Green Lantern Review We're here at Six Flags Great Adventure. Today's ride we'll be traveling back in time to review Green Lantern. You straddled the seat to a comfortable setting, pulled down the OTSRs, and then we were off! We climbed up the lifthill. Up and up we went! While climbing the lifthill, you got a nice view of Superman Ultimate Flight. Yeah, that's not that good, but your only other option was the Six Flags Great Adventure parking lot. And trust me, I've had more than enough parking lot coasters in my lifetime. Then we finally reached the top. First you went through the pre-drop and then turnaround. And then came the first drop. It was a fun first drop that gave us a lot of speed. You know, straight first drops are underrated. People love the typical twisty first drops, myself included, but straight first drops are awesome, and we need the world to know. Perhaps a Straight Parade. Yeah, let's go with that. =) However, at the bottom of the first drop, we flashed through a cutout of Parallax, one of the many villians of Green Lantern. We then soared into a vertical...Wait a minute!! What the flying f*ck is this!? Why the hell was the loop yellow!? Last time I checked, Green Lantern was a green coaster. You'd think that with a name like that, they'd know what color to paint the freaking ride! Was Six Flags really so lazy that when they relocated Chang from Kentucky Kingdom to Six Flags Great Adventure, that they FORGOT TO REPAINT THE LOOP!!? Actually no. This was all done on purpose. Yeah, the loop was meant to be yellow. You see, when we passed through that cut-out of Parallax, we were now fighting him, and he was attacking us with the color yellow. Ok, I'm just gonna come out and admit it. I don't like Green Lantern. I really don't. I mean, I like Superheros as much as the next guy. Ok, not as much as the next guy, I'm not nuts about them or anything. But I do like them. I like Superman, I like Batman, I like Spiderman, I like the Avengers, you get the idea. But Green Lantern, I just don't care for. The guys who are Green Lantern fight evil because they have these rings that give off green light and the green light represents goodness, purity, or something like that. And the yellow ring that Parallax has is supposed to be fear and now green is fighting yellow. Uh...I just don't like this hero series. And I really didn't care for the 2011 Movie adaptation. Thankfully I saw it through Netflix and didn't pay for it in theaters. I just wanna put a colorblind person in the Green Lantern universe. Try and figure out what's going on now. Good luck sucker. =) Oh crap. I went off on another tangent (bad habit of mine). Let's get back to Green Lantern, the roller coaster that used to be at Six Flags Great Adventure (and is sadly now scrap metal). We soared up and went straight up into the Dive Loop. The dive loop was fun and all, but just like that, it was over. We then soared up into some twisty curve/turnaround identical to that found on Mantis/Rougarou. I've stated that it's smooth on Rougarou, and it most certainly was smooth here, though I'm not sure if people complained of this element being rough. Well regardless, it wasn't. We then headed straight towards the incline loop. And hey, it wasn't yellow. I guess we weren't fighting fear right nowfor this part of the ride. Ok, anyways, I really like incline loops for some reason. Not sure why. They're just fun. Moving on. We then went through some twisty track before we twisted up into the mid course brakes. The train didn't slow down that much from it, which pleased me. After the midcourse brakes, we slid down a drop and into a corkscrew. The corkscrew had some nice whip to it, which was very pleasing to feel. We then headed into some twisty track. We curved around the dive loop from earlier and had ourselves a good old time. We headed down and got a nice suprise. A bonus corkscrew. YAY!!! And it also had some nice whip to it. We then rose up into a small hill, went through some more twisty bits, headed around a nice sweeping curve, and BAM!! Straight into the brakes. And that was Green Lantern. I know I've said this before, but I have to say it again as it pretty much sums up my thoughts on Green Lantern. It was literally the missing link in the evolution of the B&M Stand Up Coaster. If you were looking for something in between Mantis back when it was a stand up coaster and Riddlers Revenge, Green Lantern is EXACTLY what you'd get. It's as close to the offspring of those two rides as you could possibly get. Who knew that roller coasters could have sex. Of course, now Green Lantern is dead, and Rougarou has come out as a floorless coaster. But at least Riddlers is still going on strong. It definetly was one of the better stand up coasters out there (3rd best, just behind Riddlers and Georgia Scorcher). While it wasn't the best ride at Six Flags Great Adventure by any means, it still was pretty fun and it was a real shame that it got demolished. Especially with no warning at all. As well as at the same time as another major coaster at the park. 7/10 Location: Six Flags Great Adventure Opened at Kentucky Kingdom in 1997 Relocated to Six Flags Great Adventure in 2011 Died: November 10, 2024 Built by: B&M Last Ridden: June 18, 2021 Green Lantern Photos Home