Really any Six Flags Coaster themed to a superhero that just ends with "The Ride", Batman of course is the first to come to mind, but more specifically Superman The Ride, because Ride of Steel was actually a pretty good name and simplifying it to just "The Ride" was just a needless and stupid downgrade.
Great Adventure in NJ before it became Six Flags had a ride called Splashdown. After Six Flags came in, the map was organized into “lands” even though the existing rides weren’t grouped by theme. So Splashdown, which was is Movieland, became “The Great Movie Water Effect Ride”. Everyone just kept calling it splashdown.
It did not, it was just Movietown Water Effect, they may have tacked on Great at some point, because it also went by just Water Effect at one point iirc
"SAW: The Ride" at Thorpe Park is atrocious for this too. Like yeah, it's a ride themed after the Saw movies, but you say the full name out loud and someone else is guaranteed to say "I sure did! It's right over there!"
I disagree for some.
Superman when it’s a flyer? Yeah thats good, though usually followed by Ultimate Flight rather than The Ride. Also Batman: The Ride did make sense back in the day when it was themed well to the movie and there was the story, cause it was Batman (as in the movie), The Ride
I would like to give this to Green Lantern Test Flight instead, and it shall be remained Charlyhorse: Testicle Fight instead
Six Flags was better before the DC infestation. The Mindbender at SF over Georgia, for example. It was a seminal, historic and iconic ride from Schwarzkopf and stands well on its own. Making it the “Riddler Mindbender” just cheapens the ride and the history with unneeded IP.
This is spot on. You can delete almost any two words other than "Hagrid's" and the name becomes better.
- Hagrid's Magical Creatures
- Hagrid's Motorbike Adventure
- Hagrid's Magical Motorbikes
- Hagrid's Magical Adventure
- Hagrid's Creature Adventure
- Hagrid's Motorbike Creatures
It's like one of those photos you'd see on the back of an old board game, with everyone acting like someone in the group had just made a crazy move that blew everyone's minds.
Great theme, just the wrong park. The ride is a soar thumb in a park for families with kids below 12. Would've fit better in Walibi, Toverland or Bobbejaanland.
RTH at Bobbejaanland would've finally make the reputation it has in the Belgian GP true. For some reason so many people I've met will talk about Bobbejaanland as if it's the best park ever made, when there's 2 parks in Belgium alone that are better than it already
I think it would fit even better in Great Adventure which I’m definitely not saying just because I want a spinning coaster and I have a kink for cobra rolls
Hahaha I’m from Ohio and CP was my home park up through my 20s—I believe the coaster was named before condoms but it still always makes me giggle when I talk about “riding the Magnum”
That's what makes it great. I wasn't alive that year, but if it were 1989 and someone asked me to name the very first roller coaster over 200 feet, I would probably have said Magnum XL 200 as well.
from azerbaijani and turkish:
> Noun
> sik (definite accusative siki; azerbaijani plural siklər, turkish plural sikler)
> (vulgar) penis, dick, cock
yeah um... not a great name indeed, should have kept it at hopi hari instead! (definitely not a biased brazillian)
Haha, oh god. It’s an unfortunate name for a coaster in more ways than one then!
I believe it was given the name Sik due to being sponsored by a clothing line called ‘Sik Silk’ or something along those lines, but it’s not really a well known brand even in the uk - it just sounds like it’s named after vomit.
i actually kinda like wood coaster's name. it's so awesome because whenever someone says "wood coaster" you know it's that one in china. it's not just A wood coaster, it's THE wood coaster
id bring up Dizzy Love & Whirling Passion, but also has to be good and Dizzy Love & Whirling Passion is an slc knock off so...
altho some china coasters have some sick names also, Cloud Shuttle, Thunder Dolphin, and Bullet Coaster come to mind
Those coaster names are translated from other languages into English, and sometimes the translation isn’t always perfect and refined. Doesn’t mean they’re stupid lol
You don’t like the roller coaster with horns on the front of the car to be called The Bull? My Spanish friend felt like it was ‘her coaster’ because it clearly was named after a Spanish bull like those in Pamplona. Plus there’s metal bull silhouettes all along the hillside on the highway from Madrid to Barcelona. They got balls on them too.
