precisely why i never rode Green Lantern. i love roller coasters so much but when my friends told me it’s painful, i opted out of riding it. i kind of regret never riding it before it closed tho. i’ve been on every ride at six flags CA so it sucks that i can’t say i’ve been on Green Lantern
Yep, it was on one of my science books in middle school. For my high school Math book it was another roller coaster it was red and it was going through a Corkscrew...might have been Anaconda, but I doubt it.
xXx Justiin0926 xXx I remember my first time riding it, when I got off I was walking like an old lady, my lower back was absolutely demolished by the seats
xXx Justiin0926 xXx I’ve seen Montu and Shekra in mine before. Also seen Kingda Ka a few times. Whenever it asks for the high I already know the answer and everyone is confused.
for some reason i’ve been watching a lot of rollercoaster videos during quarantine, so i’ve really been enjoying your channel. i live in va and live relatively close to both king’s dominion and busch gardens. shockwave was my first coaster i’ve ever ridden (can you imagine? so misfortunate), and i was VERY happy to see it on this list lol. .......and then i saw anaconda and i was shocked, because i remember loving it - but, in retrospect, it’s probably because it was so gentle and i was deathly afraid of rollercoasters at the time.
Why don't we start a comment chain of what each of our reccomended worst coasters in Parks we've ecperienced are? For me; Fiesta Texas: Batman: The 4D Ride. Incredibly rough, and horribly designed. An uncomfortable and unpleasant ecperience, through and through. There's a clone in Over Texas called The Joker. Over Texas: Not counting The Joker, so I'm gonna go with Mini Minetrain. Very rough for a Kids' ride, and a major step down from The Runaway Minetrain(Now just know as the MineTrain, I believe.) I'm not an expert of Coasters, and am rather quite afraid of them despite my love for them, so don't take these at heart and see what y'all think of the rides for yourself!
In Brightest Day In Blackest Night No Riders Shall Escape Its Sight Let those who endure the Coaster's plight Beware Its Power Green Lantern's First Flight!
@@robertruge2916 I rode it before the bad press (reported injuries) and I regretted it immediately it was so rough and raggedy the only time I felt safe was when I got off the ride.
Allen McKenzie mean streak is the toughest roller coster I’ve ever been on. it threw my dad’s back out and he forever refused to ride it. It was painful
I rode Mean Streak once and I was the only person on the whole train, it was unnerving because you could hear all the rattling and banging that the screams would normally cover up.
No one else did it, so here I guess... 20: Grizzly- California’s Great America 19: Goliath- New England 18: Vortex- North Carolina 17: Shockwave- Virginia (Kings Dominion) 16: Anaconda- Virginia (Kings Dominion) 15: Mean Streak- Ohio (Cedar Point) 14: Son Of Beast- Ohio (Kings Island) 13: Mighty Canadian Mind Buster- Canada 12: Psyclone- California (Six Flags) 11: Corkscrew- Ohio (Cedar Point) 10: Manhattan Express- New York & Vegas 9: Ninja- Missouri (Six Flags) 8: Roar- Maryland (Six Flags America) 7: Wild Beast- Canada (Canadas Wonderland) 6: Vecoma SLC’s 5: Predator- New York (Six Flags) 4: Flash Back- California (Six Flags) 3: Wind Jammer Surf Racers- Knots Berry Farm 2: Time Warp- Canada (Canadas Wanderland) 1: Green Lantern- California (Six Flags) (Sorry if I missed a few things on some of them)
You da MVP! Wanted to see if windjammer was on the list but didn't want to see the whole video. Glad to see it made the top 3. That ride sucked so back.
Corkscrew was my first “coaster” I ever rode at CP in 1995.... needless to say, I was not happy lol! Meanstreak wasn’t bad in ‘95, but when I rode it again in 2003, it was terrible 😂! As for Son of Beast... after learning the many many missteps in the construction of this coaster, I’m happy I’m still alive!
Please keep talking about how Predator needs to be converted to a hybrid. I really want Six Flags to hear you. It would be such a huge boost to the park.
I don't think that ride has ever been smooth even as a new coaster, my grandfather rode it back in 91 or 92, and said it was the worst ride he'd ever been on after losing his glasses to it. It does have a cult following though, much due to it being Darien's sole wooden coaster.
@@christopherrowe7860 it used to be fun, still is, but they changed the seats and they don't have as much room now, and you have to put your legs a weird way
I've only been on 4, i live in Oklahoma so Frontier City in OKC is the only major theme park around. I'm going to cedar point next summer so that'll be a huge upgrade
I think given its footprint, you dismantle, try and save the corkscrew over path, and try to do one of those RMC raptors. The throughput wouldn't be amazing, but let's be honest. Corkscrew ain't exactly swallowing guests as is!
With a better coaster or fix the current one. Like Colossus at Six Flags Magic Mountain was unbearable to ride until they made it Twisted Colossus. Now it's the best coaster.
Okay I can understand how you named certain companies for the sins Arrow falling behind in the coaster market and kept going for PRIDE alone Golden Horse ENVYs what other companies have done and rips off their designs Vekoma has earned the WRATH of coaster enthusiasts because of the SLC's RCCA's coasters were rough and the layouts were dull, the result of SLOTH in design Not sure how you named the other companies though ......
@@Jason_Maier You got most of them right. B&M = Lust, simply because of their luxury and allure of their giga-coasters. RMC = Gluttony, because of the sheer excess of good elements and no sense of when to stop. Dinn Corp. = Greed, because of their skimping on materials. Sloth = RCCA because of their sluggish and dull rides. Wrath = Vekoma, because their rides exert their wrath on you, not the other way around. Envy = Golden horse, because they rip nearly everything off of others. Pride = Arrow, because the extremely ambitious "X" was the pride that came before destruction.
I've been to Cedar Point a few times, and while neither Corkscrew nor Mean Streak was exactly comfortable, they could never compare to the migraine that was Mantis. So glad to see that one gone.
Psyclone was a victim as it was damaged by the 1994 Northridge earthquake and it just was never the same after that. I could see Six Flags giving Predator an RMC treatment as Darien Lake almost went through with it back in 2013.
When I rode GreenLantern our car got stuck, shorty before reentering the station. We had to spent 20 minutes straped in the seats, with the head facing downwards. So much fun :(
On the plus side, you can still ride the good old dejavu if you go to silverwood in North Idaho. They moved dejavu from six flags chicago and renamed it aftershock. It rides VERY smooth. Even after traveling to cedar point, aftershock is easily in my top 5 favorite coasters list. It can hang with any of them.
Ghoster Coaster is a family coaster...and to be honest, if it weren't for the tiny trains making for a tight squeeze, I'd almost call it fun because I find it takes the small layout at a decent speed.
When I was a kid, Wild Beast and The Mighty Canadian Mine Buster were absolutely legendary. Both were easily two of my favourites in the whole park. Now, they're almost unrideable. Way, way, WAY too rough. And you're right to put Time Warp that high on the list. Unlike the woodies, this coaster was _never_ rideable. It really doesn't have a single redeeming quality about it. And OMG, if Flight Deck actually switched to vest restraints, it would *immediately* shoot to near the top of what the park has to offer; such as it is, it's currently good for little more than giving concussions.
I love Six Flags St. Louis but yeah, Ninja is one I don't ride anymore. I usually have time in the day to ride all the coasters there and I choose to ride American Thunder 6 more times instead. I blackout multiple times in one ride on Ninja. If I am going to get a headache from riding something, I'd rather it be The Boss because at least that one's fun.
