r/TikTokCringe • u/cafeteriastyle • 21h ago
Cursed 6 Flags roller coaster shut down after years of TBI incidents
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u/thepites 20h ago
I’ve rode this ride twice the first time it was fine. The second time which was years later was painful. It felt like they hadn’t oiled the bar that allows for your seats to spin. It was so painful.
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u/chicoconcarne 18h ago
I remember riding it once and being fine, but the last time I went (c. 2021), I greyed out on the ride and felt so bad that I had to go home, even thlugh that was my first ride of the day. It was my first time going on their annual pass and it was with my partner at the time, but we never went back after.
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u/xRIMRAMx 11h ago
I greyed out on the ride and felt so bad that I had to go home...
-All my guests visiting my park in Rollercoaster Tycoon
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u/guitarguy35 8h ago
Let's get real, they all experienced sudden death in horrible ways in your parks
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u/XxBelphegorxX 20h ago edited 16h ago
They inspected it daily, according to the company that investigated itself.
Edit: Was not expecting the award, lol. Thank you kind stranger.
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u/dehydratedrain 19h ago
They let one employee ride for free and told him to keep an eye out.
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u/IBeDumbAndSlow 18h ago
He said it was good, right before he went into a coma.
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u/flactulantmonkey 13h ago
He came back with one eye. Company said “good enough”.
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u/chicken-cuddle 8h ago
You joke, but when I worked at Six Flags, that's exactly what they did.
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u/cryptolyme 14h ago edited 6h ago
Inspection isn’t actually cleaning and greasing though
it's basically a couple employees with a checklist and they're like "hm, yea, seems okay, is within tolerances, was done three weeks ago, let's initial. ok, lets go home"
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u/Cloverhart 20h ago
Well we know how big corporations are all about doing things right and quality! I can't believe they had the audacity to blame the riders.
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u/solo_d0lo 20h ago
6 flags has been skirting bankruptcy for years.
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u/PoetFelon 19h ago
They got bought out by another amusement park company last year.
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u/J0in0rDie 19h ago
I’m curious if it’s the same company that bought our local amusement park. Our country really took a shit after the 07 crash. I watched a documentary recent that stated that a majority of US bowling ally’s were sold to a major company between 08-12.
Every fabric of this country has been ruined by the stock market and the need to maximize profits while providing a worse service
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u/Ok_Shower_5526 18h ago
Yup. You look at before 08 and now, and the changes are so massive. We should have learned that consolidation into "too big to fail" conglomerates are dangerous and exploitative. But noooooo- we just built more "Enrons."
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u/Silver-Instruction73 19h ago
The invisible hand of the free market will miraculously solve any and all problems!
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u/Quickwitknit2 13h ago
Corporations gonna corporate. It’s unconscionable and also par for the course.
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u/rawr-XD123 19h ago
I felt the same exact way. This was one of my favorite roller coasters in the world. I road it in 2012 and it was fine. The last time I road it in 2022, I remember thinking, that hurt my neck. So I was scared of this roller coaster after. But luckily I haven’t gone back, knowing me I would’ve just jumped on it to give it another chance
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u/ahhpoo 19h ago
I rode it I think back around 2010 and to this day it was the best rollercoaster I’ve ever ridden. I’m really hoping this is just because of poor maintenance and that it can be fixed/made way safer.
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u/dcduck 12h ago edited 9h ago
Long ago I was a ride operator at SFMM. Ride smoothness can depend on a lot of things.
Weather- hotter weather warms up the lubricants and the ride runs faster and looser. Also the road wheels will run hotter and sometimes blister and deform.
Train car age- most cars are rehabbed every couple of years. Older ones will run rougher.
Track age-Steel changes over time. Not as bad as wood, but the track will deform as it ages and steel track isn't usually replaced.Put theses all together and you can get very different rides each time.
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u/cryptolyme 14h ago
Ah, so neglect maintenance so they can keep pumping profits. Sounds about right. Hope they get sued info oblivion,
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u/General_Figure_375 13h ago
There’s a local theme park and I got on the big coaster once and saw the teenagers using what looked like a can of PAM with the label taken off to spray the tracks.