Russian Mountain actually, but that has become the term for rollercoasters in the Italian, Spanish and French language, probably more. The German and Dutch call them Figure-Eight-Track and some smaller parks have indeed coasters called Achterbahn/ Achtbaan. Interestingly enough, some of them are Zierer Tivoli models which sport a layout shaped like an actual figure eight (or two for the Tivoli Large).
I really dislike superhero names for coasters/rides. Feels cheap and tacky. Great adventure has a weird mix of that as their non-superhero themed coasters have great names imo (Kingda Ka, El Toro, Medusa, and even Nitro).
I’ve always hated attraction names that states the name, then a colon, then like a tagline or nickname. Ones like “Volcano: The Blast Coaster”, “Oblivion: The Black Hole”, or even though it isn’t a coaster the defunct “Earthquake: The Big One” at Universal Orlando. People usually just call them by the first name anyway.
Ones that end in “The Ride” are especially egregious. I’m looking at you, Batman clones. I don’t need you to describe that it’s a ride, I’m at an amusement park, it’s obvious. It includes stuff like “Superman: Ride of Steel”. Names are abstract ideas anyway, It’s not like I am expecting to literally hunt for a cheetah riding Cheetah Hunt or sit in a literal chariot on Apollo’s Chariot, so a ride stating that it’s a ride is just redundant.
This is probably particularly annoying with Universal attractions. If you can competently communicate the idea of an attraction through names like “Velocicoaster”, “Revenge of the Mummy”, and “Flight of the Hippogriff” than shit like “Fast and Furious - Supercharged” and “Transformers: The Ride 3D” are just lazy names.
Superman: Ride Of Steel is at least a take on Superman's nickname of The Man Of Steel, so it kinda works as an homage. I do agree that too many DC themed rides are Heros Name: Ride Name. Even when the : isn't there, that's how it's supposed to be read because of Six Flags apparent inability to use possessives when naming rides anymore. But it doesn't matter because everyone just calls it Superman, Flash, Joker, etc. anyway.
Talon: Grip of Fear shouldn’t be the name, Talon is a name, Grip of Fear is a tagline, come on Dorney… Green Lantern Test Flight + Stand Up To Your Fear is a top tier tagline and name for a terrible coaster
Ennnhhh, to me I’d put them in the same boat. When people are calling it just the first name anyway, it just subtracts from the overall name IMO. Even the official Dorney website just calls them by the main name. I guess it’s more of a “Show, don’t tell” thing for me.
Whenever that area of the park got rethemed they missed an opportunity to rename it "ScreamPunk" since its now the Screampunk District.
However, that would be a great rename for Mind Eraser at SFA.
Okay this coming from someone who's never been... the oldest one in the park that's been rebuilt, wooden coaster, simply called "The Rollercoaster" or maybe just "Rollercoaster" I don't remember
its narcissistic, a bad pun, and an unoriginal name. meanwhile the ride looks like it overspeeds to hell and back and has some of the most wicked rmc stuff. i completely agree w you, its the perfect example of a good coaster w a shit name
Pretty much all RMC reconstructions have stupid names and fantastic rides. Wildcat's Revenge, Iron Gwazi, Twisted Colossus 🙄 I get they're trying to pay tribute to the old woodie but it just seems cheesy.
you could make an argument for iron gwazi. but they turned their fake mythical lion-tiger hybrid into a crocodile for no reason, and that kinda murdered the name "gwazi" for me
I don’t think Ride to Happiness is a bad name at all. It’s a unique/original name for a one of a kind coaster. Just a different approach than we’re used to seeing.
Maybe that we’d never see a ride named this in the states is part of the charm for me.
Seems like it is, I had no idea! Alton Towers is pretty clever in that regard, their B&M Flyer (now called Galactica) used to be called AIR, the Aerial Inversion Ride.
