Comfort collars allow for no seatbelt which should make loading faster. On full throttle you have to wait for them to check your seatbelt before lowering lap bar, on wcr you can fully strap in once seated. They need to add a holding break to twisted Colossus to allow 100% dueling like this.
Ryan Stadler Seatbelts are required on any ride with inversions in California that doesn’t have OTSR, since the accident on Perilous Plunge. You won’t find a looping coaster (with lap bars) in Cali without them.
Chance Roberts respectfully, I disagree with what you’re saying because it doesn’t make any sense. Perilous plunge doesn’t have an inversion, revolution now has only lap bars, full throttle has lap bars, montezumas revenge has lap bars.
@@Stephenp503 late to the party but his top 25 seems to be more based around coasters that blew him away i.e. I305's unparalleled intensity, El Toro's ridiculously powerful airtime, etc, I think OP was more intending as something enjoyable for a general audience
3 years ago taylor didn’t even rank X2 for top 10 in the park and had Tatsu #2, today X2 is #1 and Tatsu is #5... perfect example of reriding, retraking, etc. never give a coaster one chance!
Agreed. You can ride something over again, and get an entirely new perspective. I have moved X-2 to my number one spot. Still have to upload the video, but for sure, X-2 is number One and West Coast Racer is number 2.
I got on this during the preview period (though only once), and I'd probably put it 4th in the park after TC, X2, and Tatsu. It's definitely a fun ride even though it isn't the most intense, and one that would be a ton of fun with a group split over both trains. Unfortunately, from what I heard comfort collars are now standard on all new Premiers (at least in the US), so that's just something it will be necessary to get used to.
tbh im fine with the comfort collars since they improve capacity. I've seen WCR with insane lines but the wait was no longer than 45 mins but on most days full throttle has an hour to 2 hour wait minimum
My only true criticism with this ride is the waiting room. I feel like they should have added more theming in the parking garage so it’s not completely quite. Sure, they added a slideshow screen, but it’s the same one from the line queue. I just think they could have used the waiting room to their advantage to drive hype for the seond circuit, but it’s still an awesome ride nonetheless. P.S. I can watch the footage from this review all day it’s so good!
I remember when you did the analysis for West Coast Racers, 5 years ago in 2018. They took a really long time trying to build the ride, and there was dust storm during summer 2019 that delayed the rides opening until the beginning of 2020. After many long years of studying racing roller coasters. Somebody finally did something right, and created a racing coaster that runs their trains side by side. I like the Street Racing theming of the surrounding area of the ride, and it fits West Coast Racers perfectly. I was hoping that the coaster wasn't going to have lap bars and they ended up putting comfort collars, which is somewhat better than OTSR. From 2014 to 2018, Knott's Berry Farm was my home park, so I hope to someday visit Six Flags Magic Mountain sometime in the near future.
I just rode it 7 times yesterday, as my first time on it, and I'm not sure but I think the 2nd and 4th launches are slightly randomized to make a winner every race.
So I rode it today for the first time and I think West Coast Racers was a phenomenally fun ride with a perfect theme. And the guaranteed duel with three train ops was pure genius. How has no other park built one of these yet? It’s a guaranteed hit for everyone.
Home park. Love this ride. I agree with your review 100%. Btw, I genuinely appreciate how you geek out on all this stuff. A true fan, you are. Your excitement is genuine --and contagious. I've learned a good bit watching your channel. Thanks and keep it up.
Putting this ahead of tatsu is going to make everyone’s expectations for this ride very high, i respectfully disagree with ur opinion, but hopefully people enjoy it as much as u did.
Tatsu has been my fav at this park forever but I've not been here since Twisted Colossus and Full Throttle have opened so I have a lot of chances to change my mind now! SO EXCITED
I've ridden it a few times but I respectfully disagree. I think the ride is well-paced but lacks any real stand-out moments besides the white hi-five. I do appreciate how fun it is and do think it's one of the funnest Coasters, but all of the airtime after the white hi-five is just weak. I do REALLY love the theming, but I don't really think the ride is better than Tatsu or Riddler's (I'm a sucker for stand-ups). Even though I disagree, your video production quality is outstanding and you describe the experience very well! 😊👍
LiamTheGandhiLlama LTGL Yes, for Riddler’s! I don’t really get the hype for X2 either? That coaster has gotten so rough lately. :/ As for Tatsu, I think it may be the most intense in the park. Have you ridden in the back??
