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It's rumoured the Hyperspace Mountain theme is planned to be reverted back to the original soon. Hope that's true! Would tie in perfectly to the rides 30th anniversary in 2025.
@@tufab3494 I've heard it may be inspired by the original, but themed around the SEA society that play a part in many Disney attractions around the world (Mythic Manor, Tokyo Tower of Terror, Jungle Cruise etc).
@@MattMcIrvin I've rode all 3 versions. Each revision was more disastrous than the last. The fact that the track have become rougher through the years doesn't help. But believe me, from earth to the moon was incredible: the original version soundtrack hyped you for the ride since the beginning of the queue (you can find videos of the queue music and the ride theme on RU-vid). The queue itself was great, being an open tunnel going through the ride, where you could see props in detail but not fully see the track or the ride, and every now and then a train full of screaming passengers would appear out of nowhere. For the first year or so, there were actual spark effects when getting close to asteroids (which, by the way, where actual props, not screens). Also the show building was great: when a new train was "loaded" in the cannon, the gears outside would move as if the cannon was preparing for launch. Once "shooting" the cannon had actual recoil and smoke effects and a loud "booom" could be heard from across discovery land. Nowadays the queue is beyond boring (it's a completely covered metal tunnel with some star wars posters thrown in and minimal music, if any), clashing with the original steam punk aesthetic. The props from the ride have been removed and replaced with screens. Only smoke effects are used on the cannon (the cannon is reportedly moved from it's guiding rail and gears have been broken since 2000 or so) and while the trains have been replaced with newer vekoma trains with vest restrains, the ride is in dire need of a full year renovation/repair of the track. It 100% deserved it's title of one of the best dark rides ever made, but greed killed it and it's a shame (defunctland have an incredible 2 part video on the origin of EuroDisneyland, with part 2 being how space mountain came to be and actually saved the parked and probably, Disney parks as a whole).
15:26 I can just hear Maki saying "Do you wanna die?" to those guys. (Happy to see the Danganronpa crew back on this channel again.) On a more serious note though, wouldn't it have been easier to just use the traditional single-filed line? At the very least, it would reduce the line-cutting problem. Also, the Green Lantern coaster looks like it would've been a lot of fun with the Zacspin (sorry if that's misspelled) concept. Shame it didn't work out.
@@niffry I did, too! My original comment before the re-upload was my reaction when Celeste first appeared, and then everyone else! Also, fun? I mean sure, there were a lot of fun moments... But there was a lot of despair, too.😢
I don't get this either. Just treat it as a regular 4 seat line and don't make up confusing procedures instead of spending thousands of dollar on worse traincars and why they tore it down instead of just using the old cars again. The whole story is a tale of bad decisions around this coaster basically.
I loved the concept of the original Space Mountain: From the Earth to the Moon. When I had first heard that it, too, was getting a Star Wars re-theme, I thought it was just a seasonal overlay like in Disneyland California. Knowing it is a permanent theme just makes it unimpressive at the least.
It's a permanent retheme in the same way that the retheme of Paradise Pier became a permanent thing. It was originally intended as a seasonal thing, but as with all things, it got screwed up royally during Chapek's short-lived time as Disney CEO.
Space Mountain De La Terre A La Lune was the best disney coaster to ever exist. It was special and magical. Why does disney always have to slap on an IP and shove it down people's throats?
I experienced the original, Mission 2 and the Star Wars Re-Theme ... and tbh the original was the best of all. None of the following re-themes had such an emersion. Too bad that parks tend to worsen a good ride. In german we have a word for this: verschlimmbessern. (to make something worse in the attempt of improving)
Imagineers have been spotted in the ride's station recently and a pretty reliable source has said a new theme is coming within 2 years that is very close to the original theme, so I am hopeful
I love that you flashed Bob Chapek's face on screen for a split second when you said Avengers Flight Force was underbudgeted. We pretty much all know the failure of that retheme was *entirely* his fault, no question.
