Great video! I was a supervisor for Green Lantern this season. Interestingly when it operated at Great Adventure it only ran with 5 block zones, the service & safety were programmed together as well as the transfer & waiting. I also never knew X train was from Riddler. Very cool!
Oh wow thank you for the updated info! Yea that’s a very similar set up to Batman at sfne which I was a supervisor of for many years. It was weird though because you could have a train fully stopped only in the safety and another in the service but they acted as one. I always knew one train was from riddler, I just never knew which or that the bars were different colors until making this! Love learning new facts about rides!
All of you who are sad and/or outraged about Kingda Ka's upcoming removal, now you know how I felt about Kentucky Kingdom getting rid of Chang. The fact that ppl are saying it got rougher after the relocation (along with opinions that they liked it better as Chang and it going from being the biggest and most unique coaster at the park to just one big coaster out of many other big coasters) pretty much affirms my opinion that it should have never gotten relocated at all. Kinda wonder how much longer it could have lasted if it had stayed at Kentucky Kingdom. They could have expanded the waterpark in T3's spot and put Deep Water Dive over there.
I honestly don’t know if it would still be there if it stayed at Kentucky kingdom. The coaster limited how much could have been done in the area so the closure may have been the end of the road for it if they left it.
Great job with the footage on this one! Chang was outstanding, and the fact a relatively tiny park in Kentucky was getting attractions like it was amazing. I feel like that as rides have gotten smoother and tamer though, stand ups have really fallen out of favor. In the 90s, you rode everything a bit defensively, which made Chang and others a great experience likely smoother than most of the other rides you would have been on - T3, Thunder Run, Vampire, etc. Today though, it's one of the most rough. Likely it wasn't converted due to the lack of success converting Mantis, which is too bad. I loved the layout, and am glad I got to Great Adventure to get on it one last time.
Thank you! Yea ultimately I’m glad they left it the way it was at great adventure and I got to ride it as intended. I’m glad you were able to experience it too!
Man congratulations on a great video. I appreciate stuff like this.I am an enthusiasts and love my history..I learned alot on this video..keep up the great work and keep your love for amusement parks/Rollercoasters.
Green Lantern, oh boy this one's interesting. I remember when I was eleven and Green Lantern had just been opened at GA. The hype for this coaster was real, I never saw the appeal until I actually rode on it in August '24. I was terrified of Green Lantern as I hadn't rode a coaster with any inversions up until this point. But I had a friend with me who wanted to ride it, he already almost made me blackout on the slingshot. We didn't wait very long although I refused front row. We did second row and... let's just say I conquered my fear of being inverted on a Rollercoaster. It was pretty smooth when we rode it. I liked it although my buddy did not. It was a really odd concept to me with a stand up coaster, but honestly Green Lantern was pretty good. Shame they are cutting it up, even relocation or floor less train conversion would probably have kept it running for another decade. B&Ms are pretty reliable in that sense. Never knew it used a train from MM. But Green Lantern will be missed. If I ever go back to GA after they build that mystery 2026 coaster, I got to try Medusa, Batman, Superman,and El Toro and round two on Nitro, plus Flash. At least I got to ride on GL and KK.
Great video man! Thanks to the rumors, I got to ride it the last weekend in operation with my gf. I thoroughly enjoyed the layout and the novelty of standing up. I can't believe it's a 2 min + ride. It felt so fast! Shorter people will hit the head rest a lot. Men have to decide whether they want to sacrifice their nuts or knees lol. I went with the knees, but it was well worth the 1 ride I did. Really wish they could have converted it to a floorless coaster. 2024 was such a disaster for sfga that I would quickly run out of wishes lol.
Thank you!!! Yea most of the ride time was spent on the lift but it was still a solid ride duration! Haha and being a short guy, I couldn’t agree more. I always went for the knees hahaha but some days were better than other with how much it hurt my knees.
@@Wolf360-s3r I loved the idea of it, it just put too much pressure on my knees. I did ride it almost every time I went to the park though. It was a fun experience!
I Actually liked it during it’s first four Years in 2011-2012-2013 and 2014 because I actually didn’t complain about the Restraints system because I was too busy starring up at that first hill and Drop and moreover that loop and Dive loop and thinking man oh man Dad And Younger Brother just think we are going to go through all of that and more standing up
Haha I’m not going to lie, I was very much the same way as I loved GASM but over time I learned to love lantern. It was pretty rough at the end of her life but she was still fun if not just a tad to forceful!
