I never thought I would see the day, planet coaster 2 is hereeeeee!!!

It’s absolutely astonishing that Kid Flash at Fiesta just derailed, Valleyfair flooded again, and Boomerang at WOF valleyed 3 times all within the span of the last few weeks.

Man that logo seriously throws me off, I'm so used to seeing Cedar Fair in that font type and now seeing Six Flags in that style is so odd to me

As someone who works at valleyfair, I can tell you Excalibur isn't leaving too soon. They replaced the panel about 2-3 years ago and said they wouldn't get rid of it. I can also tell you we are supposed to finally get a new coaster in 2026 for our 50th anniversary. But we'll see if that happens.

I'm hoping the closure of CGA extends the life of Demon at SFGAm if they can use the parts.

Follow-up: the next coaster to be ADDED to the parks (the opposite of this video)

The thing about Flash at Discovery Kingdom is that there's no ride that can really replace it and it's pretty iconic to the people that go there. There's no way they'd get rid of it soon. Pretty much any of the Vekomas are more likely to go because the land they sit on could be used so much better and nobody ever goes on them unless it's busy.

Buy or sell: Six Flags relocates Kingda Ka to Michigan’s Adventures. Then Great Adventure builds a 650’ coaster to one up Falcon’s Flight

If Kingda Ka gets axed GAdv can say goodbye to it's chances at competing with Hershey

Please take out Jaguar at Knotts. It's an eyesore. And leaves every rider sore too! Restore some sight lines.

If Kingda Ka gets removed, they’re also removing Zumanjaro too. So I’m confident the park will do whatever they can to keep Ka up and running. My money is on either Lantern or Superman going before Ka goes

The lines at cedar point are so bad. Removing rougarou seems like a non issue until youre waiting 2 hours for valravn and gatekeeper

I feel that airtime thrills will be the one who will get us very accustomed to referring all the former Cedar Fair and former Six Flags parks all as just "Six Flags". I can't wait for more list videos involving the merged company. I'm all for it. Edit: Tbh, I wouldn't mind Flash going the most at Great America, i hate Joker, but i feel that flash is on the line too, I've never considered Maxx Force as a contender to go early but it is a very low capacity ride.

Am I the only one who feels bad for Skyline? They left a comment on a video about Harley Quinn, and they seemed really committed to taking criticism well and improving in the future. Same with Zamperla. Maybe I'm being weird for feeling bad for corporations.

For Cedar Point, I think corkscrew and/or Iron Dragon. Six Flags could do one coaster across both plots and I could see them both used for parts elsewhere.

When California's Great America does eventually close, I could see Six Flags sending Demon over to Six Flags Great America to be used for parts on their Demon to extend the life of the coaster. Like how Shockwave and Great American Scream Machine were sent to Magic Mountain to be used on Viper and how XLR-8 was sent to Magic Mountain to be used on Ninja.

I just went to Cedar Point last Sunday and was surprised Rougarou had such a short wait time. I liked the ride, it was surprising but it also beat my head/neck up like the Corkscrew will out there too.

Video Idea: Top 15 Most Overshadowed Coasters (Coasters That Are Overlooked By Many People Due To Bigger Or Better Coasters In The Park)

Excalibur just got a major, very expensive upgrade. I think Mad Mouse will be removed before Excalibur. Mad Mouse is the most inconveniently operated ride there, and a line of 30 people can run 25 minutes or more. I’d see that before Excalibur. Although Excalibur is way tucked back, bigger thrill seekers still go to it! A little more advertising and people will flock to it!

An RMC raptor replacing Invertigo like what they did to California’s great America would be a good option for KI

Demon I know is going to stick around for the 50th because the park actually has been adding new effects to it, repainting the station, and S&S still has Arrow reproduction parts to keep it chugging. Plus it’s one of Great Americas opening day attractions and I feel you can’t have Whizzer without Demon Plus, in the rides cheesy story soundtrack, any people who tried to tear the evil spirit down would flee or not be seen again. 😆So bulldozers ain’t going to exorcise it.

Seeing as the new six flags hq will be at Carowinds that park is gonna be radically different in 5 years

The way you talk about it, you’d think Timber Wolf sat on your beloved hamster or something.