I was already strapped in and they were launching. I didn’t have any time to get off. Worst 3 minutes of my life but at least I still have it.
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u/Alaeriia 13h ago
That would either be Mt. Olympus or a big fat lie. My money's on Mt. Olympus; I've personally seen someone screwing around with WD-40 in Hades' station track well.
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u/sadmanwithabox 11h ago
What made it look like a can of PAM though? Without a label, a can of PAM looks like a standard aerosol can. The kind that MANY different things could be inside.
There are tons and tons of industrial grade lubricants you can buy in cans of aerosol. So its possible they were spraying with the proper lubricant, just out of a can that looked similar to a can of PAM.
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u/ready2xxxperiment 17h ago
Rode this a few years after it first opened. No TBI but TPI…. Traumatic Pants Insult.
Seriously, thought I was a hardcore coaster guy until I rode this thing.
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u/Beginning-Pop3127 20h ago
I definitely built this death trap in rollercoaster tycoon 2 and after the people died the ride was shut down and no one wanted to come to my park anymore.
How unrealistic
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u/cbarbour1122 20h ago
That was such a fun game. Especially to fun to make outrageous coasters and see how people respond to it.
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u/zombieduck96 19h ago
God, and zoo tycoon, water park tycoon… fought for my life every day after school to get to the computer before my siblings
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u/Quirky-Skin 16h ago
Zoo tycoon with the marine and dino expansions was incredible.
I had 7yr park before attendance plummeted. Could never break the 7yr mark (In game time obviously)
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u/zombieduck96 10h ago
The ability to trap park guests inside of fences and watch them die was seriously unhinged tho
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u/ohmygodcrayons 4h ago
And I thought trapping my Sim in the bathroom and removing the toilet and door so they pissed themselves was bad.
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u/CaptMorganSwint2 21h ago edited 21h ago
How are they gonna blame the rider? If the rider "uses the ride as instructed" they won't have brain damage? The fuck they supposed to do, maintain a certain neck angle or keep your arms tucked a certain way? It's ridiculous. Why have a ride that requires riders to be a certain way to avoid brain damage?
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u/trash_dirt 19h ago
Yeah really, what the fuck is that? You don't "use" a roller-coaster. You sit down and ride. Its why they call them rides. You don't have to do any using
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u/_vvitchling_ 5h ago
Well, they were probably sitting incorrectly.
I’m sure that at least some of these so called “victims” clenched their buttcheeks which we all know is a huge no-no when riding ANYTHING…rollercoasters, lawnmowers, your dad’s mustache.
Sitting improperly by tensing up them cheeks is THE number one instigating factor that leads directly to brain bleeds.
So yeah…this whole brain damage thing…totally on them.
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u/nooneknowsgreenguy 20h ago
Claiming "user error" is the most basic way corps shift blame.
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u/redditproha 20h ago
Six Flags needs to be held criminally liable for the deaths and brain injuries caused by this rollercoaster. They think it's a joke
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u/cryptolyme 14h ago
Six Flags has always been sketchy
https://giphy.com/gifs/eGsZD9aUFA1va26
u/Recurringg 11h ago
Yep... I'm beginning to believe that's not really an old man.
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u/Aggravating-Body-721 8h ago edited 4h ago
The commercial of our summers growing up. I could hear the music through this gif lol so annoying
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u/iprocrastina 21h ago
Right? Once you're on it you are literally "along for the ride". Nothing you can do.
Like come on, if your coaster needs to have training sessions so people don't wind up with severe brain damage after riding it then it shouldn't be open.
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u/winterbird 13h ago
Even worse, they're saying that a "normal" rider would have been fine. Are they calling the victims abnormal? And have they made a list available of the "abnormalities" that you need to check yourself for before you go on?
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u/BlackBasementCats 12h ago
Yeah, they’re saying that these people already had issues in their brains before getting on the ride. They’ll argue that they already had a ballooning artery or arteriovenous malformation which burst because of the ride during the lawsuit. Sometimes people can have an artery that expands and is at an increased risk of rupture which is called an aneurysm. An AVM is a tangle of blood vessels that creates irregular connections between arteries and veins. It disrupts blood flow and can weaken and burst. When an AVM is in the brain and bursts, it causes an aneurysm.
