Remember Flashback at Six Flags Magic Mountain? Roller Coaster Front Seat POV!

[@Kamil_PLC]

when i see this roller coaster, i suddenly think about RCT2 for no reason.

[@Kamil_PLC]

+116852200519581732535 ah, it makes sense.

[@MoonlitLycan]

Well the ride WAS in RCT2, so there is a reason why your mind would think back to it.

[@Kamil_PLC]

***** yes, i forget about it.

[@johnfoltz8183]

I want to go on something more thrilling than Twister Coaster 1.

[@boogabuga7657]

Every time you start the game, it's right there on the intro screen.

[@sStyleMo]

I like how the camera zooms into Goliath at 1:34 because this was shot in 2000 which means Goliath was brand new

[@mathbookhero]

i feel like if it was remade today with a different track and train it could be a huge hit today for people who rode the original and newcomers to coasters alike

[@WillKalili]

I remember riding this ride like it was yesterday. The skies were blue, the cold California air hitting my face as I heard the clicks of the chainlift. We finally made it to the top, mom and dad by my side and as the train approached the first dive, I woke up and realized that I never rode this ride bc I was born in 1996.

[@stoney5361]

Will Kalili k

[@dipchappy10]

Will Kalili lol

[@imconfused6955]

"I see sky's of blue, red roses too." World greatest memory song.

[@handsomepurpleshep9766]

Will Kalili was it fun cause it looks fun I hate when close classic ride why not just expand the park? right

[@ccuff03]

handsome purple shep based on what I’ve heard, it was a terrible ride.

[@SprightlyValentino]

I rode this exactly once, back in the 90s, and I still remember how much it banged up my head. You would never guess from watching this footage.

[@justinknox773]

This ride was the best, at night they used to put strobe lights on it and they timed them to each of the sequences of the ride to repeat. Still one of my favorite coasters of all time!

[@CptOakley]

wow that was such a treat. I always remember this ride being closed. I never saw it running before they permanently closed it. I thought I'd never see pov footage of it. Thank you.

[@raymondmarkey64]

If B&M made a wild mouse this is what it would look like.

[@michaelsivan184]

actually this ride was built by Intamin

[@AdamSmith-gs2dv]

michaelsivan18 Kind of, B&M actually designed this while they worked for Giovanola.

[@WcHDICE]

or a Raptor track

[@famousbowl9926]

@@michaelsivan184 he said IF B&M... KEYWORD IF. IFFFFFF IF

[@MR_ii_5150]

I miss this rollercoaster! Was one of my favorites at six flags back in the day.

[@shartbarf]

Went on this when I was 10 in the year 2000. I never ever got such a quick headache from a roller coaster but this one did me in. Not even Viper was that bad.

[@fluxcobra7336]

Haha I remeber this coasters when I played roller coasters tycoon 2 back in the days :D

[@collintieman1342]

what type of coaster? i have the triple thrill or whatever

[@OnionChoppingNinja]

Steel Twister coaster... if you're still wondering.

[@johnfoltz8183]

It is also a pre-made coaster in No Limits 1.

[@WcHDICE]

yea I remember building this ride with large half loops

[@Bro19999]

I'm getting flashbacks about this

[@themeparkreview]

That only took 6 minutes! lol

[@imconfused6955]

How long have you been filming rollercoasters?

[@ThoosieJP]

Kingdom probably years before youtube he sold dvd list of coasters on amazon were it would show all the wooden coaster of englands or something like that

[@themeparkreview]

20ish years.

[@bernarddewaghe6674]

Theme Park Review Oh my freak, this rollercoaster is a retro of craziness, did you ride it ?

[@rabidsmiles]

Oh man...this sucker hurt so much! Pretty sure the headaches I get today are still from the day I chose to ride this and Psyclone in one trip :o

[@BUH1016]

This coaster was physically painful to ride. I can't believe Magic Mountain kept it for as long as they did.

[@PeckiePeck]

A lot of people liked it, and for awhile it was considered scary and extreme. I remember going to MM with a group of friends for a birthday and all of us being scared as the coaster roared by, asking each other if we were scared and saying we weren't. I must have ridden this 4 or 5 times over the years and don't remember it being painful. Viper, on the other hand, knocked my head back and forth onto the restraints.