@@stephenn77 Yeah, X2 is definitely rough, but I love rides that throw you around (I kinda liked Green Lantern). While I do think that the Tatsu pretzel loop is insanely intense in the back, I personally find X2's final Raven turn more intense (on a good day). I think Magic Mountain is kind of cursed with bad restraints, look at Viper, X2, WCR, TC, and Riddler's (although WCR and Riddler's aren't awful), so those don't help. I totally get your point of tho, especially about how rough X2 has gotten, but because of the ride mechanism, I don't see how they could really fix it 😕
Haven't ridden it yet but I am actually heading up to Magic Mountain and Knott's Berry Farm this coming week to ride all the coasters! Love watching all these videos before I go so I can plan all the stuff I want to get to each day. Looking forward to the trip and to the next video!
Magic mountain is my home park and west coast racers definitely surprised me with how much I liked it. A great addition and i agree that they should toss the comfort collars. Now I'm just waiting for whatever new coaster they get for 2021 lol.
Got to ride during the passholder preview days, and enjoyed the heck out of it. You pretty much nailed everything. The only 2 things I'd change on it you touched on: ditch the comfort collars, and I'd bump up the speed (which would in turn make it more forceful).
I 100% agree with that. I live near the area and x2 was my number one and twisted colossus was my number two, but this bumped twisted colossus to third and made this my number two
Lowkey I have Six Flags adds some more Premier coasters that wrap around areas of parks. It just makes it more fun to walk through an area to see a coaster going around. As awesome as Jersey Devil coaster looks, I was really hoping that something like this would be Great Adventure’s 2020 coaster.
The most comparable ride to this for me is Cheetah Hunt. Both rides are more than the sum of their parts and the overall experience is incredible. I think premier rides is definitely headed in the right direction these days and you have to think they have been successful financially recently. I hope we see more large scale projects from them soon. They are capable of something like Pantheon and I want to see it!
I rode it a bunch on media day. I would say it is my 5th or 6th favorite coaster in the park. I agree it is a fun coaster and it is very easy to ride over and over again as I did on media day!
i agree with what you said about the ride for the most part. you never see that high five element coming at first. l was really impressed with the crew and operation times! thats the part i was worried about most but now the only down side are those collars they need to go.
So excited for this ride! I haven't been to this park since Full Throttle, Twisted Colossus and Apocalypse opened so I have a TON to look forward too!!!!!
I was pleasantly surprised by this one. Well worth the wait for construction/testing to complete on it. I lucked into being able to ride it because I had already planned to be in California on 12/19/19, and planned to stay for four days. I didn’t know at the time that SF MM would preview WCR to its membership D, DE community. So I went on that Saturday. Loved it, though I didn’t get time to reride it (it was my first ever visit to SF MM). That prior day, I spent time at Knott’s, and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Agree with your take on this one.
Wow, I'm genuinely surprised that you put this about Tatsu and also kind of surprised that it's above Full Throttle and Riddler's Revenge. I guess that fun factor really came through for you. While I'm sure you will continue to like TC more going forward, I can't help but think that you especially love this coaster for fixing the main issue with TC. The new child gets extra love because it hasn't failed you like your previous favorite child has. Taylor (speaking about Twisted Colossus): I have no son!
As moderate thrill seekers we loved it! We sort of thought that the launch "jolting" was trying to emulate the way it feels like you get tipped back a bit when a real car accelerates quickly, the rear end of the car kind of dips down. But that's just our inexperienced interpretation!
I loved this ride! So much fun!! Loosen the lap bar and get some good hang time! So good, My new IPhone came out and was destroyed! Still worth the experience!! This ride was a lot more fun then I expected!!
You have no idea how disappointed I am that I didn’t get to ride this coaster. I live in the PNW so I don’t go to CA all that often anyways and SFMM is even harder for me to get to. And of course my one day at magic mountain, West Coast Racers was down all day. This would be bad enough but as someone who wants to make theme park music for a living, I made a custom soundtrack for this coaster and everything. I was super excited to try it out and everything but of course, I didn’t get to ride. And now I have no idea when I’ll be back there. Hopefully soon because I also missed Drop of Doom as well as Hangtime at Knott’s.
It’s a really fun ride, it tends to be down a lot though at least these past two days. It’s not as intense as TC but it’s still one of my top 5 coasters at Magic Mountain.
This ride looks like fun more than being amazing. The launches are to “Get the trains up to speed, and not for enjoyment.” So, this ride looks like fun with inversions and dualing features but lacks an amazing experience.
I agree with you on all the aspects of the coaster EXCEPT the spaghetti bowl. That part to me was very lame and uneventful. Not forceful at all. I also found that the lap restraints were much tighter after the ride than before. They were so tight in fact, that my legs felt bruised after walking off the ride. I cannot express how much my legs hurt after the ride. This was a major deal breaker for me. I would rate a 6/10. Not high thrill, painful, over-hyped
How's that whole underground area going to work out in the summer? You got yourselves there a blacktop and no cover. In sunny SoCal everyone is going to melt there. They need to plant trees or something. What do you think?
