Top Ten Worst Roller Coasters

The Top Ten
1 Mind Eraser - Six Flags America

How about that roller coaster some nutter made that would kill you if you went on it. I know obviously no one would be able to vote and the ride is probably illegal for anyone to ride on.
Euthanasia Rollercoaster.

Well I went on this and I came of with a bloody nose! That was a piece of crap!

The one at Elitch Gardens in Denver is very uncomfortable. It violently jerks your head around.

I once came off with a concussion, it's that bad.

2 Hurler - Kings Dominion

Most painful wooden coaster I've ever been on

Three minutes of pain

3 Anaconda - Kings Dominion

My anaconda don't want none unless this coaster's gone, hun.

(to be honest, this ain't the worst coaster, but holy hell its close.)

This was my 2nd looped roller coaster, so I mean I really like this one. Ye, it's rough but I am tough so that's ok.

It's so rough, I feel like I'm gonna be slammed against the tracks.

My Anaconda don't, my anaconda don't, my anaconda want none

4 Manhattan Express - New York, New York Hotel & Casino

Ok so, I went on this and I had so many headaches for the two weeks after I got off this piece of crap! I went on it alone and, yeah, this coaster is actually overrated! Not that it gets any love but, it deserves less than it actually gets, if that even makes sense! I cried on it and, it hurt so much and I actually fractured a slight part of my skull on it! Togo should let Intamin make their rides good. If it was smooth, it would be a great ride and apart that the inversions do not even make sense, if it was smooth, I would be okay with it

So... Yeah

Of course Togo makes rough and painful rides, but with one that is 203 feet tall, I'd find it hard to ride.

They renamed it "Roller Coaster". By far the most original roller coaster name ever thought of.

Now they just call it "Roller Coaster"

5 Ninja - Six Flags Over Georgia

I've never ridden this coaster, however Six flags over Georgia is my "home park" and I go to this park at least once a year and I never get on. I have friends who got on this thing and one of my friends felt like she got a concussion and my cousin said that this ride gave him a massive headache. Good thing I never ride this thing and I love rollercoasters. If you were to ask me what the worst and roughest rollercoaster I ever been on would be the Mindbender at the same park. Messed up my back for a few weeks.

I don't normally hate coasters, but Ninja, man that thing sucks. I actually had to come up with a brace position just to be able to tolerate riding it. Why is Six Flags tearing down the amphitheater for the new water park when they could easily tear down this disgrace to coasterkind.

The ride was built incorrect. For some reason, the engineers thought it would be an "ingenious" idea for the track to actually turn in the middle of the vertical loop. Needless to say, my favorite part of the ride was the break run.

I rode Ninja for the first time when I was five years old and got whipped around so much and so hard that I had to get ice packs to put on my head to help with the pain. Good thing SFOG refurbished it because it definitely needed to be refurbished!

6 Mean Streak - Cedar Point

I grayed out on the ride from the sheer pain it caused and I had to take ibuprofen like candy the night that I rode it. I'm glad I rode it because of the nostalgia and that it is being redesigned now, I can at least say I experienced the original. Would I ride it again if I had the chance? NO

Awful... Yes woodies are supposed to be rough but this thing is painfully rough to the point where I sprained my rib... On top of that the pacing is bad, and the MCBR kills any chance for speed or airtime. This ride is awful. Go on Blue Streak it is a much better coaster with more airtime.

Every year I go with my family to Cedar Point. Everyone is in a crappy mood after this piece of trash but we always ride it! Thank god they redid it! Go Steel Vengence!

This is the bumpiest ride I have ever rode. This takes up to much space in Cedar Point and should be torn down. Cedar Point could probably at two now rollercoasters if they did.

7 Corkscrew - Cedar Point

It was very painful so people with spine issues shouldn't go on the corkscrew at cedar point! It was one of the 2 roller coasters at cedar point!

This coaster seems like it sucks, but I hope they keep it because it's an important part of the park's history. It's also great for photos.

