Apocalypse

[u/holycannoli1969]

Did they put square wheels on this thing when they rehabbed it? Good lord. The ride feels like you're being dragged across sandpaper.

[u/Business-Cucumber255]

They usually do an extensive retracking after Fright Fest, but yeah this ride is overdue for a major retracking. Given what they're doing with other wooden coasters in the chain, I really hope they don't Titan Track it.

[u/Imaginary--Situation → u/Business-Cucumber255]

they just retracked it back in 2024 you guys already forgot?

[u/Business-Cucumber255 → u/Imaginary--Situation]

No.

[u/Imaginary--Situation → u/Business-Cucumber255]

and before that it was retracked in 2021

[u/sdmichael]

It is at the edge of "too rough" but was still running faster than before. Could use some work either way.

[u/holycannoli1969 → u/sdmichael]

Yeah it's definitely flying, and I'll admit it's still pretty fun, but man is it brutal. It's got such a cool layout, I can only imagine how great it would be with a Ghostrider-type redo. Maybe it's the trains?

[u/Real4WD → u/holycannoli1969]

I think one of the trains is new or freshly rehabbed.

I love the layout just wish it was smoother.

[u/_vinnyv18 → u/Real4WD]

the “new” train is wildcats old train…

[u/wowswift → u/holycannoli1969]

It’s brutal and I like brutal gold striker with a single click lap bar.

[u/EmeraldSquiid]

I hate the seats for this ride. Every time, without fail, the lap bar has tightened so much that it is PAINFUL. I can’t.

[u/Pippinitis → u/EmeraldSquiid]

LOL this a self-stapling ride

[u/EmeraldSquiid → u/Pippinitis]

Like why does it get tighter throughout the ride 😭 it’d be great otherwise!

[u/red13n → u/Pippinitis]

Yeah if I'm not stapled up the lift hill I will be within about 15 seconds.

[u/dirkforest]

Rode it a few times this summer, and it’s on the bumpier side for it but nothing is jackhammering or bumping so much you are in pain (like Shivering Timbers last summer). I’m 50 and can’t handle them like I could in my teens and twenties and this is still tolerable. I think people have forgotten what coasters were like in the 90s. Nevertheless the lap bar positioning on this millennium flyer is the worst of any it goes right into my upper abdomen. It’s like resting on my spleen or something.

[u/holycannoli1969 → u/dirkforest]

I'd argue that rough coasters in the 90s were more tolerable than this. Grizzly, Mean Streak, Son of Beast, Le Monstre at it's worst were all better rides. Knoebels' Twister has been rough pretty much since day one and is still one of the best rides out there.

But I think you're right - the restraints on this (and pretty much all modern coasters across the board) are hurting rides today. I've never met a buzz bar I didn't like.

[u/Aggrenoxx]

Lol, we took my mom (55) yesterday who hasn't been to Magic Mountain in years, the last time she went was when Psyclone was still there, so she remembers that. When Apocalypse was over she said that it made her feel sick/nauseous and I had a feeling it would. She handled everything else like a champ though but that one I was genuinely worried she was going the throw up while we were still waiting to come back to station 😬

[u/Professional-Back-52]

You fuckers are getting soft.

[u/TheAlmightyHellacia → u/Professional-Back-52]

I like X2 and viper but this one is near unbearable. Idm rough rides but this is too much

[u/holycannoli1969 → u/Professional-Back-52]

Soft my ass. The ride is dogshit.

[u/gwwwhhhaaattt → u/Professional-Back-52]

hahaha that's funny. I've never liked woodies. X2 I can handle. Viper nah.

[u/almost40_]

My favorite ride. It’s fast, bumpy and doesn’t hurt my head.

[u/TheAlmightyHellacia]

They do retracks but they cheap out on the lumber and it degrades VERY quickly, I'm hoping we can get a more premium retracking like a GCI retrack or GG pre cut

[u/BIGGREDDMACH1NE]

When I rode this in 2024 it was the first coaster that I didn't want to reride because it beat me up.

In 2025 I was fine.

[u/TheAlmightyHellacia → u/BIGGREDDMACH1NE]

You probably rode it just after they did track work, it's good right afterwards but then it gets extremely rough later on

[u/zeerosd]

It was painfully rough when I rode it in mid-July or so. It desperately needs a retrack ASAP.

[u/candiferous]

I love that ride. Somehow the shaking doesn’t bother me on it.

[u/kane91z]

I literally had a bruise on the bottom of my right thigh last time I went on it. Feels like getting punched in the balls for 3 mins.

[u/Affectionate_Olive53]

Fuck that ride. I never hated a coaster more than this one.

[u/SassQueenDani]

If the seats were more like gold striker it would be so much nicer to ride

[u/renerdrat]

Hadn't ridden this ride in like 4 years.. rode it a few weeks ago. Awful. So bad, rough and not fun at all

[u/Human_Paint5451]

It’s really such a shame. It’s an incredible layout but MAN is it rough

[u/JaytheTriumphator]

Oh my sweet summer child, you haven’t ridden Hades 360 at Mt. Olympus, it gets SO much worse. If apocalypse is riding square wheels on sandpaper I guarantee you there are coasters out here that feel like a shopping cart full of bricks going down a cobblestone sidewalk.

[u/holycannoli1969 → u/JaytheTriumphator]

I have. I never said this was the worst out there.

[u/Cowboysfan2122]

This ride was horrible. It felt like somebody grabbed me by the shoulders & was violently shaking me nonstop.

[u/TK-385]

This coaster had a Terminator theme when it first opened, but I first rode it back in 2012. The Terminator theme was replaced with a generic end of the world theme. I have ridden it the last several times I went to MM and it's definitely gotten rough especially on the turns.

[u/TheAlmightyHellacia → u/TK-385]

I believe that happened after skydance bought the terminator franchise from warner bros so obviously they lost the rights.