Not only does it race everytime, but dare I say it, WCR does 'racing' better than Twisted. Now twisted is a better ride, but on WCR, you're watching the other train more than the actual track, most of the interaction you have with the other train really feela like you can touch the other train, and its just so much fun!
You should really do another x2 review. It's been awesome to see your opinion change so much, since it is my home park. I'd love to see your revised thoughts!
That car in the queue is not a car. It's a hollow plastic shell. I went in for the member preview event and you could completely see through the wheels. There is nothing under that thing other than a couple metal poles holding it in place. Apocalypse gets actual cars for props, WCR gets a piece of plastic.
I couldn't care less that it isn't a real car. I couldn't tell from standing right next to it. A real car would've been a lot more expensive to put in the queue, and since they knew this one wouldn't ever run, I don't blame them for only doing the shell. It looks cool, and that's good enough for me.
This argument is heavily opinionated but I really am let down by it. It didn't need to be a real car but it just looks so cheap up close. Every detail that could be skipped, was skipped. The windows, headlights, and grill are all stickers. There's black cardboard sheets stuffed behind the wheels. Lightning Rod did it so much better, I was expecting detail more in-line with that. Apart from that though the ride itself is great no argument with a 9/10 at all
The theming will probably be temporary with licensing. Like how American thunder at sfsl used to be evil knievel and had a bunch of stuff about him around it. And all the pandemonium rides were tony hawk..
The most fun but lack intensity. And yeah...though they weren’t a bother, we can deal without the comfort collars. My score is 8.5 due to lack of intensity and the loading issue
I think I know why they put the comfort collars on. It’s because full throttle doesn’t have them so maybe Magic Mountain wanted to have a different experience so they thought “how could we do that oh put comfort collars on west coast racers” so it’s possible they wanted a different experience and that’s how they came up with that. That’s my theory
I agree on twisted. I wish it dueled each time, it’s nice a lot of the time now you are most likely going to get one. Working as an attendant on twisted lately to get trained there gave me a new respect for the other ops working twisted. It’s not easy. Not only do the lap bars act like they weigh 50 lbs lifting them up all day long, but it’s super fast paced even with two trains once the two come back together to stack and go out somewhat in a pair to race once. Other ops I as well say they are sore the day after working twisted, it’s like going to the gym all day, lol. Glad I wasn’t there when they were running three 😳. I have no idea why RMC thought it would be a good idea to not design the restraint system to be easy to pull up. Would make it load faster too because we wouldn’t have to pull up the lap bar on guests who think it’s locked or literally are not strong enough from their leverage point sitting down to lift it up. West coast racers crew does a great job of pumping out the trains though. Their new one side load/unload is genius because it gets rid of the wasted time people use to put their items away. This way they can put their items away before they ride and get them when they get off. Such a smart move.
I certainly don't blame the ride ops. They were trying to get it to duel today, but the guests always take forever to put their giant 40-pound backpacks to the side. There were a couple close calls, but I didn't see any duels today on TC.
Oklahoma Coaster Fan seriously. I would not be surprised if in the next ten years we see a change in operations/entrance exit layouts of new and existing rides to emulate west coast racers where you get on and off on the same side since guests can put all their items on before they get on and get them themselves to not slow down operations because of bags. Very smart move I think. They could totally take a lot of flash pass lines on many rides and turn that into the exit and then make the exit the flash pass line to be like west coast racers. Then reconfigure a bit the railings and what not. I think it is very doable, even for the six flags budget they are allotted.
Great review as always! Would you compare the launches or helixes to Backlot Stunt Coaster? I could see that comparison based on what people have been saying
Pretty sure the issue with TC could be fixed if they just used a brake run before the second lift hill and a proximity sensor on the other track to tell the brakes to let off in time to line the trains up. Then just have the same speed on both sides of the lift hill and boom, dueling every time. Doesn’t seem too difficult.
The issue with that is it would be a bit more then just the break run, as for the coaster to race, the train on the green track starts early, and the blue catches up, so a lot of timing would have to be changed.
I love the new ride but the only thing is the *comfort straps* They hit my head too much most of the ride and it kinda hurts so I cant enjoy the ride but they layout and the launch are awesome.
I hope you consider using decimal points more often to make the rankings more competitive. I’m sure you think some 9’s you’ve given are slightly better than others.
J R The score isn’t meant to be compared to other rides that get a similar score. It’s all done on an individual level. If I made them comparable, then amazing family rides like Oscars Wacky Taxi would only get a 4 or 5, and the only rides that would get 10’s are rides like Steel Vengeance. Just wouldn’t be fair.