@@Coolharry64 I wouldn't really class it as for families. Its more a kiddie coaster. With thorpes more family based direction they seem to be heading in and they have announced the droppings of IP's, i think the walking dead will become a family ride again
I hate that disney replaced rock n' rollercoaster. 1: As a Europian i hate that i now need to travel to America to take a ride, i love rock music and rollercoasters so its a perfect match for me. 2: They replaced it with something way more empty and less themeing. (Also yay i got featured, thx so much)
I hope Disney brings back the original Rock'n'Rollercoaster theme to their Paris park. While the "decoration" along the main ride part was mostly just moving stage lights, it was an awesome effect, being linked with the on-board soundtrack, especially since there were at least 5 different soundtracks and corresponding light programs. Another KumbaK disaster are in my opinion are the trains they built for Stampida, replacing the original PTCs. I haven't been to that park in a long time - so maybe (I doubt it) there has been some improvement. But in the early years of these trains, it was just painful to ride.
I’m late here lol, but I don’t think the Rock N Rollercoaster theme could make a comeback in the future, maybe they would do 5 different trains with different stories and soundtracks.
Rock and roller coasters had one of the best launches of any coaster with theming alone. Steven Tyler screaming “3…. 2….. Oooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnneeeeeere!!!!!!!!” Gets the energy to unbelievable highs
Another Top 10 video to feature The Infamous and Legendary Son of Beats coaster. With all the things Son of Beats have been through, it will over the time be very rare to Not feature the Coaster in one of your Top 10 videoes. I mean The Most Infamous Defunct Coaster, The 4th Longest Coaster ever built, The 3rd Worst Roller Coaster Makeover. Plus its The Only wood coaster ever built with a Loop. I will not be suprised, if Son of Beats a least are featuring in 2 more Top 10 videoes inside the next year. What a Son The Beats have made.
Oh what could have been. El Condor at Walibi was going to get KumbaK trains like T3 (the other prototype SLC), but the park waited it out and now they've got much better new Vekoma vest trains instead. So now El Condor is saved for the foreseeable future... while if they had gone for the KumbaK trains, it might have been gone. Gee, thanks Vekoma.
I love how the majority of these are "good coaster ruined by unneeded refurbishment," and then there's First Flight with the lofty modification of "bad ride made somehow worse"
I think that The Walking Dead: The Ride at Thorpe Park should've been on here. Retheming a family ride (X) to yet another horror ride is a TERRIBLE movement.
We knew the wild mouse was gonna go at some point, it was just too rough and also on the lift hill if you were quite tall you literally had to duck to avoid hitting your head on the track above due to the early 60s modifications.
If you never rode Son of Beast ..be thankful! It was definitely the roughest ride I ever went on. I literally got sick after getting off this cursed ride!
Great video as always. I have a big smile every time I see you post a new video. Really interesting, I really was sad when they closed the Wild Mouse at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. It was one of those iconic and unic ride experience. I miss those kind of classic wild rides.
If they only did the son of beast right it probably could’ve been alive today but they messed up badly and injured lots of people and also got one of the trains stuck on the loop. At least we know that the original is still alive a.k.a. the beast. But the sun had to die. I love this video and I hope you have a amazing day.
Nice details for the ride experience! Rougarou and Green Lantern gives me a headache when the shoulder restraints are being pulled up. My friend Michael (from Big Thrills Mike) has agreed that he will never go back on the head smacking ride in Six Flags Great Adventure. It’s a great thing that I didn’t go on each coasters that did the worst make over. My parents would always attempt to ride them (which they’re not riding anymore) especially with the roughness. Love your videos and keep up a great work!!!
Despite being the most uncomfortable ride that Six Flags had ever given us, Green Lantern: First Flight actually did give me one of my best memories. On one of the few times my sister and I rode it, the pod had overturned in the final break run and my sister and I found ourselves facing the floor. The people in the pod in front of us were laughing but I was enjoying the moment because it was the closest I had ever gotten stuck on any ride at Magic Mountain.
