Medusa POV (60FPS) - Six Flags Great Adventure (1999)
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- Опубліковано 19 лют 2019
- This is a complete POV of Medusa,, the world's first floorless coaster from the manufacture Bolliger & Mabillard, which is currently located at Six Flags Great Adventure.The coaster was renamed to Bizzaro years after it debuted. This video was recorded in 1999 during the Coaster Celebration event. Cameras were allowed on rides during the exclusive ride times. Video was recorded with a Sony HI-8 TRV87. Please like and subscribe!
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Tbh i like this color scheme a lot better
It really was striking. I haven't ridden this coaster since they changed the colors or theme.
Sean Flaharty same thing just purple.. but there is a pretty cool bizzaro sign
I liked the name a lot better too, and the awesome logo!
Same
Same
who's here after great adventure announced the medusa theme will be making a return!
Now this is a blast from the past! The ride rides virtually the same now as it did as Medusa, but it's very nice getting to see it in its original colors again. Also, it's been a long time since I've seen the ride not stacking lol.
The park had decent ride operations back then. I haven't been to the park since El Toro opened. The operations were beyond bad when I was there last. It's one of the reasons I haven't gone back to be honest. I hope things are better now.
It’s bizarro now
Medusa is returning
Loving these old POVs! Thank you for uploading these!
You are welcome Ryan! I can't find any more of the POVs from the Hi8 archives. Maybe I need to move to the MiniDV archives next.
@AnimeDude892 Not sure actually. I already have them digitized so its just a matter of finding some time to edit and upload. Luckily there isn't much editing to do as they are all one shot takes. Maybe I can release them within the next month or so.
@@SeanFlaharty MEDUSA HAD A CURVED DROP? WOW
in 1999 we didn't have go pros I can just imagine you holding a camcorder in your hand while riding this.. talking about throw backs.. :-). I remember when this opened being terrified of the lack of floor but thinking what a beast of a rode this was and till this day I think it's one of my fave b&m.
Thank you so much for posting!
Thank you for watching!
You can see the trains never changed plus this theme was better imo and nice job getting a opening year POV
Thank you! Later that same day we were given an off-ride tour. It was incredible. Medusa and Hulk are the reasons I haven't rated coasters since 1999. I had them both as my #1 and decided I would quit then. Haven't rated since. :)
I think bizarro has way better theming, but i like the medusa color scheme better
Never got to ride Medusa but it holds a VERY special place in my heart! i remember going to the park on like it's opening day as a little kid with my Mom, Uncle, & my two best friends who were brothers & their Mom's & a their cousin of around the same age & we/i had basically the best time of our lives that day we got to the park early around opening time! & didn't leave till closing time! & my friend(the older brother of the two) & his cousin spent almost the whole entire day there waiting in a huge ass line to ride Medusa! & i remember my friend's cousin bribe daring me to go on Medusa with the two of them because i was/am terrified of Rollercoaster's period! & my friend's cousin was like! if you ride Medusa with us i'll give you my Sega Dreamcast & entire game collection of about 10 games & 3 controllers & 2 memory card's that goes with it! all you have to do is get on Medusa & ride the entire ride just once! & i was like: "HELL TO THE NAH!!" & they sorta teased me the whole car ride there! for being a big scaredy-cat! because i wouldn't ride Medusa! hahaha! But still Medusa holds a super special sentimental place in my heart! especially being that my Mom & Uncle are no-longer here/living! & because i haven't seen those childhood friends in YEARS! probably since like early 2003-ish at the very latest! & we hung-out every single day! slept over eachother's house's & even lived right down the street from eachother! & went to the same exact school almost around the corner from where we lived at aswell! & then at one point then they moved pretty far away one day! & i never got to see them again!....But anyways! good times! for sure! the best!...& i'd give like absolutely anything! to go back to the year 1999 again! or earlier!...& Thanks!! for uploading this video giving me a nice little stroll down memory lane!.... 😊✌
Thanks for sharing your story!
