West Coast Racers Front Row (HD POV) Six Flags Magic Mountain
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- Опубликовано: 20 дек 2019
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Opened: December 21, 2019
Type: Steel - Launched
Manufacturer: Premier Rides
Model: Custom
Height: 67 ft (20 m)
Length: 4,000 ft (1,200 m)
Speed: 55 mph (89 km/h)
Inversions: 4
Duration: 3:00
Height restriction: 54 in (137 cm)
Trains: 3 trains with 2 cars. Riders are arranged 2 across in 3 rows for a total of 12 riders per train.
West Coast Racers is a dueling steel roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park in Valencia, California. Being manufactured by Premier Rides, the upcoming ride is a collaboration between West Coast Customs and Six Flags, being promoted as the world's first launch version of a racing roller coaster. After multiple delays and missing the 2019 summer season, Magic Mountain announced that the ride would be operational in a series of preview events spanning several weeks beginning on December 21, 2019, with its public opening likely occurring sometime in early 2020. It is located in a newly-themed area, The Underground, which was formerly known as Cyclone Bay on the former site of Déjà Vu, an inverted roller coaster that was removed in 2011.
A pair of two-car trains, each holding a total of 12 riders, launch simultaneously from the station. They interact over thirty times throughout the course of the track, reaching a maximum speed of 55 mph (89 km/h) as the two trains cross the finish line. One pulls back into the station, while the other pulls into a replica of the West Coast Customs shop to listen to a narration given by Ryan Friedlinghaus. Both cars launch again and repeat the course a second time, producing a ride duration of approximately three minutes.
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Things this ride needs:
•a street light at the launch so it turns green when the launch happens
•more theming for the pit stop
•racecar sound Fx with the on board audio or music to make it seem like it’s racing
•more theming in the queue in general
Agreed
Too bad it’s six flags so none of that will happen xD
JB Thrills i agree
Faster operations and a third train so you don't have to just sit at the halfway point.
JC Productions I never said I hated the ride or that it sucks I am happy for its addition just wish it could have more
It needs wwaaaaaay more themeing.
Welcome to Six Flags....
Pacific Fun the guys from WCC have said they still aren’t finished. They have a lot of work to do on the pit stop
And they said they need to finish the front of the building as well
Are you kidding there’s a lot of theming I the que
Good morning
it's the most themed coaster at the park
Looks like the trains spend more time on the launch tracks than they do actually racing
Marc Solis wait times are gonna be absolutely brutal
Evan Jacobs
There is 3 trains one is always in the station getting loaded
Smokie how could that be if they run a circuit through the adjacent station?
@@Regulator1332 its 1 complete circuit. 2 trains racing and 1 train loading. Twisted Colossus has the the same set up.
You end up on the 2nd track after the 1st ride and you go again and end up back on the first track.
@@Regulator1332 if you watch the video through, you'll see how you end up on the yellow side and back in the white after the 2nd time. You'll even see the 3rd car being loaded.
Mini Twisted Colossus plus a good end to Full Throttle = West Coast Racers
Plus a garunteed duel idk how to spell
@@maaztapal7191 That's correct spelling.
@@maaztapal7191 it's guaranteed bud not bad if English isnt your first language
Bro when i go on sunday, were going in west coast racers and right after that Full Throttle DX
@@DropBoxSkai2769 You'll enjoy it, have fun today!
I really love when Six Flags do the roller coaster not once but twice in a row on one ride, just like Twisted Colossus did.
I believe that's called a mobius loop when the coaster does that.
@@somfmusic1723 morbius
@@MsKimba18 möbius
@@somfmusic1723 a möbius loop is a 4th dimensional shape. A möbius dueling coaster i think is what this coaster is called
The pit stop needs to be seriously abbreviated! I want a quick, high energy racing demo and then we’re off to lap 2! I hope the dispatches really start to speed up.
stephenn77 they won’t. have you been to this park? inefficiency at its best.