Invertigo at Kings Island has been closed my last 3 or 4 visits, the whole path back to it's entrance is blocked off with a big red expandable barrier. The last time I was there and it was open, me and a friend were in line when the brakes decided "nah, we're good today" and the train rolled back and forth until finally coming to a stop in the station. This malfunction and the closing may be a coincidence but I go to Kings Island weekly so I thought it was worth mentioning. Personally, I'm willing to bet it's on it's death bed. Great video as always! EDIT: OH NO IT REOPENED😭

Here’s a bold prediction: Psycho Mouse won’t get relocated. It’ll be scrapped and its parts sent east to support Mad Mouse at Michigan’s Adventure

Anaconda sits on prime location. For phase 3 of the jungle expedition expansion, I say remove Anaconda for a b&m flyer and retheme Backlot stunt coaster to a jungle truck adventure.

I’d love to see this video format for Americas major independent parks and the SeaWorld/Herschend parks

I’d say green lantern over kingda ka it either gets removed or relocated it’s not popular and is closed a lot for a B&M.

Honestly, I'm not sure Monstre is next for La Ronde. It got RMC track on the first "drop" and a new entrance sign. Maybe Ednor next if it isn't Monstre

I just got back from Carowinds. Ditch the boomerang, it’s the only bad coaster in the park.

Monster needs the RNC treatment and also the two tracks made into a single track, do that and it'll have the longest line in the park.

Some thoughts on this: Great Adventure is a very interesting debate. Park has done a great job adding coasters without removing any for their last 3 additions (not counting Rolling Thunder). I don't blame you for throwing Kingda Ka in the mix. But I don't think it has the problems El Toro does so as a local this concerns me more. Green Lantern and Medusa I think are in the discussion for next removal there too. Dorney think you nailed it with Possessed and same with KD and Anaconda. I just don't think either happen anytime soon due to recent moves by the park but maybe in 10 years. Cedar Point I have a hot take that T2 is next out. Just have a bad feeling this is not gonna work out and CP will finally give up on it. As for Knotts I hope Coast Rider is next out. Coaster is God awful lol

Could you do a video about how the new 2025 KD coaster will impact the parks future? Thanks

I agree with Batwing. For all of the fans who want to keep it around, it has way too much down time to stay more than another 5 years.

I doubt Timberwolf will be going anywhere anytime soon (maybe they RMC it but hard to say). I have a feeling the next roller coaster at world of fun to go will be boomerang.

They replaced the operator panel for Nighthawk recently and just repainted vortex this year. Both of staying for a few more years unfortunately

Timber Wolf being getting the RMC treatment is the next roller coaster choice at WOF

Rougarou did over 1 million riders last year, it’s capacity is just good

Is there a video somewhere describing Dragster 2’s problems? I haven’t heard anything about it.

I think Ninja at Magic Mountain is the next to go. I think Viper gets the Loch Ness Monster treatment.

Regarding Six Flags Over Texas. 3 Coasters that almost certainly will never go. 1) Runaway Mine Train. It is a landmark for first of its kind. 3) Shockwave, not only the first of its kind, but due to City ordinance changes, if Shockwave was taken out, they cannot put anything else on that spot. 3) Judge Roy Scream. It has a similar issue as the Shockwave in that if taken out, nothing else could be put in uts place. It also is a landmark of some sort.

I was able to ride Time Warp earlier this week with little issues. It was closed for like 30 minutes, but after a ride on the carousel it was back open. My vote for Canada's Wonderland next removal is Dragon Fyre, and that's because it made me see stars

One ahead of Kingda Ka at Great Adventure: Green Lantern. Anybody who goes on it goes for their first time and then never again. It's prime real estate and a terrible ride that was already once relocated. Even could be converted to a floorless. I think that will go before such an icon for the park.

About King’s Dominion, I don’t think Anaconda will be the next to leave. Considering they have spent so much money for their Jungle Xpedition area, since Anaconda is a part of that, I don’t believe that it will be next to go. They are even in the process of building a new wing coaster for Jungle Xpedition right now. If there were to be a coaster that was removed, I wouldn’t be surprised that it’s something like Backlot Stunt Coaster or Flight Of Fear, maybe to expand the Jungle Xpedition area, but I doubt that Anaconda is the next to leave.