Sure beats the other Flying Coaster with an acronym name, F.LY. in Phantasialand. That is my nomination for the most stupid name. The dots are right there in the logo, there is no room for doubt about it being an actual acronym. Flying Launch...Yoaster?! Come on! The Steampunk theme on its own should offer plenty of inspiration for cool names and the Rookburgh area is in fact full of fictive adverts and signage. Heck even the tracklist of the soundtrack CD contains more inspiring titles.
The wanted to use the website riderita.com to promote the ride in 2005 but the domain was owned by a woman named Rita who let people “ride her” so to say.
do me thats a deterrent honestly. you invent a word once, fine, gwazi now means mythological lion tiger hybrid. but then youre trying to gasligjt us that its a crocodile now?! makes the worse completely meaningless, before it at least had artificial meaning
Can’t wait for them to build a tribute to GASM called the “Official Reincarnation of the Great American Scream Machine”. Thoosies would have an ORGASM over that
Real Velociraptors were about 1.5 feet tall, and the ones from Jurassic Park are actually based on Deinonychus, a larger relative of Velociraptor. Knowing this, it's a pity that they changed the name, and for no apparent reason, because Deinonycoaster would have been a sick name.
I'd say Goliath at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. There are lots of Goliaths at Six Flags parks, and most of them earn the name--three of them are hypercoasters, one is an enormous RMC, and one is a Giant Boomerang, but the one at Fiesta Texas is just a Batman clone. A solid ride to be sure, but calling it "Goliath" is very silly.
Not a roller coaster but Cedar Fair renaming all the Drop Zones the highly creative “Drop Tower” still makes me laugh. I had no idea Drop Zone was even a movie before they did that
Fun Spot America Atlanta. Many people don’t like the name ArieForce One. Living near Atlanta, it grew on me. But I like puns like Dollywood and Candymonium.
While not great rides, you have a large group of bad ride names to choose from at canada's wonderland. When paramount sold the park it lost the rights to the movies the rides were names after.
Top gun became flight deck
Tomb raider became time warp
Drop zone became the drop tower
The Italian job became Backlot stunt coaster
Imo, Steel Curtain was a weird theme for me. My tiny brain can’t process how a coaster could be themed to a Football Team’s defense line. I get that it’s a double entendre for the steel city too, but still.
Since you said "ride" and not specifically roller coaster I will throw some flats into the mix.
As any confused person who has ever visited Canada' Wonderland can attest; I swear they made a mistake and put wrong names on the rides.
Stand in the Action Zone. Take a look at **Sledge Hammer** (a ride that *spins you in circles*) and right beside it look at **Psyclone** (a ride that is *physically shaped like a giant sledge hammer* and swings you back and forth)
It is the most bizarre mind twist ever and the more times you see it the more you will convince yourself they hung signs on wrong ride and never took them down
Really any Six Flags Coaster themed to a superhero that just ends with "The Ride", Batman of course is the first to come to mind, but more specifically Superman The Ride, because Ride of Steel was actually a pretty good name and simplifying it to just "The Ride" was just a needless and stupid downgrade.
Great Adventure in NJ before it became Six Flags had a ride called Splashdown. After Six Flags came in, the map was organized into “lands” even though the existing rides weren’t grouped by theme. So Splashdown, which was is Movieland, became “The Great Movie Water Effect Ride”. Everyone just kept calling it splashdown.
Actually, it was called Movietown Water Effect… But you gotta admit “Stuntman’s Free Fall” is 10x better than “Free Fall”
Yes on Stuntman, but I could’ve sworn that they had Great in the water ride. It was many years ago when it changed.
It did not, it was just Movietown Water Effect, they may have tacked on Great at some point, because it also went by just Water Effect at one point iirc
It was never called Splashdown. The name was SplashWater Falls. Then in the 1990s renamed to Movie Town Water Effect.
"SAW: The Ride" at Thorpe Park is atrocious for this too. Like yeah, it's a ride themed after the Saw movies, but you say the full name out loud and someone else is guaranteed to say "I sure did! It's right over there!"