It's still somewhat upsetting that they couldn't send it to a smaller park that could use it, fix any issues with it (like the ball joints supports) convert it to a floorless, put vest restraint on it and it would be great for that park.
The issue with vest restraints is that the catwalks would have to be adjusted for clearances. It wouldn’t be worth it from a financial standpoint for vest restraints :(
I would have loved to see this coaster live on with the floorless trains and the newer restraints. It had a really good layout. It was just a little too forceful for a stand-up coaster. It makes me sad seeing a b&m laying as a pile of rubble. Reminds me of the dueling dragon Days.
Same! It would have been a great sit down or floor less coaster! My knees just hurt too much doing the inclined loop, man that airtime was amazing before and after the mid course!
I was fortunate enough to visit Great Adventure for the first time this October where I got to ride both Green Lantern and Ka. It is very sad both are being removed and I hope SF/CF handle future ride closures in a more professional manner, as the parks are nothing without the guests that visit them.
Great video! Could you do a video about Vertigo at Walibi Belgium? I think this would be a really interresting video, because so little is known about the coaster.
I rode green lantern several years and it was ok. I wasn't the hugest fan of it but Kingda ka broke my heart. I don't plan to attend 6Flags GA next year I think it will be a lame year till new coaster 2026 if they can open it on time. FLASH is new but it's a single train roller coaster so que lines will be long wait for a boomerang coaster. KA may have had its problem but the merger was primarily the worse thing for Ka.
I have to wonder if the same reason SF Great America didnt install "Chang" is the same reason it was scraped and not moved. I wonder if there was a resaon Chang was not covered to a floorless. If B&M refused or declined to covert Chang to a floorless for GAm and having Iron Wolf already, the plan was changed to move to GAd,. Now 13 years later if Green Lantern was moved it would have to stay a standup and that made no financial sense.
I’m sure the park was a tad skeptical converting it as it wasn’t done yet to that time. But it was possible if they didn’t want to remove iron wolf. The going rumor I remember hearing about sfgam was that iron wolf would be fully removed and Chang be added still as a stand up. Also I have a strong feeling (can’t confirm though) that the plans were rejected for the new ride that’s why it was sent away.
It depends on the intensity. Smaller scale b&ms with not a ton of forces may be able to. More intense ones need more and more welding over the years weakening the integrity of the metal in the track. A great example is that universal coasters only last about 15-18 years due to them being more intense rides that run on 3 trains much longer during the day 365 days a year. These coasters often run 1 or 2 trains 3/4 a year. So that balances out. Could it have been relocated? Yes. Would it need major work in a few years if not now? Also yes. So the return on investment wouldn’t be worth it.
I remember riding Chang and it was buttery smooth! It was way better than Mantis. When it was Six flags we would go there and get a season pass for only 45 bucks! Then we would go to geagua lake and great america! Twisted Sisters was the best ride at that time!
First off, love the user name! Hahah I sadly never got to ride it as Chang but I rode it a ton as lantern during its entire time at gadv! Wish I had the chance to see it at Kentucky kingdom though! What did you think of the ride?
Great video! I was a supervisor for Green Lantern this season. Interestingly when it operated at Great Adventure it only ran with 5 block zones, the service & safety were programmed together as well as the transfer & waiting. I also never knew X train was from Riddler. Very cool!
Oh wow thank you for the updated info! Yea that’s a very similar set up to Batman at sfne which I was a supervisor of for many years. It was weird though because you could have a train fully stopped only in the safety and another in the service but they acted as one.
I always knew one train was from riddler, I just never knew which or that the bars were different colors until making this! Love learning new facts about rides!
THATS MY SUPERVISOR.
I didn’t know we didn’t buy the third train and then sell it.
Yea the company tried to do it in the cheapest way possible!
All of you who are sad and/or outraged about Kingda Ka's upcoming removal, now you know how I felt about Kentucky Kingdom getting rid of Chang. The fact that ppl are saying it got rougher after the relocation (along with opinions that they liked it better as Chang and it going from being the biggest and most unique coaster at the park to just one big coaster out of many other big coasters) pretty much affirms my opinion that it should have never gotten relocated at all. Kinda wonder how much longer it could have lasted if it had stayed at Kentucky Kingdom. They could have expanded the waterpark in T3's spot and put Deep Water Dive over there.
I honestly don’t know if it would still be there if it stayed at Kentucky kingdom. The coaster limited how much could have been done in the area so the closure may have been the end of the road for it if they left it.
@@Kingdakev I actually don't know for sure either. Not like we can peek into an alternate history to find out.