I think the Ninja was designed to make you puke. Which sucks, because Six Flags STL rocks, but I can only ride the Ninja once before wanting to hurl. Other rides like the Batman and The Boss are much better.
I've actually been on Grizzly several times considering CGA's my home park, and I got a splinter from the wooden rails in the line queue that stayed inside my finger for a week!! Not to mention that ride takes like,,, 10 hours to dispatch
Dispatches were certainly very slow. I always thought of it as a family coaster, but it's also a great RMC conversion candidate especially with Great America being choked by that football stadium and office buildings.
Wow, I didn't expect to see three Canada's Wonderland mentions! Usually people forget about us. But you're so right about Wilde Beast and Spinebuster. I wish they would get flattened but because they're originals, I don't think that'll ever happen.
In line for NTG. Great way to pass time so thx Also I’ve been on Ninja at I just remember HEADBANGING HEADBANGING HEADBANGING Boss was rough too but I rode before retracking
I agree too. I find people crap on canadas wonderland because they have rides that are kinda bumpy. The minebuster is my favourite ride and could use an RMC or re track. Flight deck and time warp i can agree with the video. Those are rough and painful rides which feel dangerous
I have some GREAT memories of Psychlone at Magic Mountain. Those were the most comfortable seats I have ever experienced on any coaster with massive padding on the lap bars. Also, the thing that sticks out in my memory is the drops got steeper half way down! That meant that there was an incredible airtime surprise while you were accelerating at an extreme downward angle. It was fast and you could watch the curves sway under the train weight as you exited. I have to say that this is the coaster that made me a fanatic for woodie coasters. Years after Psychlone closed, Magic Mountain would reuse some of the trains for the "Backwards Colossus" periods when they did their Halloween seasons. They'd pull out these old Psychlone trains and it would almost have me in tears. Rode in the front row (as Psychlone) on one of these trains with Leonardo DiCaprio once when his girlfriend didn't want to ride with him. Ah, memories. R.I.P. Psychlone.
I haven't ridden so many Bad Coasters but by far the worst is Anaconda at Walygator Parc in France . This Coaster feels Just so slow and on every "Airtime Hill" you feel like it could roll back at any moment. The only good Thing about this is that the Layout is really good for a RMC conversion Some say this Coaster is rough. But really It's going so slow that you can't feel the roughness ;)
Oh yeah I have heard bad things about that coaster. I have also heard bad things about Coaster Express at Parque Warner Madrid, Bandit at Movie park Germany, and Magnus Colossus at Terra Mitica.
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Bandit is nowadays one of the best RCCA woodies out there. It gets retracked every year which makes the experience much better, especially in a non-wheel seat. Nowadays its relatively smooth and fun, and definitely not a bad coaster I think.
Grizzly at KD, at least for me, really isn’t that much better than the CGA one. The CGA one is much smoother but the KD one has more airtime. The KD one IS better, but not really by much.
Viper (Great Adventure), when it actually operated, was a damn torture device. This was way back before Great Adventure had a great lineup of coasters so pickings were slim. Thankfully it broke so often that SF demolished it and built El Toro in its place and now SFGA is a fantastic park for coasters.
I didn't understand most of the references. This video would be good for those who understand the different types of coaster engineering, but it was difficult to follow for a regular coaster buff.
My first ever roller coaster was corkscrew. It ruined roller coasters for me for 12 years. Just LAST YEAR, I started to like roller coasters, and now ride everything at cedar point.
There are 2 coasters basically: speed/airtime and centrifugal. What makes them different is the focus of the ride. Is it focused on essentially spinning the entire ride? (Tons of helixes, turns, loops, corkscrews etc...) or is it focusing on speed hills and airtime? These can have loops and inversions but they aren’t the primary focus. (For example, steel vengeance has an inversion, but it’s still a speed airtime coaster.) I have trouble on centrifugal coasters. I love speed/airtime ones!
SOB is still my favorite wooden coaster ever. Despite the rough ride and the damage it probably did to my spine. That coaster was as close to the edge as any wooden coaster has ever been.
Cool to hear stories like this. I got to ride Drachen Fire (I was young, loved it, but yeah it was rough) but never SOB. Almost sounds like the thrill was genuine fear for your life lol
I never rode Flashback at Magic Mountain, HOWEVER, I rode the same coaster as Z-Force at Six Flags over Georgia, when it relocated there from Six Flags Great America, in 1988. At the time it was a thrilling ride experience, cutting edge before dive elements were introduced into main steel coasters.
I remember as a kid (also still being terrified of inverted coasters, I’m not anymore though), I did not want to ride shockwave and it was to the point where my mom had to drag me off the ride. But then after finding out from how uncomfortably boring the ride was, as well as a few rumors of injuries and even deaths from that coaster later on, I’m glad I didn’t ride it and my mom was actually glad too!
Someone actually did fall to his death from Shockwave back in 1999, but investigations concluded that he almost certainly deliberately slipped out of his restraints on the helix. That was the ONLY fatality, though.
When you first said vortex, I thought you were going to say King's Island and I nearly fell out of my chair. Glad I was mistaken, Vortex in Ohio was one of the best corkscrew rides ever built.
They should have put new carts on it and kept it. It was the rock solid plastic seats and horrible restraints that were outdated. If you had no shoulder restraints, that ride would have been smooth. Seemed to have great throughput too.
La Ronde definitely has the worst SLC! I've ridden a lot and that one was just insanely rough... like you literally can't even brace yourself for some of the elements that you know are gonna be rough. It was horrible
I have a solution for your pain on wooden coasters. Don't ride in the back! Judge Roy Scream at SFOT was great for me in the front, but absolutely awful in the back. The extra airtime wasn't worth the mandatory 20 minute break to get rid of the headache.
Sometimes sitting in the front doesn't help. I rode Predator in the front row and it was equally as terrible as it was in the back. The only good part was the extra leg room the front car had
The speakers on the ride are the funniest though, they are so bad you can't tell what they are saying half the time, so at the end of the ride it says "thank you for riding mycock"
I don’t consider the coaster bad, just uncomfortable. I still enjoy riding it but I still have a few complaints. EURO MIR -1st drop is a big no shaky as heck. -Restraints are ok but due to the shakiness you can hit your knees sometimes which hurts. -The transition in the last turn is also just jerky which causes you to hit your knees on the restraints. -The brakerun is extremely abrupt, it feels like a car crash no joke. -Oh and if you ride the whole thing backwards, it makes it 10 times worse. If they would just retrack the coaster and give it new trains, it would be alright.
I just had to laugh when you mentioned The Predator as the worst wooden....Darien Lake was the park I grew up near and I remember seeing commercials on TV in 1990 about The Predator. My dad waited 2.5 hours to ride it (I was too young) and while my dad had a bad back, it made it worse and he said never again...i have been on it probably about 40-50 times in my life and while it's rough, I always liked it...they did a retrack of it like a year ago in the worst area, but if RMC gets there hands on it, I'll go back up to visit family and go ride it.
Word on the Mean Streak at Cedar Point. I rode that coaster every summer from the time it opened until it closed. And every year, on my drive home, I asked myself: why? Why did I ride it? It was boring, certainly, but the big problem was it was PAINFUL! Stupid painful, from the waist down. I always had bruises. And for really no payoff. Good riddance!
I'd recommend Fly: The Great Nor'Easter at Morey's Piers as the best SLC by far. Same restraints as Riddler and they keep it very smooth. I actually prefer it to the Batman invert clones. Only an hour drive from SFGA!
It not only has the new restraints, but it also has a new track as of 2017 and rides pretty smooth for what it is. I was able to ride it several times in a row without any pain whatsoever. It's also usually walk-on during summer weekdays, which is rare at SFGA. I had much more fun with it than the Batman: The Ride clones.