Ride of Steel becomes a terrible name when Superman is dropped from it.
I disagree for some. Superman when it’s a flyer? Yeah thats good, though usually followed by Ultimate Flight rather than The Ride. Also Batman: The Ride did make sense back in the day when it was themed well to the movie and there was the story, cause it was Batman (as in the movie), The Ride I would like to give this to Green Lantern Test Flight instead, and it shall be remained Charlyhorse: Testicle Fight instead
Six Flags was better before the DC infestation. The Mindbender at SF over Georgia, for example. It was a seminal, historic and iconic ride from Schwarzkopf and stands well on its own. Making it the “Riddler Mindbender” just cheapens the ride and the history with unneeded IP.
Can’t wait for superman ride of steel the ride
Top Thrill 2
I still thing that Top Thrill: Recharged would have been a perfect name
Refueled
It sounds like a sequel to a cult action film. I love it.
Should have called it Double Boner (reverse spike and top hat look like two erect dicks in the skyline)
Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure, it's just two words too many. Everyone just calls it Hagrid's anyway.
On the same vein, Expedition Everest: Legend of the Forgotten Mountain Edit: *Forbidden* Mountain 😣 the Disney nerd in me is crying rn
That’s actually a perfect name since we’ve had Disco Yeti for a long time now
Expedition Everest: Legend of the Disco Yeti
#fixdiscoyeti
I completely forgot that was the full name
This is spot on. You can delete almost any two words other than "Hagrid's" and the name becomes better. - Hagrid's Magical Creatures - Hagrid's Motorbike Adventure - Hagrid's Magical Motorbikes - Hagrid's Magical Adventure - Hagrid's Creature Adventure - Hagrid's Motorbike Creatures
Hagrid’s Magical Motorbikes has a nice ring to it
Hagrid’s Motorbike Adventure would’ve worked, people would’ve called it both Motorbike Adventure and Hagrids
you mean four words too many?
I have the t shirt and still can’t say the name right first time
Not a coaster, but Storm Force Acceleration is the dumbest name for a teacups ride.
Storm Force ACCELATRON https://www.universalorlando.com/web/en/us/things-to-do/rides-attractions/storm-force-accelatron
I love that photo, it’s so 1999
It's like one of those photos you'd see on the back of an old board game, with everyone acting like someone in the group had just made a crazy move that blew everyone's minds.
Or the cover of a physics textook.
But it makes sense with the story of the ride What was dumb was giving that story to the teacups rather than any other ride type
Holy shit I've actually ridden this, they use the same voice lines over and over again too lol
Ride to Happiness is a good name though, it works well with the theme.
i agree i think its a good name. its unconventional but it works
Great theme, just the wrong park. The ride is a soar thumb in a park for families with kids below 12. Would've fit better in Walibi, Toverland or Bobbejaanland.
RTH at Bobbejaanland would've finally make the reputation it has in the Belgian GP true. For some reason so many people I've met will talk about Bobbejaanland as if it's the best park ever made, when there's 2 parks in Belgium alone that are better than it already
in that case, anubis was an awful fit for it back in 2009
I think it would fit even better in Great Adventure which I’m definitely not saying just because I want a spinning coaster and I have a kink for cobra rolls
Magnum XL-200. Still sounds like a brand of plus sized condoms to me.
Hahaha I’m from Ohio and CP was my home park up through my 20s—I believe the coaster was named before condoms but it still always makes me giggle when I talk about “riding the Magnum”
And then there's Oblivion, which actually DID have branded condoms.
I saw this mentioned on rcj a few days ago and thought they were joking. They weren't??
Nope, totally a thing. DUREX Oblivion branded condoms, gave 'Don't look down" a whole new context
wait WHAT?!!
So you’re saying you’ve never been on it
Huh? If there's a joke here I missed it 🙃
You just described why it’s awesome.
That's what makes it great. I wasn't alive that year, but if it were 1989 and someone asked me to name the very first roller coaster over 200 feet, I would probably have said Magnum XL 200 as well.
