
Can everyone here pay respects for these 2? I'll go first.
F
@@PasqualleTheRat F
I have sympathy for those who accept jobs at amusement parks.
Ferris Wheels have the exact same problem and the one at my local park is partially slowed *manually*.
In other words, if the weight is undisturbuted evenly, the wheel is MUCH harder to actually stop.
So, when a young woman operating the ride for the first time tried to grab the seat rail to let the customers off... The wheel took her some feet off the ground before it stopped.
@@VerbenaHA I'll pay my respect to you too ;-; (I wasn't expecting so many amusement park employees, so from now on if you add your story I auto pay respects to you)
F
man, I went on X2 with my family and none of us had a good time. I described it as someone sticking me in a jar and shaking it around- there was one point towards the end where my head kept getting slammed against the back of my seat and I started getting legitimately scared that I was going to get hurt. I can't imagine how bad Green Lantern must have been if it was worse
You know how at the bottom of X's first drop, you're flipped onto your back so you're not completely against the restraints? Imagine if it didn't do that, and all the ride's forces went to all the wrong places...throughout the entire ride. That should give you an idea of how bad GL was.
I just rode X2 for the first time a few days ago. I was feeling a bit anxious while waiting in line having heard about how crazy and possibly painful the ride is. My experience was that it was incredibly smooth and I had no had slamming even at the end part. I WAS sitting in an inside seat which apparently is smoother, but I'm sure one of your family members had an inside seat, so I'm not sure why some people have such a rough ride.
I hadn't been to Magic Mountain for 15 years and X2 was the third ride I went on so I was also worried about getting banged around and feeling bad for the rest of the day in the park. The roughest ride I went on all day was my second ride, Viper. It doesn't seem to have held up so well over the years.
@@Speedfreak515 I've been to MM at least a dozen times (albeit not recently) and Viper always stood out as the one (non-wooden) ride my friends hated, as it is so rough. Though tbh I never minded it. I didn't know X2 had a bad rep at all, I always thought it was amazing.
I always go on X2, whenever it isn’t broken that is, but one time I felt like I got punched full force on the back of my head right near the end of the ride.
@@A_A610 100% the prefect description of this ride.
Hits below the belt. A pelvic nightmare.
“This tainted the ride.”
Bravo, sir. Bravo.
@Robert Mungo: A pelvic nightmare deserves a more fitting name like the Crotch-Botch Coaster (as Kevin eloquently put at 14:32)
If I was drinking something as I heard this line, I would have done a spit-take. Beautiful.
Amazing
"There's too much confetti I can't see!"
He knows youtube compression too well
Faye02 , 🥳🥳😂😂
That line alone is meme worthy all by itself!!!
In rides of fun, in rides of bland,
No attraction's too small or grand.
Let those destroyed by Eisner's hand.
Beware our Kevin. It's Defunctland!
Okay... Yours is 10 times better.
@bigevilworldwide1 Its just Iger. Not Eiger.
This still wins tho
@bigevilworldwide1 As did you. GG
This coaster will destroy your glands!
I typically don’t comment on videos but this one gave me such intense flashbacks I had to share. It had to have been 2015, so after the throwing star had been filled in to reduce spins. My sister, my mom, and I all decided due to both the lack of line and the fact we had never rode Green Lantern before, we would give it a shot. Suffice to say, we never rotated once on that ride, and my sister blacked out as the ride entered into its final drop. My mom had severe bruising on her chest due to her body hitting the restraints. I, meanwhile, did not get injured but Green Lantern left such a mark on us that we still call it the worst ride we have ever been on
Everyone is talking about their pelvis and genitals, but I can’t be the only one who got off this ride with both my ass AND head feeling painful after all the head knocking.
Daisaku Kuze I have been on a lot of roller coasters
I thought I was going to die on this one from whiplash
me: "Huh, a video that's just about a bad Six Flags coaster from 2011? That seems out of character for recent Defunctland..."
video: "On May 29, 1973..."
me: "ah, there it is..."
Honestly I believe Green Lantern coasters are just cursed. Here in Nj, I would say the worst rollercoaster is the Green Lantern one, which is just you getting you head smashed against the restraint for a minute.
Facts
Bro that shit was giving me leg cramps in both my calves. Fuck that ride
Oh my god, yes! I felt like I was gonna get brain damage on that thing😂 Funnily enough when I went on it the line wasn't very long.
Facts
When I saw the title I thought he meant the one in Six Flags Great Adventure lol. I hated that line, I felt like my legs would shatter
I rode this years ago and all I remember was how much pain I was in when I got off. The back of my head got slammed so many times I wanted to get off as soon as the first turn came.