[@Jeysin]

@@PeckiePeck I liked it because I was 48 inches 🍆 at the time and too short to get hit my the OSTRs

[@c-wrongakas8tanictattooist707]

Lol me and my friends called this the “pimp slap” ride after we rode it 3X

[@jaypriddi]

I remember the whip blast as if it were yesterday.

[@mangerang]

YES OMG THANK YOU I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR A GOOD VIDEO OF THIS AMAZING OLD SHITTY RIDE

[@daniel.909]

lel

[@MrRailjunkie]

I loved it myself

[@jstone2448]

I can't believe this was an intamin, it looks like a deformed b&m

[@erinknab6375]

Yeah just what I was thinking bc of the track

[@cashprinter5000]

surprise!

[@bunja9101]

PixelBuster04 Giavonola came before B&M.

[@cashprinter5000]

Well the ride was designed by b&m before they left giovanola to start their own....

[@ritualmastaa8043]

In the 90s, intamin used that style of track

[@aaronberns8485]

I kind of understand why this ride wasn’t a huge hit. It was basically a painful, glorified diving version of wild mouse.

[@johnjohnothan5927]

Thanks for the upload. Didn't see this when it was open, but it always took my interest

[@felipesadventures]

I feel like if a ride like this was made today, it would have been smooth and fun!

[@weedstore]

It looks not like the smoothest but i see other coasters more garbage

[@Nickodeemuss]

My head and neck remember

[@nicolacavarra2425]

What happened to them

[@essel23fly]

This was the worst ride there. It literally felt like someone was hitting you in the ears for 5 minutes straight

[@MrRailjunkie]

@@essel23fly I liked it myself & thought revolution was worse for ear bashing

[@slashismyhommie8182]

It was like a real life simulator of what your head and neck goes through when you're in a Ford Explorer that flips several times (only an least nobody died on this ride...that I know of).

[@RollyCoaster]

First coaster ever with that B&M style track! Look at them now

[@thatsmallcessna8300]

This isn't a B&M coaster.

[@ItsTheMrJ]

Thatsmallcessna he said track

[@MrRailjunkie]

@@thatsmallcessna8300 it was designed by B&M

[@LydiaTarine12]

I never had a chance to ride this coaster (those times I went to Magic Mountain it was always closed), but it obviously was open during the time period I attended that park in since I visited both pre and post the installation of Goliath, which you see in several of the shots. I remember seeing this coaster there, though, and being very curious about it because I'd never seen another one like it, one that was so pointedly compact. I'm glad I found this video ride through!

[@ryanb9749]

It is my favorite ride to watch in RCT2.

[@amandaphillipson4408]

First ride we went on when my friend and I visited Magic Mountain in 1998. I was not keen at all and swore I wasn’t going on any other ride. My friend made me and long story short we did every ride several times that day and left looking decidedly green! Great memories.

[@danielhalpert03]

This ride was so bumpy!

[@michelcolet6975]

Damn that looks fun. And a little brutal.

[@dth2brny121]

And to think this was the first ever coaster to use what we now known as B&M track. We've come a long way from seeing how crappy this style of track was 30 years ago to seeing it as one of the best styles of coaster track ever created, that shows how much the technology has improved

[@danadoyon2530]

I was thinking that looks like B&M track but I had a hard time believing they’d make something so bad!

[@dth2brny121]

@@danadoyon2530 It is B&M track, because even though this POS was an Intamin coaster, Walter Bolliger and Claude Mabillard started out at Intamin before branching away and starting B&M.

[@Vulpovile]

Anyone who's been on a B&M stand-up, even if it's been converted to a sit-down, knows B&M is still capable of making complete crap fests

[@Idhart]

This is the closest I will ever get to riding Flashback. Every time we ever went, it was always closed for maintenance.

[@LydiaTarine12]

Same. 😔

[@vanapotamus6348]

It was only able to operate during the winter and fall season because it made too much noise at the waterpark

[@ghostairsoft24]

I wish they'd bring back an updated version of this ride. Seems like a really fun concept.