I can't remember which coaster it was, years ago, but it was a stand up coaster that had the side head piece restraints. The jerkiness and hitting my ears against the sides caused my new ear piercings to rip out (four piercing studs) and I got off a bleeding mess. This caused the park employees to take me to get cleaned up and get some free stuff, but the look on some people's faces who were waiting to ride was like, "Oh, no!" I was never able to get compensated for one torn earlobe, not even the doctor's bills paid.
I went on Corkscrew once when I was like 12. I remember it being rough and uneventful. However, if they do decide to close it, I hope they keep the track over the path.
@@AirtimeThrills I'm 16 and KI has been my lifetime park. I remember being absolutely terrified of coasters because of either that ride or whatever was there like 6-8 years ago. First "real" inverted ride I ever rode was like "wait these things aren't supposed to be stupid painful?"
I always have to ride every coaster when I go to Kings Dominion every summer. Grizzly is at least worth riding once every trip as it’s a different track and experience so I like as many as possible.
Only coaster at Kings Dominion that I almost never ride is Anaconda (And Hurler before it closed), it almost always makes me sick. Grizzly is rough but worth it.
I wish Viper at six flags magic mountain was on here too. Green latern makes sense but i think Viper is even worse. Your head bangs around THE WHOLE RIDE
I really wonder why I never really hear that mentioned through a lot of the coaster channels videos that I watch. It seems like its only an issue for a few people but last winter when I rode it, I decided I probably won't again because of how much head pain it caused with those restraints.
I haven't ridden too many coasters in my time yet, but one of my least favorites is Primeval Whirl at Disney's Animal Kingdom, which is a spinning Wild mouse coaster. That thing is a torture device. lol, but I still ride it just because I can.
Same. That ride gives me a headache every time I’m done with it but for some reason I really like it. It must be because that was the first ride I rode when we went to Disney. But this ride is nothing compared to the tornado in adventure land, I had bruises after it and my brother almost broke his nose! But it’s fun.
I think one of the worst is Hero at Flamingo Land in the UK. It is SO painful and uncomfortable and any rollercoaster enthusiast who has ridden it agrees
Nice video, but I'd have to say one little issue about the list. Your title says : 20 of the Worst Coasters Ever Built. But the video is your impression of the ones you've ridden. I'd hardly say these are the worse ever built, though I do agree with some of your picks. :)
I agree, a rename would be more appropriate - I kept waiting for stories about tracks or cars that broke down. And, I like the rough wooden coaster rides with bunny hops and things. By the time I got to the end of the video, I had a list of coasters that I can't wait to ride!
Thanks for not including the GAScream Machine at SFOG. Back in '76 at the tender age of 6, this was my first big boy rollercoaster with my Dad and after one terrifying circuit, I was hooked. I think you're right abt SF not caring for their older Woodies like they should and I've heard it's very rough now and seen it in other POV videos. I'm hoping GCI would retrack it, but thanks again for not including it here. Hands UP! 😁👐
Speaking from experience: Canada’s Wonderland is fantastic, even with coasters like Time Warp and Flight Deck weighing it down. It’s lineup of rides like Leviathan, Behemoth, Yukon Striker, Vortex, and quite a few more really make up for it.
StripeyStripes I honestly think Time Warp and Flight Deck should both be taken down for a record-breaking inverted coaster. Kind of how Skyrider, a dive coaster, was replaced by the record-breaking dive coaster Yukon Striker.
I, too, am disappointed in how ROAR has aged. I remember it as being one of my favorites as a kid, and one of the first coasters I ever went on, but now it just gives me headaches.
When I rode predator at Darien lake before rumors about the retracking it injured me because I pushed down the lap bars but the rides ops pushed it down so hard it almost broke my thighs and after the drop it staples me so hard I broke my thighs and the rest of the ride jack hammered me
Saw and Colossus at Thorpe Park were very rough in the afternoon. (Not saying they should be on the list tho) Also, the second longest roller coaster in the world, The Ultimate, was extremely rough all day and was only scary because I was going to die.
The dive loop on Manhattan Express is the most awful thing I have ever experienced. Never again. Same goes for the SLC in Wildwood, NJ. Volar and Thunderbolt models are heinous too.
It's not as bad as people make it out to be. Honestly, I found the Mine Ride to be worse. Beats the hell out of you like the Meanstreak, but it doesn't have one decent drop in it. Just a painful, boring ride.
Awesome video. I don't think time warp was that bad considering the feel of a flying coaster. But yeah it was rough to ride. Definitely requires strength lol.
Man I road the predator at darien lake and no one told me I needed to take my glasses off and it was the FIRST ROLLER COASTER ride Iwent on so I thought id keep them on (I was in 6th grade) I broke my glasses and they fell off my face and so the whole time at darien lake i was half blind
I had a similar moment on X2 at Magic Mountain. I forgot to put my glasses in my pocket, so they slipped off my face. Fortunately I caught before they flew away, but I got a real scare on that ride 😂
As somebody who lives somewhat near Sandusky and goes to Cedar Point at least once a summer, Corkscrew is definitely deserving of the title it’s been given. My first ride on it was painful, and everybody I know that’s ridden it is more than happy to skip it during a trip to the park. It’s nice to look at from the walkways though.
Went on both of them when I was able to go the CP a few years ago, Corkscrew was just, meh. Wasn't good, but it wasn't horrible (it's also 40 years old). I actually liked Mean Streak, but that's just me.
No one is gonna be upset about Corkscrew lol. I don’t know anybody who actually likes that coaster. It gives me an instant headache. I was sad to see Mean Streak on the list, but it didn’t surprise me. I know I’m severely in the minority of people who liked the ride. I was sad to see it close, but the ride put in its place is definitely an upgrade.
Awesome video, my dude! I’ve ridden many awful coasters, but corkscrew at CP was pretty good in the back seat, well, from my ride on it, at least. I barely got any ear bashing, and that airtime hill after the drop was awesome because 1) I’m a really small rider, 2) the way the restraints are let me soar out of my seat, and 3) I was in the back seat. I got off anaconda at KD with a headache, so I was dreading to ride CP corkscrew, but I didn’t think it was painful at all! It’s an unpopular opinion, but I thought cedar creek mine ride was the worst in the park. It was so jerky and uncomfortable!
My least favorite was the Rattler at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. The original layout had a tremendous drop which got you up to speeds near 75mph but the track was brutal and it twisted around a lot giving several people whiplash. The park later made changes to the coaster including making the main drop lower and lowering the overall speed but the track roughness remained an issue. The coaster later closed for a remodel and upgrade from Rocky Mountain Coaster to the new I-Box steel track turning the coaster in to the new Iron Rattler.
Wonderland is the biggest park I've been to in my memory. It's really the first time I was introduced to anything that wasn't a normal, sitting coaster. I'm still trying to convince my parents to let me go to some of the really good parks in the US and Montreal.
Flight Deck was featured here as well, though they didn't mention it by name, it is a Vecoma SLC like in his number 6 and if you watch the video again you can see Flight Deck used in the footage.
It's ok you have 3 great coasters in that park. The 3 biggest ones. But the rest of the coaster lineup is pretty bad. Atleast you're like 6 hours away from cedar point.
The Goliath only ran a couple of days this season, (technically last, since when I'm typing this it is currently 2020) I didn't go there many times that season but when I did or whenever I checked the app, it was always closed. A new ride is going to be built called The Supergirl(?) It may replace it, but it's in such an odd location to be replaced there. Dunno, but yeah, Goliath was boring.