That's actually a really nice story haha Thanks for sharing
@@GustaveraPriston yeah it was like one of the best days of my life!... 😊
You should try to get in touch with your old friends!!!
great video way back in - (1999 ) - of you on front seat on medusa roller coaster at - six flags great adventure !!!!
Awesome POV of Medusa! I like the color scheme and theme a lot better than Bizarro. :)
Amazing
Great POV. I always thought this was a weird name and color choice considering it was in the western themed area.
I never understood that either. They had some "theming" with a sign that read Medusa Mining Company. I remember getting into a discussion with one of the die-hard locals in 1999 while standing in line. They were really happy that the park had themed it so well. When I asked what theming was done so well, they pointed to that sign and some wood that was suppose to look like a mine entrance or something. Apparently I didn't have the desired reaction to the theming and they believed that because I visit a lot of parks, I am "numb to theming." We weren't mad at each other but I have always laughed at that comment.
Medusa is coming back this season!
Medusa is coming back
I see this may be coming back!
We got some exciting news Medusa is getting her revenge at Six Flags Great Adventure
Oooh this is a different one, that's cool!
The mainstream one is the one that's literally in a parking lot. I wonder if this one is still around
It is it’s just named but they renamed it bizzaro
It's kind of funny seeing people amazed that there's no floor under them, but I guess you have to remember that this was the first of it's kind and it was pretty interesting back in the day
While the floorless thing was more a gimmick than anything, I still really loved riding in those trains as we hadn't seen anything like that. Good times indeed!
Memories. XD
And a year or two later - 38 rides during ERT!!
Oh yes! Those were in credible night rides.
I remember being being at this very Six Flags on Medusa's opening day my mom & uncle & me & my two best friends who were brothers with their two mom's & their cousin & i was & still am absolutely terrified to go on roller coasters especially big ones i remember my friend(the oldest brother) & his cousin waited ALL day in line just for an opportunity to ride Medusa & i remember my friends cousin kept pushing me to go on & ride it with them purposefully because he knew i was terrified he was like even trying to bribe me by telling me he'd give me his entire Sega Dreamcast collection including the system itself! & i thought about it for a good minute but decided i was too chicken & afraid to attempt to ride it!... But even though i didn't ride it & am terrified of rollercoasters Medusa holds a special spot in my heart because that particular trip to Six Flags on Medusa's very first opening day! was hands down! one of the funnest times & memories of my childhood! We ALL! had a F'N! ball of a time! for surez!.... Plus i really freakin' loved! Medusa's color scheme!...❤😊✌
Thanks for sharing! I was at Medusa's opening day as well. I didn't look at a single picture or video of the ride before I rode it. I purposely wanted to be surprised with the prototype trains so I kept my back to the station during the entire wait in line. No joke. I didn't see those trains for the first time until I was sitting in them. I really loved this ride and visited the park a few times that year.
@@SeanFlaharty no thank you for reading my sorta rambling comment yeah and i seem to vividly remember Medusa had a mega huge Line of people waiting to ride it on that very first opening day because my friend & his cousin waited in line to ride Madusa from almost the moment we arrived at Six Flags & checked into the park & everything till it was almost sundown & we got there pretty early like no later than 12'noon' because my Mom & Uncle & my friends(two brothers) both Mom((their mother was gay/formerly bi & common law married to another woman not that! that matters or anything! i just wanted to explain why they had 2 mom's)) ALL wanted to make a huge day of it because they(the adults) were just so happy to be out of the house & not working that it turned into an almost vacation day & they basically let us kid's run around all excited like chickens with their heads cut-off just having a heck of a good time untill our bodies just crashed walking back to the parking-lot to my friends Mom's Van & my Mom's Car to go back home!.. of-course after we all had stopped at a Applebee's or Denny's either-or! i can't quite remember which one exactly! on the way home for dinner & we were all like zapped out & zombiefied from the shit ton of fun we all had that summer day! one of my best childhood memories! especially now that both my Uncle & Mother have since both passed away!...