They should have had 4 trains. 3 loaded waiting in quene so the races are back to back.
I got to marathon WCR 14 times today in light rain and rode nearly every seat, with my favorite being 4th row right side. Wow, this ride seriously exceeded my expectations and video does it zero justice. I have personally ranked it #4 in the park. Huge shout out to ANDREW in Ride Ops, these guys were seriously hustling to keep cycle times low. I got 2 or 3 rides where the train didn’t even come to a complete stop in the pit, it just kept on rolling right out for lap 2. The launches pick up acceleration halfway through and are more fun than video would have you believe, the high five ejects and whips you so well, the stall is phenomenal, the spaghetti bowl is great, particularly the first turn on yellow side and great head-choppers on white, the corkscrews are prime, its got perfect course-long dueling, it keeps a high speed pace all the way through even into the brake runs, and its smooth as butter! It’s not an everything coaster, but a very fun addition to the park that you need to RIDE before judging from video. This coaster is a must for any of my future visits.
Airtime thrills review got me worried but this pov shows that I shouldn't
I agree. Very fun ride. Not all that intense but super smooth and the visuals (which this video does not capture at all) are top notch. The duel is very well thought out with several lead changes throughout the circuit. Love the corkscrew finish too.
what are your other top 3? out of curiosity
Erica :/ Twisted Colossus, X2, Tatsu!
Anyone want to guess how long it will be before Six Flags drops the sponsor and change's the name? lol
Lyra Heartstrings “The Underground Racers” 😂😂
inb4 it's 'Batman vs Superman' or something along those lines
@@effie1349 wouldn't mind that
Agreed. Just like they did with terminator. I don't west West Coast Customs sticking with this that long. Magic Mountain will not maintain the ride or surrounding area and they will pull their sponsorship.
Effie They already have 2 rides themed to both of them. B
notice how 90% of the negative comments are from people who didn't ride it lol
Legomaster1289 how do you know who did or didn’t ride it just from looking at a comment? Here let’s test it; “this ride stinks”, did I ride it or not?
@@chez_calabrese most people are saying 'it LOOKS bad' not 'it IS bad'
I was skeptical but I really like it. It’s like a baby tc.
"It looks bad" is a negative opinion. What's your point? If you see the video and aren't impressed you'd comment the same. You lot acting like bc they havent rode it, they cant say what it appears to be like.
@@rainbow0027 i'm just saying you should ride it before judging it. it's actually pretty fun
i love how we got a little glimpse of ninja swingin by during the 2nd run
You guys can dislike the ride all you want but this is the exact kind of ride Magic Mountain needed; a moderately thrilling ride instead of something crazy like Twisted Colossus or X2
No one rode it yet everyone has an opinion.
Exactly epic, don’t mock it till you try and believe me it’s good. Went on Saturday for members only and will go Tuesday when we don’t have rain here. The ride is really fun and surprising . Watching a video and riding it it’s a whole different thing.
eric garcia That’s what makes the comments section so fun, all those uninformed opinions masking as subject matter expertise! 🤣
Yeah, I’m not traveling across the country for the 4th time try to ride it.... looks fun, but not worth the travel again, but still salty I went three time in the past year to ride it and it’s just NOW open.... they missed the buck for me. I’ll get there when I get there.
@@Cccoast why were you not checking to see if it was open before coming those "four times"?
A picture is worth a thousand words.
A video is worth a million.
'Nough said.
ONE OF THE BEST!!! Smooth and fun. Love it when it "races" with other coaster, you go twice in a short amount of time. LOVED IT! Not even scary like other coasters. Its more like super thrilling.
Six Flags Executives: How can we set this coaster apart?
Engineers: We stop the ride half-way for over a minute.
Six Flags Executives: YES YES DO IT YES
Lmao. Dude I always have imaginary meeting scenarios on how things came to be. Lmao they are the best.