LOVED this video. I would be very curious to hear your thoughts on what coaster each park will ADD next as well. I think we might see more Eurofighters for some of the smaller parks.

Carowinds just repainted Vortex this year, and it got a control panel update last year. I know Nighthawk has the spare parts from Firehawk, but it's still way less reliable than Vortex is. Every time I've gone this season it's been completely down, or only running one train.

I think you are correct with boomerang at SFSL. They have been spending a lot of money and time back in that area. Putting up cat woman close to there and taking out the Superman drop tower. Not too far away is the new rookie racer and the new joker going in. So it seems like they are working a lot at the back of the park. And not far away they took out tidal wave a while back. Kinda seems like there may be a plan for back there

ninja is really well taken care of, its not as bumpy as it used to be

Can you make a video of which parks will get the ax and where the coasters they once had will then be shipped to if it’s either the junkyard or to another park that has better plans for it

I’m so happy that six flags over Texas will probably get rid of la vibora. It’s such a rough ride and sfot needs something new like a dive or wing coaster.

What if Six Flags rebought Elitch Gardens and turned it into something great? It’s my home park and I want it to be great.

Keep up the awesome content man! Love the hypothetical, fun videos. Gives me my coaster fix without rewatching the same ranking videos all the time

I would love to see Superman get converted into a full circuit coaster instead of being axed for good. If they build up and over it and go down the Mountain they can beat Falcon's Flight for height, longest drop, etc. especially if they had the first drop go into a tunnel. It could be turned into an airtime machine that travels around the back of the park before heading back to the station. SFMM social media has been doing a fair amount of Viper-love posts recently so I don't know if it's just to show love or to show the CF folks that people still enjoy it because it's still an awesome ride. Viper should be an ACE landmark and get the TLC it deserves. I can see Railblazer heading to Six Flags St. Louis. (Video Idea, what parks should get which rides from California's Great America when it closes?)

7:50 totally agree with ya! Oh and get rid of flight deck too. It would be prime real estate for a B&M invert or a wing coaster.

At Great Adventure I don't think they would take out King Da Ka first, if anything it would most likely be Skull Mountain. Skull Mountain is almost twenty years old and there is another indoor family coaster not too far away from it. They did some "refurbishing" the first month or two that the park was open this year and when it finally opened, they just added some flashing strobe lights and upbeat music. There is still light peeping through the building making it not completely dark inside. One of the stations for the Skyride is right next door and since that recently closed if they took down Skull Mountain that could make room for a new coaster.

As a Great Adventure ride op and regular, as much as Ka gives the park issues, they love the thing to death and they’ll go thru hell and back if it means keeping it. Skull mountain and Green Lantern are more likely to leave IMO just due to their age, bad reputations, or low rider ship

Six Flags America is holding on to Batwing by a thread. Whenever you see it open, it’s a must ride because you never know when it will take its last rides. It’s been closed for half the season, but it looks like they got it running this week. SFA honestly can’t afford to lose batwing if they don’t have an immediate replacement. They’ve closed the entire whistlestop park, fireball, zydeco zinger, rodeo, and now shipwreck falls. Roar needs to be RMC’d and firebird is the most pointless coaster ever. There’s going to be some major gaps to fill over the next 5-10 years (If the park makes it)

I had an idea for a roller coaster design. It's like an Intamin blitz, or mack launch coaster, but the seats are facing sideways, or outside from the train. Think of it like the back row drop on time traveller, except the seats are permanently sideways. Idk if it would be better than just a spinning coaster tho...

Great video! I like your suggestions!

I'm hoping Time Warp at Wonderland get's axed this year

Superman Escape From Krypton also had a brush fire next to it two weeks ago as well

Lmao the whole time I was like "It'S nOt HaPpEnInG" and hear we are lol

ohhh Michigan's Adventure.... my Corkscrew experience... Alright, here we go, up the hill, round the turn, here come the loops... wait... where are the loops?? Just a corkscrew? What the hell is this?? Also.. Mad Mouse is an awesome Wild Mouse. So that ain't gonna be it.

I would think KI would get rid of The Bat before BLSC. It’s a lot older and in prime real estate for something big. But I agree, Invertigo needs to go next (as long as they add another coaster with inversions).