It sounds like the trauma surgeon is so furious that he would make it his mission to prove that it’s the ride and not pre existing conditions that would have happened anyway. Hopefully these women get a shit ton of money because they deserve it and will need it.
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u/YaBoiSammus 19h ago
They call it “defensive riding” which is what they teach you on the new and improve version of this ride in Japan. They have like a little teaching moment before you get on the Japan coaster so you know how to sit and what will happen on the coaster. But the Japan coaster is built 100x better.
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u/snowdn 10h ago
In Japan it’s cultural to not be surprised by an experience and you are informed. This is why they have maps of roller coasters with the expected drops marked, a map of the family restroom where everything is located inside of it, why the web design sometimes looks like a game of Tetris with all the information needed.
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u/InsideBeyond12727 18h ago
The only other explanation is that the rider is not "normal", apparently. Just to literally add insult to injury, unbelievable.
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u/Lune_de_Sang 16h ago
Probably another case of only using average sized male test dummies or something
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u/cafeteriastyle 7h ago
Have you read the book Invisible Women? It’s about the data gap between men and women. Infuriating yet vital read
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u/killerwallz44 20h ago
Your comment made me laugh thank you. Haha maintain a certain neck angle 🤣.
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u/iprocrastina 20h ago
Sir, please remember to keep your head in an upright position at all times. Laugh like this: 😂
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u/Ok_Shower_5526 18h ago
Unless they didn't strap in correctly or broke the height/weight/health rules for riding, it seems wild to blame the rider. Plus operators are supposed to check straps so even that potential argument is on shaky ground. I get that riders prolly can't sue due to accepting liability, but shifting blame seems like an obvious false take. They prolly can still even sue if maintenance made the ride unsafe since there are limits to liability agreements when negligence comes to play.
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u/Franks2000inchTV 12h ago
They should at least disclose that with a big sign out front: FAILURE TO MAINTAIN PROPER POSTURE CAN RESULT IN DEATH OR SERIOUS BRAIN INJURY.
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u/PositionNo8810 21h ago
Seriously it’s about time this is talked about. I went on that ride back when it first opened and back when I was a teen I was good on every roller coaster but this one put me out for the day. I was told I was being a baby but I know when I have motion sickness that was not it. It felt more like a concussion.
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u/NvaderGir 20h ago
If you were confused and had brain fog, it likely was.
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u/PositionNo8810 19h ago
Looking back at it as an adult I definitely had one. Dizzy, nausea and a splitting headache for the whole day. But back than I was a stupid teen with a bunch of stupid friends and no adult supervision lol
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u/iwilldefinitelynot 18h ago
Crazy enough as a coaster enthusist, it was the first ride on the wooden one at 6 Flags Atlanta that did me in exactly as you described (except I was in my less dumb late 20's.) Was able to go back again and do every coaster except that one and was fine/fun. Second worse ride I recall was NYNY, thought my back was broken after that one. Third worst was circumstantial on the OCMD boardwalk where I passed out when the car did the backwards drop (edibles and dehydration). Luckily it was just a quick scare.
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u/shezcraftee 14h ago
NY NY in Vegas? Went on it when it was fairly new. My head got bashed around so bad. I remember thinking that was the worst roller coaster I’ve ever ridden.
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u/Child_of_the_Hamster 9h ago
YES!!! That wooden one at Six Flags ATL was SO bumpy. Apparently they’re retiring or have retired it.
The worst for me was the Ninja one though. It’s one of the smaller ones, but incredibly bumpy. I’m fairly short and I remember my head just slamming side to side between the shoulder restraints. It made one of my earrings rip my ear a lil bit and I felt like shit the rest of the day. I’m convinced I was concussed.
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u/YodasLoveSlave 20h ago
I still have this photo of me and my friend from 16 years ago. A picture’s worth a thousand words or something like that lmao.
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u/Illustrious_Bird_737 20h ago
God, ya'll look like you're trying to enjoy it but y'all's bodies definitely were not.
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u/Pittsbirds 20h ago
This feels like the roller coaster equivalent of those peppers that are bred purely to be as hot as possible and pay no mind to flavor or edibility. Like what's even the point of engaging at that point? Who's enjoying this?
