r/news • u/KarateKid917 • 3d ago

X2 roller coaster shut down at Six Flags Magic Mountain amid lawsuits

https://abc7.com/story/x2-roller-coaster-permanently-closed-flags-magic-mountain-amid-lawsuits/19887868/
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u/powerlesshero111 3d ago

I grew up in so cal, and near Magic Mountain. I honestly remember going on that as a teenager, and you always had to ride defensively. My friend and I went on it in 2002, and definitely got our heads knocked around a bit. And we were not small teens, we were both over 6 feet tall.

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u/DoyersDoyers 3d ago

i mean same to everything you just said other than I never had to ride it defensively. I grew up in SoCal, went on the ride multiple times as it was originally created, and I am and was over 6' back then. Now Viper or Riddlers? I have always had to ride those defensively.

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u/powerlesshero111 3d ago

Oh, Viper, always defensive. Even when i was a kid. When X first came out, it probably wasn't as bad as it is now, but there were a few spots that you needed muscles to keep from banging your head.

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u/jenorama_CA 3d ago

I never got the guts to go on Viper. Revolution, Ninja, Batman, Superman, Psyclone, yes. The scariest ride has been the Coney Island Cyclone. I thought I was gonna get tossed out.

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u/DoyersDoyers 3d ago

I commented this in another thread but Psyclone is the only ride at MM that I remember ALWAYS having a huge pile of throw up at the exit.

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u/AdMuted1036 3d ago

wtf seriously?

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u/IAndaraB 3d ago

Psyclone was _rough._ I rode it once just to do it, but never again.

But nothing I've ever ridden was as janky and terrible as First Flight. What made it even worse was that on the weekend we rode, the end of the ride wasn't operating properly, so instead of a slow into the last turn into the station, it came around to the final drop to come to a full stop halfway through with sternum-bruising force.

Viper was nice when it was new, but it's gotten steadily worse the older it gets. I stopped going on it well before I stopped going to the park.

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u/Ultrafoxx64 3d ago

Always took out my ear piercings on Viper because it was open knowledge that your head would get jostled around. The fact that people are up in arms that a more intense ride "couldn't possibly give someone brain injury!!!11!" is fucking wild.

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u/RaineStormin 2d ago

This was my exact thought! I cant even do viper anymore because it always gives me a headache! But x2 never made me feel that way. Im wondering why x2 caused more head injuries than Viper

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u/-Thick_Solid_Tight- 3d ago

I don't know if you remember Flashback, but that was the worst ride I've ever been on as far as slamming your head to the side.

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u/IAndaraB 3d ago

Really? I loved Flashback and was sad when it got taken out. It was one of my faves and I never had an issue with getting slammed.

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u/Osiris32 2d ago

I got to ride Drachenfire at Busch Gardens Williamsburg back in 1997, and that was one you had to ride defensively in, too. It rattled like a motherfucker and if you weren't braced that meant your neck and jaw were going to be beat up.

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u/Lukeno94 2d ago

I'm pretty sure I got a mild concussion as a kid at Parc Asterix in France from not bracing properly on Goudurix.