You know Great Adventure has a top tier lineup when Chris needs to use a top coaster at the park, and to say how he is not confident about it

To me Great America needs to RMC American Eagle. Demon is still a fun ride but Eagle is just far too rough.

I can also see Excalibur being the next one to leave, but I really hope not. It is short, but good! That airtime hill is one of my favorites.

Much as I like dunking on Time Warp, I'm not sure I'd call that a lock as the next removal at Canada's Wunderbar. It's got such a tiny footprint that you'd struggle to fit even a large-scale flat ride on it. Meanwhile, there's also an unpopular 43-year-old Arrow looper taking up more space in a less-developed part of the park. Might have to work around Leviathan's supports and brake run, but coaster builders are creative, they can figure that out.

I remember being subscribed when this channel was smaller. Congrats on the growth.

Can you do this but for each manufacturer instead? (unless you already did it)

Agree with most of these. Still think that a lot of parks are more likely to remove Boomerangs next, even if they're not one of the oldest coasters at their park. They've been everywhere, they're an old clone model associated with small parks, and they're not family friendly. Also - because they're compact - they're relatively cheap to remove and replace. So, I won't be surprised if *La Ronde, Worlds of Fun, Canada's Wonderland, Discovery Kingdom, and Carowinds* remove their Boomerangs before Monstre, Timber Wolf, Time Warp, Flash VV, and Vortex. Great Escape might even remove theirs before Steamin' Demon if adding a family Boomerang is more value-added than a small launched coaster with inversions. For parks that don't have Boomerangs, here's what I'd predict differently: *CGA:* Remove RailBlazer first, but only if the northwest corner of the park can be saved. This way, Psycho Mouse would stay. *Knott's Berry Farm:* Relocate Pony Express to Michigan's Adventure; replace with a Vekoma STC *Valleyfair!:* Replace their under-capacity Wild Mouse with an RMC Wild Moose *Six Flags over Georgia:* If Kid Flash can be saved, Dare Devil Dive would be removed (relocated to La Ronde?) first *Cedar Point:* Replace Corkscrew with a launched Vekoma family model. (Better in near term than a new thrill coaster) *Six Flags America:* Park is sold to focus on Kings Dominion; Jokers Jinx and Superman will be removed with Batwing. *Six Flags Great Adventure:* Replace Runaway Mine Train with a launched Vekoma family coaster.

Ninja and viper will both go bye-bye before Superman

You should do a video where you list the top 10 or 20 best countries based on coaster collection or maybe theme park collection. That would be cool

I just really hope that in the future, Six Flags Great America will RMC American Eagle because that ride is very rough and underwhelming.

Video idea: rank all the major clones (batman the rides, s&s freespins, boomerangs, slcs, wild mouses ect.)

Gotta do this for independent parks

oh my gahhh airtime thrills uploaded 😫😫😫😫

I like your choice for Kings Island. The thing that I absolutely love about Cedar Point, Carowinds, and Canada's Wonderland is you have a coaster front and center as you walk into the park. If at all possible, Kings Island needs to find a way to put a coaster in that does this and getting rid of Faceof..., I mean Invertigo opens up space to do this. The big question we all have is how long do the Arrow Suspended coasters have before time catches up and they have no choice but to close them?

If Coast Rider got replaced by a custom Vekoma family boomerang, and maybe one of those newer Vekoma SFCs, that would do wonders for the coaster lineup. I just rode Snoopy's at Kings Island a few days ago, and that ride is just pure fun. Theme them to the beach or surfing and you got a winner on your hands.

Here’s a idea for SFOT: They could RMC judge Roy scream to make it a family coaster because it’s super rough and I know SFOT is trying to cater more to family’s so this would make sense

SFOG’s next coaster to get taken out is likely Blue Hawk. Kid Flash on the other is a small possibility. Theirs didn’t derail like the one at Fiesta, but they closed it for precaution so the same thing doesn’t happen to them. The park hasn’t removed any coaster since Georgia Cyclone 7 years ago

