When I was on magnum years ago. We got stopped at the last brake run. After 10 minutes of sitting there. A maintance guy comes up to us and tells us that the train in front of us hit a seagull and got waged under the glass window that the first car has. As a bonus, it happened right at the camera run.
I got my first trimless Magnum ride back in October. It was coming out of a breakdown and the ride ops turned off the trims to complete test runs, and they didn’t turn them back on for my train. I got the most violent and insane ride with ejector airtime EVERYWHERE. Magnum has always been a favorite of mine and near my top 25, but this ride shot it into my top 10. It is also now my second favorite at Cedar Point, only behind Steel Vengeance. The thing is possessed in the best way possible.
@@bitcoin-investment It is rough but unlike the other hypers the layout is fantastic so the roughness is worth putting up with. Also if you don't sit in a wheel seat (third row of each car) the roughness is not that bad I actually think it gives the ride character
An infamous old one illustrating the difference: I enjoyed Drachen Fire when I rode it though I can see it was objectively bad (painful). But at the same time, the pain put me off riding big new coasters for many years--it was this love-hate thing. I still can't decide exactly how I feel about it, though since it's long gone, the question is moot. I suppose if I'd ridden it as a knowledgeable enthusiast I'd have just said "no, this is broken, it's possible to do better". There are a lot of coasters that I suspect give shorter people than me a lot of headbanging. I regard Canobie's Untamed as butter-smooth but I've seen people complain about its roughness, and I think it mostly has to do with how tall you are because the problem is headbanging with the OTSR on the transitions. (But Drachen Fire even banged my head. A lot.)
Drachen Fire was painful, but I was short enough at the time that I didn't get to badly beaten up. We rode it a ton when I was really young because there were no lines. I've never seen another coaster with so many warnings about wearing earrings though, so they clearly knew that it beat people up even early on.
@@zfxpedals They tried so hard to fix it, even removed an inversion in the hopes that would help (it didn't). Usually being shorter is worse but maybe with Drachen Fire it was the opposite, because it wasn't heartlined at all.
@@markvolpe2305 I was thinking the same thing. They should move Green Lantern to Over Texas, St. Louis, Mexico or Darien Lake, basically any Six Flags park that has only 1 B&M coaster (which is a Batman clone) or no B&M’s at all, and have the Stand-up trains scrapped or preserved in a museum, and replace them with Floorless ones.
The fact that Vortex at KI is gone, but Anaconda at KD still exists is absolutely heartbreaking. Dishonorable mention: Grizzly at KD is absolutely horrible and in desperate need of a retrack. I can't remember the last time a coaster really HURT me.
Me and my friend Ashley are going to Canada's Wonderland tomorrow. She likes the wooden coasters there, but I think that the Wilde Beast is just BEGGING for an RMC redo (the Minebuster just needs a retracking)
I was just there two days ago, Anaconda is still up and running and it is PAINFUL, my head bounced against the restraints like a pinball machine and gave me a nasty migraine and Grizzly is so painful my poor boyfriend almost had to stop riding coasters for the rest of the day. Grizzly was hard to even start to enjoy because of how painful it was. The rest of the coasters at KD are pretty cool though.
To Sarah’s point about green lantern at Great Adventure: I agree completely and I’m 6’1. It’s not even a rough ride, but it flies through it’s elements almost too fast (all while I’m bracing my groin super hard) and my head just plays pinball with the restraints.
I rode riddlers revenge at six flags magic mountain and I'm like 5'3 I think and it was not bad I didn't hurt it was a bit uncomfortable but it was great and I only hit my head once right before the brake run
@@bigturdgames9802 yeah I’ve heard pretty good things about that one. Many people say that it’s actually the best B&M stand up. Only one I ever rode is Green Lantern and it was okay the first time I rode it (I was also like 11 then), but the last time I rode it was when I was 16 and that was probably the worst roller coaster experience I’ve ever had.
Mind Eraser hurt my whole family. From headaches to soreness to bruises, that ride gave us all souvenirs. As far as home parks go, my most sentimental roller coaster is the New Mexico Rattler.
Wildcat at Lake Compounce is the only roller coaster that I have ridden where i wanted it to be over- I always heard the ride was rough, but i’ll never forget being in the station waiting to board the next train, and it pulls into the station and woman gets off, grabs her neck, and passes out in the station. She was then evaluated by EMTs before being carried off. Then for some reason I got on the ride still. It was like that scene in spongebob where the fish are getting off the fiery fist-o-pain without their spines.
7:20 i made the big mistake of going on one of those extra helix SLCs, and oh my god that one helix had more headbanging than the whole rest of the ride. and to make it worse it had the old restraints.
I was lucky enough to have ridden the Hurler at King's Dominion when it first opened in '94. It was an absolute joy to ride. It was replete with wonderful airtime and was very re-rideable. I also rode Carowind's version several years later. It was an entirely different experience. It wasn't bad per se, it just didn't have the airtime and didn't seem ride the same. Perhaps the design of those two rides didn't hold up very well over time?
9:40 I agree entirely. I rode in the magic seat and the ride was almost unbearably shaky and the final run of airtime was strong to the point where it’s just not even fun anymore. My legs hurt for the rest of the day and I even got bruises from it. I don’t care what people say, but the “magic seat” is magically bad for what people make it out to be.
As Six Flags Great Adventure was my home park, I definitely agree about Green Lantern and the old Scream Machine being some of the worst rides I've ridden there. However, there was an older defunct ride at the park that was even worse: Viper. Man I still remember the headache from the head banging and near whiplash I got from that ride lol. Amazing that tearing that ride down led to one of my all time favorites, El Toro.
I love magnum so much. 2nd favorite at CP with that being said it’s important for coaster enthusiasts to not act like certain opinions are facts. Steel Vengeance is my number 1 and even though that is cliche I respect people who have rides like fury 325 over any rmc. Because they are opinions, no you are NOT GP if you don’t like airtime. As long as you know a variety of manufactures and names of chains in the amusement industry, and love roller coasters you are a true enthusiast.
I think if a ride is going to top an RMC, it kinda has to be a ride like Fury which offers a totally different ride experience. Fury is still one of my favorites. I can't rank coasters anymore, there are just too many of them that are 10/10 and recency bias kinda determines what my current favorite is.
@OneDayAfterAnother same here, it's something about the drop on Magnum, I really feel it in my stomach and on MF the drop is so fast I feel nothing...Maverick is fav in the park
I’m short and very small, but I honestly don’t find any pain on Magnum! I really like that ride, almost put it above SteVe. I just always have so much fun, any seat
Some rollercoasters you have to learn how to ride it. You move with it like a dance so you don't get hurt and then you can appreciate what it offers. Magnum is one, Shockwave formally at Kings Dominion was another. If you ride them like a rag doll you are going to get hurt.
I’m with you on magnum XL 200, when I rode it 1 time when I was on a trip to cedar point, it SUCKED. Even my dad hated because of the painful, flat, lap bars that Bain against your thighs.
GASM just finished the retracking. Rode it yesterday. It's definitely better now. In the front. The back row was still a rough ride. And the brakes still hurt. But overall, it's better
Rode GASM a couple of weeks ago and it was exponentially better than the nightmare ride I had back in 2016. So glad since it was my favorite back in the 80s. Still not top-tier, but back to being a fun ride.