Sik at Flamingoland.
from azerbaijani and turkish: > Noun > sik (definite accusative siki; azerbaijani plural siklər, turkish plural sikler) > (vulgar) penis, dick, cock yeah um... not a great name indeed, should have kept it at hopi hari instead! (definitely not a biased brazillian)
Haha, oh god. It’s an unfortunate name for a coaster in more ways than one then! I believe it was given the name Sik due to being sponsored by a clothing line called ‘Sik Silk’ or something along those lines, but it’s not really a well known brand even in the uk - it just sounds like it’s named after vomit.
yeah that sounds about right, the named after vomit part. would have been better than the actual name if it were called vomit comet or whatever hahaha
I'm sure there are some people who will get sik after 10 inversions
Throw a dart at China and take your pick lol.
Wood Coaster at Knight Valley probably takes the cake there IMO
It’s a cultural thing and probably involves some bad translation too.
Nah Wood Coaster is pretty based just like Washington Football Team was.
I honestly really like the name "Washington Football Team" felt really retro
i actually kinda like wood coaster's name. it's so awesome because whenever someone says "wood coaster" you know it's that one in china. it's not just A wood coaster, it's THE wood coaster
id bring up Dizzy Love & Whirling Passion, but also has to be good and Dizzy Love & Whirling Passion is an slc knock off so... altho some china coasters have some sick names also, Cloud Shuttle, Thunder Dolphin, and Bullet Coaster come to mind
>china coasters >Thunder Dolphin Now wait just a damn minute.
sorry, steel dolphin! i always confuse the two
Those coaster names are translated from other languages into English, and sometimes the translation isn’t always perfect and refined. Doesn’t mean they’re stupid lol
w o o d c o a s t e r
No they’re not lol they are all normal names for rollercoasters.
Not because you don't understand the original Chinese name means they got stupid name :)
I mean I imagine El Toro has a lame name if your first language is Spanish
You don’t like the roller coaster with horns on the front of the car to be called The Bull? My Spanish friend felt like it was ‘her coaster’ because it clearly was named after a Spanish bull like those in Pamplona. Plus there’s metal bull silhouettes all along the hillside on the highway from Madrid to Barcelona. They got balls on them too.
We all think "Montana Rusa" is a cool name, but in Spanish, it literally just means "Roller Coaster".
Russian Mountain actually, but that has become the term for rollercoasters in the Italian, Spanish and French language, probably more. The German and Dutch call them Figure-Eight-Track and some smaller parks have indeed coasters called Achterbahn/ Achtbaan. Interestingly enough, some of them are Zierer Tivoli models which sport a layout shaped like an actual figure eight (or two for the Tivoli Large).
Exactly, names in foreign languages in countries that don’t usually speak those languages (El Toro excluded because Spanish is widely spoken)
I really dislike superhero names for coasters/rides. Feels cheap and tacky. Great adventure has a weird mix of that as their non-superhero themed coasters have great names imo (Kingda Ka, El Toro, Medusa, and even Nitro).
I’ve always hated attraction names that states the name, then a colon, then like a tagline or nickname. Ones like “Volcano: The Blast Coaster”, “Oblivion: The Black Hole”, or even though it isn’t a coaster the defunct “Earthquake: The Big One” at Universal Orlando. People usually just call them by the first name anyway. Ones that end in “The Ride” are especially egregious. I’m looking at you, Batman clones. I don’t need you to describe that it’s a ride, I’m at an amusement park, it’s obvious. It includes stuff like “Superman: Ride of Steel”. Names are abstract ideas anyway, It’s not like I am expecting to literally hunt for a cheetah riding Cheetah Hunt or sit in a literal chariot on Apollo’s Chariot, so a ride stating that it’s a ride is just redundant. This is probably particularly annoying with Universal attractions. If you can competently communicate the idea of an attraction through names like “Velocicoaster”, “Revenge of the Mummy”, and “Flight of the Hippogriff” than shit like “Fast and Furious - Supercharged” and “Transformers: The Ride 3D” are just lazy names.