That was my complaint with twisted Collausus that it stopped in the middle if the ride to go up the second hill. I think the hill on both sides should have been a launch type like Maverick at Cedar Point.
@CANNIBAL BURGER
The drop would still be there just the climb on the lift would be fast on both sides so theres less downtime especially on the second lift.
That should be in a WCR parody
@@MM-yb2fy The reason they didn't do that is so the trains would race. However, the trains only race like 2% of the time anyways so it doesn't really matter.
Launches at 0:46 and 2:46. They must be doing 2 minute cycles for the preview days. Hopefully we’ll see that bumped up for the grand opening. Looks fun!
Tysm now it launched earlier
Ridden it! Great ride. The waiting time doesn’t feel as long as it appears in this video. The halfway wait is there because they are loading up the next car for their first lap.
Good fun ride, nice acceleration launches throughout, twisty, airtime, love it.
I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS RIDE!!!!!! I wish it can go 8 times❤️🥺
This ride is crazy smooth. Great video.
Crazy airtime on it too
Looks ok. Seems like the hype was a little overrated
What hype?
@@ukthemeparkhalloffame8644 Exactly. What hype???
I rode 15 of the coasters and thought this was the 3rd best one, I even put it ahead of Tatsu (which I rode twice)
That high-five element has crazy ejector airtime and the spaghetti growl make a lot of people grey out
Upon my first ride I thought it was underwhelming. But I rode it again @ night and it was so fun!
The ride is incredibly smooth. The hangtime on the zero g-stall and corkscrews are lit! The helix on the yellow track was intense but not as intense as say Goliath's helix.
Its a great addition to the park. Will target the families who are transitioning into coasters and will always be a fun ride
It's no X2, Twisted Colossus or even a Viper. It was never intended to be on that level. And with that said it achieves that goal well. Its a well-grounded coaster that will appeal to all levels of ride experience.
Road
Those dispatchers need to be quicker on the launches, too much time sitting in one spot. Roll them out of the station, then immediately send them before bringing the returning train in
Then it wouldn’t duel. Dueling greatly enhances the ride experience.
Steve Suddeth ok GP
The reason there is a short wait is because it's a dueling coaster so the thrill comes from ridding right next to the other cars and having those close calls.
Privacy Police no shit
Privacy Police thats literally the point haha .. no explanation needed GP
The good thing about this ride is based off the POV it looks like it will always be dueling. That just adds to the fun.
There needs to be more theming while you are waiting on the launch track. Flashing traffic lights or something.
Ken Francis, I got on it yesterday it’s rehearsals right now, it’s not done yet.
My attention span is so shit that I need flashing traffic lights in order to hold my attention as I'm on a coaster with a longer duration than the vast majority of coasters
I waited 90 minutes to get on this ride last year, and it was worth it, and honestly a really amazing experience. It actually became my most fave ride at the park.
Its much faster than it looks. I went on it and i was pretty surprised 😅
Looks like a solid, fun ride! Can't wait to get on it one day! :)
OMG I wish I lived close to that park so I could ride it! Looks SO MUCH FUN
That’s super cool on how you get 2 experiences!! Very smart!!
I'm so excited to ride this, but I'm also extremely excited to see Slingshot open in this video. Now I have two new rides (for me) to look forward to next visit.
Can’t wait to get out there
The ride is only open for Season Pass Holders and Members December 23-31 from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. and January 1-5 from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Nice
Glossy smooth
1st POV great job
Awesome! This does remind me of a ride I took in my native country of Sweden called Helix at Gothenburg's Liseberg in southern Sweden. A lot of fun.
Very cool video. Thanks for posting and have a nice day too.
That looks pretty awesome!
BEST RIDEEE EVERRR😍😍😍😍😍
Went on it today. The safety harness is very comfortable. The slower speed actually made the inversions more thrilling.