I’d say the parks most at risk from the merger are:SFA, SFDL, SFDK, WOF, and DP

Great video Airtime and I thought I would share my list of the coasters I think could get the axe SFDK: vertical velocity CGA: Psycho Mouse SFMM: Viper KBF: Xcelerator SFM: Boomerang SFFT: Kid Flash SFOT: La Vibora FC: Diamondback SFSL: Ninja WOF: Timberwolf or Boomerang VF: Mad Mouse SFGAM: Demon MA: Mad Mouse CP: Corkscrew KI: Invertigo SFOG: Kid Flash C: Vortex KD: Anaconda SFA: Batwing SFGE: Steamin Demon or Flashback SFDL: Hootin howler SFGAD: Skull Mountain or Dark Knight CW: Time Warp LR: Le Monstre SFNE: Flashback

my home park is six flags discovery kingdom, and kong, boomerang coast to coaster and flash v2 have no trains on the circuit or matinience tracks

Viper at Magic Mountain is the last of 3 of its kind left. Shockwave at Great America was the 1st to go. The trains from Shockwave went to Magic Mountain for parts when it closed in 2002. Viper is designed to run 3 trains at a time. They only have 2 trains left. That tells me that they are running out of parts. I agree that one could be going in the near future.👍

The beast at kings island has been closed often lately. Saturday it was closed basically all day, open for like 20 minutes, got stuck then closed, Sunday it was open from 11, till like 3, got stuck again and closed.

Cedar Creek Mine Ride needs to go or needs updating. The trains are very uncomfy. Maybe do a partial teardown and refurbishment with a new layout and trains.

Time Warp (formerly Tomb Raider) is a highly underrated ride. Between it and it's head-banging neighbour, Flight Deck (formerly Top Gun), I'd rather Wonderland remove the latter. Flight Deck is just... ULTRA rough now. Unless they somehow make it a smoother ride experience, it's just not worth riding anymore (and I say that having had my most recent ride last week, on Canada Day. Also, I'm shocked you said Possessed for Dorney. It's a GREAT ride, considering its short design style. It's interesting that you picked a few Arrow loopers/corkscrew variants at the various parks. Aside from some roughness on Anaconda, every Arrow I've ever been on seemed like it was built to last (either that, or they're just ridiculously easy to maintain). Having gotten to ride a bunch of them outside of Wonderland last year, I'm continuously amazed by their solid build quality (from what I've experienced, anyway). That noted, forget Corkscrew... I hope the banish the entirety of Michigan's Adventure to the land of misfit theme parks, or completely overhaul the management. The way that place is run is a stain on the Cedar Fair (Six Flags Entertainment) name. Unless they majorly changed things since last summer...

Demon at Great America is an original Marriotts coaster. It used to be called Turn of the Century in 1976. Then it opened as Demon in 1980 when the 2 camel hills were replaced with the 2 loops. When Shockwave closed in 2002 they used a piece of track to repair a section of Demon Track. Six Flags have refurbished some flat rides from the Marriotts era. I think Demon will be staying.

6:40 I will say Chris that Invertigo hasn’t been opened the last couple of weeks.

I know you didn’t cover this, but what’s your opinion on the S&S steel curtain at Kennywood. That’s my home park. I rode it once I was there the other day looking at the structure you can clearly see where they marked the bolts mounting the track to the structure and they are all loose….. sad

Kings dominion needs more love, you’re right they’ve just been taking more coasters than replacing them :/ Truly tho anaconda either needs major help or just needs to go. Such a great location over the water tho

RUMOR RUMOR RUMOR. the tilt coaster that was supposedly going to energylandia was scrapped, and is being sent to six flags Mexico. word is the red track for said tilt is already being to appear on site at six flags Mexico. so maybe that boomerang going away isn't to farfetched

With great adventure I’m confident that ka is the next to be removed or renovated. They aren’t gonna touch it for another year in order for it to be 20 years old then I assume that it will get zamperlad

For great adventure I think Medusa might be a better pick. It’s tucked away behind the arena, a bit rough, and the space could be used for a better bigger coaster if the arena is taken down also.

I wonder how much time invertigo has left. I haven't seen it running with people on it since the banshee incident but that may just be a coincidence. Some people confirmed it was still down in the KI sub 6 days ago but I'm not sure if they got it running again.

Here's to hoping that Six Flags gives some of the neglected parks from the Cedar Fair chain some love.

9:56 They could have Intamin do a conversion of Kingda Ka instead of Zamperla.

insider info from kings island: it might actually be flight of fear first... but i hope it's invertigo! especially given its current issues

Could you do a video about every six flags park next roller coaster they should add