[@markjensen7091]

yup, i loved this ride. One of my personal favs, even with the pain.

[@briansanchez5758]

Jesus, Rob. That brings back memories.

[@themeparkreview]

Sure does EO! ;)

[@stoney5361]

Theme Park Review please reply, I've been watching since 2011, and I love this coaster!

[@themeparkreview]

ok

[@jakewalker271]

Theme Park Review do you have any footage from other defunct coasters

[@alldat06]

I'm from Atlanta and I remember this as Z-Force!

[@powerstrokepuller8076]

I got to go to magic mountain several times in the early 2000sand while the lines for Goliath, Riddler's revenge, and Superman were crazy long, there was virtually no line for this ride, we rode it about 10 times in a day. It's still one of my favorite theme park memories

[@Adam.The.Tourist]

As a kid, I wanted to ride this so much as I watched VHS tapes from the 90's about it. I was so confused to see the park as it is rather than how I always thought it was.

[@owenjholt1246]

Such a classic Intamin! Reminds me of Shockwave at Drayton Manor!

[@concertino58]

I could be wrong, but it might be the same layout?

[@owenjholt1246]

@@concertino58 Shockwave has a much more drawn out layout with standup trains. Just the track profiling and support structure remind me of it.

[@burgadahz17]

This is definitely one of the coasters😎🤙😎🤙

[@brianlee5132]

It was my favorite ride back in the 90s

[@coveredupupholstery]

This ride was so bumpy! So epic to see!!

[@RichTruitt]

This coaster along with Psyclone spoiled a lot of fun trips to Magic Mountain when I was a kid.

[@damocoaster8451]

Theme Park Review thank you sooooo much I've been searching for decent POV of this!!!.

[@GameplaynEditor]

Oh my, this was one of the most roughest roller coasters that ever existed made by Six Flags Magic Mountain..

[@hellacia8151]

It was pretty smooth when it opened at Great America from what I heard. Constantly moving it around the country made it get rougher.

[@inspegaget]

rode this brain machine once. Thats all i needed

[@PerunaCommando]

It feels very weird watching a POV with an audio and camera quality that can still be compared to modern standards from 2003 or before.

[@spicygroggy]

I remember being the only person who would ever want to ride this. After whichever group I was with would get off this ride they would complain how painful it was. Maybe I was the perfect height or something cause I always enjoyed it. :-o

[@nicolaszambrano1208]

The poor children in the background getting in so much pain

[@Usercantwelve]

This OG was a Painful but Fun memory

[@theisland2722]

This feels like B&M was contracted to build a mobile roller coaster for state fairs lol

[@ryanb9749]

I think this was B&Ms first rollercoaster. Although they hadn't started their company yet.

[@lorimcclain6180]

This ride was my favorite!

[@GamingFanactic911]

Yeah I do remember this ride 100%. Thanks for the "Flashback" no pun intended. lol xD

[@sallyfromcali1127]

My husband and I rode this back in June 1992. I hated it. It was so painful. After the first drop I was so ready for it to end.

[@RightHearted]

I only know this ride from RCT2

[@iammaybeasliceofpie4674]

RightHearted me too! Now I'm sad that I never got to ride it.

[@RightHearted]

I_am_maybe_a_slice_of_pie same

[@MightyRobot-be2qt]

Flashback may be closed, although, there is one remnant left of it. If you go inside the gates next to bugs bunny world you'll see the fright fest maze condemned which is the loading station for flashback. You can also see it during fright fest if you go in the maze or if you are in Hurricane Harbor, you can spot it as well, look closely to your left and you will see it.

[@seaskiguy]

Maybe I'm a freak, but I kind of remember enjoying this ride - thought it was kinda cool.

[@TheRyanlax04]

What a great ride. Really sad to watch this and know I'll never ride it again. RIP. For real.😟

[@MrRailjunkie]

I feel the same & I'm not the only one who liked it then.

[@user-ek6yf6cf1o]

my home park!! sadly i never came to the park until 2015. this looks so fun

[@rygregory]

I liked to think that it was called Flashback because your life flashes before your eyes before the imminent death from the bludgeoning you get on the ride. Though, I still enjoyed it the more I rode it. Perhaps because the concussions made me believe so.

