Green Lantern First Flight

Definitely a good looking ride that gone really bad. First and foremost the line is super duper slow even though on the outside it does not look too bad. The problem is it takes forever to load up people in the cart and for a good reason. First getting on the ride is quite a challenge, as you need a stool to get on. If you are heavset it is even more harder as you have to do a dip to get on which is the challenge. So it takes an average of 3 minutes to load people on there. Then the next part is the ride itself, you go up and once you are up that is it get ready for the worst head rush in your life. It is unexpected and you get a lot of whiplash and a major headache at the end. The worst part is the end of the ride where you dangle quite a bit while you wait for others to load you up. The worst ride in the park by far.

I see Green Lantern as a good idea gone bad. At first glance, it looks like it would work, until you actually ride it and realize that it just simply doesn’t.
What’s interesting about Green Lantern is that your ride experience is largely based on the weight ratio between your side and the opposing side of the train. Visually, they operate similar to the trains on X2. The difference, however, is that X2’s trains are all programmed to rotate in per-​determined directions, regardless of weight. Green Lantern’s trains rotate freely, which makes the ride more unpredictable. For example, having a fat guy sitting opposite to you on the train, will be a completely different experience than riding on the other side of a couple of ten year-​old children that you easily outweigh. The biggest selling point being that you’ll never have the same experience twice. The idea sounds intriguing at least.
Unfortunately, as most reviewers seem to point out, the ride is unbearably uncomfortable. When it jerks, it jerks HARD! When your train spins/​turns, the force is often so harsh that either your skull winds up slamming into the headrest or your collarbones end up completely crushed against the restraint. It’s a good thing I don’t want children, because knowing what this ride does to my crotch, I’m pretty sure the kids would wind up deformed.
There’s a reason why everyone hates Green Lantern. Modern-​day coasters should have absolutely no issues with pain infliction, so this is one instance where I feel they’ve absolutely failed.
Honestly, I really don’t see it having longevity given all of the complaints it receives. And since it’s such a compact ride, it can be dismantled very easily if necessary. I see it happening sooner rather than later.
Stay away!

they need to take this ride down ASAP!!! i had a headache for 2 days coming off this ride… i seriously was considering going to the ER for head trauma. It doesn’t look as bad when your looking at it in line, but a whole different story when you ride it.

This ride is bad. It spun me around (normally I like this) and every time it changed directions it would have the entire force go to my crouch. On one violent turn I bashed the back of my head on the back of the seat. Very painful. At the end of the ride I got stuck and was staring at the ground with the extreme discomfort in my nether region. I will never ride this ride again. It really needs new restraints for tall guys.

I would give this no stars if I could! After being to the park twice, and not going on it the first time, I was so excited to finally be able to go on it!
As awesome and smooth as it looks from the ground. it is HORRIBLE! I don’t understand how this ride is even in service still. Your head bangs around, because there is no padding or support. When you spin around it is extremely uncomfortable. my mom and I both left the ride feeling like we had been in an accident! I never get headaches, and after this ride I had a horrible migraine!
If you must ride this, make sure it’s the last ride you go on, that way the rest of your day isn’t ruined by a concussion!

Let me say that I am a roller coaster fanatic. So, when I finally had a chance to go to Magic Mountain, I was stoked! When I saw how amazing this coaster looked from the ground, I had to ride it. So, me and my 3 kids got in line to give it a try. Big, Big Mistake. This is the most uncomfortable and actually painful ride I have ever been on. One must hoist themselves up to even get in the seat. My daughter could barely get up, but she made it. She and I were facing forward and my 2 boys, 13 and 22 were behind us. The hump in the crotch region was very oddly designed. The way this ride jerks the body is perfect for a back and/​or neck injury. I couldn’t wait for it to end. As we stopped, I heard my boys saying how much in pain they were. While my side was being jerked forward, theirs was being jerked backwards. This was causing terrible pain for them. We got off of there wondering what the heck just happened. I will never ride the Green Lantern ever again.

Definitely unique and worth trying! I have never seen anything like it at any other amusement parks.
I guess the best way to describe this ride is to imagine yourself as a pachinko ball, ricocheting off of the metal rungs and making your way down. Like the pachinko ball, the coaster swings back and forth and before you can regain your senses, you’re dropping onto the next level and the cycle repeats.
I thoroughly enjoyed this ride, and would recommend trying it at least once. Be the pachinko ball.