If it was a little faster it would be more forceful and there would be more airtime! They’re going slightly too tame on the speed here and have some control over this. 🏎 🏁 Can we get starting lights too? 🚦
Chance Roberts comfort collars are not to speed up loading. If anything, they SLOW DOWN the loading process because they have to check that the comfort collars are actually locked in.
@@gregorygolub3315 On Full Throttle, the ops have to check seat belts, lower the lap bars and then check the laps bars. On WCR, they do one check. The idea was to speed up the loading process. This was said to us by the Park President himself when someone asked at the WCR tour. Whether they achieved that or not is a separate issue lol.
It’s actually to increase capacity. The gp is dumb and can’t figure out that they should leave their lap bars up when there’s seatbelts. Comfort collars exist on any ride to increase load times so the crew can see them over the lap bars
Wow, never been told to stalk people on a roller coaster before, thanks Taylor!
Good gob coaster stupidos.
I can see Taylor just MAD DOGGIN someone on the other train
Comfort collars allow for no seatbelt which should make loading faster. On full throttle you have to wait for them to check your seatbelt before lowering lap bar, on wcr you can fully strap in once seated.
They need to add a holding break to twisted Colossus to allow 100% dueling like this.
Japan Stuff you technically don’t even need a seatbelt on this train design. Skyrocket at Kennywood doesn’t have comfort collars or seatbelts
Yep worst part of the ride and completely useless. I just don’t understand the need. I guess just a safety failsafe to appease the scared rider.
Ryan Stadler Seatbelts are required on any ride with inversions in California that doesn’t have OTSR, since the accident on Perilous Plunge. You won’t find a looping coaster (with lap bars) in Cali without them.
Chance Roberts respectfully, I disagree with what you’re saying because it doesn’t make any sense. Perilous plunge doesn’t have an inversion, revolution now has only lap bars, full throttle has lap bars, montezumas revenge has lap bars.
I have no doubt it’s an insurance thing. I’m sure they pay tons less to have a second safety measure for holding you in.
you should make a top 10 list of the most fun coasters you’ve ridden
Royal 16 I second this. Doesn’t have to be “fastest” or “tallest” just most enjoyable.
But isn’t that basically his top 25?
@@Stephenp503 late to the party but his top 25 seems to be more based around coasters that blew him away i.e. I305's unparalleled intensity, El Toro's ridiculously powerful airtime, etc, I think OP was more intending as something enjoyable for a general audience
Something like Winjas at phantasialand, it doesnt have the stats but is 200% fun
When will the Silver Ticket Awards come out? The 9th?
3 years ago taylor didn’t even rank X2 for top 10 in the park and had Tatsu #2, today X2 is #1 and Tatsu is #5... perfect example of reriding, retraking, etc. never give a coaster one chance!
Like a particular megasite at tobu zoo .
Agreed. You can ride something over again, and get an entirely new perspective. I have moved X-2 to my number one spot. Still have to upload the video, but for sure, X-2 is number One and West Coast Racer is number 2.
Fun fact: part of WCR’s queue is literally themed to watching paint dry!
3:46 wait... that happens in real life? I thought it just happened in Roller Coaster Tycoon.
It’s a Planet Coaster thing too
and skyrush
@@_tosko I just meant roller coaster games in general.
what do you mean
@@mateuszodrzywoek8658 the load and unload on the same side.
I was behind you in line!! I liked the ride, I just wish the shoulder strap restraints weren't there. Good review!!
This ride is proof that being the best at any one thing isn't necessary for a ride to be fun and worth a park's investment.
I got on this during the preview period (though only once), and I'd probably put it 4th in the park after TC, X2, and Tatsu. It's definitely a fun ride even though it isn't the most intense, and one that would be a ton of fun with a group split over both trains. Unfortunately, from what I heard comfort collars are now standard on all new Premiers (at least in the US), so that's just something it will be necessary to get used to.
tbh im fine with the comfort collars since they improve capacity. I've seen WCR with insane lines but the wait was no longer than 45 mins but on most days full throttle has an hour to 2 hour wait minimum
My only true criticism with this ride is the waiting room. I feel like they should have added more theming in the parking garage so it’s not completely quite. Sure, they added a slideshow screen, but it’s the same one from the line queue. I just think they could have used the waiting room to their advantage to drive hype for the seond circuit, but it’s still an awesome ride nonetheless. P.S. I can watch the footage from this review all day it’s so good!
Nick Duda bro it’s six flags don’t set your standards to high lol
It’s better than any other theming in the park that’s for sure.
Why do they have a waiting room? (Haven’t been back since last year)
I’m glad they have sped up the ops and this is moving quicker!