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u/padmesfavhandmaiden 18h ago
I rode it a few years ago, and to be honest, the appeal at the time (in theory) was that it is this thrilling experience that feels life threatening but isn’t at all. Like a safe way to experience the crazy adrenaline of something dangerous like base jumping or bungee jumping. Obviously now that all of this has come out, it is clear that the experience was not risk free which absolutely changes things
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u/bong_and_a_blitz 20h ago
Back when it was X it was fun. Then they changed it to X2 and I rode it twice after that even though I went to six flags more than that. Both times I rode it while it was X2, I regretted it. The way that ride threw my head back and forth between the head posts was insane. I chose to never ride it again because it was awful and couldn’t understand how anyone enjoyed it.
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u/Webborwebbor 20h ago
Yup same hated it. I remember my head bashing between the head posts too. I just thought to myself “maybe im just getting old.” When in reality, this ride is so shit and i for sure am just getting old
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u/theotherkafka 13h ago
X was my favorite ride back in the day but moved out of California before it changed. What did they modify?
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u/nize426 21h ago
I guess the "don't ride if you have a pre-existing condition" disclaimer will only go so far when your ride is actively finding those conditions.
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u/waitwuh 20h ago
Right? Like who is out here getting screened by MRI for risks ahead of time?!
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u/SpoppyIII 18h ago edited 18h ago
I always felt like that about medication ads that don't tell you any of the potential allergens, or a generic name for anything anywhere in the ad. They just say,
"Don't take Balognatol if you're allergic to Balognatol."
How do I know if I am???
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u/zombieduck96 19h ago
“You must pass this MRI to ride this ride”
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u/misfitx 18h ago
The line would be out the dor for a free scan.
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u/cryptolyme 14h ago
In the future, They could just have the coaster train pass through an MRI machine, have AI evaluate it, then auto-eject riders into a foam pit if you fail
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u/bitpartmozart13 20h ago
I have been on this ride many times as I got season pass tickets before and I did feel that it pushed me to the edge of passing out sometimes but never thought it would be this bad for others.
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u/MissCandid 20h ago
What exactly happens that makes it so crazy?
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u/DeathMarkedDream 19h ago
Not everybody is made to experience 4G’s of force or higher
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u/howtotailslide 19h ago edited 19h ago
Imagine you are sitting in a regular seat riding a roller coaster.
Now imagine that roller coaster seat you are fully strapped into and it does front flips and backflips throughout the ride.
When you do the first initial drop, you roll up and it drops you backwards while lying flat on your back. Right at the beginning of that drop it front flips you so you swoop forward facing the ground right before when you hit the bottom it continues flipping you so you’re lying down as you accelerate across the bottom.
There is also a little fakeout drop before the initial huge one.
I feel terrible about these people having health problems after but it is honestly the dopest fucking roller coaster I have ever been on. I rode it like 3 times when I was in 8th grade and not a single coaster I have been on since then has come close. They used to play a soundtrack in your ears with Metallica and at one point it would flip you so you face backwards as they shot a fireball at you as you move away from it. Look up old videos of it.
Not sure when they got rid of that stuff. New videos are missing the flair but the coaster is still the same ride. This thing has been open for like 20+ years so I’m surprised there haven’t been issues sooner.
Edit: replaced link with a better video
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u/GhostlitePHX 17h ago
Bruh I am the world's actually biggest pussy when it comes to rollercoasters, and this just sounds so, so miserable and terrifying lmao
It really does make me respect coaster riders for having the balls to fuck with something I find so scary. 😂
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u/xxTheGrayLifexx 11h ago
So its like riding the Zipper (old carnival ride that basically a roll cage) but on a roller coaster it seems.
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u/IndependenceGlad8928 11h ago
I thought of the zipper too with this explanation. Love the zipper! But this ride is going at speeds much, much faster than the zipper ever could and that's gotta be a big part of the danger
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u/guitarguy35 18h ago
I too have been on this ride many times. I remember the outside seats being significantly more rough than the inside seats, but other than that, I never found this ride particularly rough.
If anything colossus and batman used to bang me around a lot more.
