Viper vs Viper vs Viper vs...Yep, it's one of THOSE videos...
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Viper is such a great name for a coaster, that parks around the world decided to use it...and use it...and use it some more. But which Viper is best? Let's explore...
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I straight up laughed out loud when the 10 foot tall coaster made it above Vipere and Viper.
I straight up laughed when he said "Steamin' pile" referring to Steamin' Demon.
Yeah that’s how bad green lantern: first flight (now known as vipere) is
But viper was ranked ahead of it tho?
Viper at SFGAM is the only roller coaster Six Flags built in house themselves and they did not do really a bad job at all unlike when Kings Island had to finish building Son of Beast after RCCA got fired midway during the construction.
Viper is truly Great America’s most underrated coaster.
tbf Kings Island most likely did the best they could after the subpar work RCCA had already done
@@aledandrian And it's not like Kings Island had no history building wooden coasters. I mean, they did design The Beast in-house.
I wasn’t trying to diss Kings Island at all as they indeed did a good job on building the Beast in house. Son of Beast on the other hand was doomed the minute the first set of lumber began to go vertical and the effort put into getting it built was poor from both RCCA and the park.
Not including during certain celebrations, They will run this coaster backwards, which is a real treat. Absolutely must ride. It's twice as intense.
Correct take having Viper from SFGA at the top. Just a flat out fun and inoffensive ride
It was at 14th tho??
@@WhatAG23great america not great adventure. Forgot they have the same acronym
Viper at Astroworld will always be special to me. It was my first coaster with an inversion. Classic Schwarzkopf looper with a unique first drop through a tunnel
I loved that ride!
Same for me, what a great filler ride.
Mine too!
Astroworld is where I started my coaster love. Think my first coaster ever was the one that hang down from the track XR-8 or something. My sister started me on that. Definitely remember Viper but Batman was my favorite. Going through that Batcave with an actual Batmoblie. I moved before it closed down but so sad when I heard the news.
It's clone, Silver Bullet at Frontier City, was my first inverting coaster. I went to Astroworld just 2 months later and rode Viper, the painful Batman the Escape, & the elite Ultra Twister.
7:45 La Vibora used to be a Magic Mountain Coaster, so that technically means that Magic Mountain has had three coasters named “viper” during its life. (The other one… we dont talk about)
@@magnumman5597 Great Escape's bobsled was at Great Adventure and Great America before being relocated to Great Escape. Magic Mountain's bobsled was relocated to over Texas
I appreciate the love you show Darien Lake, Viper was my first coaster nearly 30yrs ago! Also, having Tantrum in your opening made me sub and I’m glad it did.
Thank you for giving Viper at Great America the love it deserves. I've been riding that coaster for 17 years and never get tired of it, almost always a station wait. Also, love your baseball content!
Thanks!
Your Cyclone Clone is really great. MM's Cyclone Clone Psyclone was a mess. For some reason MM always screws up Woodies. Pysclone used B&M trains for some reason that were terrible and the ride ended up so rough it was un-ridable. They also messed up Colossus. They reprofiled the hell out of it, it jack hammered like crazy and it used Morgan trains for some reason. So glad they did Twisted Colossus.
Recently not a lot of line
@@oblivieon1567 are Morgan trains bad? Never ridden a coaster with them. All I know is they look ugly
@@zachcoastercrazy4032 Nah, they're not terrible but not great either and yeah they're ugly.
I was at Magic Mountain for the opening of Viper. I’m so glad to see Viper at Great America take the top spot. You are so right. It is very underrated.
This had some great one liners. "...can best be described as a dragon" made me chuckle
This is honestly one of my favorite coaster video series! It always irks me that six flags reuses names on totally different rides, and also gives the same exact ride different names at different parks. great as always!
Thank you for showing SFDL's Viper some respect, it's a classic that really set the standard for what a coaster should be when I was a kid.
Sometimes Viper at Six Flags Great America gives me the best ejector moments in the park when its running good
Very underrated woodie
Viper at SFGAm was once my #1 overall coaster. Hope it's still smooth.
Ish...maybe stay away from the very back row
The wheel seat is not worth it, man.