Most of these "Thrill" focused parks have garbage theming.
I remember when you did the analysis for West Coast Racers, 5 years ago in 2018. They took a really long time trying to build the ride, and there was dust storm during summer 2019 that delayed the rides opening until the beginning of 2020. After many long years of studying racing roller coasters. Somebody finally did something right, and created a racing coaster that runs their trains side by side. I like the Street Racing theming of the surrounding area of the ride, and it fits West Coast Racers perfectly. I was hoping that the coaster wasn't going to have lap bars and they ended up putting comfort collars, which is somewhat better than OTSR. From 2014 to 2018, Knott's Berry Farm was my home park, so I hope to someday visit Six Flags Magic Mountain sometime in the near future.
I just rode it 7 times yesterday, as my first time on it, and I'm not sure but I think the 2nd and 4th launches are slightly randomized to make a winner every race.
Fantastic review and footage!
So I rode it today for the first time and I think West Coast Racers was a phenomenally fun ride with a perfect theme. And the guaranteed duel with three train ops was pure genius. How has no other park built one of these yet? It’s a guaranteed hit for everyone.
Home park. Love this ride. I agree with your review 100%. Btw, I genuinely appreciate how you geek out on all this stuff. A true fan, you are. Your excitement is genuine --and contagious. I've learned a good bit watching your channel. Thanks and keep it up.
Great review! Looking forward to seeing more!
THE__PATRICK For sure!
THE__ JAK77 Nobody can match Coaster Studios’ insane cinematic video and quality of reviews!
THE__PATRICK I completely agree his coaster footage is beautiful!
Wow, glad you enjoyed. I didn't have much expectation it looked pretty mild, but this is why I'll just have to ride.
Putting this ahead of tatsu is going to make everyone’s expectations for this ride very high, i respectfully disagree with ur opinion, but hopefully people enjoy it as much as u did.
It all comes down to preference really. I like Tatsu, but it's not my favorite.
Tatsu is super intense! I didn’t really like it in the back. Major gray out during the pretzel loop! It’s just extremely forceful.
The pretzel loop on Tatsu just makes me love it
Tatsu is pretty uncomfortable I prefer inverts over flyers 90% of the time .
Tatsu has been my fav at this park forever but I've not been here since Twisted Colossus and Full Throttle have opened so I have a lot of chances to change my mind now! SO EXCITED
Okay.. that's great to hear. Looking forward to riding this one!
Watching this during quarantine and it makes me miss Six Flags so much 😭
Everything Seaworld was supposed to open this year has now pulled a West Coast Racers.
I've ridden it a few times but I respectfully disagree. I think the ride is well-paced but lacks any real stand-out moments besides the white hi-five. I do appreciate how fun it is and do think it's one of the funnest Coasters, but all of the airtime after the white hi-five is just weak. I do REALLY love the theming, but I don't really think the ride is better than Tatsu or Riddler's (I'm a sucker for stand-ups). Even though I disagree, your video production quality is outstanding and you describe the experience very well! 😊👍
LiamTheGandhiLlama LTGL Yes, for Riddler’s! I don’t really get the hype for X2 either? That coaster has gotten so rough lately. :/ As for Tatsu, I think it may be the most intense in the park. Have you ridden in the back??
@@stephenn77 Yeah, X2 is definitely rough, but I love rides that throw you around (I kinda liked Green Lantern). While I do think that the Tatsu pretzel loop is insanely intense in the back, I personally find X2's final Raven turn more intense (on a good day). I think Magic Mountain is kind of cursed with bad restraints, look at Viper, X2, WCR, TC, and Riddler's (although WCR and Riddler's aren't awful), so those don't help. I totally get your point of tho, especially about how rough X2 has gotten, but because of the ride mechanism, I don't see how they could really fix it 😕
Haven't ridden it yet but I am actually heading up to Magic Mountain and Knott's Berry Farm this coming week to ride all the coasters! Love watching all these videos before I go so I can plan all the stuff I want to get to each day. Looking forward to the trip and to the next video!
I really hope you do a parody of this.
Blake Bolin to parody this, he’d have to tease it, then not release it for another 7 months.
He did
Magic mountain is my home park and west coast racers definitely surprised me with how much I liked it. A great addition and i agree that they should toss the comfort collars. Now I'm just waiting for whatever new coaster they get for 2021 lol.
I have ridden it, I agree
You’re welcome taylor
Got to ride during the passholder preview days, and enjoyed the heck out of it. You pretty much nailed everything. The only 2 things I'd change on it you touched on: ditch the comfort collars, and I'd bump up the speed (which would in turn make it more forceful).