Main reason why I hate Arrow. I've been riding this for years now, and I still don't like it today.

The one of the worst rides ever

8 Tatsu - Six Flags Magic Mountain

I've never been there andi just voted to say to whoever said this is awesome that this is supposed to be the WORST not best roller coasters.

Who ever put this at number 1 is plain stupid

This is supposed to be worst not best coasters

Awesome roller coaster who ever put this is mad literally mad

9 Green Lantern: First Flight (Six Flags Magic Mountain)
10 Wicked Twister - Cedar Point

You are an obveious troll for putting of such great roller coasters. Wicked Twister is one of the best rides at Cedar Point. Also WHY IS THE MILIENNIUM FORCE EVEN ON THIS LIST, IT IS THE GREASTEST RIDE EVER.

I guess it's ok for people who are scared of real coasters. No stomach drop, no inversions, no airtime and being blinded by the sun = lame

The worst coaster my web friends ever rode!

Why in the world is Tatsu number one!?!?

The Contenders
11 Great American Scream Machine - Six Flags Great Adventure

Rough and painful, this proves to be a pile of junk. Most rides designed by Arrow are very rough, but this proves to be possibly their worst ride, rides like the Demon at Six Flags Great America is rougher, but unlike this ride, it is well themed and a very fun and exciting ride.

Thank God This Is Gone!

12 Son of Beast - King's Island

Why are Millennium Force and Blue Streak higher than a coaster that was notorious for safety problems, including an incident where riders were trapped on one of the coaster's final segments, and was generally considered a painful and rough ride. This coaster should honestly be higher.

Ugh, nearly every coaster enthusiast will agree that the SoB is painful and belongs here. Hyper coasters, wooden terrain coasters, and looping coasters are great ride designs, and I guess the designers at RCCA thought it would be a great concept to combine the three, and ended up creating a real horribly executed beast. Luckily the loop was later removed, and now the ride just sits, not in operation unlike it's father, the Beast, an excellent ride.

This ride is the roughest. Pure roughness. With a LOOP! (2000-2006) But when I rode it, the loop was already taken down. I hated the ride. But I will admit, I am a little sad that they tore it down. I'll miss it, even though I hated it. They could've done an Iron Horse treatment, but oh well. Looking' forward to Banshee though

I hate this ride! I'm so glad it wuz torn down! I was only 8 when I first rode it and let me tell you they have horrible seatbelts! There is a loose seatbelt and then you have to hold on! I was about to fall! And I was crying! My mom and little brother said they heard the ground thumping! So this ride has long lines and is just bad!

13 Sidewinder - Hershey Park

Another Vekoma copy. Like most boomerangs, it will gave you an intense headache, and it provides a quick, uncomfortable, and painful experience that is not worth waiting in line for.

This will probably be the last Hershey Park rollercoaster I'll ride; I've heard so many negative comments about it, including my dad's.

This ride busted my stomach it hurt for a week all because of this piece of crap ride

It was my first looping roller coaster and after that it was hard to get back on to one.

14 Hero - Flamingo Land

Why is it called the "Hero" when you feel like your locked in a small cage? Overall, seems like a terrible and painful ride.

The pain this ride delivers is unbearable. It's like being in a dog cage in the middle of a car crash.

How is Blue Streak above this trash.

Pain. Absolute pain. Nothing else.

15 Medusa - Six Flags Discovery Kingdom

Best ride I ever been on!

I had a heart attack on this line.

Lol kraken is better

Trolls be trolling. This ride is possibly the BEST B&M Floorless out there, maybe even one of the best B&Ms.

16 Shockwave - Kings Dominion

Worst coaster I've ever ridden. So glad it's gone. This should be above Anaconda and in the top ten AT LEAST! Vote people!

Togo Built this. Enough said.

This ride is closed.