The ride literally gave CTE it was so cursed
This makes SO much sense! I remember riding it when it first opened and it was super fun. Then when I went back years and years later I couldn’t understand why it had closed. Then again I’m a woman without balls so what do I know 🤷♀️
LMAO me too! no balls to crush here but i always thought it was fun
good thing I don’t go on rollercoasters, I don’t want my nut busted
I remember going when I was little and feeling like I got kicked in the gut at the VERY end of the ride but that was the extent of my injuries as a woman lmao. Leading up to that point I didn't think it was that bad til the very end haha
I’m also a women and it hurt my pelvis so bad ???😂
No balls no pain 😎
I remember screaming on that ride. Not out of enjoyment, but pain. That momentum down would just force the restraint tighter down on your stomach/pelvis. Worst design ever
Same! My sisters and I ended up with bruising of both are shoulders and tops of our thighs for weeks. Terrible.
Maybe you have a point, but do also consider that they can't really afford to make a mistake in the name of comfort and let people fly off
We have that at Great Adventure, too. I didn't go on it often (I've had seizures so I can't go on roller coasters anymore), but I remember that it replaced the universally-hated Great American Scream Machine. I hate those kinds of restraints.
Thsts why i allwes held the bar up on rides as a kid
i wasnt the only one thank god haha xD shit hurt so much honestly. was in genuine pain
"some called the ride 'neutered,' fitting considering that others reported that this is what the ride did to them" oh my god
It seems like this ride is the best non-waterpark way to recreate the awful feeling of being the guy facing backwards when the four-person innertube goes down a drop
LMAO YEAH THATS ME EVERY TIME
“Below the belt,” “pelvic nightmare,” “tainted the ride.” I see what you did there
I went on that ride once and i hit my head. I hated that ride
Every girl ever.
@@vc9491 which head my dude
XD
"This effectively neutered the ride"
So in other words the ride aged worse and worse just like the movie
oof
poketdoom nah the movie was never good in the first place
Wow
It aged like milk in a sewer
Coaster Fans: Don't you want to mix-and-match riders, so the weight is a bit more distributed?
Six Flags: *lol nuts go smoosh smoosh*
@Kyle Forehard And this is a country where management and stockholders love to bow to those whiners.
I’m in tears from laughing so hard at the ‘nuts go smoosh smoosh’ line …hopefully there’s no typos in writing this!
A ball buster?
@Kyle Forehard sounds rough... I hated every retail job I ever had bc of things like this... you have to ask people to do something basic for safety or health and they hate you... you can be subservient and likeable as you want and still get yelled at. :(
@Kyle Forehard That would be weird but if you told me it was to prevent my balls from being crushed I'd roll with it.
9:29 - whoever yelled "THERE'S TOO MUCH CONFETTI I CAN'T SEE!" i love you
Every time a company modifies an engineers design it ends up bad. There is a reason they calculate stuff before its built.
Execs will also pick and prod and make changes before the coaster is build too. I'm sure a lot of failed coasters were actually better in their first draft than they were by the time the blueprints got approved.
@@Yodah97 psyclone was a terrible roller coaster because it’s trains sucked and the failure to repair after a hurricane
"Hyatt walkway collapse" was the Immediate, unbidden response from my brain upon reading this. Yes. Even the 'smallest' change to an engineer's design can have ridiculously extreme consequences. 🎓🍍
In my engineering classes we're literally taught to put the fear of hellacious lawsuits and terrible disasters into whomever is messing with our safety features. They make us do scenarios to practice being assertive with it and to not get unsettled when people push back. I think many engineering universities have started focusing more on safety training and our responsibility to put it before everything else without exception.
@@staringcorgi6475 the trains by all acounts were quite comfortable, but unfortunately because B&M had no experience building trains for wooden coasters, they were far too heavy and tore up the track.
If Northridge '94 hadn't destroyed the ride's profile (that was a severe earthquake, by the way, not a hurricane...LA has never experienced a direct hit from a tropical storm in the modern era, and SFMM's inland mountainous placement makes storms even less likely to reach it), the trains would have.
“ an attorney who just files roller coaster patents in his free time I guess “lol
Exactly!
Everyone needs a hobby.
Job security.
There are "patent attorneys" BTW
Lol. I have to work harder
As a massive green lantern fan, I was extremely excited to ride this coaster. Needless to say my disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined.
wasn't it already ruined by just being a green lantern fan? lol
@@stephenfortin9485 nah
Are you quoting that guy that reviews food on UA-cam? I can't remember his name but he talks just like that.