Viper at magic Mountain is definitely my favorite. I love the first drop, the batwing and the double corkscrews. Except near the end where I am so stapled it feels like I am in a cardboard box getting slammed against the ground because there is literally no padding on the seats.
btw: this series is great
Just finished my college exams for the year. This is the first of many, many Airtime Thrills videos I’ll be watching over the summer
Congrats! Hope you have a good summer and maybe be able to make it to some parks
Congrats! And happy watching
@@airtimeaddict2395 I do have plans to visit Holiday World, Carowinds, Universal, and Busch Gardens Tampa for sure. Worlds Of Fun and Indiana Beach are also possibilities
It’s always a great day when Airtime Thrills uploads
Yep
Viper at Magic Mountain is starting to grow on me. Yes, it's a rough ride, they can't help that. But there's hardly any line for it and you get a pretty nice view of the park.
I was so happy to see you included Astroworld's Viper 😍 That was the first coaster I ever rode ❤️ I miss Astroworld!
Personally the one at Magic Mountain is my favorite however I still love the one at Great America! They’re both great in their own ways
3:06 New Yorker here, so the Verrazano Viper refers to the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn. Fun fact: The bridge was supposed to have 2 Zs in its name (after the explorer) but it was misspelled for over half a century. After the coaster’s closure the bridge was renamed with the 2 Zs officially. The coaster did not get such justice.
Love this new series you did! Really enjoyed the video!
In 2005, coaster enthusiasts world over cried and lamented when Viper at Great Adventure was torn down. They were in utter shock when a fan favorite coaster was senselessly removed for no rhyme or reason in favor of a boring wooden coaster
I'm sorry Steamin' WHAT at great escape???? lmao, Chris you're the best, thanks for another top tier video.
The Sea Viper at Palace Playland actually replaced one of those Galaxi models you discussed earlier in the video! I can't vouch for Sea Viper, but Excalibur at nearby Funtown Splashtown USA is a decent coaster here in Southern Maine.
Hey I can actually be useful here: 1, I've been on SFGA's Viper and it was easily the most painful ride I've ever been on. The restraints felt like pulling down flat hard bricks on your shoulders and EVERYTHING, from the transitions to the wheels on the track, felt wrong, like there was an inch of clearance between the track and all the wheels.
2, Verrazano. Probably named after the same guy as the Verrazano Bridge, which you can actually see in the background of the photos you showed 😁
My home park is #1! 😁 Also I wanna say after every new video, u show ur personality more and more. You are funny 😂
8:21 "If this thing doesn't outlast Scream, I might... *Scream"*
The fact that you put a poster of a movie in there is pretty darn hilarious, and by the way, this video gotten funnier fast.
This is a pretty hilarious concept for comparison videos
I love these videos! Goliath, Superman, now Viper! When I saw the title card my mind immediately went to the same top 2! Another great list!
Thanks for taking my request!
These are def my favorite videos of yours! All are great but this is such a weird but somehow insanely interesting comparison, and I'm glad someone out there is doing it for these cloned names!
the 2 summer I worked for SF, it was at Great America......on Viper. that ride will always hold a speical place for me. nice to see number 1, was always my favorite.
The Top 3 seems like a complete toss up, I think Viper at DL will be tough to top but it’s basically a predecessor to Viper at Magic Mountain so it’s interesting in that way. Also ours has a stupid ejector pop in the back row on the first drop. Great video and thanks for using my footage!
Videos like this are a big reason why you're my favorite coaster UA-camr...and the fact that you're a grown-up and not a kid like most of the others (says the cranky 49-year old enthusiast)! I rode Viper at SFGAm again this last August and both rides (front and back, near end of day) were completely underwhelming, not fun at all like I remember the ride being.
I didnt love it as much as in the past but its still a super solid ride
The Verrazano Viper was named after the Verrazano Bridge, the bridge that connects Staten Island to Brooklyn/Long Island Landmass and Viper because Alliteration is Awesome.
And the Bridge was named for Giovanni da Verrazzano, the first European to enter New York Bay.
I rode the SFOG Viper when it was still Tidal Wave at SFGA. It was fun, especially for the time. Going backwards on a coaster of any kind was always a blast. My current home park is Magic Mountain and I will forever be a Viper-stan here. It's in my top three at the park and is one of the few coasters at the park regularly running more than one train. I haven't gotten to go back to SFGA to ride their Viper (yet) so I can't say which one I like better, but it'll be hard to oust SFMM's Viper as my number one snakey-themed coaster.
This might be the funniest Airtime Thrills video ever...Chris was roasting everything and everybody 🤣
The only one on this list I've ever ridden was the Viper at Magic Mountain. That was the summer of '90 when I was 10 years old and my only visit to MM ever. I need to get back out there and see how it compares to my 32+ year old memory.
