Harknell and I were interviewed by The Dish. Click here to get the podcast. Click here for show notes.

Somehow I ended up talking about a squirrel slappy seal and butts. You’ll be entertained with this one…heh.

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13 x 19 Print: $15

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Alestorm. A Pirate Metal band. There is nothing else I can say, other than WATCH THIS NOW:

Taken in Point Pleasant, NJ.

HAY GAIZ! Time to go out to a park and haz a mayhem!

I went to Six Flags Great Adventure a few weeks ago to check out the “new” Green Lantern coaster. “new” is in quotes because GL isn’t actually new. It is Chang from the now closed Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom with a green paint job. If you have ever been on Mantis at Cedar Point, you know what GL is like. Mantis is a mirror image of GL.

I don’t fault Six Flags for the re-purposing of the coaster. I actually think it was a great idea. I seem to be in the minority, but I did think the recent re-painting of Medusa to Bizarro actually worked. I understand the park is broke and it’s an inexpensive way to give us something new. (Until the sound system on Bizarro broke and never fixed it…but I digress.).

The question remained – was this coaster fun?

You can probably tell from the title of the post that no one in my group actually liked Green Lantern. There is a reason that they don’t make stand up coasters any more. The restraints put a lot of unnecessary strain on the knees and body. In addition to that, they are hard to adjust. There is one restraint that goes over your head like on a normal coaster and a “crotch rest” that adjusts up under your junk. This whole mechanism connects together not unlike an iron maiden…and I don’t mean the band. This guy has a nice drawing of how the restraint works.

If you click one click too tightly, your genitals will be in the most pain you have ever experienced whether you are male or female. If you ride it in perfect circumstances your feet and knees will STILL have the most pressure put on them you have ever experienced.

The chest restraints are right across the boobs, too. I have been on 3 such stand up coasters, and I have yet to ride one that wasn’t absolute hell. Green Lantern is no exception. Here are some pictures of the queue and the restraints. It was hard to get pictures of the entire coaster due to the way the queue was set up:

The fact is that Green Lantern is still a huge step up from the headache-inducing Great American Scream Machine that was taken out to make way for this. While I won’t be riding GL ever again, I didn’t ride GASM, either. At least this ride looks nicer. Let’s hope they retrofit some regular coaster cars into this like some other parks have done to their genital torture machines…err stand up coasters.