@@GuitarHeroPhenomSux reviewbrah
@@GuitarHeroPhenomSux yes exactly, Report of the week aka reviewbrah
"There's too much confetti, I can't see" is my favorite new Defunctland video moment
“Spandex so tight it hid nothing from sight” and “too much confetti I can’t see!” were the one two punch that got me laughing hard
Same! XD
Had me crying the first time I watched it 😭
Girl here. I remember the one time I rode this with my aunt and sister. Even without the ball busting, this was painful. The whiplash was terrible. *Absolutely* terrible. Glad it's gone.
Be glad you don't have any nuts lmao.
I rode this multiple times just cause it had a single waiter line and that means little too no wait time everyone knew this was bad but I didn’t know how bad the reputation was too be worst coaster on peoples list and coaster videos LMAO
Dude, I remember when I first rode this. I was screaming out “OWWW” or “OWWW MY BALLS” every time it spin
Go away, baitin’ ! 😂
oh my god now I can only think about going on this and everyone just fucking screams “AAAAAA MY BALLS” all at the same time when it spins
Jonathan, we have an opening for you in a new upcoming show on television, inspired by the immensely popular, "Idiocracy." movie. Are you game ?
@@a2pha excuse me what the fuck
@@heyimscorp I'm not mad, I'm angry. Sometimes. Usually when I don't get my coffee.
"There's too much confetti! I can't see!" Yeah, because they want to hide how bad this ride is!
Michael Eisner: What do you do when you know your ride is bad?
6_Flags: *CONFETTI*
Michael Eisner: Oh, I just make it worse...
14:21 I've seen funny comparisons, but the one person comparing First Flight to "a penny that accidentally got thrown into the washing machine" is one of the funniest things i've ever read.
as a female it was even painful for me....cant even imagine being a male rider lol rip to all the testicles out there
As both a masochist and someone that's terrified by rollercoasters, I'm not sure if I'd want to ride it or not...
Clit crusher
CBT, from encyclopedia, the free internet Wikipedia
@@otaking3582 can you explain why you get sexual pleasure from being in pain or humiliation? "a person who derives sexual gratification from their own pain or humiliation."
@@Charlie-hv3dh That's like asking someone why they like pizza
I rode this in California in summer of 2013 with my graduating class. I had no idea anything about the mechanics of roller coasters, including the way weight distribution works, so I'll leave out all those details that I may not remember accurately besides me always being a small girl under 110lbs. This ride for me and the group I rode with, was the absolute worst coaster we have ever been on. Even getting off the ride and speaking with other students we realized NO ONE enjoyed it. It was hands down the most painful thing. Some of us had bruises on the tops of our thighs by the end of the night because of the lock-down mechanism that dug deep into our legs every time the coaster forced our bodies up slightly from the seat. Similarly, I developed the largest headache of my life at that point even though the ride was less than two minutes long. I remember screaming because of the pain and just wanting it to stop. Every turn that you see on the tracks resulted in all the blood in my body going straight to my head, and my thighs being constantly jammed against the lock-down. I was almost in tears because of it. I was afraid it would damage my love for the crazy types of roller coasters but I just had to believe they really messed up on this one. I'm so glad no one is defending its existence.
More evidence that anything with Green Lantern can't turn out good
But seriously it sucks hearing what you went through
I’ve been on the Terra Mitica version which looks less extreme but it was terrible, felt like being in a car crash and being wrenched around with every spin. That was a few months before the boy fell out and died.
@@i.d.9754 The animated series was actually ok 😂 you're right the movies and rides are garbage.
if that really happened why didnt you sue them?
@@atomanni-k5m not much to go off of. A bruise won't last and I was 17 lol not very smart but I was just in disbelief
2:34 "an attorney that apparently just patents coaster designs in his free time"
That is totally something a lawyer would do.
Lionel Hutz vibes
Patent Troll or Copyright Troll?
I thought it should have been themed after Two-Face, because you would basically flip a coin and it would be either be a fun experience, or a horrible one.
it’s funny that the ride will be renamed to vipère. there’s another ride at magic mountain that’s historically painful to ride, though it’s more of a brain scrambler than a nut crusher, it’s name: Viper
Viper gave me a migraine and sent my mom into literal tears of pain. It's so bad
I got shoulder and lower back pain from Viper. Also I'm 5'8 and I still had to hunch down just to fit under the restraints.
i've never ridden viper or x2. i'm terrified of both of them.
The ride isn't too bad but the loops do bother my head for a lil bit.
Viper slams your head around between the overhead restraints but it's still one of my favorites and I go on it every time. One of these days it will concuss me.