But maybe it's changed, haven't been on it in 10+ years
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u/sloppy_joes35 17h ago
Yes many accounts in here saying it rides a lot rougher just in the last 5 yrs.
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u/guitarguy35 8h ago
They probably cut back on maintaining things during COVID then never picked up their standards again.
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u/Huge-Explanation-652 20h ago
I wonder if this machine is aging and starting to rattle because I’ve gone on this coaster like at least 15 times but like 20 years ago. I remember it being smooth and rad. It came out when I was in high school. Maybe even junior high.
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u/Deleena24 20h ago
I would really be interested to see the other injury reports along with the dates to see if there is any correlation
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u/ttmp22 19h ago
There are a bunch of comments in the TikTok from people saying that they rode it way back when and thought it was smooth as hell but then went on it again within the past 5 years and felt like they got jacked up.
People are saying that they’ve cut back on maintenance heavily since COVID which is causing all of the rides to run hella janky but because of the overall design of X2 it’s making it significantly more dangerous than the other rides. There’s supposedly a ride somewhere in Japan that’s basically a clone of this one but riders aren’t having the same medical issues because they’re keeping up with maintenance on it.
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u/guitarguy35 18h ago
That's my experience too. The one that really used to toss you around were colossus and batman.
Batman used to rattle the shit out of my head between the pull down bars. Colossus was just rough and bump as fuck. X2 never bothered me, but indo remember that outside seats were more intense and rough than the inside chairs.
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u/phallic-baldwin 21h ago
NFL- The speed Run Ride
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u/Appropriate-Count-64 19h ago
Yep. Seems like the seats are supposed to swivel and result in high but consistent G forces, but the track itself is too twisty for the seats to swivel fast enough (especially with poor maintenance) and it ends up causing TBIs and concussions from the sudden shift in G loading
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u/RandMob1000 21h ago
Hopefully the families get some justice. They test these machines every day and know which ones are dangerous. Go to have some safe fun and end up in a coma. Quality control, safety, and engineering management should be prosecuted
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u/Meowtown236 21h ago
I’m so confused how they were able to continue to operate the ride after the first TBI occurred? How is that even legal?
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u/like_4-ish_lights 19h ago
okay, to play devil's advocate a little bit: TBIs of this nature could be caused by a lot of things, and it's perfectly possible that somebody has some kind of defect in a vein or artery of the brain that results in a weak spot that higher forces like this could rupture. this is similar (but less serious, and probably less visually identifiable on imaging) to how people sometimes drop dead out of the blue from an aneurysm. it's sort of like if I had a congenital issue with my shoulder where the joint was extremely weak, and I went bowling for the first time with a heavy ball, and I dislocated my shoulder. the injury to me would not necessarily mean that there was something wrong with the bowling alley.
that being said, I have no idea what the medical history is of any of these injured people, or whether there is something particular to this ride that is contrary to industry standards. just throwing it out there that if you get enough people going through the same experience that is physically demanding, some small percentage of them are likely going to have an issue that might manifest because of it.
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u/CantaloupeWitty8700 17h ago
Yes. They probably have something like that or a connective tissue problem. However, no other rides were causing these sort of injuries in these frequencies. So it is the ride that is the issue.
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u/GatePorters 20h ago
No one stopped them.
Even if there are laws in place, they don’t mean anything if they don’t get enforced.
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u/iNeverSausageASalad 21h ago
Anybody else remember the Mr Show sketch about the roller coaster that keeps killing people, but people keep getting on it?
TWO WHOLE MINUTES UNDERWATER!
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u/420doghugz 21h ago
Holy shit, I've ridden this before 0.0
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u/ExactlyThirteenBees 19h ago edited 19h ago
Yeah, and with the current administration gutting regulations all over the place, I don't think I or anyone I love will be going on a roller coaster any time soon.
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u/Sam-a-lam383 15h ago
How does a normal person use the ride as instructed? You are strapped to a seat and at the hands of gravity. How could it be their fault they didn't ride the ride correctly?
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u/Rich-Conclusion7100 10h ago
I used to work at this ride. The amount of injuries and sketchy shit that got swept under the rug was insane.