I 100% agree with that. I live near the area and x2 was my number one and twisted colossus was my number two, but this bumped twisted colossus to third and made this my number two
Lowkey I have Six Flags adds some more Premier coasters that wrap around areas of parks. It just makes it more fun to walk through an area to see a coaster going around. As awesome as Jersey Devil coaster looks, I was really hoping that something like this would be Great Adventure’s 2020 coaster.
Well now we're getting a Jersey Devil at magic mountain!
The most comparable ride to this for me is Cheetah Hunt. Both rides are more than the sum of their parts and the overall experience is incredible. I think premier rides is definitely headed in the right direction these days and you have to think they have been successful financially recently. I hope we see more large scale projects from them soon. They are capable of something like Pantheon and I want to see it!
I rode it a bunch on media day. I would say it is my 5th or 6th favorite coaster in the park. I agree it is a fun coaster and it is very easy to ride over and over again as I did on media day!
i agree with what you said about the ride for the most part. you never see that high five element coming at first. l was really impressed with the crew and operation times! thats the part i was worried about most but now the only down side are those collars they need to go.
So excited for this ride! I haven't been to this park since Full Throttle, Twisted Colossus and Apocalypse opened so I have a TON to look forward too!!!!!
I was pleasantly surprised by this one. Well worth the wait for construction/testing to complete on it.
I lucked into being able to ride it because I had already planned to be in California on 12/19/19, and planned to stay for four days. I didn’t know at the time that SF MM would preview WCR to its membership D, DE community. So I went on that Saturday. Loved it, though I didn’t get time to reride it (it was my first ever visit to SF MM).
That prior day, I spent time at Knott’s, and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Agree with your take on this one.
We need a West Coast Racers VS Twisted Colossus
Kingofstupidity easy dub for racers lmao
Crazy Boy James oh god how I hope this is a joke
Arek Hrynkow it is you thought I was fr😂
David Scarpa obviously no one can take a joke
Wow, I'm genuinely surprised that you put this about Tatsu and also kind of surprised that it's above Full Throttle and Riddler's Revenge. I guess that fun factor really came through for you. While I'm sure you will continue to like TC more going forward, I can't help but think that you especially love this coaster for fixing the main issue with TC. The new child gets extra love because it hasn't failed you like your previous favorite child has.
Taylor (speaking about Twisted Colossus): I have no son!
I didn't think it would beat those, but once I rode it I for sure put it in my top 5 at the park, it's better than you would expect.
Riddlers Revenge is pretty low on my list...
@@jeffreyhyde4385 same
Nobody talks about Riddler, but I love that coaster! In my top 5 for sure!! One of the only standing coasters left I think.
As moderate thrill seekers we loved it! We sort of thought that the launch "jolting" was trying to emulate the way it feels like you get tipped back a bit when a real car accelerates quickly, the rear end of the car kind of dips down. But that's just our inexperienced interpretation!
I loved this ride! So much fun!! Loosen the lap bar and get some good hang time! So good, My new IPhone came out and was destroyed! Still worth the experience!! This ride was a lot more fun then I expected!!
SOME GREAT REVIEW ON WEST COAST RACERS ROLLER COASTER AT SIX FLAGS MAGIC MOUNTAIN !!!
so safe to say when i make my 1st visit to magic mountain head directly for west coast racers asap before crowds roll in
comfort collars? you mean GP straps?
Damn the first time six flags putting asphalt on the walkways they can put it to good use!! Congrats!!
My list is Twisted Colossus, X2, Tatsu, Full Throttle, then West Coast Racers
Viper 3rd to back best hangtime
You have no idea how disappointed I am that I didn’t get to ride this coaster. I live in the PNW so I don’t go to CA all that often anyways and SFMM is even harder for me to get to. And of course my one day at magic mountain, West Coast Racers was down all day. This would be bad enough but as someone who wants to make theme park music for a living, I made a custom soundtrack for this coaster and everything. I was super excited to try it out and everything but of course, I didn’t get to ride. And now I have no idea when I’ll be back there. Hopefully soon because I also missed Drop of Doom as well as Hangtime at Knott’s.
It’s a really fun ride, it tends to be down a lot though at least these past two days. It’s not as intense as TC but it’s still one of my top 5 coasters at Magic Mountain.
They likely went with comfort collars because they are faster than seat belts for operations.
This ride looks like fun more than being amazing. The launches are to “Get the trains up to speed, and not for enjoyment.”
So, this ride looks like fun with inversions and dualing features but lacks an amazing experience.
From what I've heard the ejector high-five is the amazing enough part to make up for it
I agree with your thoughts, very epic ride.
Twisted Collosus is everything!!