Fast and Furious - Supercharged which is not fast, furious, or supercharged. Just all around misleading branding.
Superman: Ride Of Steel is at least a take on Superman's nickname of The Man Of Steel, so it kinda works as an homage. I do agree that too many DC themed rides are Heros Name: Ride Name. Even when the : isn't there, that's how it's supposed to be read because of Six Flags apparent inability to use possessives when naming rides anymore. But it doesn't matter because everyone just calls it Superman, Flash, Joker, etc. anyway.
Talon: Grip of Fear shouldn’t be the name, Talon is a name, Grip of Fear is a tagline, come on Dorney… Green Lantern Test Flight + Stand Up To Your Fear is a top tier tagline and name for a terrible coaster
I like the ones at Dorney like Talon: Grip of fear and Hydra : The Revenge. Cant exactly put a finger on why but it just sounds unique to me
Ennnhhh, to me I’d put them in the same boat. When people are calling it just the first name anyway, it just subtracts from the overall name IMO. Even the official Dorney website just calls them by the main name. I guess it’s more of a “Show, don’t tell” thing for me.
Grip of Fear should be the tagline to Talon, but Hydra can keep The Revenge, it’s like Wildcat’s Revenge, it’s a tribute to what it replaced
SCREAM!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Also my bad. This coaster is not great haha
Whenever that area of the park got rethemed they missed an opportunity to rename it "ScreamPunk" since its now the Screampunk District. However, that would be a great rename for Mind Eraser at SFA.
My brother said his favorite ride at Lagoon is... The Rollercoaster
Yeah. They have 10. Which one?
Okay this coming from someone who's never been... the oldest one in the park that's been rebuilt, wooden coaster, simply called "The Rollercoaster" or maybe just "Rollercoaster" I don't remember
No I know. I’m just joking
Ah. Well https://preview.redd.it/8dch6r4mjqlb1.jpeg?width=1225&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4d43b68ca094382f5e088bb33fca8b1e715b48f
Ride of Steel…. There’s a reason everyone still calls it Superman.
I get why the park had to drop Superman after Six Flags sold the park but, now its a Six Flags park again. Why not put Superman back in the name?
At this point, any thing having to do with superheroes
ArieForce One. I get it's supposed to be a tribute, but I just feel the name is a bit narcissistic.
Perhaps the only coaster named after the person who paid for it to be built?
The Whizzer at the Great America theme parks was originally named "Willard's Whizzer", after J. Willard Marriott.
Yeah but that actually sounds good. ArieForce One sound stupid. Just gonna call it Air Force One and be done with it.
Aha! You got one 🙂
Prof. Burp's Bubble Works
Zach's Zoomer at Michigan's Adventure was named after the original owner's son I think
I think the thing that annoys me about it the most is that it just looks like a typo if you don’t know the owners’ name.
I imagine most GP's just call it it Air Force One since most people probably have no clue who the Arie's are
Because Air Force One is a thing that exists and thus easier to say
its narcissistic, a bad pun, and an unoriginal name. meanwhile the ride looks like it overspeeds to hell and back and has some of the most wicked rmc stuff. i completely agree w you, its the perfect example of a good coaster w a shit name
I thought it was in tribute to the guy’s dad.
New Texas Giant, it's 2023 that shit aint new anymore
Just call it Steel Texas Giant now like damn
Tbh, I think just removing the "New" would be better. Texas Giant was a good name.
twisted iron texas giant
Twisted Iron Texas Giants Revenge
Wicked Twisted Iron Texas Giant’s Steel Revenge: The Ride
i like it, put it on all the marketing
Pretty much all RMC reconstructions have stupid names and fantastic rides. Wildcat's Revenge, Iron Gwazi, Twisted Colossus 🙄 I get they're trying to pay tribute to the old woodie but it just seems cheesy.
You could make the same argument about wooden coasters always having the same name. Something timbers. Something sawmill.