17 Ninja - Six Flags St. Louis

Way too rough, it's an original Arrow Corkscrew model and it's probably the worst I've ridden. They tried adding VR but it still just gives me a headache, and I credit it with my choice back pain, as it popped my spine once when I was about 12 (its my home park and that was 9 years ago) and I've had back problems ever since. I get that it's historically significant but for the good of the people close the damn thing

This ride is really bad really slow and bangs your head

Feels like you're being beaten up by a ninja

A very rough and jerky experience

18 Star Flyer - Star City

Look at this they think its giant but it's the smallest suspended roller coaster in the world and they think it an inverted.

But if you will ride on it it will make thrill..

19 Tornado - M&D's

I would not be surprised if this was a lot worse than the coasters above (especially with the original Pinfari corkscrew) but only down here because nobody’s bothered to go there... which is probably fair enough. Similar painful experiences include hammers to the head, jumping off a wall and landing bottom first or a high-speed car crash without an airbag. And then you wake up in a car park in Motherwell. Possibly the worst there will ever be.

It's the worst it cracks your neck

20 Nitro - Six Flags Great Adventure

Rated number 3 every year for best steel coaster.
Not sure why this is on the list.
Bunch of trolls

Nitro is my favorite coaster. It's so much better than El toro and also skyrush

How The Hell Is This One Of The Worst!?
It's One Of The Best

Asiaplayer shut up nobody likes you

21 Magnum XL-200 - Cedar Point

This is not one of the worst. Sure it is rough, but it was the first coaster over 200 feet. This was a groundbreaking rollercoaster at the time! It is only rough because it is old.

I rode this when I was 8 and I got whiplash injury and I rode it again when I was 12 and I screamed I'm gonna die. This is the roughest ride ver.

You must be crapping me sideways here! This coaster owns you wusses.

Rode this last month, felt like the lap bar was trying to break my legs in half! Had big bruises on both of my thighs.

22 Space Mountain - Walt Disney World Resort Space Mountain is the name of a space-themed indoor roller coaster attraction located at five of the Magic Kingdom-style Disney Parks.

OKAY WHOEVER SAID THIS IS THE WORST PERSON EVER. This is a general family coaster for all ages. It was actually my first major ride. I sound it enjoyable and I will forever. Even the refurbishment was good, a soundtrack was even added. Now sure, the disneyland one is generally better, but this one should at least be rated as an 'Okay' ride.

It’s a classic, though it’s gotten rougher since Disney became too cheap to fix things up and decided to leave this rotting, leaving many people riding it hurt.
Yet it goes 28 mph, which is not much for a roller coaster and imagine driving that slow on the interstate.
Most Coasters these days go wicked fast.

It's too jerky and will hurt your back and neck, Disneyland's is better.

Sure, complain all you want, but Space Mountain makes a lot of sense being on this list if you remember the original version vs. the new version. You can't see anything anymore. Remember when the rockets glowed in the dark? You could kind of make out where you were going. Think Disney would let that continue? HA HA HA HA HA, NOPE! They ruined a classic ride.

23 Canyon Blaster - Adventuredome

Take a bottle of advil with you

24 Superman The Escape - Six Flags Magic Mountain

Why is this the 6th worst rollercoaster in the world? I think it's great based on stats and point of view's

I mean look at this junk and non-sense when people ride it later you wake up the fun is over.

Now called: Superman: Escape from Krypton

But it's still awesome

It's just so short

25 Vortex - King's Island

This absolutely the worst ride at that park this combines the spine splitting toughness of Racer (Before it was retracked) and the head banging of an SLC (Seriously my friend almost got his ear ripped off on it) this roller coaster as not aged well they should have torn this down instead of Firehawk and instead of Vortex they should have renamed it to some other natural disaster, how about Earthquake

With typical roughness of an Arrow, and over cumbering restraints, this ride takes the cake. Thought I guess it can be comparable to rides such as Orient Express or Diamondback

Sometimes, arrow just, fails, this is defenetly (really hard to spell for me :/) a fail for them, they have 2 other similar models, at Carowinds and California's Great America, they both suck

Have you had your daily dose of head trauma... Take one ride on this piece crap and call your physician in the morning... If you can!

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