I just wanted to write a comment about this. The Energylandia SLC Mayan is actually a pretty solid ride. It still has this slc‘ish pressure (when going through the first inversions) and a bit of roughness, but no headache afterwards and you could definitely a few times in a row. I recommend it!
@@MylesHSG It's the restraints and poor track tolerances. If you look up at the wheels you will see they don't touch the track all the time and this creates the jerkiness. Riddler Revenge at SFNE has the new trains and while you don't bang your head it's still jerky same goes for T3 at Kentucky Kingdom which instead of murdering your head now murders your thighs. I heard Great Noreaster at Morey's Piers is now a awesome ride because they retracked it using Vekomas new track bending technology
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv the only modern Verkoma I've been on was a family suspended coaster, I thought it was very good, I'm excited to ride more of their new models.
@@MylesHSG Me too I really hope the tilt coaster in Texas is a success so parks other than Disney start working with Vekoma again. If Dollywoods new coaster is not a extreme spinner I hope it's a Vekoma
I love Magnum's restraints. The first half has almost no forces, but the view is good. Then the jankiest turnaround of all time. The finale is very similar to the finale on Steel Vengeance, only you actually feel the airtime since you don't have 60lbs of steel in your lap like you do on the RMC train. I love how the Arrow lap bars bounce around, it's way scarier than Steel Vengeance! I love feeling the forces on SteVe but I don't ever feel like I am leaving my seat because of the heavy restraints. On Magnum you definitely know you are out of your seat!
6:40 I love the layout of the vekoma boomerang, having done the oldest operating one (so the one in Bellewaerde which had the old old restraints which where skinny over the shoulders) i actually started appreciating them as despite being rough on its tracks it was way nicer then the one i did at walibi Belgium, slcs can die in a hole tho. I do however understand if you dislike then with the bulkier over the shoulder restraints
I completely agree with the home park bias going both directions. My home park is Cedar Point, and I can talk certain rides up all day, but there’s others that I feel get way to much credit for what they are. The park as a whole, in my opinion, is not that great anymore, and it’s built to be a park you go to for a long weekend, get all your credits, and then come back on occasion to ride a few select rides. There’s a lack of diversity in the park. Coasters are fantastic, but so is a log flume, a dark ride, more flat rides, etc etc
I personally only ever care about rollercoasters and drop towers whenever I go to any amusement parks. Flat rides and dark rides don't do it for me. Log Flumes can sometimes be really fun though
I literally was at Cedar Point last week. Magnum was my first ride of the park ever because steel vengence and maverick were not open early and Gatekeeper had broken down. I was very surprised by how much i liked it. I felt no pain on that ride. almost lost my glasses... but thats another story
@@brianfoss571 Try to get car 6 row 1 or 2. Those are the best rows. Also make sure you tighten the seat belt as much as can and scooch forward to prevent stapling. Finally hold the lapbar up with your had for the ENTIRE RIDE including the pre lift and lift hill if you don't you will get stapled
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Not a fan of Magnum in the last car. The improved airtime isn't worth it when I can't put my arms up, so I cut my losses and ride in the middle. At least it's almost always a walk-on these days, so could try your technique at some point.
I love magnum all the hate is whatever means more rides for me but I think it's funny how the same people that hate it love skyrush and voyage for the same reason
I'm pretty sure Great American Scream Machine has been retracked. I knew about its reputation when I rode it last month, but I found it surprisingly smooth. Unfortunately I didn't get much airtime.
i just recently rode mineblower (im 13) and i HATED it so much. it was extremely rough and there were loud metal screeching against metal noises that hurt my ears. it was my first coaster with an inversion and i wish it wasnt.
I miss Great American Scream Machine. Real shame that its replacement is a relocated B&M Stand-up which nobody likes. A B&M Wing coaster would’ve done better justice as GASM’s replacement. In fact, they should just move Green Lantern to St. Louis or Darien Lake so they can scrap the Stand-up trains and replace them with Floorless ones.
Back during early June, when my friends and I went, we happened to have taken Magnum XL-200 on as pairs (I was coming over from Frontier Town after deciding to wait on Maverick and got there while the first pair were on). While the first pair loved the ride, my other friend and I had a very different story. I noticed that a couple of kids were behind us, so my friend and I moved out of the way of 2-2 and took 2-3 before taking off. Even with knowing that we were dealing with a wheel seat, most of the layout was perfectly fine, except for the triangle hills. The ejector from those three hills led to my groin getting jammed by the restraints on the last hill, and my friend wished she had brought knee braces after all three hills led to her bruising her knees. While making sure a couple of kids didn't have wheel seats likely had a hand in risking our enjoyment of the ride, it's still a pretty rough ride and I'm not sure how excited I'd be to go on it in the future
Magnum is one of those rides where you have to know how to ride it or it sucks that's why it's so polarizing. First you need to avoid the third row of each car if you sit in the third row of each car get prepared to get a massive headache at the end. Second you need tighten that seat belt as much as you can and make sure to scooch forward in the seat so the ride ops do not staple you. Finally sooch back and make sure to hold the lapbar up for the entire ride, even that tiny dip into the lift hill is enough to cause the bar to slam down and staple you. I also do the same trick with coasters who have PTC wooden coaster trains with individual lapbars, GCI Millennium Flyers, and B&M hypers/gigas because all of them are prone to stapling due to positive force.
Spot on about Magnum XL-200!!! It was the most painful coaster experience I've ever had. I almost passed out from pain. My wife turned to me after the turn around and screamed "never again!!!"
Thanks to your first stop at Parc Astérix for your summer trip to Europe, you could experience one of the worst old school Vekoma : Goudurix. The headache (and credit) it will give you doesn't deserve more than a 15 minutes wait. And the retracked Tonnerre 2 Zeus is very rough, like you said, when you age you became less tolerant to roughness.
I wish they would put the new Vekoma trains on it if they want to keep it, Blue Hawk at SFOG went from being horrible to being decent after the new trains
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Even with the new train, the layout is so badly done (it was the first Vekoma coaster designed by computer) that it would still be a pain. I hope they do a full retrack like Python at Effteling.
I swear The Great American Scream Machine at Six Flags Over Georgia gave me the biggest headache in the world 🌎😂😂 the part that killed me the most was towards the end where you hit the air time hills back to back. Me and my friend got beat up so badly. When we got off the ride we couldn’t stop laughing. That thing is terrible, absolutely TERRIBLE 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you, Sarah! I absolutely hate Magnum. So painful. I couldn't wait to get off it. So rough and the tunnels just make it even worse. I'm so glad Mine Blower is now getting retracked by RMC. It has such a great layout. I live right by it so I'm so excited I'll soon be able to ride it without all those potholes.
After riding mean streak I remember limping to the bathroom to make sure all my parts were still intact, not kidding. How RMC made SV out of that mess is truly amazing
I will never understand the hatred for Hurler at Carowinds. It’s genuinely my favorite ride to lap over and over at the park, it’s a great breezy ride.
I rode it in 2019 on my one solo trip to Carowinds and I felt nothing - no airtime, layout was boring, no signature ride feature. I didn't ride Fury 325 before Hurler, so I built my way up toward it. That's bad.
