Apocalypse & West Coast Racers
Trains jockey for lead

Six Flags Magic Mountain, Valencia, California

West Coast Racers

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“A solid, fun, fast coaster, with a fun gimmick.”

4,000ftNo. 55 longest of 398 US coastersThe Beast 7,361 ftFury 325 6,602 ftWest Coast Racers3:00ride time4xupside down
POV
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Back row
a spaghetti bowl of speed and smoothness
What riders love
  • Watching the other train fly around you that close is AWESOME!! It’s the closest you can get to being an FPV drone.
  • It's such a blast to have friends on the other train and try to watch their reactions as you dart under and over them.
  • Very fun elements and my first time inverting over another running coaster train.
  • The second half's inversions and helix are a lot of fun, and then you get to go and do it all again on the other side!
  • West Coast Racers is very fun and very long. Both sides could function as their own coaster.
  • You get a long ride for what you wait for in the line, too!
  • The dueling is great and it has a couple moments that will leave you out of your seat, most notably the especially snappy wave turn.
  • Great lateral airtime right out of the first launch, and several enjoyable inversions.
  • Overall, the layout is fun, especially the dueling in the spaghetti bowl section and the little airtime pops.
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Performance

Vs. other coasters at Six Flags Magic Mountain

The maneuvers are very RMC-esque, but the forces are more floaty and regulated instead of intense, which I think fits the racing cars theme well.

Coaster Carl

The dueling is great and it has a couple moments that will leave you out of your seat, most notably the especially snappy wave turn.

Benjamin Andrews

that high five element has some of the best ejector i’ve ever experienced, but unfortunately i did experience headbanging on the second half of the ride

Logan Rodriguez

The dueling is cool and it has some good inversions and airtime pops, but the trains are not the best.

Zach Payne

There is one good element (the high 5) everything else consists of weak launches, a 0-g-stall that wishes it was as good as TC/WW, forceless inversions, and stupid helixes.

Zach

This ride is glass smooth but this is not a good ride because, of the comfort callers/uncomforted callers.

Asher Amazing

...with a an exciting ride with great theming that appeals to a wide range of tastes and is very smooth, rerideable coaster that guests will want to experience every time they come to the park.

The Coaster Kings

The ride experience itself is perfectly fun, exceptionally smooth, and although it’s not the biggest or fastest in the park, it’s definitely enjoyable.

Proxy 303

I tried to keep my hands up for the majority of the ride, but I had to put them down to protect my ears from how much pain they were in.

Brendan Kujda

The layout could be fun but some of those transitions are borderline rough especially the second/fourth launch

Grey B

The helix is a very forceful moment but it’s hard to see the other trains as they jockey back and forth for the lead and there is so many large supports.

Jack Jack J.

The first launch is surprisingly punchy, and the rest of the layout is surprisingly intense and the inversions are smooth.

Elijah Bacelieri

There is definitely a good amount of intensity in the layouts and the helix elements are pretty strong.

Shmee

The first track is pretty fun and more intense than the second track.

Ryan Hanna

It doesnt make you crap yourself like X2 or try to kill you like Twisted Collosus, it is just a fun multi-launch dueling coaster.

Ryan Armstrong

The ride itself though is fun just not that intense.

Noah Sanchez

A solid, fun, fast coaster, with a fun gimmick.

Proxy 303

While some portions can feel like they are doing nothing, it does have some really great moments.

Fsoer Realm

It’s a long ride but it just has so many dead spots.

Inverted Thrills

The crowds hadn’t picked up yet, so it was a walk-on in the morning.

Max S.

The park was empty on my two days there (triple-digit temps), so every ride was usually a walk-on -- except for WC Racers with an average 30-minute wait.

Coaster Nut

The operations were extremely slow when I was there and the collars suck but it’s a great ride if you look past that.

Chris Jones
Worth the queue

But I can look past this, so this is definitely worth the wait.

Lightning Productions

It’s definitely worth the wait, but the capacity seems to be very low at the moment (300ish per hour as of the December 21st soft opening); Six Flags seems to be aware of this though, and have opted...

Evangelion Martini

Should I ride it?

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Specifications

67 ftHeight
235 Goliath 188 Viper 170 Tatsu 164 FullThrottle 156 Riddler'sRevenge 67 West CoastRacers
55 mphTop speed
Goliath85 Full Throttle70 Viper70 Riddler'sRevenge65 Scream!63 West CoastRacers55 085 mph
4Inversions

What riders say

Praised for

FunSmooth rideLong rideGreat launchGreat layoutGreat inversionsHangtime

Criticised for

Uncomfortable restraintsPainful or bruisingLong waitsWeak launchRider fit issues

The dueling is really cool and it has some awesome airtime moments and moments of positives.

Chris Jones, Captain Coaster review

This will carve out a nice role in the park as a step-up family inversion coaster but wow do the comfort collars hurt the ride experience.

Sean, Captain Coaster review

A good ride,very long and with good inversions that i found smooth and very enjoyable.

Alessio Romano, Captain Coaster review

I wasn’t expecting it too be anything too special based on what I’ve read, but the dueling is truly great and it’s just pure fun the whole way!

Kellen Grady, Captain Coaster review

Then, it’s go time on the 55mph, 67 ft high, 4,000 ft long track resulting in one of the most fun coasters in the state!

The Coaster Kings, published review

Literally only 12 can ride at a time, which creates gigantic wait times making this ride not worth it.

Vivaan Chopra, Captain Coaster review

Photos

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Planning your ride

History

January 9, 2020Opened

Built by Premier Rides.

3.9 gStrongest force on riders

Sources

Restraint types: Captain Coaster. History, incidents and awards: Wikipedia. Height requirement: Six Flags Magic Mountain. Specifications and status: Coasterpedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Also read: Captain Coaster (converted to feet and mph). Rider sentiment and performance scores: rider reviews on Captain Coaster, thecoasterkings.com, youtube.com, read and scored by AirtimeFever.

Photographs via Wikimedia Commons: Jeremy Thompson from Los Angeles, California (CC BY 2.0), Roller Coaster Philosophy (CC BY 2.0). Video thumbnails remain the property of their channels and link back to them.

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Quote at the top of the page: Proxy 303, Captain Coaster review.

What riders love, by theme (themes in the order riders pick them most on Captain Coaster): Coaster Carl, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The dualing is SO CLOSE it feels like you…”; Elan Godoy, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Watching the other train fly around you that close…”; matthew p., rider review on Captain Coaster: “It's such a blast to have friends on the…”; brothers back row, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Very fun elements and my first time inverting over…”; cres sidalia, rider review on Captain Coaster: “I love the dueling aspect, and it’s so cool…”; Elijah Bacelieri, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The second half's inversions and helix are a lot…”; Nathan F, rider review on Captain Coaster: “West Coast Racers is very fun and very long.…”; Max S., rider review on Captain Coaster: “You get a long ride for what you wait…”; AZCOASTERS, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Amazing sideways airtime! That first launch into those wave…”; Benjamin Andrews, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The dueling is great and it has a couple…”; Josh Miller, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Great lateral airtime right out of the first launch,…”; Gabe S, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Overall, the layout is fun, especially the dueling in…”; Elijah Bacelieri, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The second launch, however, is what really gets this…”.

The photo slider at the top and the fading stills: coastercrutchfield's back row POV, West Coast Racers Back Row (HD POV) Six Flags Magic Mountain (YouTube), and the page's Wikimedia Commons photographs.