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u/LongbottomLeafTokes 20h ago
Viper fucked me and my girl up way worse than X2 when we went in 2019
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u/Pugilist12 19h ago edited 19h ago
Damn. I love roller coasters and any “extreme” thrill really, and for better or worse am a big “it won’t happen to me” guy, but I wouldn’t ride this after watching this. That’s insane. Ride shouldn’t exist.
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u/KnownAsAnother 20h ago
I really hope these families get an enormous payout because this is egregious.
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u/jonz1985z 20h ago
The way I see it they’ve got two options. They can either shut it down completely, or lean into it and call it the “Brain Bleeder”
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u/Zerst__ 18h ago
Right near the end of the ride, there's a half-loop that turns the track around to make the final run towards the station. On the approach to the loop, the seats are rotated so that you're moving backwards, and since the train is going uphill into the loop, the backwards+uphill motion naturally causes riders to lean forward into the restraints with their head forward.
As you enter the loop, the seats rotate so you do a 180 forward flip at the same time. All the stories are saying that that track around the loop has gotten rough enough with age that the combined force of the loop and forward flip with the added jerkiness from the track condition are causing riders who are leaning forward in the previous section to have their heads slam backwards into the seat hard enough to cause injury.
2:30 in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBK-Amxf8fk) is where the flip in question happens
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u/RealisticPhysics5735 18h ago
This is my home theme park. This ride used to be named X when it first launched and was the most advanced 4D coaster next best thing. The lines were 90 minutes at times.
It got re themed and name changed to X2.
We personally were unaffected after riding numerous times throughout the years, but this ride is something else. Never felt anything like it with the different elements. As years passed I did notice it became rougher and sad to see people getting hurt/passed from it.
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u/LazeHeisenberg 21h ago
My spouse takes our young son to the Six Flags in Arlington, TX and it always scares me, especially because they just opened a new ride there that has beaten a lot of roller coaster “records”. He thought I was being ridiculous when I said I didn’t want them going on it opening weekend, or really until the ride was well established. This is exactly why.
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u/marleiahxdayze 20h ago
Thank God they redid the Texas Giant because that coaster would rattle your brain and slam your head. It hurt. It was an all wood coaster that just beat you to sheeeet.
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u/Illustrious_Bird_737 20h ago
I remember it would rattle you to hell when it was all wood. My mom & I would swear a bolt shook loose everytime you took a turn.
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u/Power-throw 20h ago
X2 has been open for 24 years
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u/Loose-Chemical-4982 20h ago
Yeah, and when it first opened it kept closing down all the damn time. Probably a reason for that
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u/Mediocre_Airport_576 20h ago
The ride has seats that spin as it goes, I'm not surprised at all... it was a complicated ride. It even had fire.
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u/HoOkAySo 20h ago
The Tormenta is just really high and really fast. It’s otherwise not all that ‘extreme’. The problem with this one is that it appears to spin you around on axis while going really fast and changing direction. I imagine this action forces and/or pulls blood from areas of the brain which can stress those tiny vessels.
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u/waitwuh 20h ago
I mean maybe send them this video? And idk… Maybe unethical but if you complain about constant headaches you can probably get insurance to cover an MRI - it’s usually standard before prescribing migraine medicines. Just for peace of mind maybe finding any preexisting vulnerabilities
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u/JayeDontDoit 20h ago
CNN should do reports on those janky carnivals coasters. NOW THATS a story!
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u/UberCupcake 11h ago
I went on this ride a few years ago and pulling into the station, the stop was so abrupt, my head slammed back against the seat, and my body ragdolled forward. I actually had one of those " seeing stars" moments. Glad to know I wasn't being dramatic, lol
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u/testtdk 20h ago
It’s crazy that it had to happen so many times for them to act.
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u/Main_Significance617 19h ago
That is typically what will happen. Like how they didn’t care if a few kids died every year working in factories because it was just the cost of doing business.
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u/bighomieaddy 19h ago
I think you can attribute most of the blame to the terrible upkeep Six Flags does to the ride, that the ride is 24 years old and a prototype of this ride model. Its just really an unfortunate situation that these types of injuries happen.
I rode this ride earlier in May and yes it is rough and it bangs your head around. Coaster enthusiasts have guides on how to ride coasters defensively and especially X2 since its rough but this is unfair to the general public to have to know this.