I wanted to tell my kids about the time I rode Green Lantern... But, I rode Green Lantern.
No kids
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precisely why i never rode Green Lantern. i love roller coasters so much but when my friends told me it’s painful, i opted out of riding it. i kind of regret never riding it before it closed tho. i’ve been on every ride at six flags CA so it sucks that i can’t say i’ve been on Green Lantern
Lizzy .-. Chicken shit
corkscrew is the roller coaster that you find in a math or science textbook
Yep, it was on one of my science books in middle school. For my high school Math book it was another roller coaster it was red and it was going through a Corkscrew...might have been Anaconda, but I doubt it.
xXx Justiin0926 xXx I remember my first time riding it, when I got off I was walking like an old lady, my lower back was absolutely demolished by the seats
xXx Justiin0926 xXx I’ve seen Montu and Shekra in mine before. Also seen Kingda Ka a few times. Whenever it asks for the high I already know the answer and everyone is confused.
The slc at ky kingdom swithed to the vest restraint. Its true it makes it rideable.
Not the one at canobie lake
for some reason i’ve been watching a lot of rollercoaster videos during quarantine, so i’ve really been enjoying your channel.
i live in va and live relatively close to both king’s dominion and busch gardens. shockwave was my first coaster i’ve ever ridden (can you imagine? so misfortunate), and i was VERY happy to see it on this list lol.
.......and then i saw anaconda and i was shocked, because i remember loving it - but, in retrospect, it’s probably because it was so gentle and i was deathly afraid of rollercoasters at the time.
im next to cedar point
I live in Southern New York so great adventure is my home park
I live in Gloucester between the two parks and anaconda was my first coaster and don't remember it being rough until the last time i rode it
@@lucky.wolfsky never thought i would find someone else from the same town in the youtube comments LOL miss bg and kd to death
@@beemother yeah wish I lived a bit closer to kd bc I'm at bgw everyday 😂
You should do a best coaster and worst coaster for each park. like how you did that with manafacturers.
Why don't we start a comment chain of what each of our reccomended worst coasters in Parks we've ecperienced are?
For me;
Fiesta Texas: Batman: The 4D Ride. Incredibly rough, and horribly designed. An uncomfortable and unpleasant ecperience, through and through. There's a clone in Over Texas called The Joker.
Over Texas: Not counting The Joker, so I'm gonna go with Mini Minetrain. Very rough for a Kids' ride, and a major step down from The Runaway Minetrain(Now just know as the MineTrain, I believe.)
I'm not an expert of Coasters, and am rather quite afraid of them despite my love for them, so don't take these at heart and see what y'all think of the rides for yourself!
Special Agent Washing Tub thank goodness that I’m not the only one who hates freespins
Ken Norcott same reasons why you hate them
Ken Norcott I’m sorry. I must’ve gotten you mixed up with someone else by accident
AIRTIME IF U SEE THIS DO THIS VID
In Brightest Day
In Blackest Night
No Riders Shall Escape Its Sight
Let those who endure
the Coaster's plight
Beware Its Power
Green Lantern's First Flight!
@Ken Norcott That's the Green Lantern oath.
hahaha I commend you, sir.
Liked for the great use of the Green lantern oath.
Poetic
It's gone
I just felt lucky to be alive after I rode The Son of Beast 😂 😂 😂
@@robertruge2916 I rode it before the bad press (reported injuries) and I regretted it immediately it was so rough and raggedy the only time I felt safe was when I got off the ride.
I didn't mind it but it definitely beat the hell out of you.
The bottom of the "rose bowl" helix felt like going over potholes that were 3 feet deep!
I loved Son of Beast. Did it best you up? Yes! Was it worth it? Hell yeah!
Wow! Hands down, best cred ever.
Intamin is the only company that has multiple coasters on best and worst coaster lists.
Arrow also
@John Lorton I said multiple, not just one
@John Lorton he was commenting his opinion you fucking pussy if you disagree go type your own comment
@John Lorton GCI doesn't seem to make a whole bunch of bad coasters.
John Lorton it was his opinion and he said multiple lol do u not understand
you should do a video naming one bad coaster for every major park in north america 👍🏽
Would you do past and present?
Meaning... Separate "worst defunt" and "worst still in operation" lists?
Missouri: Ninja
kennywood doesn't have any
Austin Downing how stupid can you be
No kidding I cried in Mean Streak. I was seven.
“The mean streak was...*sniff*...so MEAN!”
Allen McKenzie mean streak is the toughest roller coster I’ve ever been on. it threw my dad’s back out and he forever refused to ride it. It was painful
Pixelated Hailey Yikes.
It was fine for the first couple years I thought, just aged really poorly. Shame.
I loved the Mean Streak
I rode Mean Streak once and I was the only person on the whole train, it was unnerving because you could hear all the rattling and banging that the screams would normally cover up.
No one else did it, so here I guess...
20: Grizzly- California’s Great America
19: Goliath- New England
18: Vortex- North Carolina
17: Shockwave- Virginia (Kings Dominion)
16: Anaconda- Virginia (Kings Dominion)
15: Mean Streak- Ohio (Cedar Point)
14: Son Of Beast- Ohio (Kings Island)
13: Mighty Canadian Mind Buster- Canada
12: Psyclone- California (Six Flags)
11: Corkscrew- Ohio (Cedar Point)
10: Manhattan Express- New York & Vegas
9: Ninja- Missouri (Six Flags)
8: Roar- Maryland (Six Flags America)
7: Wild Beast- Canada (Canadas Wonderland)
6: Vecoma SLC’s
5: Predator- New York (Six Flags)
4: Flash Back- California (Six Flags)
3: Wind Jammer Surf Racers- Knots Berry Farm
2: Time Warp- Canada (Canadas Wanderland)
1: Green Lantern- California (Six Flags)
(Sorry if I missed a few things on some of them)
Grizzly is California's Great America
Ninja is Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, Missouri.
You da MVP! Wanted to see if windjammer was on the list but didn't want to see the whole video. Glad to see it made the top 3. That ride sucked so back.
4. Flashback is at Six Flags California.
CrazySniper52 the intimidater - Carowinds
The coaster at NY, NY. It's scary, but more by way of wondering when parts of the track are going to fly off.
Corkscrew was my first “coaster” I ever rode at CP in 1995.... needless to say, I was not happy lol! Meanstreak wasn’t bad in ‘95, but when I rode it again in 2003, it was terrible 😂! As for Son of Beast... after learning the many many missteps in the construction of this coaster, I’m happy I’m still alive!
Please keep talking about how Predator needs to be converted to a hybrid. I really want Six Flags to hear you. It would be such a huge boost to the park.
For real
They also really need to change the seats back on the viper, they're so much tighter on the hips now.
JJV101 hell change it to lap bar lol
I don't think that ride has ever been smooth even as a new coaster, my grandfather rode it back in 91 or 92, and said it was the worst ride he'd ever been on after losing his glasses to it. It does have a cult following though, much due to it being Darien's sole wooden coaster.
@@otakutilldeath the Viper I always thought was fine, despite being a bit short.
@@christopherrowe7860 it used to be fun, still is, but they changed the seats and they don't have as much room now, and you have to put your legs a weird way
Airtime thrills - makes 20 worst coasters ever
Me - Only been on 23 coasters ever
I've only been on 4, i live in Oklahoma so Frontier City in OKC is the only major theme park around. I'm going to cedar point next summer so that'll be a huge upgrade
Not funny, Didn't laugh awesome I have rode 2 coasters since I typed that also I’ve been to cedar point it’s awesome
Not funny, Didn't laugh Frontier City is my home park, too
Bruj my home park is The Great Escape. How do you think _I_ feel?