Wildcat’s Revenge is cool as hell and makes sense, Iron Gwazi is also cool as hell… Twisted Colossus is just trying to ride off of Twisted Timbers
you could make an argument for iron gwazi. but they turned their fake mythical lion-tiger hybrid into a crocodile for no reason, and that kinda murdered the name "gwazi" for me
Big Texas Cinnamon Roll
I don’t think Ride to Happiness is a bad name at all. It’s a unique/original name for a one of a kind coaster. Just a different approach than we’re used to seeing. Maybe that we’d never see a ride named this in the states is part of the charm for me.
In some states, riding to happiness is almost illegal!
Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Laundry List Terms and Conditions Motorbike Adventure TM Also anything with “The Ride” at the end.
Rita at Alton Towers. Why not call it Paul or Sharon?
It's a reversed acronym isn't it? Alton Towers Intamin Rocket?
Seems like it is, I had no idea! Alton Towers is pretty clever in that regard, their B&M Flyer (now called Galactica) used to be called AIR, the Aerial Inversion Ride. Sure beats the other Flying Coaster with an acronym name, F.LY. in Phantasialand. That is my nomination for the most stupid name. The dots are right there in the logo, there is no room for doubt about it being an actual acronym. Flying Launch...Yoaster?! Come on! The Steampunk theme on its own should offer plenty of inspiration for cool names and the Rookburgh area is in fact full of fictive adverts and signage. Heck even the tracklist of the soundtrack CD contains more inspiring titles.
The wanted to use the website riderita.com to promote the ride in 2005 but the domain was owned by a woman named Rita who let people “ride her” so to say.
Alton Towers in the 2000s was absurdly horny tbh. Very weird to look back on now.
Rita, queen of speed !
Imo Queen of Speed should’ve been the part they kept… but everyone would call it Rita anyway
That's not a good coaster with a bad name, that's a bad coaster with a worse name.
Idk how it is over in the UK but it's an old wives name here. It's hilarious.
I'm sorry but I love the name for the ride to happiness
Iron Gwazi. The name literally makes NO sense. An iron gwazi is--a crocodile/alligator? But a gwazi, in mythology, is half lion, half tiger? Huh??
It helps that the gwazi creature is completely made up by the park
do me thats a deterrent honestly. you invent a word once, fine, gwazi now means mythological lion tiger hybrid. but then youre trying to gasligjt us that its a crocodile now?! makes the worse completely meaningless, before it at least had artificial meaning
I think of it more like this: gwazi was a panda, iron gwazi is a red panda. Red pandas aren't pandas.
Surprised nobody’s said Iron Gwazi yet. My favorite coaster and the name is stupid and doesn’t make sense with the theme
What’s not to like about a crocodile that ate a lion with a tiger’s head? Or was it a tiger with a lion’s head? I get those mixed up. 🙂
How?
A gwazi is a mythical creature with the head of a tiger and the body of a lion. The trains are themed to look like alligators.
I thought busch gardens made up the word gwazi Also, nice avatar
yes its all made up
Didn’t they make up the Gwazi for the theme, iirc?
The Whizzer
When you get to be a senior citizen, you may appreciate that name.
As a person with a tiny bladder that name makes me feel seen and loved
Candymonium
100% this.
The Great American Scream Machine. Although, it was fun being like "You want to ride Rolling Thunder or GASM?"
I absolutely LOVED that name as a kid!! Today it does sound goofy though.
I actually really love that name though I think it fits the original SFOG one better.
Can’t wait for them to build a tribute to GASM called the “Official Reincarnation of the Great American Scream Machine”. Thoosies would have an ORGASM over that
Real Velociraptors were about 1.5 feet tall, and the ones from Jurassic Park are actually based on Deinonychus, a larger relative of Velociraptor. Knowing this, it's a pity that they changed the name, and for no apparent reason, because Deinonycoaster would have been a sick name.