[@winningfreak1]

that view of Metro at 1:00 omg. Magic Mountain desperately need a ride like Metro! Should have kept up with it or updated it. Not removed it!

[@helloxjosh7473]

Omg do I remember this. It brings back so so so many memories.

[@andyblarblar279]

thank you I have been looking for this for ages now 😊

[@stoney5361]

Hey rob, can you do more videos like this? Like with the old footage?

[@themeparkreview]

I have tons of old footage! :)

[@RollyCoaster]

Theme Park Review I'd love to see some more defunct coasters like this!

[@imaginenothavinganycontent685]

Me too!

[@edbataitis]

Never was a good ride but I am happy I got to ride it. The initial Hairpin drop is something I would like to see again on another rollercoaster.

[@eboohoward137]

The only flashback I have about this roller coaster is how painful that thing was. It was fun for the first turn then slammed us into the side and everyone was like ok thats why this shit is never open. That ride dislocated my spinal cord almost.

[@ryanb9749]

😆 yeah that second one looks rough.

[@PescadoDelDiablo]

Underrated track. But if you didn’t keep your head back, your ears got pounded into the sides of the cart. That’s why the ride failed.

[@stitcho7563]

This was my first steel coaster. It was Z force at SFOG back in May 1989 during my 8th grade end of the year trip.

[@conman4107]

Wasn't this thing SBNO for like 5 years just to keep MM with the same coaster count as CP?

[@ThePirateprincess23]

G Gerrit it was. They even kept listing it in their park maps until 2007/2008.

[@joshposh7239]

HAHA Flashback had some sick advertisements and that was when I first went to 6 flags... it knocked you around and would give you cauliflower ear

[@patrickn8355]

Honestly even though it was painful, the utilization of space was top notch for the time

[@omgsolikevalleygirl]

I rode this back in 1999. I found it strange and not very pleasant but was so star struck of being at amazing Magic Mountain my childhood dream coasterpark that I didn't mind it. On every level it makes you go "this can't be.. you wouldn'taaaaaaa". From todays perspective, smaking my head against the headrest was a pain, but Viper does it too, to this day.

[@williamsn411]

Remember riding this coaster on more than one occasion. Man, it was so painful. Surprised it lasted as long as it did.

[@FanimationXV]

Another problem was that because the sound of the coaster was loud to the life guards at Hurricane Harbor, it was generally closed from May to September everytime the water park was operating during the summer.

[@bigmarv27]

one of two of the most roughest roller coasters I have beem on. This and there version of the wooden coaster Cyclone which both are no longer at Magic Mountain.

[@kenziebacklin11]

Cyclone is apocalypse now

[@dth2brny121]

@ Kenzie Backlin Wrong. They're two different rides. Psyclone was a Summers/Dinn creation, and Apocalypse (originally Terminator Salvation: The Ride) is a GCI

[@johnoliva6433]

I've been on Psyclone 10 times in a row as there was no line at all. I loved the shakieness but Flashback was already SBNO in 03. :(

[@JB-fj5bm]

I’d love an updated version of this coaster.

[@cliffy97]

This was the very first coaster I ever went on.... Thankfully I went on vine shortly after and released there were better less painful coasters.

[@jordanbeckstead3160]

A remastered version of this would be better than any 4d free fly, right.

[@Abdulaziz_Aleid]

Please do more of these series!!

[@CycleMan2200]

That looks like fun. Too bad they got rid of it. When did this coaster actually come out?

[@zacharyelder349]

It came out in 1992.

[@OakViewFilms]

Take my word for it: This thing wasn't fun at all. It was rough, painful, and had some of the worst use of over the shoulder restraints on a coaster.

[@jgatzby4263]

I remember hearing the Batman stunt show while waiting in line for this at Six Flags Magic Mountain, but the concussion sensation after exiting the coaster

[@ryanb9749]

I never got to ride it because it was always closed. But I love the compact repetitive design, its unique and cool.