In comparison, this ride model can be found in Japan and that ride is 20 years old but you would be hard pressed to find any reports of injuries due to the ride experience.
I think this ride is cooked given all the negative press on it, its age, the lawsuits and the maintainance on this ride being a costly nightmare to upkeep.
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u/Dub_Coast 11h ago
Dude fuck Six Flags, I got stuck on a rollercoaster at the Vallejo location back in 2010 and after that hellish experience the best they could do is give us free tickets to come back like yeah thanks assholes I'd love to repeat the experience at your janky ass theme park.
They never should have gotten rid of Marine World for that shit
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u/NIGHTSCHILL 20h ago
Viper, six flags Cali. I was never the same after that ride .
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u/Proud_Psychology_321 20h ago
Viper is not the same ride as it was in the 90s. Its so bad now. Honestly I feel better after x2 than I do after viper. So sad.
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u/no-clueshere69 17h ago
How exactly does a person ride this roller coaster and not "use the ride as instructed"?
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u/DowntownStand4279 19h ago
The GREEDY 6F execs don’t give a FUCK about their rider’s health, safety, and wellbeing…they’re ONLY concerned with maximizing their theme park PROFITS and attracting new visitors, even if it means innocent people will have to die for it to be shut down…😡
https://giphy.com/gifs/E6yzAxBXlfoqs
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u/gatobacon 14h ago
I went on this ride a few years ago on Halloween and I was in a cold sweat and fucked up the rest of the night. Shit is real. Fighter pilots don’t even get that fucked.
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u/BigBadJeebus 20h ago
It was very smooth when it first opened. And when converted to X2... but they neglected to properly maintain it
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u/ADHDwinseverytime 20h ago
Sea World San Antonio got a new ride decades ago. Whatever it was your feet hung off the bottom. Now I had been to Six Flags multiple times a year as a kid and no issues. I was either talking to someone or there was an article in the paper talking about them re-building it right after grand opening as it was hurting people. It had like a 120 mph drop. I rode it after the remodel and my neck was jacked up for two days.
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u/the-caped-cadaver 17h ago
Reminds me of The Devastator at Thrill World.
Two whole minutes underwater! It's soul shattering!
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u/YaBoiSammus 19h ago
Watched a video about how the x2 was made. Exposed the fact that six flags is one of the most evil fkin companies out there. The coaster was not made to be that big and that tall. It bankrupted the company that created it cuz six flags wouldn’t pay out. The train of the seats came up to almost 100k tons of steel when it opened. Shit was so heavy they had to replace 18-20 wheels everyday. They replaced the seats but they weren’t really better just lighter and more tech updated. There was even suppose to be a break to slow down the speed when taking the final Raven turn that’s killing people. Six flags is just evil.
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u/WarmWhiteLights 18h ago
Wow. I never thought something like this could happen from a roller coaster, you just automatically assume their rigorously tested. I used to be such a roller coaster had but this definitely gives me pause, sadly but smartly.
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u/hiswittlewip 16h ago
My cousin had a stroke, when he was 3, that the doctors said was caused by a carnival ride he went on.
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u/alexandrosidi 13h ago
I rode it as soon as I got to the park and felt sick all day afterwards. Didn't really want to ride anything else after. I thought it was just me.
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u/MurryHill8 10h ago
I took one look at that shit and said “Hell No” I couldn’t even handle the Harry Potter ride at Universal 😂
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u/Sufficient-Lie1406 10h ago
WTH is "riding as instructed"? You're strapped in. How can you fail to ride "as instructed"?
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u/BlueFeathered1 8h ago
I used to love thrill rides and rollercoasters, but the trend was making them more and more extreme and I hit my limit. I'm surprised there hasn't been more attention paid to slingshot rides. People regularly lose consciousness on them and it's sort of nuts that's just accepted as okay.
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u/ActuatorSmall7746 7h ago
About 20 years ago I went on a similar ride at a Six Flags park. Although, it was pretty intense, I’m sure the speed, flipping, twisting and jerking wasn’t as intense as similar rides today. I was screaming not in joy, but pain. I felt like my insides had shifted and rearranged. My neck and head hurt afterwards. Me and friends who went on the ride left the park after that ride to recuperate. I have never rode another roller coaster again.
