I've Got Coaster Fever

There is no describing how awesome my Sunday was at Six Flags Magic Mountain. The park is one of the best in the country, and it certainly showed it yesterday. It could have been the fact that there were no lines at all basically (the longest I waited for a coaster was 30 minutes). However, every coaster I went on was unique and extremely fun. It was so fun in fact, that I went on 26 roller coaster rides!! That's a new personal record for me in one day.

Take a look at my total stats for the day below. If you want to see the specifics that I used to come up with it, scroll toward the bottom of the post:

Length of Track Ridden: 95,673 feet
-This translates to 18.1 miles of track-

# of Inversions: 85 (Don't Throw Up!!)

Total length of big drops: 4,578 feet
-This translates to almost 1 full mile of me plummeting toward the earth-

The park has 16 roller coasters in total, and I went on 13 of them. 3 are smaller coasters for little kids, so I decided to pass on those. I was on a mission to break my record from the beginning of the day, and I didn't even need a flash pass to do it. Here are the 13 coasters I went on, how many times I went on it, and my review:

X2 (4 times)

This was without a doubt the most insane coaster I've ever been on. Multiple times, I had the thought of "How in the world could a sane human being create something like this?" You ride in seats that are off the side of the track, and the seats rotate on their own. After going up the hill backwards, you tilt to where you face straight down as you plummet 215 feet toward the earth. It's breathtaking! The rest of the ride, you are flipped and tossed every which way and almost never have any idea where you are going or which way is up or down! Another great part is the ride has speakers on the trains which blast "Enter Sandman" by Metallica as you ride! There's also some fog and fire during the ride. It was a little bumpy and your legs take a beating on the seats, but it's still worth it. What an experience!

Want to see what my ride experience was like? Check out the video below:



Goliath (4 times)

This was my favorite non-looping coaster. At the top of the 255 foot lift hill, the chain stops and you are sitting at the top for a good 5 seconds before you drop down into a tunnel underground. You swear your head is going to get chopped off as you go in. The rest of the ride features turns with a ton of G-force and hills. Very smooth and very fun!
To see an on-ride video, click here!

The Riddler's Revenge (3 times)

This is the world's tallest and fastest stand-up coaster. Yes, that's right, you stand up the entire ride. It goes upside down 6 times and has a ton of twists and turns that keep you excited from start to finish. Definitely one of my favorites of the day!
To see an on-ride video, click here!

Tatsu (3 times)
This is the world's tallest, fastest, and longest flying coaster. What is a flying coaster? Just as it says, you fly on your stomach the entire ride (sort of like Superman). This ride was intense throughout, with a ton of inversions that flip the entire world around and cool turns that make you feel like you are really flying. The best part is a gigantic pretzel loop where you basically dive head over heels. Fantastic ride!
To see an on-ride video, click here!

Scream (3 times)

This is basically a mirror image of Medusa (now Bizarro) at Six Flags Great Adventure. It is a floorless coaster, which means you sit above the track but there is nothing below your feet except the track. This is a classic favorite because all of the inversions are really good, the ride is smooth, and it's overall just a good time!
To see an on-ride video, click here!

Viper (twice)

This is almost exactly like Great American Scream Machine at Six Flags Great Adventure. 7 inversions make this ride worth it to ride a few times. The first drop is big which is cool too. It's a little bumpy, mostly because it's an older coaster, but it's still fun to ride.
To see an on-ride video, click here!

Deja Vu (once)
This was very intense but well-worth waiting til the end of the day to ride it! You are pulled back out of the station almost 200 feet in the air at a 90-degree angle. You then are suddenly dropped back down, into a boomerang inversion, then a loop, then up another 90-degree tower to the top. Then, you get dropped again by surprise and go through the whole thing again...but backwards! Awesome ride!
To see an on-ride video, click here!

Terminator Salvation: The Ride (once)

This is the park's newest coaster and is a really good wooden one. There's cool terminator theming with multiple videos as you walk in. Then, the ride is very much like El Toro at Great Adventure. It's fast from start to finish and has multiple twists and turns that keep you changing direction constantly. At one point, you zoom back through the station above the loading platform. We really underestimated this ride!
To see an on-ride video, click here!

Superman The Escape (once)

I would've done this twice had it not broken down when I was next to go on. This is the first ride ever to reach 100 mph. You are launched out of the station from 0-100 mph. in 6 seconds then go up vertically about 328 feet in the air. You then fall back to earth and into the station. It's a short and uneventful ride, but the launch and height make it worth doing once.
To see an on-ride video, click here!

Batman: The Ride (once)

This is a copy of the one at Great Adventure and multiple other Six Flags parks. It's a great inverted coaster (you hang below the track) which is pretty fast and doesn't let up the whole ride. The inversions are great as well. Definitely worth doing at least once!
To see an on-ride video, click here!

Ninja (once)

This is the West Coast's fastest suspended coaster. You sit in cars that hang below the track and sway a lot as the ride goes. It was fairly tame, but had some good speed and weaved through the trees and near water during the ride which made it fun.
To see an on-ride video, click here!

Revolution (once)

The world's first looping roller coaster made this necessary to ride solely for the history. It opened in the 70's, so it's very old. The ride was bumpy and not too exciting. It had some fun drops and the loop was nice. Good to do once for the history.
To see an on-ride video, click here!

Colossus (once)

This wooden roller coaster is also very old which means it's also very rickety. The ride was relatively boring for the most part and didn't feature as many good hills as I thought it would. The only cool thing was that because it was fright fest, you could ride it backwards at night. Still, I only recommend doing it once unless you like tame rides.
To see an on-ride video, click here!

You can see all the stats I came up with below. I used the numbers from Roller Coaster Database to figure it out.

X2 (4 times)
3610 feet x 4 = 14,440 feet
2 inversions x 4 = 8
215-foot drop x 4 = 860 feet

Goliath (4 times)
4500 feet x 4 = 18,000 feet
No inversions
255-foot drop x 4 = 1,020 feet

Riddler's Revenge (3 times)
4370 feet x 3 = 13,110 feet
6 inversions x 3 = 18
146-foot drop x 3 = 438 feet

Tatsu (3 times)
3602 feet x 3 = 10,806 feet
4 inversions x 3 = 12
111-foot drop x 3 = 333 feet

Scream (3 times)
3985 feet x 3 = 11,955 feet
7 inversions x 3 = 21
141-foot drop x 3 = 423 feet

Viper (2 times)
3830 feet x 2 = 7,660 feet
7 inversions x 2 = 14
171-foot drop x 2 = 342 feet

Deja Vu
1204 feet x 2 (forwards and backwards) = 2,408 feet
3 inversions x 2 (forwards and backwards) = 6
177-foot drop x 2 (once each way) = 354 feet

Terminator Salvation: The Ride
2877 feet
No inversions
87-foot drop

Superman The Escape
1235 feet
No inversions
328-foot drop

Batman: The Ride
2700 feet
5 inversions
105-foot drop

Ninja
2700 feet
0 inversions
60-foot drop

Revolution
3457 feet
1 inversion
113-foot drop

Colossus
4325 feet
0 inversions
115-foot drop

Thanks for reading through this entire blog post. I had such a great time that I had to share it all with you. Check out my Facebook photo album from the park!