[@Coastincolt]

Was lucky enough to have ridden this in the mid 80's. Thought it was pretty cool, although the trim braking kind of killed the momentum. In a way, this is a predecessor to the Zac spins (without the spin- so maybe not). Anyway, thanks for the memories, Rob.

[@Trance_Kitsune]

I heard this ride used to beat you up lol. Was it true?

[@iammaybeasliceofpie4674]

Kitsune91 it certainly looks that way :p

[@dude37]

Yes. Yes it did. Especially your neck.

[@SANITIZEDINC]

Yes. It was brutal. I hated it.

[@timtolentino5604]

Yes, a helmet would of helped a little

[@reneelewis9346]

Kitsune91 Yes!!

[@jessefuir5032]

Am I the only one who thinks this looks like B & M track?

[@lioninja123]

Jesse Fuir That's what I was thinking, and so does the Intamin stand ups

[@ncw911]

Lukas Tolly it's because Bolliger&Mabillard were former ingeneer for Giovanola and Intamin before founding their own business, which is B&M, with a bunch of other people from Giovanola/Intamin and took the square beam design with them

[@jessefuir5032]

Nicolas CW, that explains why Goliath and Titan look like B&Ms, because they're Giovanola's

[@ncw911]

Jesse Fuir yep!

[@andrewsowers2695]

Actually, Giovanola was the company that produced steel for both Intamin and B&M. However, Giovanola made their own rides as well like Goliath and Titan

[@beasterc9329]

I remember this ride when it first came out! Long ass lines for a weak ride. It’s like a wild mouse ride

[@BJamesThompson]

MM: "OK Mr engineer, we need a Rollercoaster but only have 100 square feet of space.." Engineer: "is it ok if the ride is painful?" 😂

[@NolePTR]

Favorite coaster to watch in rollercoaster tycoon lol.

[@MetalSmasherGaming]

The ride closed one year before my first trip there, so I never got a chance to ride it.

[@ghenry739]

oh wow! for a while I thought this became the Green Lantern....

[@Bryan_Beast04]

Woah the pov looks more like it was shot in 2010 or something because the quality is awesome and the audio as well

[@PeckiePeck]

Video really wasn't so bad in 2003.

[@maxifam]

I rode this so many times and I loved it

[@Aeyrie1]

I remember this when it was Z-Force at Six Flags Great America.

[@danieltanner8762]

Dude I remember this ride it really tweaked my neck .

[@ShwervinMervin]

I wish I could have went on that... it looks amazing

[@mikes333]

'Member Magic Mountain??? Yah, I 'member!! ... 'Member Stormtroopers?!?.. Oh yah! ... I 'member stormtroopers!

[@giovannig912]

Ooh, I love membering tie fighters!

[@theurbanadventure2186]

Member when a marriage was only between a man and a woman

[@Porsmond]

I heard a rumour(dunno if it was true)that one reason they eventually got rid of it because they kept getting loads of complaints from people in the water park because of the noise from the ride, and even complaints from staff working there as well because it was too noisy. Never got a chance to ride it, went once in 2002, but ride was closed. Looks like I never missed much

[@xygomorphic44]

I remember going to hurricane harbor in 2005 and seeing this ride, wishing I could ride it. Every year that went buy we would ask workers at the park if it would ever reopen and we never got a straight answer

[@MrC_316]

It’s like Six Flags punished those who went on this ride by having the ride beat the crap out of them.

[@thewebsiteisdown7720]

I was 13 when this was new and still remember the brain rattle I got riding that POS once. If you ever wanted to know what it would be like to take a left hook, right hook combo from Mike Tyson, ride Flashback at Six Flags.

[@poonminer6054]

this was the best ride there...

[@michaelfjmusic]

This reminds me of when I build an awesome-looking ride in RCT2, but when I test it, it has horribly awkward pacing and doesn't perform like I'd hoped it would.

[@johnodeayii4936]

I sure do remember this! That bastard was rough!

[@mayhem1216]

I first got on this ride during its last remaining years, it give me a headache and i felt like it was gonna my neck because of those inverted twists.

[@invincible1200s]

I remember riding this. I also remember thinking that it wasn't very exciting.