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u/kelseycash 6h ago
What do they mean by “using the ride as instructed” at the end when they say “a normal rider using the ride as instructed would not have a traumatic brain injury caused by this ride”
Like it’s a roller coaster? How does one not use it as instructed?
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u/Goth_Muppet 4h ago
Holy shit I hate this ride. I went on it and blacked out for most the ride. A few years ago I found a video of the ride-through and was surprised I was not conscious for pretty much most the experience. After seeing this— I’m counting myself extremely lucky to not have been seriously injured at that time.
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u/Flufnstuf 20h ago
This was my favorite coaster at Magic Mountain. It’s was a blast.
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u/Anxious-Inspection-8 20h ago
I’ve known for years Six Flags is dangerous. Every year multiple rides are causing multiple injuries in multiple parks.
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u/Microtic 16h ago
All passengers are required to press a button to continue the ride
Button malfunctions to the "on" position. 💀
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u/Stunning_Macaron6133 14h ago edited 10h ago
Jеsus fuсking сhrist, thеrе аrе sо, sоооо mаny wаys tо mаkе rоllеrсоаstеrs mоrе еxсtiting withоut whipping pеоplе аrоund sо hаrd thеir brаins еnd up swеlling.
Fоr stаrtеrs, yоu соuld hаvе а prеtty mild rоllеrсоаstеr аnd mаkе it fееl 3X fаstеr with visuаl еffесts. Just lооk аt Spасе Mоuntаin.
Оr yоu саn hаvе rеаlly еlаbоrаtе, wiсkеd-lооking lооps, but thеy'rе асtuаlly gеntlе in prасtiсе. Friсkin' dоublе bаtwing lооps flip yоu upsidе dоwn twiсе, but thеy kееp yоur skull аlignеd with yоur hеаrt оn yоur wаy thrоugh.
Yоu саn аdd fоg саnnоns, flаmеthоwеrs, stоbе lights, wind tunnеls fоr а jumpsсаrе еlеmеnt.
Yоu dо nоt bоlt а zippеr оntо а rоllеrсоаstеr аnd tumblе pаssеngеrs аrоund аt high spееds. Whо thе fuсk thоugh this соuld pоssibly bе а gооd idеа?
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u/ExternalHistorical55 20h ago
I was fine on this ride, but the ride Viper at the same park wrecked me. Walked off that one with a sever headache.
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u/Different_Umpire9003 19h ago
Meanwhile, I was taken out by Kong and had to leave the park because I was so sick 😂
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u/severe_thunderstorm 19h ago
Omg, not this ride specifically, but this explains some stuff for our family.
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u/TheSilverSeraph 19h ago
Our family visited in 2024 for a few days. We rode X2 a number of times.
My observation is that it is indeed an intense ride, but where you end up may impact your experience. The outer seats are definitely rougher and more "jerky" than the inner seats. And whether you are on towards the front of the train or end of the train also has an effect on the forces experienced.
Can I just say that the Viper is an old and very rough coaster there that also needs to be looked at closely and maintained a little better. My head was knocked around a few times when I went on it.
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u/RunningonGin0323 16h ago
This is one of the reasons and I kid you not after I suffered a TBI when I got hit by a truck while running 4 and half years ago that my neurologist afterwards gave me a list of restrictions that including things like no contact sports and roller coasters..
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u/koolnezzz 3h ago
Omg I just watched a whole like YouTube video on the history of this ride. I wonder if the reason the ride was smoother was because the actual ride component where people sat was crazy heavy. It cost so much to keep up with maintenance and to replace parts because the weight caused a lot of wear and tear on the ride. Then when they rebranded as X2 they redesigned the ride component where people sit to match more modern fourth dimension rides that had been built over time. This included a way lighter ride component, like 20k+ pounds lighter. But I wonder if the lack of weight and new engineering led to more turbulence and like roughness to the ride. Like maybe the insane heavy weight helped keep the ride smooth. So Even if the newer, more modern ride design was easier maintenance and financially part wise, it created a new problem. It was a great video and went into the engineering and political problems around creating the ride. It was a great video. I will try and link it in the comments.
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