When located at Magic Mountain, Green Lantern: First Flight was themed to the DC Comics superhero, Green Lantern. This uncontrolled spinning results in a slightly different ride experience every time. On Green Lantern, the rotation of the vehicle is controlled by the unequal gravitational pull on different sides of the rotational axis. The difference between the two roller coasters was based on the spinning or rotation of the vehicle. Green Lantern was similar to X2, which is also a 4th Dimension roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain that opened in 2002. The ride has the same layout as Insane at Gröna Lund in Sweden. Riders flip head over heels several times throughout the ride in a somewhat uncontrolled manner, but due to the way the ride vehicles are loaded, it sometimes didn't flip at all. Green Lantern: First Flight was an Intamin ZacSpin roller coaster where riders zig zag along a 825-foot (251 m) track at speeds of up to 37 miles per hour (60 km/h). The Vipère project was eventually cancelled in February 2022. In 2021, La Ronde extended the postponement indefinitely. A park spokesperson stated that Vipère's debut was being pushed to the 2021 season. Six Flags had begun taking steps to improve its financial standing by deferring capital projects during the pandemic. While the park resumed normal operations in August 2020, Vipère's construction remained on hold. This included La Ronde's construction of Vipère. ĭue to the growing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Six Flags suspended operations across the company on March 13, 2020. Green Lantern's loading station left behind was reused in 2022 for its replacement roller coaster, Wonder Woman Flight of Courage. The coaster was removed later in the year and relocated to La Ronde in Montreal, where it was originally set to reopen as Vipère in 2020. It remained inactive at the park, and in March 2019, Six Flags announced that Green Lantern would not be reopening. In July 2017, Green Lantern closed unexpectedly for unknown reasons. A week and a half later, Six Flags Magic Mountain reopened the coaster. Īfter the deadly incident on Inferno at Terra Mítica in Benidorm, Spain on July 7, 2014, and because the two rides share several similarities, Six Flags Magic Mountain had ceased running Green Lantern: First Flight pending investigation findings from the European park. This, however, resulted in unnatural, painful and shaky movements which caused the ride to receive somewhat mixed reviews from those who experienced the coaster. As a solution, Green Lantern received modifications to the trains to reduce the spinning. The coaster had a mechanical flaw where the trains would reportedly get stuck upside down. In addition to Green Lantern's premiere on July 1, other rides in the DC Universe themed area made their debut as well, including The Flash: Speed Force, and Wonder Woman: Lasso of Truth. Primary construction was completed in May 2011. Park officials clarified that the delays were due to unplanned design changes to the loading station and not because of mechanical issues. Īfter delaying the ride's opening multiple times, Six Flags eventually settled on an opening date of July 1, 2011. The ride vehicles also arrived at the park during this time. Reports surfaced in February 2011 that portions of track had arrived on site. According to the press release, it was scheduled to be built in a "newly themed section" of the park, later revealed as DC Universe in place of Gotham City Backlot. The new coaster, a ZacSpin model from Intamin, would be the first of its kind in the United States. On October 20, 2010, six days after a leaked video revealed plans for a new roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain, Six Flags officially confirmed that Green Lantern: First Flight would open in spring of 2011. The Coaster when it operated as Green Lantern at Six Flags Magic Mountain
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