I know you guys have probably ridden it multiple times but the Grizzly at California's Great America is not necessary bad, its just kinda boring. I wish they could RMC it (Even though Joker at Discovery Kingdom is less then 60 miles from CGA), or Titan track it and reprofile it so its not so damn boring.
You’re exactly right. What was funny about it was that B&M, who are obviously known for supreme smoothness with their rides, made the trains that you were pummeled inside of haha.
Sarah, here we are again with you totally disrespecting the love of my life MagnumXL200. I really don't know how much more abuse I can take here, your breaking my heart 💔 leave Mag alone 😂😂 I need a POV video with you on it explaining your issues in detail 😁
Intamin Bobsleds are amazing as single row vehicles! Sarajevo Bobsled was my favorite next to Rolling Thunder (the one that would have survived at most functional parks.)
I dislike the corkscrew at cedar point. Not because of headbanging. Not because it’s a bad ride. It’s because I’m too tall for it, and we had to stop on the lift hill for 15 minutes because someone pulled their phone out. I literally had to slouch down the entire ride so I could fit. I’m 6 foot and my dad is 6’2, we needed a chiropractor after that ride. We don’t have any problems with any other arrow OTSR’s but the ones at cedar point sucked!
My lap bar got unlatched during magnum. Scariest moment of my life. Holding on for dear life, I thought I was gonna die. Turns out, the lap bar is just so loose you feel that way. But mine was extra loose… I have no clue why it happened to me, the first time rider. On top of that, the ride was rough as crap edit: yea I was like 12 when writing this, kind of a GP comment, now I know that upon riding this my lap bar was just a little big 😂 (yea idk why I thought I was gonna die, ig i’d never been on hurler at carowinds)
I will say I went to Vegas for the first time last year, and when we hit up all the casinos I didn’t want want to ride the Big Apple coaster because of the horrible restraints, but I decided to do it anyways for the credit. I was unaware that they put in new trains and the restraints were better. I thought it was gonna be garbage but I enjoyed my experience. Layout is meh, but wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.
I like the Intamin Bobsleds. I rode La Vibora that is located at Six Flags over Texas originally when it was The Sarajevo Bobsleds at Six Flags Magic Mountain for the 1984-1985 seasons.
Tolerance thing, yes! The older I get, especially since having my kids, I can’t tolerate as much and it makes me so sad 😩 Also, the short person thing used to make me HATE Maverick and I’ve admittedly never ridden it with the new harnesses. But when it first opened, I got off with a full migraine and my ears were red and throbbing in pain.
It’s a top 10 coaster for sure now. I rode it opening year also and got some head/neck banging (which didn’t bother me much cause the ride is so intense)…but I can assure you there is zero problem with that now. It’s as smooth as glass, even 15 years later.
I agree with Sarah on the magnum being a painful ride. once me and my brother hit the first hill, I wanted to get off the ride as soon as possible, I don't get why people enjoy the painful airtime. Maybe If they change the restraint cover to a more comfortable one, maybe I will enjoy it. Also they finally added a movement method for the break run that if it stops then its stuck. I told my brother when it stopped that we were stuck, "but then it moved and I got embarrassed."
Without any doubt my least favorite roller coaster is Thunderhawk at Dorney Park, that thing rattles your brains out. Or maybe Rougarou, I got sooooo much headbanging from that thing in the back row.
3:32 I rode it when it was less than 2 weeks old and it's legit at least a top 5 best coaster for me (some days it's my #1 out of nearly 300 coasters), but I think Taylor's point about how the wood has adapted with so many cycles since it opened (ie since I rode it since it was brand new and didn't have the time to get rough before I rode it) in a humid climate is likely true. It's likely at the same point in its service life as White Lightning which got Titian track. It would once again be the "best in the world callibur" coaster I rode if Fun Spot let Gravity Group test out their much more durable prefab track on it. However I will whole heartedly agree with Sarah at 5:25. That ride gave me a stress fracture in my right foot, worst coaster I've ridden and I'd ride one of the older Chineese knock off SLCs before I'd ride Green Lanturn again and when I eventually make it to Magic Mountain I won't ride Riddler's Revenge. That onr ride was the first and last large scale standup coaster I'll ride (and I'll ride coasters I'm taller than for the credit, just to show how much I hate Green Lanturn)
Steamin Demon is an old relocation and they must not have done something right when reassembling it. it was ok about 15 years ago when they got new trains but that only lasted a year or two
KD Grizzly beat me up almost as badly as the old Georgia Cyclone. It and Anaconda were by far the worst ride experiences on our recent Virginia trip. Reptilian was surprisingly fun.
At this point my least favorite coaster is the Flight of Fear coaster at Kings Island only due to the design of the cars. The layout was cool, but I was in so much pain I couldn't enjoy it. The cars were so uncomfortable and hard to fit into. Everyone who rode it with me had to get help from the operators in order to get the seatbelts and restraints closed. It took forever to load. And, none of us were huge people. I'm only 5'9" and I could barely fit my legs in the car. Then the ride bashed my knees so bad during the ride I swore never again. I also don't understand all the fanboy love for Gemini @ Cedar Point. It was jerky, rough and painful.
I LOVE SKULL MOUNTAIN BRUH, for a family coaster that whip in the back is incredible, I thought it was shorter than it actually was and I was shocked when the drop brutally got my stomach
A park's biggest fans are also definitely the biggest critics. KI is my home park but a lot of KI fans seem critical of nearly everything CF and the park does. It's remarkable sometimes. But I don't really hate any coaster at KI myself. Not even Invertigo, which I avoid but its not overly rough. Or Flying Ace Aerial Chase (Vekoma FSC), which I've only ridden once but was okay (maybe because my head goes above the restraint?). Now at my sort-of other home park, I dislike multiple rides including Magnum, which is too painful, and Rugarou which has headbanging. Corkscrew is just short and rough while Cedar Creek Mine is practically a kiddie ride but has an awful restraint system. To me CP has amazing rides at the top, good rides in the middle but bad rides at the bottom.
The scooby doo ghoster coaster at KI ! I remember riding it as a kid the first time. Having fun the whole way down, until you hit the brakes at the end 😵 !! The way the seat was designed and the abrupt stop!! The pain that was inflicted between my legs damn near had me in tears !! Even bracing myself on future rides, you still took a nut 🥜 shot !! ahhh !! It’s a no from me dog lol
mine is Stinger from Dorney Park. I rode it the last season it was open and the ride was awful the restraints crushed my knees and every little bump I smashed my knees. All I remember is getting off of it and complaining how bad my knees hurt. It's a shame too since Dorney has few roller coasters as is. Especially considering ever since they got rid of Stinger they have yet to put anything new there.
1:46 back in the 90’s when it ran properly, it was fine. A little re-tracking and re-profiling, and new Vekoma 1212 trains, and Anaconda would be a great coaster.