I agree with you on all the aspects of the coaster EXCEPT the spaghetti bowl. That part to me was very lame and uneventful. Not forceful at all. I also found that the lap restraints were much tighter after the ride than before. They were so tight in fact, that my legs felt bruised after walking off the ride. I cannot express how much my legs hurt after the ride. This was a major deal breaker for me. I would rate a 6/10. Not high thrill, painful, over-hyped
First ride for me was a few days ago I got a night ride it was great only complaint is I didn’t really feel the launch
How's that whole underground area going to work out in the summer? You got yourselves there a blacktop and no cover. In sunny SoCal everyone is going to melt there. They need to plant trees or something. What do you think?
The comfort collars should be renamed uncomfort collars.
The reason why it's rare to get a duel on Twisted Colossus is because they're only running 2 trains. Not three.
Not only does it race everytime, but dare I say it, WCR does 'racing' better than Twisted. Now twisted is a better ride, but on WCR, you're watching the other train more than the actual track, most of the interaction you have with the other train really feela like you can touch the other train, and its just so much fun!
I absolutely agree. WCR has the better interactions than TC.
i'm so excited to get on it the first time next weekend!
The back of the park it full of hidden gems and the train is themed to a lotus
They should hold tc on the brake run for the blue side for a double duel
You should really do another x2 review. It's been awesome to see your opinion change so much, since it is my home park. I'd love to see your revised thoughts!
I am sure I will go back and re-review some rides eventually, but for now I am focusing on reviewing new rides I haven't ever done reviews for.
That car in the queue is not a car. It's a hollow plastic shell. I went in for the member preview event and you could completely see through the wheels. There is nothing under that thing other than a couple metal poles holding it in place. Apocalypse gets actual cars for props, WCR gets a piece of plastic.
I couldn't care less that it isn't a real car. I couldn't tell from standing right next to it. A real car would've been a lot more expensive to put in the queue, and since they knew this one wouldn't ever run, I don't blame them for only doing the shell. It looks cool, and that's good enough for me.
This argument is heavily opinionated but I really am let down by it. It didn't need to be a real car but it just looks so cheap up close. Every detail that could be skipped, was skipped. The windows, headlights, and grill are all stickers. There's black cardboard sheets stuffed behind the wheels. Lightning Rod did it so much better, I was expecting detail more in-line with that.
Apart from that though the ride itself is great no argument with a 9/10 at all
When I did the thing where u need to have a season pass or a membership the line was 3 hrs but it was worth it
I love this ride so much. My only wish was if the ride was a little louder. Other than that it was very smooth.
Great Review!!!! Ive been waiting! 🙂
The theming will probably be temporary with licensing. Like how American thunder at sfsl used to be evil knievel and had a bunch of stuff about him around it. And all the pandemonium rides were tony hawk..
my guess for the comfort collars is because race cars have the harnesses for drivers, other than that, no idea. amazing roller coaster tho
The most fun but lack intensity. And yeah...though they weren’t a bother, we can deal without the comfort collars. My score is 8.5 due to lack of intensity and the loading issue
This ride looks awesome, my only criticism is that is at magic mountain, should have gone to over Texas or great adventure
I think I know why they put the comfort collars on. It’s because full throttle doesn’t have them so maybe Magic Mountain wanted to have a different experience so they thought “how could we do that oh put comfort collars on west coast racers” so it’s possible they wanted a different experience and that’s how they came up with that. That’s my theory
I will be riding this next year.
I think I saw you once when I was in line but I wasn’t sure
It’s a shame that six flags magic mountain doesn’t have any BIG coaster like a giga
5:23 so...your encouraging us to stalk the other rider on WCR until the ride is over 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I agree on twisted. I wish it dueled each time, it’s nice a lot of the time now you are most likely going to get one. Working as an attendant on twisted lately to get trained there gave me a new respect for the other ops working twisted. It’s not easy. Not only do the lap bars act like they weigh 50 lbs lifting them up all day long, but it’s super fast paced even with two trains once the two come back together to stack and go out somewhat in a pair to race once. Other ops I as well say they are sore the day after working twisted, it’s like going to the gym all day, lol. Glad I wasn’t there when they were running three 😳. I have no idea why RMC thought it would be a good idea to not design the restraint system to be easy to pull up. Would make it load faster too because we wouldn’t have to pull up the lap bar on guests who think it’s locked or literally are not strong enough from their leverage point sitting down to lift it up. West coast racers crew does a great job of pumping out the trains though. Their new one side load/unload is genius because it gets rid of the wasted time people use to put their items away. This way they can put their items away before they ride and get them when they get off. Such a smart move.
