I like how you can hear his cries of pain

I was like "why have I never heard of this ride?" then remembered it used to be Ninja

The grunting is impeccable 😂😂

I rode this ride countless times growing up. No row helps. I’m a coaster junkie and this ride HURTS.

Me and my brother’s first ever coaster when I was 14 and he was 10. My dad forced us to go on it, and we were crying like babies. No regrets, as I love coasters now!

The head-choppers on this ride are insane.

Fun fact: this ride was designed to fit into the space now occupied by the Great Nor'Easter at Surfside Pier. This is why the layout is so similar to the SLC; the SLC was actually designed to fit into that space, and then cloned.

Paint job looks good, ride looks brutal!

Before it was repainted, the old Ninja version of this coaster was the one they filmed the Griswold family on when they were at Wallyworld in the newer Vacation movie with Ed Helms and Christina Applegate. It was called the Velociraptor in the movie.

I just actually road this ride today at six flags. It’s actually not bumpy anymore ride has definitely been improved. And I normally don’t even get on roller coasters. But I would definitely ride this again.

From the noises he was making i don’t think I will ever go on

I love this ride so much!!even tho im 10 its amazing!!

The only compliment this ride deserves is how compact it is. :D

It’s not that bad. It’s better than ninja. It’s actually enjoyable!!.

I surprisingly really like this ride, it may be a little on the jerky side, but it is intense in the back row!

This is my favorite coaster at my home park... ...aside from every single other coaster. I need to file a police report against Vekoma for brutally assaulting me.

1:31 gets me every time.

First few times I rode this is was fantastic. Best ride in the park. Rode it last year and it’s starting to get bumpy but it’s still really freakin good. My second favorite roller coaster next to Tennessee tornado at Dollywood

This ride was fun. I rode it at night and wasn't expecting that loop and had to hold my glasses. I'll definitely ride this again

Alot of ppl don't know that this was the coaster used in the movie Vacation back when it was red. It was called velociraptor in the movie.

It is still the ninja its just painted blue💯

Those people are loving the butterfly inversion XD

This was actually my first roller coaster I ever ride. How the hell am I coaster enthusiast, I don't know. But yeah this ride apparently did it for me when I was 7.

Loved this ride so much!

Gotta love the G-force grunts lol. How you know it's an old school looper packed with good G's.

this is definite our favorite ride. it is such a smooth ride! my only complaint is that it's so good, we go "nooooo!!" when it's over.

i love this roller coaster i got on it 5 times ina row

i saw these comments before riding the rollercoaster and i was expecting it to be really bad. I actually really like it lol

I road this 100% my favorite after goliath its fun no cap

I remember when Ninja first opened up around 26 years ago. I got to ride it before the park opened up and yes it was a headbanger to the extreme.

The best roller coaster I've ever rode by far. So fun!

I really wish this ride was longer. 👍

I swear I instinctively duck my head down whenever we go under the tracks as if they'll cut my head off

I love how the ride after getting to the top slows down than starts coming off the chain clicking

i love this one my aunt passed out when we went there

Rode it long ago as Ninja and it hurt me so bad that I’ve never been able to ride any coaster since…. It was BRUTALLY PAINFUL!!

Rode this last week. Got off the ride with a stiff next and I'm pretty sure a mild concussion. Kids seems fine and wanted to ride again but the older you get the worse this ride is.

It’s fun, I live near this six flags and let me tell you, this one used to be pretty smooth, but the past few years have not treated this ride well

I saw the track and thought it was made by Arrow Dynamics. I looked up to be sure and it was made by Vekoma.

This is my favorite one from over georgia!

So many head chopper elements!

You’re a brave man! That ride beats up more people than Mike Tyson ever did in the ring! Great footage though 👍🏻

ah the old ninja. i rode it once, around the late 90's....i just remember seeing the people in the back car's head rattle around so roughly i thought it was going to break their neck. fun times.

i respect the hell out of this coaster for turning a 2/10 coaster to like a 5 or 6/10 coaster. still not a great ride but ninja was the one gaping pit in sfog's repertoire and its been improved greatly as blue hawk, even if it is still just mediocre

Wow I go there a lot I’ve never rode that before but dare devil dive is good!

Not a bad ride I rode it 3x back to back it’s one of my favs

They should add those new trains to other coasters like Viper at Darien Lake and Six Flags Magic Mountain, Vortex at Kings Island, Anaconda at Kings Dominion, and Ninja at Six Flags St Louis to name a few.

i went on this ride for the first time yesterday and i can’t decide if i like it or absolutely hate it

that was my 2nd favroite ride at six flags!

The new restraints truly revived this ride. Head banging gone!

I’ve had been on that before. It was really fun.

I remember going to the park that year. It was so freakin crowded

Looks great, I don’t understand why people hate these kinds of newer Vekoma’s

This ride use to be called the Ninja and it was red & black... but people hated it cause it would throw your head around And Leave a major headache or sometime even injury. It’s the same ride... just different colors but better safety gear

Funnest coaster I’ve been on

I use to have a headache after this ride but it was fun tho!!!!