Knoebles rules for keeping aggressive woodies running: Step 1 - Own a lumber company. Step 2 - Pay good money for an amazing crew of technicians and builders who are replacing wood on the rides constantly -- including at night during operating season. Six Flags and Cedar Fair don't have time for dat.
@Hellacia I agree the Japanese ones were good. The American ones were horrible...I watched several episodes on ones like Viper and Windjammer Surf Racers....and they were complete disasters.
Regarding the hyperspace mountain, you can also add that the exterior was never updated. So you have an exterior, Jules Vernes/Steam punk theming, with an inside Star Wars theming. Except the station. And the end of the queue. Both are still steam punk themed. So yeah, you can say this is a disaster.
Wild Mouse was one of my fave wooden coasters and deserved it's reputation. Blackpool Pleasure Beach have previous for tearing down classic coasters without warning-practically overnight they destroyed the cyclone (1937) at their sister park, Pleasureland Southport with the same level of disregard.
I'm so sad that I never got to ride Hyperspace Mountain in its original form! I rode it for the first time last month and it was AMAZING, ride-wise, but the themeing was so minimal and it just left me confused because the outside is absolutely gorgeous. :/
When Nighthawk at Carowinds first opened, it was called the BORG Assimilator and was - surprise! - themed after the Borg from Star Trek. I know it was a licensing thing that forced the change, but I really miss the original Borg theme.
The reason I heard for Green Lantern'a modification was that they wanted to prevent trains from returning to the station inverted. Six Flags would need maintenance to come move the vehicle. In Europe, those ops have permission to unflip the vehicle themselves.
The best thing about the wild mouse at Blackpool pleasure beach was riding single rider, because it was like sitting in a bathtub with a seatbelt across the top, so when you got any airtime, you’d lift up out of your seat so much more than on any other ride
Nice video, but you forgot the make over from the Space Center to the Temple of Nighthawk in Phantasialand. (Now the roller coaster is called Crazy bats.)👍
To say that Deja Vu at Magic Mountain had anywhere near a decade of operation is hilarious. Sure, it STOOD for nearly a decade in the park. Operated? Definitely not!
Oh my goodness. Many people get this wrong. The “new” trains on Son of Beast had the momentum to complete the loop. They did not have the proper class restraints to do inversions. Please everyone stop reporting this extremely false claim!
It's been said on record by park officials that the trains did not have enough weight to complete the loop. sorry but your theory is false so you should actually probably stop spreading these "very false" things🤷♂️🤣
The wild mouse at BPB was terrifying and awesome at the same time!! I honestly thought “patch jackets” went out of style - Oh wait - That was me!! (Dang it Sean!! 😂)
I remember going to Worlds of Fun in Kansas City and seeing the extremeroller with its Stand Up Seats! It was still doing pretty well and got a chance to see it in action! But after a few days I left, the seats got revamped! Now, I just went there recently and I still have the vision of seeing that roller coaster there, but I now just see boomerang! Great Video, cant wait to see what is next!
River King Mine Train at Six Flags St. Louis? Was converted from a sit-down to a stand-up in 1984 and renamed Rail Blazer, despite not being designed as a stand-up coaster. Then that year a woman fell off and died so they converted it back sit down and restored its original name. I mean if a fatal accident happened possibly because of the change then I'd say that's a change for the worst.
Rode Green Lantern once and only once, it was after they redid the fins. It was the most painful coaster experience of my life, it was HORRIBLE. My body from shoulder down was pummeled…and as suggested in your video, my punching bag was indeed punched…HARD. I’m amazed the coaster lasted as long as it did. It wasn’t a coaster, it was a torture device.
I like the comments you pick in your presentations to read. There is another group I watch, they quit their end of video items. I miss one aspect. Not saying what aspect, it will identify the production team. They stopped reading comments. One of the reasons I was glad was a couple of the presenters picked the pat yourself on the back complements people left. Then they started again to read off comments left...they went back to reading off the patting themselves on the back comments that were/are left. Thank you for not doing that.