I certainly don't blame the ride ops. They were trying to get it to duel today, but the guests always take forever to put their giant 40-pound backpacks to the side. There were a couple close calls, but I didn't see any duels today on TC.
Oklahoma Coaster Fan seriously. I would not be surprised if in the next ten years we see a change in operations/entrance exit layouts of new and existing rides to emulate west coast racers where you get on and off on the same side since guests can put all their items on before they get on and get them themselves to not slow down operations because of bags. Very smart move I think. They could totally take a lot of flash pass lines on many rides and turn that into the exit and then make the exit the flash pass line to be like west coast racers. Then reconfigure a bit the railings and what not. I think it is very doable, even for the six flags budget they are allotted.
Indeed. Ya can't come off WCR without a smile.
They did the collars for dispatch speed.
This is what a Fast & Furious ride should’ve been.
Of the pit stop waits untill the train station s ready doze that mean that the frist ride of the day doze not duel both times
If you put this above tatsu would you take it above Manta?
Im not sure if this is true or not but I’ve heard that the reason the comfort collars r there is because it’s easier to check than a seatbelt
Jonathon Fletcher makes sense. If they want faster dispatches then it would be quicker than what they have to do with Full Throttle.
Shame I was only in L.A in September so I missed out on this ride
Apocalypse ahead of Tatsu? Damn, Apocalypse has been closed both times i’ve been. Going this April wish me luck!
Ultimate K Apocalypse is SO rough!!
Now I couldn’t go at all because of covid 19
Great review as always! Would you compare the launches or helixes to Backlot Stunt Coaster? I could see that comparison based on what people have been saying
It reminded me quite a bit of Backlot
Pretty sure the issue with TC could be fixed if they just used a brake run before the second lift hill and a proximity sensor on the other track to tell the brakes to let off in time to line the trains up. Then just have the same speed on both sides of the lift hill and boom, dueling every time. Doesn’t seem too difficult.
The issue with that is it would be a bit more then just the break run, as for the coaster to race, the train on the green track starts early, and the blue catches up, so a lot of timing would have to be changed.
Even though i can't meet You have fun on Your toverland and bobbejaaland Trips too . :)
I love the new ride but the only thing is the *comfort straps* They hit my head too much most of the ride and it kinda hurts so I cant enjoy the ride but they layout and the launch are awesome.
love ths ride my dear
Where do people put there stuff if they're riding it?
there are bins on the ride platform.
I hope you consider using decimal points more often to make the rankings more competitive. I’m sure you think some 9’s you’ve given are slightly better than others.
J R The score isn’t meant to be compared to other rides that get a similar score. It’s all done on an individual level. If I made them comparable, then amazing family rides like Oscars Wacky Taxi would only get a 4 or 5, and the only rides that would get 10’s are rides like Steel Vengeance. Just wouldn’t be fair.
If it was a little faster it would be more forceful and there would be more airtime! They’re going slightly too tame on the speed here and have some control over this. 🏎 🏁 Can we get starting lights too? 🚦
The one thing I regret is going to six flags BEFORE they announced and made west coast racers.
Do you think it'll be a trend starter for more dueling/ Möbius coasters in near future?
I certainly hope so!
They followed in SeaWorld’s footsteps with the comfort collars. And also, they just need to take those off. PERIOD.
Gregory Golub never happening. They are they to speed up loading.
Agree so much faster than if this ride had seatbelts. And @ SFMM its gonna have one or the other.
Chance Roberts comfort collars are not to speed up loading. If anything, they SLOW DOWN the loading process because they have to check that the comfort collars are actually locked in.
@@gregorygolub3315 On Full Throttle, the ops have to check seat belts, lower the lap bars and then check the laps bars. On WCR, they do one check. The idea was to speed up the loading process. This was said to us by the Park President himself when someone asked at the WCR tour. Whether they achieved that or not is a separate issue lol.
Chance Roberts I think that I may just be pissed that they chose either of those at all.
0:40 shouldn’t have said that six flags will show up to your door and throw you in the trash
Why does this ride have to have comfort collars when there’s literally another Premier Rides coaster in the same park without them.
It’s actually to increase capacity. The gp is dumb and can’t figure out that they should leave their lap bars up when there’s seatbelts. Comfort collars exist on any ride to increase load times so the crew can see them over the lap bars
Would you consider West coast racers 2 credits since there are two different tracks, or so you consider this one?? Thanks love the channel
Justin Storm one
I would consider it one. It’s Möbius loop like Twisted Colossus is. This one just happens to do a stop and wait
Coaster Studios thank you!!!
When will your next top 25 come out which now includes Japan.
DisneyKing it’ll be out in about a month
This is the result of Full Throttle and Twisted Colossus having a child.
It is a fun ride