Enthusiasts in 1999: oh cool a floorless coaster
Enthusiast in today: oh look a floorless coaster.
So anyways.
The Bizarro theme doesn’t fit at all in the western area
Wow look at the ops, they were so fast back then
The ride operations back then were very quick. The last time I went to that park was the year El Toro opened and the operations were incredibly bad. So much so that I haven't gone back yet. Maybe I will make it there this year or the next. I am willing to try it again.
@Pop Films Thanks for the info! That's great that they are doing better.
I was one of the original crew members of Medusa when it opened in '99. Crews for new rides are pulled from the coaster crews from the previous season and are usually the most enthusiastic and knowledgeable about coasters, and it shows. They also overstaffed the coaster for the first few months of the season to handle the long waits, and we had throughput numbers that exceeded what the park set as the hourly capacity of the coaster by large margins. If I recall correctly the hourly capacity for Medusa was initially 1440 people per hour, and later reduced to 1280. We frequently were getting 1600-1800 guest on an hourly basis the first month or two the ride was open.
All that ends pretty quickly, though... all of the original managers were either promoted to supervisor or moved on to other rides pretty quickly---being a manager on a new coaster puts you on the fast track to promotion.
Thanks for the footage... it definitely took me back. I left Medusa in June of that year, and I'm assuming this footage was from the latter part of the year because I didn't recognize any of the staff working the ride as any of the original crew.
@@josephshannon just came back to this video. I’m now one of the supervisors for the bizarro crew this year, and the fact that 1800 was even possible is insane. Because of covid we haven’t been able to hit over 1000, but when we have the right crew, we are able to push out trains like crazy even with only 2 attendants on a train. Hopefully I’ll be able to work this ride again after the pandemic, and bring it back to it’s glory days
@@RADZADproductions Ah that's awesome. 20 years later and I still miss working on that ride. With the station being in the center of the track it was the best coaster to operate because you could hear the train all throughout the course... I felt very in tune with what was happening moreso than any other coast I worked. I ended up being the day shift lead when the season started because the original one was promoted to supervisor, and some mornings I would buy a breakfast sandwich from Wawa and eat it at the platform at the top of the lift and watch the sun rise and the animals waking up in the safari. At the time some of us would get to the park at 8am and we'd wax and lysol the train and harnesses every morning to keep everything looking pristine... that lasted about a month or so until people started picking at the harnesses and graffitiing them. I recall the last time I went on the ride, about 10 years ago, that there was some sort of plastic guard by the buckle to prevent people from picking at them.
Hitting 1800 required us having 5 attendants working. 2 on each side in the front and rear of the train and one at the turnstile taking care of measuring kids and prepping people as they came into the station to get all their hats/etc. secured before they got to the front. We worked to have each train ready to go before the previous one cleared the top of the lift, which was an insane pace. If I recall correctly it's ~45 seconds from dispatch to clearing the lift. When they decided on an hourly capacity we were advocating for 1440 before they settled on 1280, probably because they knew there was no way the ride would have that kind of staffing level in the future.
We also had the benefit of a few things you don't. We always had three trains in operation, the front attendant on the far side didn't have an enable button to push (they introduced that about 2 months after the ride opened), and, most importantly, most people didn't carry personal electronic devices on them in the 90s. We didn't have to deal with all the overhead that comes along with trying to deal with that... usually the biggest thing for us was a few backpacks and hats that we would let people know ahead of time that they'd need to leave against the wall in the station. We didn't have cubbies or anything... they just threw them across the station and that was pretty much that. If I recall correctly, I believe they also took out the middle two seats in the last row of each train to handle the electronics for Bizarro, which meant that we had a cycle capacity a bit higher than yours as well, which adds up if you're sending 60 trains an hour like we were.
Sean- Do you remember if it was three train ops that day? If so, WOW!