This ride is fun especially at night
Rode this ride yesterday, and wow people are overly negative. The ride is super fun, has good air moments and inversions, but it’s the racing that makes this ride fun, the POV looks really bad, but riding it is really fun, I personally rank it 3rd at the park. My only gripe being that pit stop, but I think they will change it in the future
I went on this today it was fun had my hands up the whole time
I was there that day and It was so fun!! The best ride
Finally!!!
I was waiting but it looks like a Blooper! But never know til u ride
The next time i go to sox flags imma run straight here because ik later its gonna be packed
Loved it
Just rode this today. The pre-launch sequence was much shorter and the video of course doesn't do it justice for how fast it feels. Ton of fun and worth the wait for actually going twice.
One of my fav rides!
But X2, the best ride
Rode it yesterday, despite the awkward waiting on the pit stop and the little bit of theme, this ride is actually amazing! People with the negative comments obviously did not ride it.
Went on this twice today!
Doug Cavanaugh is it good?
It looks a little slower than I thought it would. Is that just the way it comes through on the video or is that accurate ya think? I've seen quite a few POV's that don't do the ride justice. How would you say it is in real life?
Thanks
Got on this a day before you posted this as a members only event and we got stuck right at the straight track and had to be carried off by rescue :-)
I love this ride
The ride is awesome and amazing when I was standing there it looked slow and boring but once I was on it I was rocking
On the theming side, I hope they add more before the official opening in January. But other than that, the ride looks amazing and the perfect addition for Magic Mountain
Looks nice
Wow, this ride is really fun. It’s smooth and fast, with a lot of cool inversions, and it gets bonus points for the dueling feature. This ride would definitely be good for VR. The only problem I have with this ride is the pit stop. We waited at least a minute just sitting there before we actually took off again. If they shortened the pit stop and made it look better I’d give this ride a 9. *8/10*
Nice! Hope you can get a good one of Full Throttle!
Thiz looks so cool!! I can't wait to get back out to California to ride this 🤩🎢
🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
Those are some slow drive tyres.
They’re not drive tires. They’re LSMs.
Marc W. You my sir do not know sarcasm lol
@@triple7marc I'm on about in the station.
noah shields I mean someone who leaves a comment like that could potentially be talking about the (slow) launch on this coaster and think they’re drive tires...
Wow didnt realize you get to ride both tracks the same ride! That's so awesome
My mom keeps watching these videos😃
Everyone keeps finding the worst if this ride which is so unfair. Can we appreciate the fact that MM at least got an awesome new launching and inverting coaster.
No MM is a ghetto crappy park. This ride has no themeing and they could've had some kind of exciting show effect during the pit stop but they don't. This park is for idiots easily entertained by cheap thrills. It is an idiot park
LAB-Lil' Angry B!tch wow you’re username is very accurate, and this isn’t even open yet, it opens in January this just a test run. They are going to add more themeing. I live 5 hours from this park so I’ve only been there like 4 times but from what I’ve seen, it’s a great park and isn’t ghetto at all, that was the 1990s and early 2000s.
Qris EXCUSE ME!?!? What on earth did I say to upset you? All I want is for people to look at the positive side of things and stop hating on this park. I live very close to discovery kingdom so that’s my home park so magic mountain is my second closes six flags park and I just don’t understand all the hate. Why do you think I’m a bad personality for defending an amusement park I enjoy going to?
Six flags Great Adventure should have gotten this, Six Flags Magic Mountain a already has Twisted Colossus a racing coaster.
@@ArrowThrills nah y'all are good with your raptor coaster
I want to go on it so bad now I love rollercoasters SM.
Looks like a solid, fun family coaster
Yep. Nice and smooth for the adults, fun for the kids too. Trains are a bit tight getting in and out though.
Yup, that's what it's supposed to be, yet folks are on here complaining that it's not thrilling enough.
I think this ride needs a count down on the first/third launch like TTD cuz otherwise it's boring to just sit there. Also it needs like some better form of entertainment before the third launch. Maybe even a tunnel and fake road with street lines on the second/fourth launch in the trench.
