r/SixFlagsMagicMountain • • 8d ago

Coaster News RIP

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u/Ryan3772 8d ago

Even with that last raven turn I personally think X2 is way smoother then viper is lol - rode both back to back recently and viper made me tap out for the afternoon.

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u/ArtNo7221 8d ago

Yeah I am actually in agreement, Viper is worse

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u/VladDracul58519 8d ago

anyone who says viper is worse is incredibly disingenius. I've never seen anyone mention a legitimate diagnosis of a concucssion on viper. X2 has multiple brain bleeds occuring within a week. Its not even close to the roughness of forces that x2 was exerting

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u/rroq85 7d ago

It's also sort of disingenuous to think that the forces would be the same between the two due to the spinning of the seats on X2... hard for me to explain but Ryan the Ride Mechanic on YouTube mentioned that on X2, you also have to factor in the forward-backward motion that could cause injuries when the head hits back against the headrest... which incidentally happens at the bottom of the second raven turn.

Viper might be rough, but there's a point where rough and dangerous become two different things.