JupiterHollow big oof
Corkscrew has not aged well, but it's so iconic I dunno how you replace it!
NS10Fan remove every piece of track besides the corkscrews
Viper it
I think given its footprint, you dismantle, try and save the corkscrew over path, and try to do one of those RMC raptors. The throughput wouldn't be amazing, but let's be honest. Corkscrew ain't exactly swallowing guests as is!
With a better coaster or fix the current one. Like Colossus at Six Flags Magic Mountain was unbearable to ride until they made it Twisted Colossus. Now it's the best coaster.
I’ve only been to Cedar Point a few times but I can’t imagine the park without Corkscrew.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the Seven Deadly Sins of Roller Coaster Design:
Lust - B&M standup coasters, Intamin Accelerators
Gluttony - RMC
Greed - Dinn Corporation
Sloth - RCCA
Wrath - Vekoma
Envy - Golden Horse
Pride - Arrow Dynamics
Intamin accelerators are amazing.
Okay I can understand how you named certain companies for the sins
Arrow falling behind in the coaster market and kept going for PRIDE alone
Golden Horse ENVYs what other companies have done and rips off their designs
Vekoma has earned the WRATH of coaster enthusiasts because of the SLC's
RCCA's coasters were rough and the layouts were dull, the result of SLOTH in design
Not sure how you named the other companies though ......
@@Jason_Maier You got most of them right.
B&M = Lust, simply because of their luxury and allure of their giga-coasters.
RMC = Gluttony, because of the sheer excess of good elements and no sense of when to stop.
Dinn Corp. = Greed, because of their skimping on materials.
Sloth = RCCA because of their sluggish and dull rides.
Wrath = Vekoma, because their rides exert their wrath on you, not the other way around.
Envy = Golden horse, because they rip nearly everything off of others.
Pride = Arrow, because the extremely ambitious "X" was the pride that came before destruction.
Yea
That’s why you can never go wrong with a-wait,wrong channel
I appreciate The Office clips in the beginning.
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itsyaboilogan same
It's like eating a HOT circle of GARBAGE
-Kevin
I've been to Cedar Point a few times, and while neither Corkscrew nor Mean Streak was exactly comfortable, they could never compare to the migraine that was Mantis. So glad to see that one gone.
woogawoy
You always have such great content, one of my favorite channels!
Psyclone was a victim as it was damaged by the 1994 Northridge earthquake and it just was never the same after that. I could see Six Flags giving Predator an RMC treatment as Darien Lake almost went through with it back in 2013.
@Mad Science Six Flags literally just purchased the park, they have to plan things out.
The video that got me into Airtime Thrills. There's just something satisfying about hearing Chris call a coaster embarrassing
Isnt Manhattan express the big apple coaster?
Michael Sachau yes
Yep it was aka Roller Coaster for awhile. Doesn't matter what you call it it's still garbage
I'm not even sure what it's called as of right now so I just use the best of its names, Manhattan Express
It’s called the big apple now
More like Manhurtin Express
none of these coasters can possibly worse than Pizza by Alfredo
goliath is so painful.
Or goudurix
Jessica Jasinski Which one?
When I rode GreenLantern our car got stuck, shorty before reentering the station. We had to spent 20 minutes straped in the seats, with the head facing downwards. So much fun :(
On the plus side, you can still ride the good old dejavu if you go to silverwood in North Idaho. They moved dejavu from six flags chicago and renamed it aftershock. It rides VERY smooth. Even after traveling to cedar point, aftershock is easily in my top 5 favorite coasters list. It can hang with any of them.
He did go to silverwood!
When dejavu was at great America, it was NEVER opened. Always broken down. Never got to ride it because every time we went it was broke 🤷🏾♀️
What the heck is "six flags chicago"? Isn't it Six Flags Great America? And why is a Vekoma GIB in your top 5 after SFGAm and Cedar Point?
@@bandmfanboy Because it's a really damn good one. I can tell you've never ridden it with that response.
@@Jarekthegamingdragon I haven't and it probably wouldn't break into my top 100 even though I have about 100 credits.
12:50
2 Woodies at Canada's Wonderland
Ghoster Coaster: Am I a joke to you?
It'sDavidz YT I laughed so hard at this . The ghoster coaster is my shiiii
Yeah but that's basically an old kiddie coaster.
Ghoster Coaster is a family coaster...and to be honest, if it weren't for the tiny trains making for a tight squeeze, I'd almost call it fun because I find it takes the small layout at a decent speed.
Technically Thunder Run is a wooden coaster too.
It'sDavidz YT LOL
When I was a kid, Wild Beast and The Mighty Canadian Mine Buster were absolutely legendary. Both were easily two of my favourites in the whole park.
Now, they're almost unrideable. Way, way, WAY too rough.
And you're right to put Time Warp that high on the list. Unlike the woodies, this coaster was _never_ rideable. It really doesn't have a single redeeming quality about it.
And OMG, if Flight Deck actually switched to vest restraints, it would *immediately* shoot to near the top of what the park has to offer; such as it is, it's currently good for little more than giving concussions.
With Ninja being at a Six Flags St.louis(my home park). Thank you very much for including this. Ninja is the worst ride there
My girlfriend had a headache that lasted three days after riding it. She wanted to kill me.
I love Six Flags St. Louis but yeah, Ninja is one I don't ride anymore. I usually have time in the day to ride all the coasters there and I choose to ride American Thunder 6 more times instead. I blackout multiple times in one ride on Ninja. If I am going to get a headache from riding something, I'd rather it be The Boss because at least that one's fun.
I think the Ninja was designed to make you puke. Which sucks, because Six Flags STL rocks, but I can only ride the Ninja once before wanting to hurl. Other rides like the Batman and The Boss are much better.
I've actually been on Grizzly several times considering CGA's my home park, and I got a splinter from the wooden rails in the line queue that stayed inside my finger for a week!! Not to mention that ride takes like,,, 10 hours to dispatch
nessa rose for real. i went there for a field trip and we had to wait forever to get on the grizzly
nessa rose Grizzly should’ve been remodeled as a family thrill ride coaster for the whole family at California’s Great America!
It gave you a souvenir
Dispatches were certainly very slow. I always thought of it as a family coaster, but it's also a great RMC conversion candidate especially with Great America being choked by that football stadium and office buildings.
@@visionist7 hahah, yep!
Wow, I didn't expect to see three Canada's Wonderland mentions! Usually people forget about us. But you're so right about Wilde Beast and Spinebuster. I wish they would get flattened but because they're originals, I don't think that'll ever happen.
Totally agree with the gci re-track of predator. Id like to see minebuster get the same treatment, and give wild beast the rmc treatment
In line for NTG. Great way to pass time so thx
Also I’ve been on Ninja at I just remember HEADBANGING HEADBANGING HEADBANGING
Boss was rough too but I rode before retracking
Iron Rattler Fanboy lol I’m a NTG fanboy in line for iron rattler😂
Lol im stupid what ride is NTG.
New Texas giant. At sfot
the boss hurts but its at least thrilling. ninja is just boring and painful
Also it was 4 years ago when I rode Boss and Ninja and for Boss I just remember no airtime and a really rough and bumpy ride.
"When i was at Magic Mountain, I Would always go on Psyclone because it's wooden" Umm... Colossus still existed, Y'know
Yeah, but Colossus doesn't provide you with a cheaper alternative to vasectomy!