Theming hasn’t been added yet
The launch is really slow. It's definitely not the best part of the ride.
The ride is amazing but I wish there were more ejector airtime hills. The high five elements provide amazing ejector airtime and the rest are amazing floater airtime hills
It looks average at best.
Yeah, looks way too slow.
EmeraldBay if you've ever ridden a launched coaster, you would know that the POV video does not do you any justice at all
I went on 3 times yesterday. I like the yellow track best. It’s smooth and had some air time but it’s slow.
@@mr.adr3naline702 Literally everyone who's ridden it has been saying it's slow. Anyways, I'll be riding it myself next week. Hopefully you're right!
EmeraldBay i’m going Sunday, hopefully it isn’t packed. i mean it usually isn’t.
Looks fun, wish it was longer though
Hey, at least technically it's still a new for 2019 coaster
Kind of. It's only open for season pass holders for 2020, so I don't know if that counts if you can't ride it with regular admission to the park.
This ride has a very interesting concept. I love how they incorporate the loading station.
Do you mean the part where the train stops before the first yellow launch or the station where they load riders?
@@bandmfanboy I think the way the coaster allows for the blue side to be loaded and unloaded! You race twice!
@@christiwright3604 On West Coast Racers, there is a gray side and a yellow side, so I'm going to assume that you mean the gray side. The ability to race twice is due to the coaster being a möbius loop. There is one other möbius loop coaster operating in the world, Twisted Colossus also at Magic Mountain. Racing twice or even once is not guaranteed on Twisted Colossus because it doesn't stop on the midcourse brake run like West Coast Racers.
@@bandmfanboy never ridden the coaster. In the video it looks blue. Thanks for the correction. Either way, I think it’s 😎
This looks pretty fun. Perhaps a bit overrated, but a decent first multi launch if you’re new to them or are a little younger. I had dreams that I rode this last night.
Waited in line for 2.5 hours to ride it. It was ok. More of a family ride, don't expect a thrill ride or anything new that you can't get from another ride in the park. It's like if Full Throttle and Twisted Colossus had a really slow baby.
Lol that’s quite a comparison. But apt. Or the end full throttle lacks and TC.
It's a solid ride. Rode it yesterday, 23 Dec. Luckily with no wait because of the absolute crap weather. This video doesn't capture the best part: which is the incredible duel visuals. Lots of lead changes between the trains so you see a lot of the other train. It's great. It's like a perfect Twisted Colossus run every time. It's not very intense but it is fun. Wait times will probably be kinda bad when it first opens but probably not as bad as Full Throttle as the advance/park delay is much shorter. Dispatching and launch were shorter than this video showed when I went but the trains are tight and the harnesses are funny so I don't they'll be breaking any speed records either.
rode it, will ride it again
The yellow track would of look better if it was blue and it would match the rides logo
that's looks cool
This is the other half of full throttle that josh from Kings Dominion shredded
When i went on it this had so many godamn lights omg
I would love too go too Six flags magic mountain in the future the west coast racer looks awesome 😎 👏🏻 🎢
Wait time for this ride long I bet
In real life its so fun the video doesnt do justice i went 2 days ago it was great you also get to go again so its great
They should put speakers around the launch tracks so music plays
Thanks for putting this up for all of us that have been waiting for our first glimpse of this thing. how did you like it?
I personally liked it! Definitely not a high thrill coaster, but I thought it was still fun!
@@coastercrutchfield Thanks
It needs vroom vroom sounds
L DB *broom broom*
well said
u can actually see me and my friends in the yellow car at the end of the video. im the one in the orange shirt. on jah.
Yeah I saw you
I rode West Coast Racers on Monday night when I was at Six Flags Magic Mountain with my parents. My dad and I rode it, and I'm thinking about giving my honest thoughts and opinions about the ride.
