X2

Uh, just shocking that this could happen.

And this is just on the heels of X2 closing in LA.

Yeah.

Six Flags in, in Magic Mountain.

Yeah

... and so Six Flags as a company, i- i- they've been...

A lot of people have been really frustrated with them on, on X2, and Chung and I in that group.

We were both hurt on X2.

they'll make you sign a waiver before you go in like I remember like I went once with a friend and like his little brother came along who was like 16 at the time and like he pissed himself wow it was that scary like so I was like this ain't gonna be shit like this isn't gonna be scary at all I was impressed with how brutal and just gory everything was it's like this is not for little kids

yeah I mean the scary stuff yeah is definitely a lot more aged up I just mean like I don't know in terms of theme parks I don't think they have tons of thrills although they have more like water kind of like log kind of rides that I think are a bit more thrilling but they don't have like crazy roller coasters or anything they don't have X2 the roller coaster that kills you

Yeah, they don't have the Batman roller coaster that made a guy's balls explode.

Did you hear about this X2, the roller coaster that kills you at Six Flags Magic Mountain?

No, I think the Batman roller coaster that blew up a dude's testicles is at Magic Mountain, so that tracks.

riddler's revenge

So, no, I won't be joining the Lamb Rock.

Okay.

And then there was the other one, they stopped doing this one ride.

What was the name of the ride they stopped doing at Six Flags g- in, uh, Valencia? X2.

X2.

It was hurting people's backs and stuff, right? Did somebody die on it? The-

Well, let me tell you the experience I had on X2.

Yeah.

'Cause I spent my life having to go to...

Yeah.

Another Six Flags ride faced a similar fate.

Last month, the company said it had shuttered the X2 coaster at its Magic Mountain Park in Southern California following multiple lawsuits alleging the ride resulted in severe brain injuries and at least one death.

While X2 consistently passed a multitude of safety tests, we have decided to close the ride because we believe it's the right thing to do, Brian Orading, Six Flags Magic Mountain Park president, said in a statement on the company's website.

Across the industry, the Goliath accident led to a series of questions with no immediate answers.

Was the incident the result of a maintenance issue, a design flaw, or perhaps operator error? Would seatbelts on the ride, in addition to the lap bar already in place, have helped? It's kind of a head scratcher, said Martin Lewison, an associate professor of business management at Farmingdale State College, who studies the theme park industry.

Another Six Flags ride faced a similar fate.

Last month, the company said it had shuttered the X2 coaster at its Magic Mountain Park in Southern California following multiple lawsuits alleging the ride resulted in severe brain injuries and at least one death.

While X2 consistently passed a multitude of safety tests, we have decided to close the ride because we believe it's the right thing to do, Brian Orading, Six Flags Magic Mountain Park president, said in a statement on the company's website.

Across the industry, the Goliath accident led to a series of questions with no immediate answers.

Was the incident the result of a maintenance issue, a design flaw, or perhaps operator error? Would seatbelts on the ride, in addition to the lap bar already in place, have helped? It's kind of a head scratcher, said Martin Lewison, an associate professor of business management at Farmingdale State College, who studies the theme park industry.

I've said this before, but there is a ride where over 100 people have sustained brain injuries on K2 rollercoaster-

... that's, or X2, sorry.

X2 rollercoaster at Six Flags, which is now shut down.

Three people, this is, this is from September 23rd, but I'm bringing this up because there's like, come on, man.

This place is like-

Yeah, like two people died recently.

Yeah.

The chain's kind of spread too thin.

Yeah, but I think if you need to make up for X2, I don't know.

Or I got another absolute random left field idea.

Okay.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know if it's going to get fast track just because there's so many other mouths to feed in that chain.

And I think Thrill Godder, we'll get to that in a bit, but that looks like it's probably an expensive ride.

What do you think eventually replaces X2, if anything?

I think that's where like, yeah, even if you get Air Force One in a couple of years, I think at some point you got to go big, big signature ride there.

The tragedy also raising broader concerns about amusement park safety.

Just two weeks ago, a Six Flags in Magic Mountain, California permanently closed its X2 rollercoaster after an investigation showed serious injuries and deaths associated with that ride.

And on Wall Street, Six Flags dropped 14 points on Tuesday, hitting the lowest level since 2009.

For now, investigators are trying to determine exactly what went wrong, and a family that went to an amusement park for fun is now grieving the loss of a husband and a father.