I respect your opinion but my home park is wonderland and I liked mine buster and kinda Wilde beast but I believe Wilde beast should be rmc’ed
Frog Gaming I loved going on the mine buster. It's my home park
Wildebeest us amazing but yeah they should redo it in steel like all the other new ones but maybe keep some of the old carts or whatever
Magnum XL 200 is the WORST out of the 73 roller coasters I’ve ridden
@@ashleyliu4757 burn them both to the ground. Cw is my home park.
I agree too. I find people crap on canadas wonderland because they have rides that are kinda bumpy. The minebuster is my favourite ride and could use an RMC or re track. Flight deck and time warp i can agree with the video. Those are rough and painful rides which feel dangerous
I have some GREAT memories of Psychlone at Magic Mountain. Those were the most comfortable seats I have ever experienced on any coaster with massive padding on the lap bars. Also, the thing that sticks out in my memory is the drops got steeper half way down! That meant that there was an incredible airtime surprise while you were accelerating at an extreme downward angle. It was fast and you could watch the curves sway under the train weight as you exited. I have to say that this is the coaster that made me a fanatic for woodie coasters. Years after Psychlone closed, Magic Mountain would reuse some of the trains for the "Backwards Colossus" periods when they did their Halloween seasons. They'd pull out these old Psychlone trains and it would almost have me in tears. Rode in the front row (as Psychlone) on one of these trains with Leonardo DiCaprio once when his girlfriend didn't want to ride with him. Ah, memories. R.I.P. Psychlone.
I haven't ridden so many Bad Coasters but by far the worst is Anaconda at Walygator Parc in France . This Coaster feels Just so slow and on every "Airtime Hill" you feel like it could roll back at any moment. The only good Thing about this is that the Layout is really good for a RMC conversion
Some say this Coaster is rough. But really It's going so slow that you can't feel the roughness ;)
Oh yeah I have heard bad things about that coaster. I have also heard bad things about Coaster Express at Parque Warner Madrid, Bandit at Movie park Germany, and Magnus Colossus at Terra Mitica.
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Bandit is nowadays one of the best RCCA woodies out there. It gets retracked every year which makes the experience much better, especially in a non-wheel seat. Nowadays its relatively smooth and fun, and definitely not a bad coaster I think.
It's funny that despite Grizzly at CGA being a mirror image of Grizzly at Kings Dominion, It is completely different in terms of experience.
Grizzly at KD, at least for me, really isn’t that much better than the CGA one. The CGA one is much smoother but the KD one has more airtime. The KD one IS better, but not really by much.
Idk. I just rode the kd one and it hurt so bad, I couldn’t have any fun
Viper (Great Adventure), when it actually operated, was a damn torture device. This was way back before Great Adventure had a great lineup of coasters so pickings were slim. Thankfully it broke so often that SF demolished it and built El Toro in its place and now SFGA is a fantastic park for coasters.
I need to catch up on my roller coaster vocabulary
I didn't understand most of the references. This video would be good for those who understand the different types of coaster engineering, but it was difficult to follow for a regular coaster buff.
spot the gp
Spot the elitist coaster enthusiast who views those who don't dedicate their life to coaster videos as less than
Gooman130 jokes man its all good i dont know everything about coasters either
My first ever roller coaster was corkscrew. It ruined roller coasters for me for 12 years. Just LAST YEAR, I started to like roller coasters, and now ride everything at cedar point.
What about..... the *force*
I like the corkscrew
I only rode Corkscrew to say I’ve ridden everything at CP, it’s worse than Blue Streak
There are 2 coasters basically: speed/airtime and centrifugal. What makes them different is the focus of the ride. Is it focused on essentially spinning the entire ride? (Tons of helixes, turns, loops, corkscrews etc...) or is it focusing on speed hills and airtime? These can have loops and inversions but they aren’t the primary focus. (For example, steel vengeance has an inversion, but it’s still a speed airtime coaster.) I have trouble on centrifugal coasters. I love speed/airtime ones!
I actually liked the Cedar Point Corkscrew somewhat, but of course the Millennium Force coaster was the best.
SOB is still my favorite wooden coaster ever. Despite the rough ride and the damage it probably did to my spine. That coaster was as close to the edge as any wooden coaster has ever been.
You must be very tough then props to you
It was the tall wooden coaster but mystic timbers replaced it's role
Cool to hear stories like this. I got to ride Drachen Fire (I was young, loved it, but yeah it was rough) but never SOB. Almost sounds like the thrill was genuine fear for your life lol
Dude, that Green Lantern Coaster is no joke, I literally saw stars
Been on it once and once was enough as I got beat up
To quote AGVN: "What were they thinking!?!"
Ride it at day time, friend
I never rode Flashback at Magic Mountain, HOWEVER, I rode the same coaster as Z-Force at Six Flags over Georgia, when it relocated there from Six Flags Great America, in 1988. At the time it was a thrilling ride experience, cutting edge before dive elements were introduced into main steel coasters.
Mind Eraser at Elitch Gardens in Colorado is like a worse, rough, and more painful version of Batman in Six Flags Over Texas
One of my favorite coasters Grizzly at KD often gets hate for being super rough even though its honestly top 3 in the park for me.
I didnt think Grizzly was all that great but it wasnt bad at all
Easily my 3rd favorite also
I remember as a kid (also still being terrified of inverted coasters, I’m not anymore though), I did not want to ride shockwave and it was to the point where my mom had to drag me off the ride. But then after finding out from how uncomfortably boring the ride was, as well as a few rumors of injuries and even deaths from that coaster later on, I’m glad I didn’t ride it and my mom was actually glad too!
Someone actually did fall to his death from Shockwave back in 1999, but investigations concluded that he almost certainly deliberately slipped out of his restraints on the helix. That was the ONLY fatality, though.
When you first said vortex, I thought you were going to say King's Island and I nearly fell out of my chair. Glad I was mistaken, Vortex in Ohio was one of the best corkscrew rides ever built.
I miss that one! 13 times in a row in the rain one night. Best King's Island trip ever.
They should have put new carts on it and kept it. It was the rock solid plastic seats and horrible restraints that were outdated. If you had no shoulder restraints, that ride would have been smooth. Seemed to have great throughput too.
Idk but their restraints used to beat my ears all the time.
They retracked Minebuster at CW, but I hope they get rid of time warp for a new coaster
Ryan MB I rode it this season and it was a lot better then before
To me, it was still really rough when I rode it a couple of weeks ago.
Minebuster is sick it supposed to feel rough ahha.
I love minebuster.
Timewarp and Flight Deck need to sent to the scrapyard. Getting rid of both of them opens a nice plot for a good major coaster.
La Ronde definitely has the worst SLC! I've ridden a lot and that one was just insanely rough... like you literally can't even brace yourself for some of the elements that you know are gonna be rough. It was horrible
realcameronn thanks for hating
I’d argue Infusion at Blackpool Pleasure Beach as the worst. It’s so painful.
Nah I didn't think Ednor was that bad. Riddle Revenge at SFNE was worse before it got the new train (now it's tolerable)
Have you been to elitchs? By far the worst
And Son of Beast..... my favorite wooden coaster. How are so many coasters I have rode on here lol.
I have a solution for your pain on wooden coasters. Don't ride in the back! Judge Roy Scream at SFOT was great for me in the front, but absolutely awful in the back. The extra airtime wasn't worth the mandatory 20 minute break to get rid of the headache.
Sometimes sitting in the front doesn't help. I rode Predator in the front row and it was equally as terrible as it was in the back. The only good part was the extra leg room the front car had
Dont sit on a wheel seat.
Legit Nighthawk at Carowinds makes me I'll every time I ride it. It is rough and it shakes you so much
I got headbanging from it. With vest restraints. I guess it was more like head jackhammering, but never again.