5:29 I do believe that this is true. I first rode lantern around 4 years ago when I was quite a bit shorter than I am now and got badly headbanged, but I rerode it last summer and I actually really enjoyed the ride because I didn’t get headbanged nearly as much as I did my first ride
Kong at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom had its trains changed a few years ago, its SO much smoother now, my dad used to hate it, but i convinced him to get on it, he loved it i was able to enjoy it too, really fun
Similar great layout but too rough situation, Wooden Coaster Fireball at my home park Happy Vally Shanghai. The layout itself is pretty decent but it’s gotten so rough now that it seems like the airtime is just worn off
I can't think of many coasters I completely dislike currently. The one of relatively recent memory that isn't there anymore was Mean Streak at Cedar Point. I remember one specific point of the ride that everyone in the train said "Ow!". That's crazy as I don't mind wooden coasters with character and ruggedness, but that was beyond that. Also, it had almost zero airtime considering the sheer size and first drop. It was trimmed brakes to death throughout the entire ride. I wouldn't have known the coaster's 65 mph top speed based on my ride experience. I wish I would've rode it in the early years when it wasn't trimmed braked heavy and much smoother. I don't miss it at all.
You should go to Gröna Lund in Sweden in Stockholm and try Monster (just so you know you need to book your tickets before you go to the park, so you can’t buy tickets there at the park) btw you make great content!
I don't hate many coasters. And one of the things I try to keep in mind is that no matter how *I* feel about a ride, every coaster is somebody's favorite. But I hate Wildcat at Lake Compounce. Wildcat is a ride that has gotten steadily and reliably worse every single time I've ridden it. It's just expected at this point and I've resigned myself to it. But when I rode it two days ago, it accomplished the absolutely unimagineable. My first -- and planned to be only -- ride on it was in the back row. My wife and I braced ourselves and were stunned when the first drop was actually more-or-less smooth. That, however, was just Wildcat coyly trying to trick us into letting down our guard. It couldn't keep up the facade for long though, and after the next rise the shaking started. And then the bouncing, followed soon by the being thrown violently side to side. It was so much worse than the last time I'd ridden it! So unbelievably worse that by about halfway I was praying to Gods I don't believe in and hoping my insurance would cover the kidney damage. And then, the ride somehow got even rougher (?!) and something unexpected happened. It became hilarious! It had finally become so bad, so unmitigatedly terrible, that it was literally unbelievable. It had achieved a kind of satori; almost entirely transcending the "bad/good" scale and becoming its own ridiculously amusing thing. By the time we lurched and crashed back to a stop in the station, I was laughing so hard I couldn't talk. I had never experienced anything like it, and I couldn't come close to describing it. So later that day, we did the unthinkable. We went on Wildcat _again_. We just had to see if the hilarity continued. This time, we managed to get the front row. And the difference was insane! It was _*even worse*_!!! Not only do you get thrown laterally like you're a dog's favorite stuffed toy, but you also get whipped forward and back as the lead car of the train repeatedly tries and fails to escape from the ones following it! No one will ever be able to truthfully say Wildcat is a good coaster. It is so very, very not. But it has somehow become an incredible experience. I still hate it with the burning passion of a thousand suns, but I now begrudgingly admire its unbelievable accomplishment. Some coaster had to be the worst, and Wildcat has whole-heartedly embraced it. No one should miss having at least one ride on it; to have that shared experience with all other Wildcat survivors. Just make sure your will is up to date and your insurance is paid up first.
One of my best memories from the magnum was riding in the backseat with my best friend and some lady sitting in front of me had her rain poncho flapping violently in my face after the first drop for the entire ride. I couldn’t see anything. We were laughing so hard we were out of breath at the end of the ride 😂
The only roller coaster I genuinely don't like is Firebird. I'm honestly shocked that isn't on either of your lists. There are rough coasters, boring coasters, head bashers and just downright weird ones, but none of them have ever caused the type of pain Firebird causes. I genuinely hate that ride.
When I was on magnum years ago. We got stopped at the last brake run. After 10 minutes of sitting there. A maintance guy comes up to us and tells us that the train in front of us hit a seagull and got waged under the glass window that the first car has. As a bonus, it happened right at the camera run.
omg
What the hell 😂 but sorry for the seagull
Wow
A seagull
shades of Fabio.
"Too much ketchup and mustard in one spot" LOL and the poopy green supports too. Anaconda really is an ugly ride.
Desperado was my very first hyper. Ride it a couple years after it opened. Was amazing back then. I'd like to see a reboot of it honestly.
12:34 The look on Taylor’s face made me burst out laughing.
he looks like he's about to kick your 🍑
Same
it was to much information
Trimless Magnum is one of the most insane things I've ever experienced. Love that ride to pieces
Trimless at night is another experience.
More pain
I got my first trimless Magnum ride back in October. It was coming out of a breakdown and the ride ops turned off the trims to complete test runs, and they didn’t turn them back on for my train. I got the most violent and insane ride with ejector airtime EVERYWHERE. Magnum has always been a favorite of mine and near my top 25, but this ride shot it into my top 10. It is also now my second favorite at Cedar Point, only behind Steel Vengeance. The thing is possessed in the best way possible.
@@garminkid how do you get past the pain
When Sarah mentioned Magnum, I felt the hearts of every Magnum fan shatter....
They deserve it.
I feel like magnum is considered good because it’s at CP, all of the other arrow hypers are always called rough so idk
@@bitcoin-investment Magnum actually has a good layout tho
I only rode it once. Once. I’m never riding it again.
@@bitcoin-investment It is rough but unlike the other hypers the layout is fantastic so the roughness is worth putting up with. Also if you don't sit in a wheel seat (third row of each car) the roughness is not that bad I actually think it gives the ride character
An infamous old one illustrating the difference: I enjoyed Drachen Fire when I rode it though I can see it was objectively bad (painful). But at the same time, the pain put me off riding big new coasters for many years--it was this love-hate thing. I still can't decide exactly how I feel about it, though since it's long gone, the question is moot. I suppose if I'd ridden it as a knowledgeable enthusiast I'd have just said "no, this is broken, it's possible to do better".
There are a lot of coasters that I suspect give shorter people than me a lot of headbanging. I regard Canobie's Untamed as butter-smooth but I've seen people complain about its roughness, and I think it mostly has to do with how tall you are because the problem is headbanging with the OTSR on the transitions. (But Drachen Fire even banged my head. A lot.)
Drachen Fire was painful, but I was short enough at the time that I didn't get to badly beaten up. We rode it a ton when I was really young because there were no lines.
I've never seen another coaster with so many warnings about wearing earrings though, so they clearly knew that it beat people up even early on.
@@zfxpedals They tried so hard to fix it, even removed an inversion in the hopes that would help (it didn't).
Usually being shorter is worse but maybe with Drachen Fire it was the opposite, because it wasn't heartlined at all.
I loved Drachen Fire when I rode it opening year and it was probably one of the best night rides i've ever had!
100% with Sarah on Magnum-XL. No matter how much I want to enjoy it there is no way with the restraints the way they are.
I love magnum
I agree with you dude.
The pain is fun
Best coaster in Ohio.
@@briandevine8292 exactly the painful airtime is crazy
Green Lantern: Can’t Stand It, actually sounds like a pretty good tagline.
So maybe it needs a floorless conversion?
@@markvolpe2305 no because sfga already has a floorless now called medusa
@@SteelForceful then move it to a different park and give it a floorless conversion.
@@markvolpe2305 I was thinking the same thing.
They should move Green Lantern to Over Texas, St. Louis, Mexico or Darien Lake, basically any Six Flags park that has only 1 B&M coaster (which is a Batman clone) or no B&M’s at all, and have the Stand-up trains scrapped or preserved in a museum, and replace them with Floorless ones.
