The most exilerating roller coaster I ahve ever riddin was named X and is located at Six Flags Magic Mountain in the Los Angeles area of California. I have never ridden a roller coaster like it before or since.
The coaster is hard to describe. It has a chain of cars like other coasters. Each car has two poles sticking out the sides. The seats are mounted on these poles, so you aren’t actually IN the car. The coaster starts moving, and you are moving backwards. It climbs up the hill while all the time you are facing back. Then just as it hits the top, the poles rotate, and now you are facing forward but upside down. All through the ride, the seats swivel. You might come into a loop facing backward, and then turn forward in the middle of the loop. It is not an exceptionally long roller coast ride, but it does have a top speed of 76 miles per hour. When I got to the end, and found myself actually gasping for breath, and realized that I had been holding my breath for the entire ride.
I would love to ride it again. Heres the down side. Be prepared for LONG lines. I visited the park off-season in January 2005. The line was not nearly as long as it could have been as I easily passed long loops of empty gateways. Still I was in line for almost 2 hours. There were several times that the coaster was taken offline for periods of time. Once it seemed to have been motionless for about 20 minutes. The people in line were not kept informed at all, and we didn’t know whether we get to ride the coaster or not. That was very frustrating. One of the times the coaster was down was because some guy appearing to be only in his 20′s, had chest pains during the ride. So they held the ride while this guy was examined by medical people. Later I saw this guy ahead of me in line for another roller coaster. It kind of ticked me off that this guy had one of the special passes that allowed him to get into a short line! I kept wondering if they were going to be holding up yet another coaster.
There are so many great roller coasters in this park! Some of my other favorites were Deja Vu, Superman-The Escape, Viper, and The Riddler’s Revenge.
On the hand, Magic Mountain had a horrid roller coaster named Psyclone. Avoid this coaster! I usually like old wooden roller coasters. But this thing just slams you around the car, and not in a fun way. My wife left the ride with a sore back, and me with a sore neck (and with martial arts practice 5 days a week, I am in great shape). My wife didn’t do any more rides that day. I did a couple more.
Go back to school!
**exhilarating
Comment by Teacher — May 14, 2009 @ 9:55 pm
I grew up going to magic mountain as a kid but that was in the 70′s. I was there about 10 years ago but it was so hot and humid that I didn’t have any fun at all. I would like to go back in the winter time to ride some of the new rides. I remember that old wooden coaster and you’re right it did slam you around a bit.
Comment by Las Vegas Movers — August 4, 2009 @ 3:09 am