Should have renamed the coaster "The Sterilizer."
The Neuter Scooter
LMFAOOOOO FACTS
Mac Kirkaldy XD
Thank you!
"it was a pelvic nightmare...... this TAINTed the ride..."
oh come on.... that was NOT coincidence
The dry humor in this is golden
It also affected vulvas........ it’s just as awful!
Glad someone else went there because I did. That was my first thought as well. Well played, narrator. Well played.
I rode Green Lantern First Flight in November, 2011. It was terrible! The pain and pressure I felt on my chest and in my head was close to unbearable, especially on that last element. We finally stopped in the upside down position which only added more pain to the already painful experience. I celebrated when the ride was closed in 2017.
"ball crusher"
"nut crusher"
it's called N U T B U S T E R
Nutcracker
What about "Ball buster"
Buster Sword
“ my nut busted on green lantern.”
Mickey's Dick Smasher was real all along and it was under our noses the whole time!
Fun fact: I was slightly under the height limit when I went on this ride and legitimately almost fell out lol I was holding on for dear life :)))) fun times
I haven't been under the height limit of an attraction since I was 7. . .I was a tall kid XD
I went on the splash mountain ride at disneyworld and I almost fell out of the seat at the drop, my butt literally came off the seat and I had to wrap my hands around the lap bar to hold on.
Sheela Yuan thanks for describing what essentially is my whole life...
shadow knight OMG IKR??? I’m always way over the height limit and splash mountains drop always has me scared for my life!!!!
See this is why you don't test the rules of riding roller-coasters
I remember on a highschool trip, a friend kept teasing me about being scared of rollercoasters so to shut him up I randomly picked one to go on. I picked the green lantern and he went off about how it was the worst ride ever and that he rather die than go on it. It stopped the teasing but I also never got the experience the horror that is this ride
I thought I broke my legs in this ride lmfao so glad it’s closing
@@bellareyes429 how was it
Wow 2 it sucked. He didn’t lie when he said it was the worst ride ever
Yo, can talk about how the standing green lantern ride is also horrible. Whenever you go down slopes it feels like the ride is trying to rip your ankles off. My third time riding it with family I dreaded going down the hills and I was actually terrified to learn my restraint had come off on the final loop. I hope they close down that coaster.
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Yeah this ride almost scarred me into hating rollercoasters. The fact that I was bouncing in the seat for having too much space where I could've slipped out and the workers there didn't want to help. I legit said before the ride started "welp this is my fate."
Good thing you didn't fall out!
Bouncer: How Tough are ya??
Random dude: I rode Green Lantern: First Flight....
Bouncer : Right this way sir....
I was expecting twice ...
banshee90
Nope, just riding it is tough enough~
@@spiritrosewolf6377 not for the ignorant who don't know it sucks. There's nothing tough about getting on a crappy coaster by accident.
I have ridden it
@@ChristelVinot there not saying your tought because its a scary good coaster there saying your tough because you survived the ball breaking experince of riding this shite ride
"there's too much confetti, i can't see!"
i died.
Sans, you're a skeleton...you're already dead.
me; damn yall using too much confetti
guy:: "there's too much confetti, i can't see!"
me: see its not just me
"Dear God its in my eyes!!!"
i can’t frickin see
Never forgetti Magic Mountains confetti
There was a similar Green Lantern ride at a theme park in Australia and i remember it being really fucking rough too. At one point I felt like I was going to fall out of the harness.
It’s still there! At Movieworld. I’ve never had any troubles with it but it’s different for everyone as all bodies are different. I mean, it was rough and jerky but I just assume all coasters are like that and figured it was that way because of how compact it is lmao but maybe I’m missing something? 😂
Yeah, it's a pretty dodgy ride, i've never been to Movieworld without the Green Lantern breaking down at least once throughout the day.
That ride malfunctions so often, I've never been on it because I don't trust it. It's broken down mid-ride MANY times, and that's just fucking terrifying. Same with the Scooby-Doo ride. It doesn't break down as often, but it's so fucking rough. Some of the dips are really sudden and can make your head be thrown into the seat, and also the section where it has the violent turns and it feels like you're about to fall off of the ride.
Love seeing crossover between 2 of my favorite channels lmao
@@ebsii0687 Never been to the gold coast but this made me really want to get on that coaster lol. i want rides to excite me not put me to sleep. Breaking down in the middle sounds fun to me.
15:25 this is the only type of 4D coaster we got in Planet Coaster and it is surprisingly difficult to build right. It's a very fine line between fun and vomit for these things