Is this the one that used to be CHANG at Kentucky Kingdom? Wasn't bad when I rode it there, but I greyed out thru the loop.
The fact that Vortex at KI is gone, but Anaconda at KD still exists is absolutely heartbreaking.
Dishonorable mention: Grizzly at KD is absolutely horrible and in desperate need of a retrack. I can't remember the last time a coaster really HURT me.
It was closed when I was there a few days ago, so maybe they’re finally doing that.
It was open when I went a couple of weeks ago and I cussed it the whole time. Literally painful.
I used to love Grizzly, but the last time I went on it was so freaking rough. I was genuinely surprised
Me and my friend Ashley are going to Canada's Wonderland tomorrow. She likes the wooden coasters there, but I think that the Wilde Beast is just BEGGING for an RMC redo (the Minebuster just needs a retracking)
I was just there two days ago, Anaconda is still up and running and it is PAINFUL, my head bounced against the restraints like a pinball machine and gave me a nasty migraine and Grizzly is so painful my poor boyfriend almost had to stop riding coasters for the rest of the day. Grizzly was hard to even start to enjoy because of how painful it was.
The rest of the coasters at KD are pretty cool though.
To Sarah’s point about green lantern at Great Adventure: I agree completely and I’m 6’1. It’s not even a rough ride, but it flies through it’s elements almost too fast (all while I’m bracing my groin super hard) and my head just plays pinball with the restraints.
Last time I rode that thing, my balls were crushed by the lower part of the restraint and my chest got caved in by the upper part. Never again
fr bruh my balls just get destroyed. Terrible ride
As a 5’6 male, I get the worst of it 🙁
I rode riddlers revenge at six flags magic mountain and I'm like 5'3 I think and it was not bad I didn't hurt it was a bit uncomfortable but it was great and I only hit my head once right before the brake run
@@bigturdgames9802 yeah I’ve heard pretty good things about that one. Many people say that it’s actually the best B&M stand up. Only one I ever rode is Green Lantern and it was okay the first time I rode it (I was also like 11 then), but the last time I rode it was when I was 16 and that was probably the worst roller coaster experience I’ve ever had.
Mind Eraser hurt my whole family. From headaches to soreness to bruises, that ride gave us all souvenirs.
As far as home parks go, my most sentimental roller coaster is the New Mexico Rattler.
Omg bruh same, gave me a headache right after, thankfully it was a night ride and the park was closing so that was my last ride before leaving.
Wildcat at Lake Compounce is the only roller coaster that I have ridden where i wanted it to be over- I always heard the ride was rough, but i’ll never forget being in the station waiting to board the next train, and it pulls into the station and woman gets off, grabs her neck, and passes out in the station. She was then evaluated by EMTs before being carried off. Then for some reason I got on the ride still. It was like that scene in spongebob where the fish are getting off the fiery fist-o-pain without their spines.
7:20 i made the big mistake of going on one of those extra helix SLCs, and oh my god that one helix had more headbanging than the whole rest of the ride. and to make it worse it had the old restraints.
I was lucky enough to have ridden the Hurler at King's Dominion when it first opened in '94. It was an absolute joy to ride. It was replete with wonderful airtime and was very re-rideable. I also rode Carowind's version several years later. It was an entirely different experience. It wasn't bad per se, it just didn't have the airtime and didn't seem ride the same. Perhaps the design of those two rides didn't hold up very well over time?
9:40
I agree entirely. I rode in the magic seat and the ride was almost unbearably shaky and the final run of airtime was strong to the point where it’s just not even fun anymore. My legs hurt for the rest of the day and I even got bruises from it. I don’t care what people say, but the “magic seat” is magically bad for what people make it out to be.
amen there is no magic seat on magnum
@@NickyD fr
Big Apple Coaster is actually good now! (With the comfort collars) I had lots of fun, it may be weird and jerky but I think it’s fun!
My biggest problem with the ride was lack of forces( including the airtime less hills) and no new train will fix that
@@dustmybroom288 That’s true but the second airtime hill gives lots of floater which i appreciated
Yeah but what is that lift hill? It looks super weird
I would not say it is good. I would say it has improved.
the comfort collars on a family coaster is a crime
but on a big coaster is not
As Six Flags Great Adventure was my home park, I definitely agree about Green Lantern and the old Scream Machine being some of the worst rides I've ridden there. However, there was an older defunct ride at the park that was even worse: Viper. Man I still remember the headache from the head banging and near whiplash I got from that ride lol. Amazing that tearing that ride down led to one of my all time favorites, El Toro.
9:39 thank you! I completely agree. I rode in the back row and HATED it! I only rode it once but hated every second of it! *except for when I got off*
Kraken at Seaworld Orlando. Great layout but the ride is so rough!! Gives me a crazy migraine.
Yes, it's the most overrated coaster I've ever ridden.
I love magnum so much. 2nd favorite at CP with that being said it’s important for coaster enthusiasts to not act like certain opinions are facts. Steel Vengeance is my number 1 and even though that is cliche I respect people who have rides like fury 325 over any rmc. Because they are opinions, no you are NOT GP if you don’t like airtime. As long as you know a variety of manufactures and names of chains in the amusement industry, and love roller coasters you are a true enthusiast.
I think if a ride is going to top an RMC, it kinda has to be a ride like Fury which offers a totally different ride experience. Fury is still one of my favorites. I can't rank coasters anymore, there are just too many of them that are 10/10 and recency bias kinda determines what my current favorite is.
@OneDayAfterAnother same here, it's something about the drop on Magnum, I really feel it in my stomach and on MF the drop is so fast I feel nothing...Maverick is fav in the park
I’m short and very small, but I honestly don’t find any pain on Magnum! I really like that ride, almost put it above SteVe. I just always have so much fun, any seat
I'm an NJ boy and I think Great American Scream Machine was also my first Big Boy coaster!
Taylor's face at 12:34 - 12:35 is priceless.
5:22
I just rode that Friday and as a short person, I had the exact same verdict of that ride you just said! It has potential but it's rough!!
Some rollercoasters you have to learn how to ride it. You move with it like a dance so you don't get hurt and then you can appreciate what it offers. Magnum is one, Shockwave formally at Kings Dominion was another. If you ride them like a rag doll you are going to get hurt.
I’m with you on magnum XL 200, when I rode it 1 time when I was on a trip to cedar point, it SUCKED. Even my dad hated because of the painful, flat, lap bars that Bain against your thighs.
GASM just finished the retracking. Rode it yesterday. It's definitely better now. In the front. The back row was still a rough ride. And the brakes still hurt. But overall, it's better
Yay!
Rode GASM a couple of weeks ago and it was exponentially better than the nightmare ride I had back in 2016. So glad since it was my favorite back in the 80s. Still not top-tier, but back to being a fun ride.
@@canoone1975 right!? I don't just bypass it anymore. Lol
With the retrack, Scream Machine is very smooth. The trains still suck like crap though. We need some new GCI Infinity Flyers or something.
The SLC at Energylandia I think might have potential to be a great ride. It was installed in 2015, and has the new vest restraints.