I never experienced that wooden Mouse, but Matterhorn bobsleds at Disneyland California is a similar experience. It has strong laterals, it’s a quite aggressive roller coaster experience. Although it isn’t made of wood. Also it has only a seat belt too (no lap bars)
I had ridden the defunct Goliath (formally Déjà Vu) twice at it's original location at Magic Mountain. I never found the seating arrangement to be confusing. It was actually pretty cool.
Oooo I can actually comment on a few things here. Space Mountain at Disneyland in California was always pretty bland. From Earth to the Moon had some real theming. So in that respect I llloooooveee our CA Hyperspace mountain. It also fits being right next to Star Tours. DejaVu at Magic Mountain was amazing. I used to work Cyclone next door and I’d take my break to go ride it. When I eventually would sub for Deja and got Certified I was there for six months and never once had boarding issues. No idea what was wrong with the New England guests. The most we got was watching the old train volley on the boomerang all the time. Also Green Lantern I never got to ride but I always wish I had. However I used to love Flashback no matter how much it hurt. When it would open for the few weeks out of the year I’d ride it every day before heading home. That pain had to be way more than Green Lanterns retrofit.
I live un Paris and I used to love of space mountain mission 2 (i didn’t get to experience the original one and mission 2 was good on its own imo ). This makeover makes absolutely no sense whatsoever: no theming outside the building or in the queue excepts for screens and maybe flags in the station. It feels lazy and kinda cheap. In addition to that I feel like this Star Wars theme wasn’t the original plan and it was put on the coaster last minute for some reason. You can definitely feel that with the new trains: when hyperspace mountain opened it had brand new trains. Those trains are blue with gold details they have a steampunk feel to them and are decorated with stars suns and gears which feels so Jules Verne and make no sense in a Star Wars theme. Those train make me wonder what the original retheme was and I’m convinced it was supposed to be a mission 1 makeover but someone in this damn company arrived last minute and said « NO GOOD THEMING ON MY WATCH slap a generic Star Wars theme no one will notice » I’m still pissed off to this day and I’m still waiting for the original planned theme to be implemented
The fact that Disneyland Paris has back to back entries of horrible re-themes just proves that this park can’t do anything right. This park should’ve gone bankrupt and demolished since they were the worst profitable park and led to the cancellation of future projects
Any chance on top 10 Rollercoasters in the uk for a future video? I love hearing about coasters all over the world but my 6 year old daughter has recently started enjoying your videos and theme park rides, it would be cool to show her rollercoasters in "her back garden". Thank you 🙂
From what I understand with the wild mouse, whilst the magnetic brakes caused slight issues and a little bit of downtime that wasn’t what ultimately killed it. Ultimately, what really killed it was the compensation culture and to a lesser extent, health and safety. Even though it had a perfectly good safety record! There was an incident involving a woman and her son of that year I think around August time, her son had apparently undone the seatbelt, and she claimed that he nearly flew out of the car! She then made a big deal about it all, and then plan to contact the HSE in the morning , all this is apparently still on TripAdvisor on her review. Which apparently resulted in Mouse no longer being able to get insurance for the ride, and if you can’t get insurance for the ride, then you can operate it😞 Long story short because of one selfish woman and the compensation culture we no longer have one of the best wooden rollercoaster is ever built!🤬👿 As a result, I am now fighting to change the culture in the UK and over the top health and safety/what are you campaign group to do something about it. I have nothing against health and safety in principle, but it should never ever be at the expense of a ride being able to operate or not or what makes a ride fun and enjoyable.
Honorable mention: Mystery Mine. And unpopular opinion, revamping Top Thrill Dragster's one intense into three weaker launches only a fraction of the original acceleration. Don't care about rollbacks or backwards launches. Already rode Superman: EFK, Wicked Twister, and Tigris and I think swing launches are overrated. I find having no launch at all like going up a regular lift hill and down a drop is more exciting than a swing launch at least you get to the top speed in one shot. FYI we're all entitled to our own opinions if our gonna tell me I'm wrong!
