{"id":41547,"date":"2019-03-24T12:37:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T17:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/?p=41547"},"modified":"2023-03-20T17:59:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T22:59:03","slug":"six-flags-magic-mountain-to-remove-green-lantern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/2019\/03\/24\/six-flags-magic-mountain-to-remove-green-lantern\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Flags Magic Mountain to Remove Green Lantern: First Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News broke that the Green Lantern: First Flight roller coaster will remain permanently closed until it is removed at a later date. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screamscape.com\/html\/six_flags_magic_mountain.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Screamscape<\/a>\u00a0was able to confirm this with Sue Carpenter:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41548\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41548\" class=\"wp-image-41548 size-large lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2321-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2321-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2321-1000x750.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2321-1333x1000.jpg 1333w, https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2321-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2321-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2321-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2321-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2321-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2321.jpg 2016w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 720px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 720\/540;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41548\" class=\"wp-image-41548 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2321-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2321-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2321-1000x750.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2321-1333x1000.jpg 1333w, https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2321-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2321-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2321-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2321-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2321-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2321.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/noscript><p id=\"caption-attachment-41548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Lantern: First Flight taken in 2016 by Larry Treece<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>The Green Lantern: First Flight roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain is scheduled to be removed at a later, undetermined date to make room for future development. The park has no plans to open the ride before it is removed.<br \/>\nSix Flags Magic Mountain, the \u201cThrill Capital of the World,\u201d continues to have an unparalleled world-class roller coaster collection.\u00a0 The park is open daily and will debut the world\u2019s first dual racing launch coaster, West Coast Racers, later this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Being one of only four ZacSpin models built by Intamin, Green Lantern was\u00a0the only Intamin ZacSpin ever built in North America. Whether or not it&#8217;ll meet the same fate as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/2019\/02\/08\/kings-dominion-announces-removal-of-volcano-the-blast-coaster\/\">another Intamin roller coaster<\/a>\u00a0on the other side of the country, is yet to be determined. Having been out of operation since sometime in 2018, it&#8217;s no surprise that due to its frequent downtime, low capacity, and low customer satisfaction experience, Six Flags has made this decision.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that it won&#8217;t be an entire loss for Magic Mountain&#8217;s coaster count as not far from where Green Lantern sits will be West Coast Racers that will be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/2018\/08\/30\/six-flags-magic-mountain-adding-multi-launch-racing-coaster-west-coast-racers-in-2019\/\">opening up sometime later this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on the removal of Green Lantern? Will it be a missed coaster or one that everyone will be glad it&#8217;s going? Share your thoughts in the comment section below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News broke that the Green Lantern: First Flight roller coaster will remain permanently closed until it is removed at a later date. Screamscape\u00a0was able to confirm this with Sue Carpenter: The Green Lantern: First Flight roller coaster at Six Flags&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":41548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coaster101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}