The speakers on the ride are the funniest though, they are so bad you can't tell what they are saying half the time, so at the end of the ride it says "thank you for riding mycock"
Alex Newman uh
There are so many Arrow Dynamics corkscrew clones it's insane. The one at Canobie Lake Park is pretty painful ngl.
i’ve been on the grizzly on a field trip. my classmate passed out on it (it’s not even intense. i don’t know why he passed out.)
I don’t consider the coaster bad, just uncomfortable. I still enjoy riding it but I still have a few complaints.
EURO MIR
-1st drop is a big no shaky as heck.
-Restraints are ok but due to the shakiness you can hit your knees sometimes which hurts.
-The transition in the last turn is also just jerky which causes you to hit your knees on the restraints.
-The brakerun is extremely abrupt, it feels like a car crash no joke.
-Oh and if you ride the whole thing backwards, it makes it 10 times worse.
If they would just retrack the coaster and give it new trains, it would be alright.
I love it because of those reasons😂
I just had to laugh when you mentioned The Predator as the worst wooden....Darien Lake was the park I grew up near and I remember seeing commercials on TV in 1990 about The Predator. My dad waited 2.5 hours to ride it (I was too young) and while my dad had a bad back, it made it worse and he said never again...i have been on it probably about 40-50 times in my life and while it's rough, I always liked it...they did a retrack of it like a year ago in the worst area, but if RMC gets there hands on it, I'll go back up to visit family and go ride it.
Flight Deck? Oh, you mean brain damage? At least, that's what I feel I have after riding that one...
The shockwave was painful to ride . I like the anaconda however.
Which one
@@staringcorgi6475 the one in kings dominion it’s gone now .
@@kwhopper1100 good I thought you were talking about the one in six flags
@@staringcorgi6475 nope old toga standup that has been replaced buy delirium.
Word on the Mean Streak at Cedar Point. I rode that coaster every summer from the time it opened until it closed. And every year, on my drive home, I asked myself: why? Why did I ride it? It was boring, certainly, but the big problem was it was PAINFUL! Stupid painful, from the waist down. I always had bruises. And for really no payoff. Good riddance!
I'd recommend Fly: The Great Nor'Easter at Morey's Piers as the best SLC by far. Same restraints as Riddler and they keep it very smooth. I actually prefer it to the Batman invert clones. Only an hour drive from SFGA!
I agree, Scott. The Great Nor'Easter at Morey's Piers is also my favorite of the SLCs
It not only has the new restraints, but it also has a new track as of 2017 and rides pretty smooth for what it is. I was able to ride it several times in a row without any pain whatsoever. It's also usually walk-on during summer weekdays, which is rare at SFGA. I had much more fun with it than the Batman: The Ride clones.
They apparently spent quite a bit on getting it retracked. Hopefully it pays off in ridership so maybe other parks will do the same.
Dammit, I went to Wildwood and even went into Morey's Piers but missed the Great Nor'Easter
I can't remember which coaster it was, years ago, but it was a stand up coaster that had the side head piece restraints. The jerkiness and hitting my ears against the sides caused my new ear piercings to rip out (four piercing studs) and I got off a bleeding mess. This caused the park employees to take me to get cleaned up and get some free stuff, but the look on some people's faces who were waiting to ride was like, "Oh, no!" I was never able to get compensated for one torn earlobe, not even the doctor's bills paid.
Was this at Canada's Wonderland? If so it was Skyrider, and you'll be happy to know its gone.
Caitlin Broza I'm willing to bet it was Vortex
Airtime thrills: talks about bad coasters
Togo: make way for the king
I went on Corkscrew once when I was like 12. I remember it being rough and uneventful. However, if they do decide to close it, I hope they keep the track over the path.
I know you said no family coasters but I'm hoping the terrible Hang and bang family vekomas like Flying Ace Ariel Chase at Kings Island
Ugh yeah I would consider that for this list because its a painful kiddie ride, not just that its not exciting
@@AirtimeThrills I'm 16 and KI has been my lifetime park. I remember being absolutely terrified of coasters because of either that ride or whatever was there like 6-8 years ago. First "real" inverted ride I ever rode was like "wait these things aren't supposed to be stupid painful?"
I rode Silver Streak at Canadas Wonderland in 2005, from what I remember it has got to be the worst family coaster I have ridden.
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
I always have to ride every coaster when I go to Kings Dominion every summer. Grizzly is at least worth riding once every trip as it’s a different track and experience so I like as many as possible.
It’s a good ride but it’s pretty rough if you are tall.
Grizzly is painfully rough but the night ride is awesome ngl
Only coaster at Kings Dominion that I almost never ride is Anaconda (And Hurler before it closed), it almost always makes me sick. Grizzly is rough but worth it.
@@RedRage2697 I only ride grizzly at night cuz it’s better that way
Minebuster has honestly gotten really good for 2019. It doesn’t need the RMC treatment
I agree
Still a pile of shit.
I wish Viper at six flags magic mountain was on here too. Green latern makes sense but i think Viper is even worse. Your head bangs around THE WHOLE RIDE
Abigal smith completely agree
I really wonder why I never really hear that mentioned through a lot of the coaster channels videos that I watch. It seems like its only an issue for a few people but last winter when I rode it, I decided I probably won't again because of how much head pain it caused with those restraints.
OH MY GOODNESS..i rode the shockwave..and I notice my ribs hurt afterwards
I haven't ridden too many coasters in my time yet, but one of my least favorites is Primeval Whirl at Disney's Animal Kingdom, which is a spinning Wild mouse coaster. That thing is a torture device. lol, but I still ride it just because I can.
Same. That ride gives me a headache every time I’m done with it but for some reason I really like it. It must be because that was the first ride I rode when we went to Disney. But this ride is nothing compared to the tornado in adventure land, I had bruises after it and my brother almost broke his nose! But it’s fun.
@@coronaproductions7085 Well a couple of months ago, it was announced that Primeval Whirl will be permanently closed!
I think one of the worst is Hero at Flamingo Land in the UK. It is SO painful and uncomfortable and any rollercoaster enthusiast who has ridden it agrees
20 worst coasters ive ridded.
20: Vekoma SLC
19: Vekoma SLC
18 Vekoma SLC
Vintage Bricks that’s 3.....
Slc is ok with new trains
Only good SLC in the workd is riddler revenge at six flags new england. There was still minor headbanging but it wasnt terrible.
@Guy that does random things
R/wooosh
@@noahberlin3953 I'd argue that Thunderhawk at MA isn't bad, but if we're talking not good, then I'd have to agree.
Only if Son of Beast could of survived to get an RMC treatment, it probably would of been insane!
Not really it really was just helixes and drops there was much to be done
Also the coaster had too many structural problems.
RMC, guessing making it a hybrid?
What's RMC?
Please no. That'd take away all the charm
There is a reason people call mighty the "Mighty canadian spine buster"
Before watching, lemme guess... Mainly Togos and Vekomas?
Not all vekomas or even togo since they make good coasters in japan
I think I spread the hate around pretty good on this list, some togos, vekomas, b&m, intamin, gci, etc
@@AirtimeThrills No RMCs, yet. Seems they've got their stuff together and make the best rides.
@@coreylineberry8557 talk to me in 15 years..
Let Alone Aero Dynamics
Nice video, but I'd have to say one little issue about the list.
Your title says : 20 of the Worst Coasters Ever Built.
But the video is your impression of the ones you've ridden.