River King Mine Train at Six Flags St. Louis could also be on here. Was converted from a sit-down to a stand-up in 1984 and renamed Rail Blazer, despite not being designed as a stand-up coaster. Then that year a woman fell off and died so they converted it back sit down and restored its original name. I mean if a fatal accident happened possibly because of the change then I'd say that's a change for the worst.
I was lucky to ride Wild Mouse, I have been to Blackpool Pleasure Beach once in 2017, the year with all the technical issues, and it was the first coaster I rode at Pleasure Beach (mainly because it was closest to the entrance; I wasn't aware of the technical issues at the time), if I want to ride another wooden wild mouse then I guess I'll have to go to Australia or Indonesia
I remember when they rebuilt the mountain on rutschebanen in Tivoli Gardens it was a massive succes and now it looks like how it used to back in the day
So the green lantern ride vehicles, according to Ryan the ride mechanic on youtube, were altered because of a six flags policy for ride operators. Basically if they had to manually move a ride vehicle they had to E-stop the ride and call maintenance, qnd only mechanics were allowed to touch the ride vehicles once it was E-stopped. righting the seat assembly's orientation apparently fell under that policy.
15:10 Of all the things I was expecting to see in this video, Danganronpa characters boarding a roller coaster was not one of them. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!
Because La Ronde has no significant competition nearby (the only major theme park in province of Quebec), Six Flags feels like that they'll make money from it regardless of how they actually treat it.
7:45 they were planning on retracking the whole coaster but cancelled it due to outrage from locals who must’ve never heard of theseus’s ship, and thought that the retracking would get rid of the coaster’s history 17:10 the change was made due to a california law, if six flags were concerned about them getting stuck upside down, they wouldn’t add more weight on top
@@ThemeParkCrazy i am not totally sure, I believe i was getting that from either an airtimethrills video or an eltororyan video, it’s also possible I was remembering something from when i was on reddit, but it does just make sense that their reasoning wouldn’t be to prevent them from getting stuck upside down because they added more weight to the top of the train which made it stay upside down for far longer
Anybody know exactly when the new trains for Goliath at New England were put on? I remember riding it there and loving it. I think I must have rode it right when it opened with the old trains maybe? I know I went to the park before 2013 and after 2010
I will start going on trips with Karen and Lilly. I'm planning to go out to eat at a suggested restaurant, shop at suggested stores, film elevators and do other activities. I hope these adventures don't get downgraded, just like the coasters on the list.
Wildcat At Lake Compounce Will Get A Full lenght Titan Track Refurbishment. Meaning The Entire Track Will Be Replaced By GCI's Titan Track. So You Don't Have To Worry About Roughness Next Time You Ride It :)
I kind of wish they'd brought Gravity Group in to re-do it with wood--it sounds like they've got a viable competitor to RMC and GCI's steel retracks that keeps the coaster a woodie. But I'm sure the steel will be easier to keep up over the long run.
@@singlerailindustries1763 that doesn’t back up your point or mean anything at all, you just said “x got y, so z will get y next” without any kind of proof
@@WCfanboy Here's The Thing , It Would Make Absolutely No Sense If Lake Compounce Went From GCI For Boulder Dash To The Gravity Group For Wildcat , GCI Will Most Likely Be The Candidate To Do The Wildcat Refurbishment.
The most shocking thing about Extreme Roller is the restraints - some of the riders in that footage have the OTSRs barely reaching below their necks. that can't have been comfortable in any way
My Dad has a game where you can build a rollercoaster and have Disney characters ride and review it. My autistic son built one that whacks the riders on the head when it just gets started. My daughter made one with over 20 g's on it. Good thing it's just a game.
I’m never a fan of wooden rollercoasters. They give me a headache for a bit. I went on the Guardians of the Galaxy ride in Orlando and loved it! I would go on it again.
In June of every year, I go to summer school (also known as Extended School Year), which downgrades my summer adventures. This is because my mother often doesn't like my usual activities.
I rode Green Lantern before the change, and it was ok. A bit intense, but not in a necessarily fun way. I rode it after the change, and it was honestly the worst rollercoaster I’ve ever ridden. I’m glad it’s gone.