Yes, I believe they were running three trains that day. However, it's weird that I can't place all three trains in this video. There is one on the course heading into the cobra roll as the train I was on left the station. The other must have been behind us. What is also puzzling is when we are back in the station and the train in front of us dispatches, I can't hear another train on the course. Perhaps there are only two running when I recorded this video but I do remember all three running after ERT for sure with little stacking.
@@SeanFlaharty You just don't see efficient 3 train ops anymore outside of disney, universal, and europa park
@@jdrammer5664No very often. Cedar Point is the closest I have seen to the big themers in regards to capacity.
I rode Bizarro yesterday when I began my season and it was so rough the whole time
Sorry to hear it was rough: I haven’t ridden it since it became Bizzaro.
did this ride open with seatbelts as medusa? I know that some arrow looping coasters didn't open with seatbelts, but now they do, like anaconda at kings dominion
Yes, this ride opened with seatbelts.
@@SeanFlaharty ok thank you
Who’s here in 2022? It’s going back to the Medusa theme!
Yo I'm here, I'm ready for Medusa's return!
Hey, Sean Flaharty! Did you film Mr. Freeze at Six Flags Over Texas?
I only shot some off-ride years ago but it's too bad quality to upload. Please take a look at my other playlists to see if you can find a ride you are looking for.
May I use your footage to make a POV comparison of this Medusa POV and the new Medusa POV when it finally opens? I promise to give you credit and whoever makes a new Medusa POV first.
Yes, you can. Thanks in advance for the credit.
@@SeanFlaharty thank you
The last time I went to Great Adventure was summer of 1999. This had just came out along with NITRO.
Actually, Nitro debuted in 2001.
@@SeanFlaharty it was one of those late 90’s early 2000’s years lol
@@neiko9251 Fair enough. I hope you enjoyed your rides on both of Nitro and Medusa.
For some odd reason! I always thought medusa was so much better looked so good in 1999 as every thing else back in the old days before 2010 were better! Nothing ever seems to be the same anymore i guess things dont always last forever!
I agree. Things are a lot different nowadays, and not always for the better. I don't visit parks as much as I used to back then. It's just not as fun.
@@SeanFlahartyyes sir to that! And that's is why I have roller coaster tycoon and coaster books in my life until I'm gone! Sorry for late reply with life and such!
@@JohnFleming-sw7hnNo worries at all. I still love to ride coasters. I just not involved like I used to. I don't watch a lot of coaster content nowadays as a lot of it seems too similar.
I’m happy we have her back but the old colors were much cooler these are nice too
Do you think Bizarro getting a theme and color change to Wildfires would be cool in its location
I would like to see it returned to it's original colors.
I’m making a video called Guess The Coaster From The Sound can I use this I’ll give credit
Yes, feel free to use that. I did a similar video for a live stream a while ago and was surprised that there were some folks that got each sound. I may do another one of those in the future. They are fun.
Medusa's the best why why did you change it to Bizarro and repaint the color Medusa was the best
Why dont they run all three trains at once anymore?
Probably staffing issues. Six Flags has never been known to run things at capacity, consistently. There are exceptions to that though.
They slowed her mid course down hard in 2023
The very last time I rode this coaster was right before it became Bizzaro. I remember the mid-course hitting pretty hard as well if I remember correctly.
@@SeanFlaharty interesting
In the '90s, Bizzaro was Medusa right?
It was named Medusa until the 2009 season, I believe.
@@SeanFlaharty yep
It was all better in the 90s!
Is this scary
I don't find it scary. It's a very fun ride!
Sean Flaharty I’m gonna go on it on Friday and I’m kinda scared but I’m going with my new friend so I don’t want him to think I’m scared of roller coasters so I’m just gonna send ut
@@editz9617 I would try riding in the front row for your first ride. I think you will like the ride. Who knows? Maybe this is the coaster that will break your fear and you will love them after this.
Sean Flaharty thank you for that! I like Batman. I’ve been on it at least 15 times but it’s not scary at all though.
Also does your feet hit the track since it’s floorless? And do you have to keep your feet down on the loops?