I wish I would have read other reviews sooner. This literally was the worst experience ever. I and the person I was with are tall and together we weigh about 400lbs. The people on the other side were two little girls probably weighing a total of 140lbs. The uneven weight distribution makes the ride spin. The little girls were so excited to go on the ride because they had been on it before and loved it. We got going and we’re excited ourselves. However, our excitement quickly turned to horror. On our first dip we started flipping over and over. With each flip, the pain got worse. I was in pain all over and as we continued flipping I could hear the little girls behind us screaming in pain, «ah this hurts! Why does it hurt?» This ride needs to be re-​evaluated to program the spins and not have the spins be caused by uneven weight distribution.

This is the weirdest and most uncomfortable ride I’ve ever been on. Firstly, you have to hop up to get on the ride, being shorter I almost impaled myself on the way up. My friend couldn’t get up on her own and told the operator who impatiently kicked a stool at her. I think our experience may have been more extreme than other people’s. They load you so one side has a heavier weight than the other side so the difference will make you spin more. The weight difference between our two sides of our wheel was possibly 200 pounds. They put our 2 taller bigger friends on one side, and the two shorter smaller ones on the other.
Watching from far away it looked like each car did a couple flips maybe three throughout the ride. We spun many many times from our weight difference and each time it felt like we were all being ripped apart and dying. Honestly we all came off the ride traumatized and just walked around for a little while talking about how terrible that was. While some weight difference seems to be good, having a 200 lbs weight difference on the two sides made this ride something I would never do again.

this ride is so different and unexpected! we had so much fun. It probably won’t be everyone’s cup off tea. But you should certainly give it a try.

This ride is awesome and intense. You feel like you’re being thrown over the edge with unexpected chair turns. Really great ride!

If you’ve always wanted to know what it would be like to be grabbed by King Kong and jerked back and forth while you fear for your spinal column, then this is the ride for you. Interesting, but not enjoyable.

Very long wait on a Sunday if there’s one car going — there only could be one car, but it seems as if more should run.
The ride is very quick. Expect it to hurt a bit. A lot of drops and directional changes will definitely freak you out!
HOLD ON AND TRY TO RELAX AS THE TENSER YOU ARE THE MORE YOU FEEL THE FORCE.

The worst roller coaster in the whole park! For one, as a short person, it was struggle to get up onto the ride. Secondly, the way the ride lurches made my head hurt like crazy, hurt my shoulders, and thighs. I had a headache for the rest of the day. I will never ride it again!

Probably the screamiest ride I’ve ever been on.
It would make more sense for this ride to have been called ‘The Riddler’ and their Riddler ride to be called Green Lantern, but whatever.
The ride isn’t for the frail, that’s for sure… it’ll def give your osteoporosis a run for its money, but it was probably the best and hands down craziest ride we went on at Magic Mountian— though it’s worth noting that 50% of their coasters, 3 of which were there biggest ticket rides, were not running that day because Six Flags Magic Mountain is a bunch of b*tches.
The ride is unpredictable in its spinning and def not the kind of ride to trick someone who love coasters into being on. Whiplash, hip bruising, all that jazz– expect… but if you love thrill rides you can expect to want to do it over and over again.

This ride was an absolute nightmare. It whipped me back so hard multiple times and caused a huge bruise on my right shoulder and arm. I will never ride on this again and have contacted the park to complain.

Rode this once in the past. It’s the only roller coaster to actually cause me pain in the back and neck. My husband dragged me on it again today and it has broken down three times over the course of us being in line. Who wants to ride a ride that constantly malfunctions?

Despite my students telling me to not ride this ride, my curiosity got the best of me and I decided to make my own opinion. I am a roller coaster finatic and I have to say, this is one roller coaster I will never again ride. This ride whips you back and forth violently enough to leave your neck hurting afterwards.

This ride left me hanging… literally!
Came here over the weekend, and the lineup wasn’t TOO bad relative to the other rides. I’d estimate the total time being 20 mins or so relative to the 45+ minute lines for the other rides. We overheard warnings of terror while in line from the riders dismounting.
Onto the ride itself… the best way to describe it is ‘organized chaos’. The cabin you’re in will spin you in circles and the coaster course will whip you back and forth mercilessly… the drops will give you a nice zero gravity freefall sensation if that’s what you like…
We had a tenuous/​exciting moment where the ride paused for 8 minutes due to a malfunction right at an apex of a drop. We were left dangling with pretty much just the chest protectors keeping us in place from us dropping into the ‘DC zone’ face first!
All in all, a decent ‘ride’… I would’ve liked it to be longer.

If you enjoy head trauma and whiplash, this one’s for you. Otherwise, run. Run far away.
Seriously the WORST ride I have ever been on (and that includes shitty small-​town county fair rides).