The problem with SLC's isn't the layout it's the restraints. Infusion at Blackpool Pleasure Beach is horrid
I just wanted to write a comment about this. The Energylandia SLC Mayan is actually a pretty solid ride. It still has this slc‘ish pressure (when going through the first inversions) and a bit of roughness, but no headache afterwards and you could definitely a few times in a row. I recommend it!
@@MylesHSG It's the restraints and poor track tolerances. If you look up at the wheels you will see they don't touch the track all the time and this creates the jerkiness. Riddler Revenge at SFNE has the new trains and while you don't bang your head it's still jerky same goes for T3 at Kentucky Kingdom which instead of murdering your head now murders your thighs. I heard Great Noreaster at Morey's Piers is now a awesome ride because they retracked it using Vekomas new track bending technology
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv the only modern Verkoma I've been on was a family suspended coaster, I thought it was very good, I'm excited to ride more of their new models.
@@MylesHSG Me too I really hope the tilt coaster in Texas is a success so parks other than Disney start working with Vekoma again. If Dollywoods new coaster is not a extreme spinner I hope it's a Vekoma
I love Magnum's restraints. The first half has almost no forces, but the view is good. Then the jankiest turnaround of all time. The finale is very similar to the finale on Steel Vengeance, only you actually feel the airtime since you don't have 60lbs of steel in your lap like you do on the RMC train. I love how the Arrow lap bars bounce around, it's way scarier than Steel Vengeance! I love feeling the forces on SteVe but I don't ever feel like I am leaving my seat because of the heavy restraints. On Magnum you definitely know you are out of your seat!
Magnum is my 2nd favorite coaster at cedar point, proof that Magnum xl 200 is so polarizing
6:40 I love the layout of the vekoma boomerang, having done the oldest operating one (so the one in Bellewaerde which had the old old restraints which where skinny over the shoulders) i actually started appreciating them as despite being rough on its tracks it was way nicer then the one i did at walibi Belgium, slcs can die in a hole tho. I do however understand if you dislike then with the bulkier over the shoulder restraints
I completely agree with the home park bias going both directions. My home park is Cedar Point, and I can talk certain rides up all day, but there’s others that I feel get way to much credit for what they are. The park as a whole, in my opinion, is not that great anymore, and it’s built to be a park you go to for a long weekend, get all your credits, and then come back on occasion to ride a few select rides. There’s a lack of diversity in the park. Coasters are fantastic, but so is a log flume, a dark ride, more flat rides, etc etc
They used to have a very good log flume they took it out for Maverick
I personally only ever care about rollercoasters and drop towers whenever I go to any amusement parks. Flat rides and dark rides don't do it for me. Log Flumes can sometimes be really fun though
I would love to see a bit of a spruce up in theming at CP. It's definitely lacking in that area.
I literally was at Cedar Point last week. Magnum was my first ride of the park ever because steel vengence and maverick were not open early and Gatekeeper had broken down. I was very surprised by how much i liked it. I felt no pain on that ride. almost lost my glasses... but thats another story
I need to try Magnum at the beginning of the day when it's running slower. Imagine that makes the bunny chops more tolerable
@@brianfoss571 Try to get car 6 row 1 or 2. Those are the best rows. Also make sure you tighten the seat belt as much as can and scooch forward to prevent stapling. Finally hold the lapbar up with your had for the ENTIRE RIDE including the pre lift and lift hill if you don't you will get stapled
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Not a fan of Magnum in the last car. The improved airtime isn't worth it when I can't put my arms up, so I cut my losses and ride in the middle. At least it's almost always a walk-on these days, so could try your technique at some point.
I love magnum all the hate is whatever means more rides for me but I think it's funny how the same people that hate it love skyrush and voyage for the same reason
It was my first cedar point coaster too I think. Either that or Raptor :)
I'm pretty sure Great American Scream Machine has been retracked. I knew about its reputation when I rode it last month, but I found it surprisingly smooth. Unfortunately I didn't get much airtime.
i just recently rode mineblower (im 13) and i HATED it so much. it was extremely rough and there were loud metal screeching against metal noises that hurt my ears. it was my first coaster with an inversion and i wish it wasnt.
I miss Great American Scream Machine. Real shame that its replacement is a relocated B&M Stand-up which nobody likes.
A B&M Wing coaster would’ve done better justice as GASM’s replacement. In fact, they should just move Green Lantern to St. Louis or Darien Lake so they can scrap the Stand-up trains and replace them with Floorless ones.
Finally someone else who likes Scream Machine!
Back during early June, when my friends and I went, we happened to have taken Magnum XL-200 on as pairs (I was coming over from Frontier Town after deciding to wait on Maverick and got there while the first pair were on). While the first pair loved the ride, my other friend and I had a very different story.
I noticed that a couple of kids were behind us, so my friend and I moved out of the way of 2-2 and took 2-3 before taking off. Even with knowing that we were dealing with a wheel seat, most of the layout was perfectly fine, except for the triangle hills. The ejector from those three hills led to my groin getting jammed by the restraints on the last hill, and my friend wished she had brought knee braces after all three hills led to her bruising her knees.
While making sure a couple of kids didn't have wheel seats likely had a hand in risking our enjoyment of the ride, it's still a pretty rough ride and I'm not sure how excited I'd be to go on it in the future
Magnum is one of those rides where you have to know how to ride it or it sucks that's why it's so polarizing. First you need to avoid the third row of each car if you sit in the third row of each car get prepared to get a massive headache at the end. Second you need tighten that seat belt as much as you can and make sure to scooch forward in the seat so the ride ops do not staple you. Finally sooch back and make sure to hold the lapbar up for the entire ride, even that tiny dip into the lift hill is enough to cause the bar to slam down and staple you. I also do the same trick with coasters who have PTC wooden coaster trains with individual lapbars, GCI Millennium Flyers, and B&M hypers/gigas because all of them are prone to stapling due to positive force.
I've never had a problem with opps stapling me they just check to make sure it's locked but never push down
I’ve tried this before. The ride was still hot garbage imo
07:30 damn thats one of my favourite coasters. I hated the SLC at Heide Park and almost cried as a kid, but I love blue tornado
Spot on about Magnum XL-200!!! It was the most painful coaster experience I've ever had. I almost passed out from pain. My wife turned to me after the turn around and screamed "never again!!!"
Thanks to your first stop at Parc Astérix for your summer trip to Europe, you could experience one of the worst old school Vekoma : Goudurix. The headache (and credit) it will give you doesn't deserve more than a 15 minutes wait. And the retracked Tonnerre 2 Zeus is very rough, like you said, when you age you became less tolerant to roughness.
I wish they would put the new Vekoma trains on it if they want to keep it, Blue Hawk at SFOG went from being horrible to being decent after the new trains
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Even with the new train, the layout is so badly done (it was the first Vekoma coaster designed by computer) that it would still be a pain. I hope they do a full retrack like Python at Effteling.
Rode Hurler a couple months ago, and all I could think was "Why is this not Twisted Timbers?"
Should’ve Gotten a B&M
yes b&m girl yes it shouldve.
7:24 I honestly really enjoyed that SLC because I found a method to avoid the headbanging.