I'd hardly say these are the worse ever built, though I do agree with some of your picks. :)
I agree, a rename would be more appropriate - I kept waiting for stories about tracks or cars that broke down. And, I like the rough wooden coaster rides with bunny hops and things. By the time I got to the end of the video, I had a list of coasters that I can't wait to ride!
Thanks for not including the GAScream Machine at SFOG. Back in '76 at the tender age of 6, this was my first big boy rollercoaster with my Dad and after one terrifying circuit, I was hooked.
I think you're right abt SF not caring for their older Woodies like they should and I've heard it's very rough now and seen it in other POV videos. I'm hoping GCI would retrack it, but thanks again for not including it here.
Hands UP! 😁👐
And Canadians says that Canada's Wonderland is better than La Ronde ;-;
Well CW has SO MANY coasters that it can afford to have a few bad ones and still have a good lineup
St least we don’t have guns 😁
Speaking from experience: Canada’s Wonderland is fantastic, even with coasters like Time Warp and Flight Deck weighing it down. It’s lineup of rides like Leviathan, Behemoth, Yukon Striker, Vortex, and quite a few more really make up for it.
The1TheOnlyG2 thank you
StripeyStripes I honestly think Time Warp and Flight Deck should both be taken down for a record-breaking inverted coaster. Kind of how Skyrider, a dive coaster, was replaced by the record-breaking dive coaster Yukon Striker.
I, too, am disappointed in how ROAR has aged. I remember it as being one of my favorites as a kid, and one of the first coasters I ever went on, but now it just gives me headaches.
I miss the other roar they really should’ve rmc’d the other roar
When I rode predator at Darien lake before rumors about the retracking it injured me because I pushed down the lap bars but the rides ops pushed it down so hard it almost broke my thighs and after the drop it staples me so hard I broke my thighs and the rest of the ride jack hammered me
"20 of the Worst Coasters Ever Built (but only in the US and Canada)"
His channel is for north America rides
Maybe all of the sucky rollercoasters are in US and Canada and none are in EU lol
@@nightinxgale7083 nope, i've ridden a zamperla volare in vienna prater and it was rough as hell.
literally. its so annoying.
It was for ones he rode himself, so
Saw and Colossus at Thorpe Park were very rough in the afternoon. (Not saying they should be on the list tho)
Also, the second longest roller coaster in the world, The Ultimate, was extremely rough all day and was only scary because I was going to die.
Colossus is a head banger, made me feel ill the rest of the day
Colossus is horrible my earing literally pierced into the side of my skull and bled like mad!
The ultimate is rough but it's insane. At least we are getting a smooth colossus clone at flamingo land
Was not ready for a shout out to viper! Very cool
The dive loop on Manhattan Express is the most awful thing I have ever experienced. Never again.
Same goes for the SLC in Wildwood, NJ.
Volar and Thunderbolt models are heinous too.
Mean Streak had the big underrated. I enjoyed it, even if it was a little slow/rough.
It's not as bad as people make it out to be. Honestly, I found the Mine Ride to be worse. Beats the hell out of you like the Meanstreak, but it doesn't have one decent drop in it. Just a painful, boring ride.
Awesome video. I don't think time warp was that bad considering the feel of a flying coaster. But yeah it was rough to ride. Definitely requires strength lol.
Man I road the predator at darien lake and no one told me I needed to take my glasses off and it was the FIRST ROLLER COASTER ride Iwent on so I thought id keep them on (I was in 6th grade) I broke my glasses and they fell off my face and so the whole time at darien lake i was half blind
I had a similar moment on X2 at Magic Mountain. I forgot to put my glasses in my pocket, so they slipped off my face. Fortunately I caught before they flew away, but I got a real scare on that ride 😂
round here we call anaconda "head trauma"
The "Super Duper Looper" at Hersheypark is pretty terrible. It's essentially only a lift hill, very very small loop, and long flat brake run.
I live in California and go to the six flags there all the time and I KNEW it was gonna be green lantern hahahah
Corkscrew AND Mean Streak? Man, the CP fanboys are gonna be mad.
As somebody who lives somewhat near Sandusky and goes to Cedar Point at least once a summer, Corkscrew is definitely deserving of the title it’s been given. My first ride on it was painful, and everybody I know that’s ridden it is more than happy to skip it during a trip to the park. It’s nice to look at from the walkways though.
Went on both of them when I was able to go the CP a few years ago, Corkscrew was just, meh. Wasn't good, but it wasn't horrible (it's also 40 years old). I actually liked Mean Streak, but that's just me.
No one is gonna be upset about Corkscrew lol. I don’t know anybody who actually likes that coaster. It gives me an instant headache. I was sad to see Mean Streak on the list, but it didn’t surprise me. I know I’m severely in the minority of people who liked the ride. I was sad to see it close, but the ride put in its place is definitely an upgrade.
Still niether of them as bad as Green Lantern at MM. But thankfully, Its closed.
Vortex at KI is way better than corkscrew
Nice shoutout for viper at 8:49. That's my home park and glad none of our coasters are on this list.
It hurts seeing Mind Eraser on there but man it hurts so bad- I had the same problem with the hulk coaster, but it wasnt nearly as bad
Awesome video, my dude!
I’ve ridden many awful coasters, but corkscrew at CP was pretty good in the back seat, well, from my ride on it, at least. I barely got any ear bashing, and that airtime hill after the drop was awesome because 1) I’m a really small rider, 2) the way the restraints are let me soar out of my seat, and 3) I was in the back seat. I got off anaconda at KD with a headache, so I was dreading to ride CP corkscrew, but I didn’t think it was painful at all! It’s an unpopular opinion, but I thought cedar creek mine ride was the worst in the park. It was so jerky and uncomfortable!
My least favorite was the Rattler at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. The original layout had a tremendous drop which got you up to speeds near 75mph but the track was brutal and it twisted around a lot giving several people whiplash. The park later made changes to the coaster including making the main drop lower and lowering the overall speed but the track roughness remained an issue. The coaster later closed for a remodel and upgrade from Rocky Mountain Coaster to the new I-Box steel track turning the coaster in to the new Iron Rattler.
Every time I hear "over the shoulder" I expect him to say "bolder holder"
TOUGH MAN RANDY SAVAGE gross
Ew why just why
I'm from ontario and wonderland is the only amusement park i've ever been to
3 of your 10 are from there!
Wonderland is the biggest park I've been to in my memory. It's really the first time I was introduced to anything that wasn't a normal, sitting coaster. I'm still trying to convince my parents to let me go to some of the really good parks in the US and Montreal.
@@draconiusultamius i hope you get to go! the US rides look insane compared to what wonderland is offering!
Flight Deck was featured here as well, though they didn't mention it by name, it is a Vecoma SLC like in his number 6 and if you watch the video again you can see Flight Deck used in the footage.
YT1 you do have three great ones there. Behemoth, Leviathan (my 500th) and Yukon Striker (my 600th).
It's ok you have 3 great coasters in that park. The 3 biggest ones. But the rest of the coaster lineup is pretty bad. Atleast you're like 6 hours away from cedar point.
Kong at Discovery Kingdom will always hold a special place in my heart for being the first roller coaster I ever did with loops.
The Goliath only ran a couple of days this season, (technically last, since when I'm typing this it is currently 2020) I didn't go there many times that season but when I did or whenever I checked the app, it was always closed.
A new ride is going to be built called The Supergirl(?) It may replace it, but it's in such an odd location to be replaced there. Dunno, but yeah, Goliath was boring.
I wish Goliath was boring it’s one of the most painful and terrifying expierences I have had in my life
17:19 the tone of your voice killed me
The ride is so awful that the tone change is warranted