So good it got in the movie vacation

Sound like it hurt

my friend is forcing me on this ride next time we go to Six Flags and this made me feel a little bit better about it

biggest headache inducer of all time lmao

best ride there to to me it's not scary when you go down just upside down

i can safely say this vekoma is only good when it's not transitioning or upside down. so the drop and the brake run lol is the best parts

LoL at the people behind you. This is on my Old Skool page. Even with new trains, it's still the old track layout. Didn't work for T3.

this one was actually more fun than it looks. i didn't feel the drop bc it was super fast.

Isn’t this the ride that was used in the “Vacation” movie?

This ride is sooo fun !!!

It’s the exact same as ninja minus the roughest section, the pads you’d hit your head on and the old samurai theme with loads of taki ads

I love the color scheme but I can feel the rides roughness through the video oh my

those are the closest headchoppers i've ever seen

Never actually got on this but i might try it in the future. Theres just so many better coasters at the park that it doesnt seem worth it.

If Vekoma isn't trying to kill people with rough rides, it'll be their layouts. Even when watching this on a computer I feel like those supports and track will chop my head off.

This my favorite ride

They changed it around some but that was the former Ninja

they made it way better this year

I ride this in 2007 I was 16 it was the Ninja and I thought my head was going to be a final destination 3 moment 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Of all the corkscrew coasters I've seen, this is the only one I've seen where the corkscrews go left instead of right. I wonder what other corkscrew coasters have them going left...

this was my first ride with a loop i didnt know there were 50

Are you excited about Twisted Cyclone?

I rode this coaster recently. All I can say is I would have hated to have rode it before it got new trains. Bit on the rough side to say the least.

i remember riding this. and it was pretty good except for some parts that were rough and i remember one of the rough parts kinda jerked my neck so i quoted something from friday “ my neck my back my neck and my back “ and the all the riders heard me and started laughing.

Not sure whether Six Flags Magic Mountain is considering giving its Viper coaster a similar rehab, like Six Flags Over Georgia did with Blue Hawk (used to be Ninja). Assuming Vekoma trains with vest style restraints on an Arrow mega looper is doable... as many Arrow Dynamics manufactured world class coasters are hard to come by. Looking forward to Twisted Cyclone coming to SFOG in 2018. Hopefully the wood supports get painted that similar shade of grey, like SFNE's Wicked Cyclone coaster, Twisted Cyclone logo on the lift-hill structure, and maybe some weather chasers theming... and hopefully Georgia Scorcher gets a new and much needed paint job during the winter off-season.

What exactly IS a blue hawk anyway?

Was gonna get on the Blue Hawk but the ride got stuck and my sister was like nah we gonna do that another day

This basically similar if not the same thing as an SLC but the trains don’t hang above the track

Why did you make those sounds when it was a loop lol

Fun ride. Ride it twice

This thing was brutal for like 20 years. Any smoother now?

The first inversion looks so painful!

1:31 From the minute he made that sound, that lets you know that the ride still hasn’t been fixed.

I have to get on this!!!

I got on this yesterday for the first time and I was so proud of myself bc I didn’t scream

This is the velosoraptor coaster from the 2015 remake of vacation

That Butterfly element is one of the weirdest elements ever

Drove here from Florida and my god Imma say something controversial THIS PARK IS BETTER THEN ISLANDS OF ADVENTURE

Wondering how this compares to Goudourix

Sounded like he was coughing up a fur ball.

too much fun

This coaster is excellent. The new trains are great, and the reprofiling is VERY noticeable. They did a great job restoring this. I wish they'd done stuff like this to the big arrows (Shockwave, Great American Scream Machine, now Vortex RIP) as if they weren't unpopular as it is. I am also aware "Blue Hawk" is a Vekoma. Boomerangs with these style trains are so much nicer too. I rode this 8 times in a row even if I had to move seats a lot as it was just enjoyable to get the classic steel coaster experience as if it'd was brand new. Goliath is amazing (the layout is better than most B&M hypers) but this is my 2nd favorite coaster in the park, even more than "Riddler's Mindbender" and Daredevil Dive....and "wooden" Great American Scream Machine. Top 5 to me at SFOG: 1. Goliath (B&M Hyper) 2. Blue Hawk (Vekoma custom looper) 3. Daredevil Dive (Gerstualuer Eurofighter) 4. Great American Scream Machine (wooden coaster PTC) 5. Riddler's Mindbender (shwarzkopf custom looper) I MIGHT put batman the ride up on this list (cause I like them) but it seems to break down a lot at this park, not sure why. If they made georgia scorcher floorless it'd also be a huge improvement even though it's the least rough stand-up I've been on (as opposed to SFGADV's Green Lantern and SFAmerica's apocalypse before converted to firebird).

I liked this ride I was like wooo hoo a SPIRAL

1:16 What is that siren sound