I mean, it’s better than Full Throttle (not a high bar, lol). But sitting still in the middle of it for like 75 seconds is YUCKKYY
I went on it yesterday and it was super fun the most crazy one I went one was twisted colossus and next time I go I’m gonna go on viper
Six flags great adventure needs this and snake pit
Yay
The mid-course section wouldn't be bad if this was at a park that knew how to do theming, pre-shows, and open rides on time.
Anybody else thinks this looks very tame and a weird addition to the park?
I guess it's nice they've added a milder ride to the park, it takes up a lot of space though. Too bad it took so long as it does feel anti climatic. I don't think I will queue longer than 30mins for it.
Nhhgttt
Meanwhile, Tatsu is laughing down at this ride 😂 🐉
Look so fun
I've been on this and it was pretty fun, but the seat belt buckles that criss cross over the shoulders should be tighter and so should the abdominal restraint
The airtime looks sick but it does look a bit slow though. :/
i rode this ride a week ago, i regret not going twice because it was amazing (meanwhile i am frowning at Ninja that is going on while you're waiting for the other car to fill up, that thing gave me a headache)
A gift that has originality which takes time to get up to speed. Certainly a great addition to any park.
I can't believe people are talking about this like it's the worst thing ever created. It looks really fun, though it also looks like the kind of ride that craves physical theming and atmosphere, or interactions with the terrain. The biggest letdown about the ride is the stop before the launch on the second lap. It could almost certainly be solved with a dual loading station, but it could easily be made less unbearable with some sort of theming in place. Those are issues on the park's end, though- the ride itself, as far as layout is concerned, looks like an amazing addition. I guess some people just won't settle for a fun medium-sized attraction.
@@loki3523 This is a secret list project that would usually not be constructed because of business costs. With this roller coaster, the reason why it is needed to be constructed is that it is authentically a California roller coaster.
Similar to the new steel curtain in Pittsburgh, which is all about the history of the American steel and manufacturing industry (to honor the great families of Carnegie and Heinz). This one needed to be constructed, and it needed to be great. no intention of comparison here. That park was a park that just constructed its main attraction.
Of course, things are much different for Disney, because they were not included in the history as being a roller coaster attraction park as much. Their interest is, what is the best you got(speaking of the new Tron coaster in Orlando). We have to have something great, we are loosing to our competitors. These family-owned parks are much different. The government has two separate industries.
I agree it could use a little theming. It is an impossibly high cost for this roller coaster.
People are complaining about the pit stop but I think there was a mistake....they sat there for at least 2 minutes, it seemed like the ride got shut down/stopped at that part. It’s a new ride so it’s not impossible
i went last saturday for members only and it’s an okay ride, there was some airtime but not as fast i thought it was gonna be
I need to head out to six flags at some point in my life.
Got 2 rides on it today. Solid coaster. Somewhere between the 4th and 7th best in the park. Nice addition to the line-up.
same
@@teentitans0789 because sometimes it's about fleshing out your lineup, families are where the money is in theme parks so a family thrill coaster like this is a great idea. It'll probably be a step up for children going from their first inverting ride like revolution to something more thrilling.
@@teentitans0789 Every time a park builds a new ride it isn't going to be the best coaster in the park. Cedar Point isn't topping Steel Vengeance, Carowinds isn't topping Fury, Dollywood isn't topping Lightning Rod on their next coasters. The top 7 at Six Flag Magic Mountain are good coasters, and this one fits their line-up well.
Alan Trotter ehhhhh. Pretty confident in a new major coaster coming to cedar point in 2021 or 2022. And I’m sure it’ll top steel vengeance no doubt. That’s what they do at cedar point. They push the limits.
Noah D Why are you so sure it’ll top Steel Vengeance? Were they topping Maverick when they built GateKeeper in 2013? Or Valravn in 2016? No, certainly not. If Cedar Point builds a twister woodie or a flyer, which in my opinion are the two largest gaps in their lineup, they wouldn’t top Steel Vengeance. Unless it’s an Intamin Pre-Fab, which it won’t be.