The last ride I got on Viper at MM in December 2021, I got my favorite ride and bumped up in my rankings. Night ride, hauling through its course, completely smooth and intense. Oh, and the moon was straight up in front of us on the lift so it felt like we were traveling to the moon. It was phenomenal!
December 10th, I was marathoning Viper during the golden hour, leading up to sunset, and it was hauling. There was nothing like it! It's now my # 3 in the park.
every time I've gone on viper it was fun but really really rough so I don't get how people can say it's smooth
I rode Viper at SF Magic Mountain for the first time two days ago. It has been a dream coaster of mine since I was a kid and was completely blown away! When I got off the ride, I could do nothing but smile! A masterpiece from a company that was obviously insane.
Awesome that you ranked wooden Viper #1! I love having that gem at my home park, and it's the only coaster Six Flags built in house! I never rode Viper at Magic Mountain, but I know it's like Shockwave at Great America was. I thought that would win, but I like your top choice!
Now you gotta do the next most common name… Boomerang!
After over 30 years of anticipation I finally visited Magic Mountain this past March. I loved Viper. I have a lot of nostalgic love for Vortex from Kings Island. When I was growing up KI was the park I visited the most. I know Vortex was rough and hard to ride in the later years, but when I was a teen in 1987 it was the coolest thing ever. While not exactly like Vortex, Viper is from the same era and one of the most pleasant and fun of the remaining Arrows I've ridden. I thought it was a great ride. Maybe you'll have to take my opinion with a grain of salt because I actually really enjoyed Scream and thought Goliath's back row was honestly the most intense ride I've had in the past decade. I know enthusiasts don't typically agree with those two opinions.
I rode vortex in 2018 and it definitely beat me. I dont get that with viper
“Painting a snake on it that canon only be described as… a dragon”
2:12: *sighs in relief in Skyrush*
I think a good video idea would be ranking all the coasters themed on snakes
"Steamin' Pile" man Great Escape really catching strays here lmao
“Snake-bit of satire”…I got that pun!
I love your videos, they are a highlight to my day, thank you I appreciate it.
The Viper at Six Flags Over GA was my first coaster with inversions!
I'm glad to see the kind words for Viper at Darien Lake, that thing is still running great (last I knew... we'll see how it's doing this year in a few weeks)
For some god forsaken reason I wanna ride the one at sfga cause it looks so unique
I'm glad you mentioned the Looping Star, I never knew the difference between it and the Silver Arrow because they look the same. Apparently the Silver Arrow is a smaller version of the Looping Star which now makes sense. I originally thought it would be cool if Vekoma fixed Viper but then I though it would be cool for Chance to redo Viper ala Phantom's. But now that I think about it what if they did a blend between that and a Hyper GTX where Viper ended up an insane Airtime Machine! That would be really cool!
Yes, the Silver Arrow is a smaller version, less height (-21ft), less track length (-124 ft), about 10 ft. smaller in both directions when it comes to footprint, and a slightly shorter train (6 cars vs. 7 on the Looping Star). With the Silver Arrow being released just a year after the Looping Star, they of course share a lot of similarities.
The easiest way to tell them apart is that on the Looping Star, the loop is parallel to the long side of the footprint, while on a Silver Arrow, it crosses the layout diagonally.
@@Colaholiker I have a bunch of Schwarzkopf creds but I don't have either one of the single loopers. I have the double loopers, 3 of the 4 terrain.
@@oblivieon1567 I also have a few single loopers on my list - Silver Bullet, the Looping Star at Bobbejaanland (scrapped) and Slagharen (relocated to Cyprus), Scorpion (Silver Arrow) at Busch Gardens Tampa, and the custom single looper "Nessie" at Hansa Park in Germany. ;-) What bugs me most is that I have been standing in front of Thriller when it still toured in Germany and was not able to ride... 😞
@@Colaholiker Oh my model like that is the Vekoma Flying Dutchman. I was at CGA about a month before Stealth opened. Then I was at SFA 1 day before Batwing opened. So I've seen them but have yet to ride one.
@@oblivieon1567 I don't want to brag, but I have ridden all of the original Flying Dutchmen. (Not the new Vekoma Flyers like F.L.Y though).
I honestly prefer B&M Flyers... But still my fingers are crossed that you get a chance to at least ride it once. 😁
Viper at SFGAm and SFMM are my favorite two physical “Viper” coasters. I’ve also ridden Darien Lake’s Viper, but it’s been at least 10yrs and not super memorable.