Hahaha if only we could
This is one of my favorite coaster videos I’ve seen recently, so interesting!!!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I had a lot of fun putting it together!
@@Kingdakev as a big fan of green lantern I loved seeing the in depth history of it!
Glad to hear it! Hopefully you learned something new!
Great job with the footage on this one! Chang was outstanding, and the fact a relatively tiny park in Kentucky was getting attractions like it was amazing.
I feel like that as rides have gotten smoother and tamer though, stand ups have really fallen out of favor. In the 90s, you rode everything a bit defensively, which made Chang and others a great experience likely smoother than most of the other rides you would have been on - T3, Thunder Run, Vampire, etc. Today though, it's one of the most rough.
Likely it wasn't converted due to the lack of success converting Mantis, which is too bad. I loved the layout, and am glad I got to Great Adventure to get on it one last time.
Thank you!
Yea ultimately I’m glad they left it the way it was at great adventure and I got to ride it as intended. I’m glad you were able to experience it too!
Man congratulations on a great video. I appreciate stuff like this.I am an enthusiasts and love my history..I learned alot on this video..keep up the great work and keep your love for amusement parks/Rollercoasters.
Thank you so much for your kind words they mean a lot!
Seeing this coaster in chillers spot would honestly be a great idea,unfortunately its six flags and they are known for bad ideas.
Very true! Honestly anywhere but GASMs spot!
Got to ride green lantern on my first and only visit to great adventure last year, so glad I got on KA.
I’m glad you did too!! :)
This was one of the best videos I’ve watched in a while lol
Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Green Lantern, oh boy this one's interesting. I remember when I was eleven and Green Lantern had just been opened at GA. The hype for this coaster was real, I never saw the appeal until I actually rode on it in August '24. I was terrified of Green Lantern as I hadn't rode a coaster with any inversions up until this point. But I had a friend with me who wanted to ride it, he already almost made me blackout on the slingshot. We didn't wait very long although I refused front row. We did second row and... let's just say I conquered my fear of being inverted on a Rollercoaster. It was pretty smooth when we rode it. I liked it although my buddy did not. It was a really odd concept to me with a stand up coaster, but honestly Green Lantern was pretty good. Shame they are cutting it up, even relocation or floor less train conversion would probably have kept it running for another decade. B&Ms are pretty reliable in that sense. Never knew it used a train from MM. But Green Lantern will be missed. If I ever go back to GA after they build that mystery 2026 coaster, I got to try Medusa, Batman, Superman,and El Toro and round two on Nitro, plus Flash. At least I got to ride on GL and KK.
I’m very glad you did experience them and enjoyed it! :)
Great video man! Thanks to the rumors, I got to ride it the last weekend in operation with my gf. I thoroughly enjoyed the layout and the novelty of standing up. I can't believe it's a 2 min + ride. It felt so fast! Shorter people will hit the head rest a lot. Men have to decide whether they want to sacrifice their nuts or knees lol. I went with the knees, but it was well worth the 1 ride I did. Really wish they could have converted it to a floorless coaster. 2024 was such a disaster for sfga that I would quickly run out of wishes lol.
Thank you!!!
Yea most of the ride time was spent on the lift but it was still a solid ride duration! Haha and being a short guy, I couldn’t agree more. I always went for the knees hahaha but some days were better than other with how much it hurt my knees.
Amazing video 10/10
Thank you so much!!!!
Kentucky kingdom my home park here. I never rode this when it was called Chang. I rode it onse when it was called green lantern when I went in 2018.
@@wrestlingandamusementparkl7789 did you get to go back when it was six flags?
I actually loved this coaster, not joking
Me too!! Not many did unfortunately
@@Wolf360-s3r I loved the idea of it, it just put too much pressure on my knees. I did ride it almost every time I went to the park though. It was a fun experience!
@@gravitythrills5414 haha yes I know many people that hated it but I thought it was fun
I Actually liked it during it’s first four Years in 2011-2012-2013 and 2014 because I actually didn’t complain about the Restraints system because I was too busy starring up at that first hill and Drop and moreover that loop and Dive loop and thinking man oh man Dad And Younger Brother just think we are going to go through all of that and more standing up
Haha so did I! I also really liked it during holiday in the park! It was running slower which made it not hurt my knees as much! Was a ton of fun!
I rode Chang at SFKK a long time ago. I thought it was a great coaster.
I’m jealous! I wish I got to see it while it was there!
I had such a bias against this ride because it replaced Great American Scream Machine. Still, I hated how painful it was on my legs.