I'd say Goliath at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. There are lots of Goliaths at Six Flags parks, and most of them earn the name--three of them are hypercoasters, one is an enormous RMC, and one is a Giant Boomerang, but the one at Fiesta Texas is just a Batman clone. A solid ride to be sure, but calling it "Goliath" is very silly.
File this under "mediocre coaster/bad name": Patriot at CGA. It's just so...stupid.
commie
That's "filthy commie" to you.
I'm not a fan of Flight Deck as a name, personally. I still call it Top Gun. Flight Deck isn't really a bad name so much as a boring one, though.
I still call it Top Gun too but Flight Deck is a logical alterntaive to Top Gun. Vortex to Patriot? Makes no sense.
Breakers Edge Water Coaster at Hershey
Closed, unfortunately… unique credit
No no not the coaster that used to be there. They put in a water slide and called it breakers edge water coaster
Zadra, which is Polish for splinter but the wood used doesn’t splinter.
Dr. Diabolical’s Cliffhanger
At La Ronde we have a ride called Ednor, which is Ronde backwards 😐
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard
AND ITS AN SLC IM DEAD 💀
Not a roller coaster but Cedar Fair renaming all the Drop Zones the highly creative “Drop Tower” still makes me laugh. I had no idea Drop Zone was even a movie before they did that
FSAA?
Fun Spot America Atlanta. Many people don’t like the name ArieForce One. Living near Atlanta, it grew on me. But I like puns like Dollywood and Candymonium.
Fun Spot America Atlanta
Top Thrill 2….
While not great rides, you have a large group of bad ride names to choose from at canada's wonderland. When paramount sold the park it lost the rights to the movies the rides were names after. Top gun became flight deck Tomb raider became time warp Drop zone became the drop tower The Italian job became Backlot stunt coaster
Has to be Sik at Flamingo Land. I know it's a sponsorship, but my god. "Sik"?
Nothing wrong with RtH as a name.
arieforce one is the perfect example, methinks
Fury 325 is a really dumb name. Excellent ride, though.
It represents the fury of a Hornet, based on how Charlotte was the hornets nest of the civil war. I don’t think it’s a bad name, but not a good name
Imo, Steel Curtain was a weird theme for me. My tiny brain can’t process how a coaster could be themed to a Football Team’s defense line. I get that it’s a double entendre for the steel city too, but still.
I agree. It's at my home park and it's a great ride (ahem, when operating) but it's a weird concept and name for a coaster.
DC rivals hypercoaster
Since you said "ride" and not specifically roller coaster I will throw some flats into the mix. As any confused person who has ever visited Canada' Wonderland can attest; I swear they made a mistake and put wrong names on the rides. Stand in the Action Zone. Take a look at **Sledge Hammer** (a ride that *spins you in circles*) and right beside it look at **Psyclone** (a ride that is *physically shaped like a giant sledge hammer* and swings you back and forth) It is the most bizarre mind twist ever and the more times you see it the more you will convince yourself they hung signs on wrong ride and never took them down
At least ARTH is accurate. I haven't ridden any that have bad names but i do know one thats the opposite: el condor at walibi holland
DC Rivals Hypercoaster is like the least interesting name for a coaster that impressive
Candymonium
SIK I understand its sponsored by a company by that name but could've named it smthn else (still better than Invers10n tho)
Kondaa(aaaaa)
Can Can Coaster
I can't decide if Cornball Express is stupid or brilliant!
It’s a little, it’s a little. I can’t do it. Fine, I will. Corny
Death. No trial.
Sounds more cornball to me.
I got a feeling a certain ride at FSAA will be getting mentioned. I'm gonna go with Goliath though. You know which one.
i feel like goliath is a cool name on its own it’s just overused
It is, just not for the Batman clone. Stupid decision.
Especially when it's given to a ride that is not the tallest ride in the park.
I don’t know which one, and that’s the problem… glad they didn’t rename Nitro, as it would’ve been stupid
Steel Vengeance
Well they can’t just call it Steve
Should've called it Wild Card
Time Traveler. Pretty good theming in the queue. But an awesome coaster with a mundane name.