Taylor’s face when she explained the breast thing lol
Lmao
I swear The Great American Scream Machine at Six Flags Over Georgia gave me the biggest headache in the world 🌎😂😂 the part that killed me the most was towards the end where you hit the air time hills back to back. Me and my friend got beat up so badly. When we got off the ride we couldn’t stop laughing. That thing is terrible, absolutely TERRIBLE 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you, Sarah! I absolutely hate Magnum. So painful. I couldn't wait to get off it. So rough and the tunnels just make it even worse.
I'm so glad Mine Blower is now getting retracked by RMC. It has such a great layout. I live right by it so I'm so excited I'll soon be able to ride it without all those potholes.
"I can't stand it" was the perfect pun for a stand up coaster
Is gasm as rough as CP"s old Mean Streak?That thing would beat the HELL out of me even though I loved it
Mean streak WAS pretty brutal.
After riding mean streak I remember limping to the bathroom to make sure all my parts were still intact, not kidding. How RMC made SV out of that mess is truly amazing
@@darthvader5532 I thought Mean Streak was actually way smoother than GASM
Rougher. If you kept your back off the seat back on Mean Streak and avoided the wheel seats it wasn't bad but there was no saving grace for GASM
Son of Beast: Amateurs…
The mammogram comment made my day, thank you! The more you know.
2:21 wait how does Sarah know that she’s a girl
I wonder how??????💀
Finally someone else agrees with me on Magnum!
I will never understand the hatred for Hurler at Carowinds. It’s genuinely my favorite ride to lap over and over at the park, it’s a great breezy ride.
because its boring and rough
I rode it in 2019 on my one solo trip to Carowinds and I felt nothing - no airtime, layout was boring, no signature ride feature. I didn't ride Fury 325 before Hurler, so I built my way up toward it. That's bad.
Desperado at Buffalo Bill's might actually reopen this year. I hate that ride. Broke 3 ribs on it.
I know you guys have probably ridden it multiple times but the Grizzly at California's Great America is not necessary bad, its just kinda boring. I wish they could RMC it (Even though Joker at Discovery Kingdom is less then 60 miles from CGA), or Titan track it and reprofile it so its not so damn boring.
This didn’t age well
The Arrow shade starts when you get old and your body can no longer handle the classics of a legend.
Suppose you want Viper at SFMM torn down too.
Sarah really can't stand green lantern the standing coaster
Anaconda was my favorite roller coaster at KD as a kid growing up. I would ride it over and over. A lot of great memories. Can't take it out
Psyclone at Magic mountain was the worst coaster I’ve ever been on, it destroyed me. It went defunct in 2006, I think. Apocalypse is there now.
You’re exactly right. What was funny about it was that B&M, who are obviously known for supreme smoothness with their rides, made the trains that you were pummeled inside of haha.
Psyclone was good for the first three years.
The point about trains is spot on. I would love to see some of the worst offenders just get replaced and the next new rides be pushed back.
Sarah, here we are again with you totally disrespecting the love of my life MagnumXL200. I really don't know how much more abuse I can take here, your breaking my heart 💔 leave Mag alone 😂😂 I need a POV video with you on it explaining your issues in detail 😁
Intamin Bobsleds are amazing as single row vehicles! Sarajevo Bobsled was my favorite next to Rolling Thunder (the one that would have survived at most functional parks.)
unpopular opinion (sarah im truly sorry): Nitro has a super nasty rattle and super boring,
I dislike the corkscrew at cedar point. Not because of headbanging. Not because it’s a bad ride. It’s because I’m too tall for it, and we had to stop on the lift hill for 15 minutes because someone pulled their phone out. I literally had to slouch down the entire ride so I could fit. I’m 6 foot and my dad is 6’2, we needed a chiropractor after that ride.
We don’t have any problems with any other arrow OTSR’s but the ones at cedar point sucked!
My lap bar got unlatched during magnum. Scariest moment of my life. Holding on for dear life, I thought I was gonna die. Turns out, the lap bar is just so loose you feel that way. But mine was extra loose… I have no clue why it happened to me, the first time rider. On top of that, the ride was rough as crap
edit: yea I was like 12 when writing this, kind of a GP comment, now I know that upon riding this my lap bar was just a little big 😂 (yea idk why I thought I was gonna die, ig i’d never been on hurler at carowinds)
The second he said “not bad experience but boring” I screamed, HURLER!
I agree with Magnum. I sat in the back row and I had the most uncomfortable ride ever on a roller coaster
I will say I went to Vegas for the first time last year, and when we hit up all the casinos I didn’t want want to ride the Big Apple coaster because of the horrible restraints, but I decided to do it anyways for the credit. I was unaware that they put in new trains and the restraints were better. I thought it was gonna be garbage but I enjoyed my experience. Layout is meh, but wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.
At 5’7, I felt that Green Lantern short thing… apparently if you are under 5’10 you hate this ride…
We had a Intamin Bob at Efteling, and i think that was so much more fun than the Mack Bob 😄
I like the Intamin Bobsleds. I rode La Vibora that is located at Six Flags over Texas originally when it was The Sarajevo Bobsleds at Six Flags Magic Mountain for the 1984-1985 seasons.
Tolerance thing, yes! The older I get, especially since having my kids, I can’t tolerate as much and it makes me so sad 😩
Also, the short person thing used to make me HATE Maverick and I’ve admittedly never ridden it with the new harnesses. But when it first opened, I got off with a full migraine and my ears were red and throbbing in pain.
It’s a top 10 coaster for sure now. I rode it opening year also and got some head/neck banging (which didn’t bother me much cause the ride is so intense)…but I can assure you there is zero problem with that now. It’s as smooth as glass, even 15 years later.
Yeah it used to be hell with the old restraints, but now with the new ones, it's honestly an unbelievable ride.
I agree with Sarah on the magnum being a painful ride. once me and my brother hit the first hill, I wanted to get off the ride as soon as possible, I don't get why people enjoy the painful airtime. Maybe If they change the restraint cover to a more comfortable one, maybe I will enjoy it. Also they finally added a movement method for the break run that if it stops then its stuck. I told my brother when it stopped that we were stuck, "but then it moved and I got embarrassed."
Sarah you are me!!!! I rode magnum in the “magic seat” and my thighs turned purple
Without any doubt my least favorite roller coaster is Thunderhawk at Dorney Park, that thing rattles your brains out. Or maybe Rougarou, I got sooooo much headbanging from that thing in the back row.
3:32 I rode it when it was less than 2 weeks old and it's legit at least a top 5 best coaster for me (some days it's my #1 out of nearly 300 coasters), but I think Taylor's point about how the wood has adapted with so many cycles since it opened (ie since I rode it since it was brand new and didn't have the time to get rough before I rode it) in a humid climate is likely true. It's likely at the same point in its service life as White Lightning which got Titian track. It would once again be the "best in the world callibur" coaster I rode if Fun Spot let Gravity Group test out their much more durable prefab track on it. However I will whole heartedly agree with Sarah at 5:25. That ride gave me a stress fracture in my right foot, worst coaster I've ridden and I'd ride one of the older Chineese knock off SLCs before I'd ride Green Lanturn again and when I eventually make it to Magic Mountain I won't ride Riddler's Revenge. That onr ride was the first and last large scale standup coaster I'll ride (and I'll ride coasters I'm taller than for the credit, just to show how much I hate Green Lanturn)
Not gonna lie, anaconda is one of my favorite rides at kings dominion.