Sea Viper in Maine was an interesting medium sized family thrill coaster. It’s almost like a newer version of an SDC hurricane. Not a bad ride, small, yet fun nonetheless. I remember riding it the summer it debuted, since I was living in Maine at the time.
My fave was the one at Astroworld.
My fav is Derain lakes one it’s amazing in my opinion
@airtime thills had my first rides on kondaa yesterday, beast of a coaster. The drop followed by that cammelback and that outbank tophead is such strong airtime i have never expiernced.
Verazzano is the bridge from Staten Island to Brooklyn. Can be seen in your video of the coaster. That park(if you want to call it that) didn't last long.
When I 1st heard about Viper at SFMM It was from CCF and he hated it. When I rode it less than 3 months shy of being 50 in late November 2019 I liked it and was told it had recently been re-tracked.
From June 5th though 9th I'll see how Viper compares to the Cyclone at SFGA which I plan on riding June 4th. They say nothing beats the OG Cyclone but the one at SFGA has 3 bench trains and cars, totalling 15 rows, whereas the OG cyclone has 4 bench trains and a total of 12 rows, so this June at the age of 52 I'll have to be the judge of that. I'm guessing it's better than American Eagle which held the drop record for SEVEN YEARS (the length of time that the coaster wars stalled) from May 23rd 1981 until either Shockwave opened at the same park or Bandit opened in Japan; both in 1988. Thanks for this great "viper" coaster comparison video; it was entertaining.
I used to love Viper at SFMM, but the last few times I went on it, it was just too rough. I would hate to lose it though. I would love to see it get a major overhaul to see if they can smooth it out a bit.
I remember riding the SFGA for the first time. I remember being scared of it, and holding onto my uncle's arm for dear life before the first drop.
I just knew my hometown viper would be 1st place! SFGA Viper is one of my faves in the park, severely underrated
I had a ride on viper yesterday. First ride we got was around mid afternoon, scorching hot and a full train. Literally got standing airtime in the back row on every hill. Ops werent stapling and i had another lap worth of space between me and the lap bar. 3rd in the park. Better than maxx force. It was absolutely insane.
Viper at astroworld was my first ever inversion coaster. It was a fun ride.
The Viper that was at Six Flags Over Georgia was a really good coaster. I hated that they sold it off. Was a great launch with solid G's in the loop.
Of the two in this list I’ve ridden. SFDL & SFMM. I still have to put that viper first, but I have at least 99 more rides on Darien’s to my one at magic mountain. I appreciate the praise you gave the park for how it’s maintained it all these years and how it’s one of the better arrow loopers still left.
Also Chris love the videos….. will we see a Wild or Crazy Mouse video in this format in the future?
Just went to magic mountain for the first time and rode viper while it was rough as hell I loved it
0:08 i love snakes. Gonna get 2 cornsnakes as pets next year when i get my own place to live.
You can come to my yard and take as many as you want
Dairen Lake's "Viper" is my go-to Snake-themed coaster!
I actually helped with concept art believe it or NOT as I worked in the Sign Shop (maintenance) for Six Flags from summer 1988-1989. The reason the tunnel didn't go all the way down to the bottom was was because of the lower track (to expensive) It still added the right touch though. Don't B hatin' on the Greezed Lightnin' name though! "We" had it 1st. There was some runners UP for the names of those shuttles though. Also concept art showed GL was to called Sling Shot & face the opposite way in the park. There was a giant sling shot as the marque. La Vibora mimics the colors of the poisonous snake found down here in Texas. Yep! Intiman' & B&M's have that SOUND! Intamin's shook all of yer chain out of your pockets.
The only one out of these that I've ever ridden is Viper at Magic Mountain, so I guess that's my favorite "Viper" coaster by default.
I really thought you had forgot about Viper and Great America. My home park may not be the best but our coasters pack a punch!
Well if you count the “bobsled viper” then I guess it’s two! I rode the bobsled when it was Sarajevo Bobsled back in the 80s and of course the Viper by Arrow dynamics currently at Magic Mountain.
When it opened in 1990 it was a big deal. I didn’t get to ride it for the first time until 2004! It was scarier than I thought but I really liked it and still do. I don’t know why people don’t like it but I do.
Oooo I've done Sea Viper at Seaworld Australia. One of the current 5 operating ones is Corkscrew at Rainbows End in New Zealand. That's my homepark. Imagine having that as your best coaster in the country? 1 of 4 total (maybe 5? if I can catch that traveling fair kiddy cred). Luckily I've done your number 1 and 2 Vipers in USA though.
