#West coast rider black and white full

So if you go in expecting West Coast Racers to knock your socks off and blow your mind away, you might be disappointed.

#West coast rider black and white full

It’s less intense, but it’s not less fun than Full Throttle. In contrast, West Coast Racers packs its layout with interesting elements, especially when accounting for how much fun the dueling makes things like a helix or parallel corkscrew. Like I said in our rating of every Magic Mountain coaster, it feels like half a ride.

Its elements just aren’t very interesting to me. On the Full Throttle side, it has a good launch, but I’ve always found it to be a kind of lacking coaster. It also helps that the trains only hold 12 people, so they should be able to load quickly. The train in the pit stop can hold indefinitely until the train in the station is ready to go. On the other hand, West Coast Racers will ALWAYS duel. The turn around times just aren’t fast enough (not helped by the RMC trains). I love Twisted Colossus ( there’s a reason it made our list of top-10 steel coasters that opened in the 2010s), but I can’t remember the last time I got actually got to race on it. More importantly though, West Coast Racers is better at a lot of what it does than Twisted Colossus or Full Throttle. West Coast Racers fills a niche in the park for riders who aren’t quite ready for the X2s and Tatsus of Magic Mountain (or those of us who need a bit of a break after those). While Twisted Colossus is awesome, it can be almost painful in how forceful it is (like a lot of RMCs), and Full Throttle is best known for its gigantic vertical loop. First, its much less intense than either of them. After riding it, I think there are a couple of ways West Coast Racers still fits in their coaster lineup. I saw multiple people on Twitter wondering why Magic Mountain needed this ride when they already had a dueling coaster in Twisted Colossus and a Premier Launch coaster in Full Throttle. The highlight of West Coast Racers is the quality of the dueling elements, which really no other coaster I’ve been on has quite matched. They might not be the most forceful, but they don’t slow down. The low to the ground sections, like the midcourse LSM boost and the back to back helixes, are exciting and keep the pace up throughout the ride. Constantly crossing back and forth over another train, with the two trains staying close together throughout, all while actually racing. The dueling is some of the best I’ve ever experienced on a coaster. West Coast Racers excels in areas that make it a fun ride even if it isn’t breaking records. But a good coaster doesn’t need to break records to be fun. It doesn’t have the most inversions, the fastest accelerations, or the most air time. It’s not the fastest, hitting “only” 55 mph, and it’s certainly not the tallest, mostly staying close to the ground. I don’t think anyone would ever call it the most intense of coaster. West Coast Racers lasts about 3 minutes, give or take a little bit depending on how long the hold in the “pit stop” takes. In total through the two circuits you’ll experience four launches, four inversions, two high-five elements, four helixes, and a whole bunch of crossovers. You also get an extra corkscrew crossover to close out the ride. Instead of the zero-G stall on the first turn you get an airtime hill (and the chance to look up at the hanging train above you). The second circuit mostly parallels the first, but there are a few different elements for the yellow track. And we should also note the restrains are quite comfortable (and we were told by several people they’re “big boy” friendly). The West Coast Customs designed trains are really slick.