Haha I’m not going to lie, I was very much the same way as I loved GASM but over time I learned to love lantern. It was pretty rough at the end of her life but she was still fun if not just a tad to forceful!
It's still somewhat upsetting that they couldn't send it to a smaller park that could use it, fix any issues with it (like the ball joints supports) convert it to a floorless, put vest restraint on it and it would be great for that park.
The issue with vest restraints is that the catwalks would have to be adjusted for clearances. It wouldn’t be worth it from a financial standpoint for vest restraints :(
I would have loved to see this coaster live on with the floorless trains and the newer restraints. It had a really good layout. It was just a little too forceful for a stand-up coaster. It makes me sad seeing a b&m laying as a pile of rubble. Reminds me of the dueling dragon Days.
Same! It would have been a great sit down or floor less coaster! My knees just hurt too much doing the inclined loop, man that airtime was amazing before and after the mid course!
I was fortunate enough to visit Great Adventure for the first time this October where I got to ride both Green Lantern and Ka. It is very sad both are being removed and I hope SF/CF handle future ride closures in a more professional manner, as the parks are nothing without the guests that visit them.
I hope they do, but going off of this years announcements so far, they probably won’t
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@@mikegruszczynski6404 haha I made those slides at 5am. My bad lol
Great video! Could you do a video about Vertigo at Walibi Belgium?
I think this would be a really interresting video, because so little is known about the coaster.
@@OleGellner thank you!!!
I can deff add it to my list and start doing research! :)
I rode green lantern several years and it was ok. I wasn't the hugest fan of it but Kingda ka broke my heart. I don't plan to attend 6Flags GA next year I think it will be a lame year till new coaster 2026 if they can open it on time. FLASH is new but it's a single train roller coaster so que lines will be long wait for a boomerang coaster. KA may have had its problem but the merger was primarily the worse thing for Ka.
Couldn’t agree more!
I have to wonder if the same reason SF Great America didnt install "Chang" is the same reason it was scraped and not moved. I wonder if there was a resaon Chang was not covered to a floorless. If B&M refused or declined to covert Chang to a floorless for GAm and having Iron Wolf already, the plan was changed to move to GAd,. Now 13 years later if Green Lantern was moved it would have to stay a standup and that made no financial sense.
I’m sure the park was a tad skeptical converting it as it wasn’t done yet to that time. But it was possible if they didn’t want to remove iron wolf. The going rumor I remember hearing about sfgam was that iron wolf would be fully removed and Chang be added still as a stand up. Also I have a strong feeling (can’t confirm though) that the plans were rejected for the new ride that’s why it was sent away.
Green lantern will be missed I operated the ride for 2 seasons😢
It will be! When did you work on the ride?
I’m sure B&M coasters can last at least 40 years they just didn’t want to relocate it…
It depends on the intensity. Smaller scale b&ms with not a ton of forces may be able to. More intense ones need more and more welding over the years weakening the integrity of the metal in the track. A great example is that universal coasters only last about 15-18 years due to them being more intense rides that run on 3 trains much longer during the day 365 days a year. These coasters often run 1 or 2 trains 3/4 a year. So that balances out.
Could it have been relocated? Yes. Would it need major work in a few years if not now? Also yes. So the return on investment wouldn’t be worth it.
Thank you for using my other channels video
No problem, I love finding great content to share! Thank you for all that you do!
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I will for sure be covering her soon! Thanks for the suggestion!
I could drive 2 trains and 1400 guest per hour at Carowinds
That’s because vortex has a smaller train and a much shorter ride cycle. I’d imagine that would still be very difficult to do though.
Thats interesting
Right!
Should have went to Carowinds
Honestly I would have put it at a smaller park that needed it more as a floorless. Carowinds deserves a new coaster
I remember riding Chang and it was buttery smooth! It was way better than Mantis. When it was Six flags we would go there and get a season pass for only 45 bucks! Then we would go to geagua lake and great america! Twisted Sisters was the best ride at that time!
I wish I got to ride twisted twins! It looked so fun!
I rode for the first and last time days before the removal I think somebody in my family rode it as Chang
First off, love the user name! Hahah
I sadly never got to ride it as Chang but I rode it a ton as lantern during its entire time at gadv! Wish I had the chance to see it at Kentucky kingdom though!
What did you think of the ride?
Been on Lantern several x's. It never impressed me. We would always skip it if on a time crunch. Don't like stand up's anyway.
Yea if we were short on time we wouldn’t prioritize it either but if we had time we’d always give it a ride.
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Sadly that won’t happen
@Kingdakev We'll see.