New eltororyan and airtime thrills on the same day? I may actually make it through today now
I know this is gonna get buried, but love the content! Watched your KI 50th anniversary video and loved it! If you get a chance to go back to ride the newly redone Beast, DO IT! I was on the first operating train for the season when it opened on Mother’s Day, and it was awesome! Would love to coordinate something if you wanted a firsthand account!
Sea Viper at palace playland is a fun family coaster with some surprising forces
The only one I've ridden is SFDL and it will always hold a special spot as my first coaster with inversions.
Couldn't agree more with Viper (SFMM), it doesn't deserve the hate it gets. It's top 5 for me at that park, I love every minute of it!
Last time I rode viper it was quite a lot rougher than when I rode it after it’s refurbishment in 2019, the back was brutal but I still loved it for it’s intensity.
Haha I kept riding Psyclone as well and I don’t know why! I’m so glad they replaced it with Apocalypse. Awesome ride!
Six flags great america is my hometown park. And viper was my first roller coaster with a big drop. I have to say it's a very unrated ride. It never slows down and has awesome air time. I love this ride to death and is one of my favorites. Having it at the top of this list was a very good choice.
I’ve ridden Six Flags Magic Mountain’s Viper many times and Great America’s Viper once. The one at Magic Mountain holds a place in my heart.
I love Viper at SFMM, I got to ride it in 2017, and it brought back so many memories of riding Great American Scream Machine. I was also one of the few who loved GASM, and never got the hate it received. I'd take that over Green Lantern any day of the week.
I think that one at Palace Playland is the largest steel coaster in Maine.
I've only ridden sea viper in Maine. It's a family coaster. But there are great positive forces in the helixs
Whenever I go to SF MM I always start with Viper. I used to be terrified of coasters, and I think if you’ve never been on a big ride, it’s a good one to get your feet wet with 😁
So glad Six Flags’ own is at my home park! 💚🖤
I will not stand for the snake slander at the beginning of this video. They're cool and also helpful for pest control.
I agree, they’re very misunderstood
That may be true for the most part but i am irrational
BS. Snakes are predators. They don't help with pest control. They can't afford to extinct their own food. Also, they suck.
@@russ4moose they help with pest control because they’re natural predators to rodent species that are destructive to agriculture and society.
@@JVR10893 Yeah but they don't meaningfully cut down on those invasive populations. If anything, the proliferation of invasive rodent populations only serves to increase the snake population, not the other way around.
Considering I'm less that 2 hours away from OK City, that's nice to know that Silver Bullet is still operational
Also I'm relatively close to both Frontier City and Six Flags Over Texas
Great video! Had me laughing throughout!
I've ridden 5, including the one at Astroworld and your top 3. It's hard to argue with wood Viper as the best, but my personal favorite Viper is Magic Mountain's.
I cannot believe that you like Viper better than Viper. You're crazy, man.
I grew up with Viper at Darien Lake so that’s my favorite! I like the one at Magic Mountain too.
My first coaster was the corkscrew at sea world Australia, which then became Sea Viper…..Chris you don’t have to worry to much about the sea snakes in Australia, they don’t pop up on the beach that often…..I’d be more worried by the crocs 🐊🐊
Lmao I love you Chris, but it’s pronounced VERRA-ZAH-NO 😂 it has something to do with New York, the bridge between Staten Island and Brooklyn has the same name. Also, I loved the “snake” tunnel joke had me geekin lol great vid
Viper is definitely better than viper, but viper just doesnt have the intensity of viper but viper has better elements than viper
Good job touching on all of them. I was sure you'd miss one - instead I learned of new ones (to me).
Sea Viper up at Palace Playland/Old Orchard Beach is totally decent. It was a good buy for the park. Definitely an upgrade from the previous model, which was an old Galaxi. SV is a good family coaster. It rides pretty much exactly as you would expect it to by looking at it, perhaps a bit better than that.
Python in bamboo forrest at Nanchang sunac land is originally called viper, but due to translation errors it’s called Python in bamboo Forrest everywhere you look so I wasn’t assuming it would be on here
Have you ever, or is there a possibility of, a "Top/Most Ridden (rode?) rides at SFMM" video? Maybe a series every Q1 for the Top 5 parks or so as I'm always curious which attraction gives the most rides per year, if that data is avail, of course? Thanks and keep up the great work. Rode Viper at SFMM in 98 and was a great ride then, so Viper ❤ here!!