Steamin Demon is an old relocation and they must not have done something right when reassembling it. it was ok about 15 years ago when they got new trains but that only lasted a year or two
KD Grizzly beat me up almost as badly as the old Georgia Cyclone. It and Anaconda were by far the worst ride experiences on our recent Virginia trip.
Reptilian was surprisingly fun.
At this point my least favorite coaster is the Flight of Fear coaster at Kings Island only due to the design of the cars. The layout was cool, but I was in so much pain I couldn't enjoy it. The cars were so uncomfortable and hard to fit into. Everyone who rode it with me had to get help from the operators in order to get the seatbelts and restraints closed. It took forever to load. And, none of us were huge people. I'm only 5'9" and I could barely fit my legs in the car. Then the ride bashed my knees so bad during the ride I swore never again. I also don't understand all the fanboy love for Gemini @ Cedar Point. It was jerky, rough and painful.
I rode Space Mountain at Magic Kingdom for the first time earlier this year. It hurt so bad and my arms were so stiff after the ride finishes.
Magnum has absolutely trashed the top of my thighs before. You aren't alone. LOL
I LOVE SKULL MOUNTAIN BRUH, for a family coaster that whip in the back is incredible, I thought it was shorter than it actually was and I was shocked when the drop brutally got my stomach
A park's biggest fans are also definitely the biggest critics. KI is my home park but a lot of KI fans seem critical of nearly everything CF and the park does. It's remarkable sometimes.
But I don't really hate any coaster at KI myself. Not even Invertigo, which I avoid but its not overly rough. Or Flying Ace Aerial Chase (Vekoma FSC), which I've only ridden once but was okay (maybe because my head goes above the restraint?). Now at my sort-of other home park, I dislike multiple rides including Magnum, which is too painful, and Rugarou which has headbanging. Corkscrew is just short and rough while Cedar Creek Mine is practically a kiddie ride but has an awful restraint system. To me CP has amazing rides at the top, good rides in the middle but bad rides at the bottom.
The scooby doo ghoster coaster at KI ! I remember riding it as a kid the first time. Having fun the whole way down, until you hit the brakes at the end 😵 !! The way the seat was designed and the abrupt stop!! The pain that was inflicted between my legs damn near had me in tears !! Even bracing myself on future rides, you still took a nut 🥜 shot !! ahhh !! It’s a no from me dog lol
mine is Stinger from Dorney Park. I rode it the last season it was open and the ride was awful the restraints crushed my knees and every little bump I smashed my knees. All I remember is getting off of it and complaining how bad my knees hurt. It's a shame too since Dorney has few roller coasters as is. Especially considering ever since they got rid of Stinger they have yet to put anything new there.
I died after I saw Sarah wearing Taylor’s walibi holland name tag 🤣🤣🤣
Congrats on 200k subs
Also Anaconda is a pretty good ride in my opinion
1:46 back in the 90’s when it ran properly, it was fine. A little re-tracking and re-profiling, and new Vekoma 1212 trains, and Anaconda would be a great coaster.
5:29 I do believe that this is true. I first rode lantern around 4 years ago when I was quite a bit shorter than I am now and got badly headbanged, but I rerode it last summer and I actually really enjoyed the ride because I didn’t get headbanged nearly as much as I did my first ride
Kong at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom had its trains changed a few years ago, its SO much smoother now, my dad used to hate it, but i convinced him to get on it, he loved it
i was able to enjoy it too, really fun
12:34 Taylor lookin all sorts of wigged out there 😂
Similar great layout but too rough situation, Wooden Coaster Fireball at my home park Happy Vally Shanghai. The layout itself is pretty decent but it’s gotten so rough now that it seems like the airtime is just worn off
Shame to hear, my dad rode it when it was new and he said it was awesome back then
I can't think of many coasters I completely dislike currently. The one of relatively recent memory that isn't there anymore was Mean Streak at Cedar Point. I remember one specific point of the ride that everyone in the train said "Ow!". That's crazy as I don't mind wooden coasters with character and ruggedness, but that was beyond that. Also, it had almost zero airtime considering the sheer size and first drop. It was trimmed brakes to death throughout the entire ride. I wouldn't have known the coaster's 65 mph top speed based on my ride experience. I wish I would've rode it in the early years when it wasn't trimmed braked heavy and much smoother. I don't miss it at all.
You should go to Gröna Lund in Sweden in Stockholm and try Monster (just so you know you need to book your tickets before you go to the park, so you can’t buy tickets there at the park) btw you make great content!
I don't hate many coasters. And one of the things I try to keep in mind is that no matter how *I* feel about a ride, every coaster is somebody's favorite.
But I hate Wildcat at Lake Compounce.
Wildcat is a ride that has gotten steadily and reliably worse every single time I've ridden it. It's just expected at this point and I've resigned myself to it. But when I rode it two days ago, it accomplished the absolutely unimagineable.
My first -- and planned to be only -- ride on it was in the back row. My wife and I braced ourselves and were stunned when the first drop was actually more-or-less smooth. That, however, was just Wildcat coyly trying to trick us into letting down our guard. It couldn't keep up the facade for long though, and after the next rise the shaking started. And then the bouncing, followed soon by the being thrown violently side to side. It was so much worse than the last time I'd ridden it! So unbelievably worse that by about halfway I was praying to Gods I don't believe in and hoping my insurance would cover the kidney damage. And then, the ride somehow got even rougher (?!) and something unexpected happened.
It became hilarious!
It had finally become so bad, so unmitigatedly terrible, that it was literally unbelievable. It had achieved a kind of satori; almost entirely transcending the "bad/good" scale and becoming its own ridiculously amusing thing.
By the time we lurched and crashed back to a stop in the station, I was laughing so hard I couldn't talk. I had never experienced anything like it, and I couldn't come close to describing it.
So later that day, we did the unthinkable. We went on Wildcat _again_. We just had to see if the hilarity continued.
This time, we managed to get the front row. And the difference was insane! It was _*even worse*_!!! Not only do you get thrown laterally like you're a dog's favorite stuffed toy, but you also get whipped forward and back as the lead car of the train repeatedly tries and fails to escape from the ones following it!
No one will ever be able to truthfully say Wildcat is a good coaster. It is so very, very not. But it has somehow become an incredible experience. I still hate it with the burning passion of a thousand suns, but I now begrudgingly admire its unbelievable accomplishment.
Some coaster had to be the worst, and Wildcat has whole-heartedly embraced it. No one should miss having at least one ride on it; to have that shared experience with all other Wildcat survivors.
Just make sure your will is up to date and your insurance is paid up first.
Just rode Mine Blower yesterday for the first time. Super rough.
One of my best memories from the magnum was riding in the backseat with my best friend and some lady sitting in front of me had her rain poncho flapping violently in my face after the first drop for the entire ride. I couldn’t see anything. We were laughing so hard we were out of breath at the end of the ride 😂
The only roller coaster I genuinely don't like is Firebird. I'm honestly shocked that isn't on either of your lists. There are rough coasters, boring coasters, head bashers and just downright weird ones, but none of them have ever caused the type of pain Firebird causes. I genuinely hate that ride.
How about Roar right next to it? I found Firebird to be tolerable I HATED Roar
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv I love ROAR. I get why some might not, but it has never been so rough it's not fun to me, and on a hot day it absolutely flies.