text: Incidents On December 2020, one of the trains on the Big Apple Coaster derailed on the lift hill. Nobody was hurt, since it was testing that day.
  Critical reception
  When the Manhattan Express opened in 1997, the Las Vegas Review-Journal said that the "unmistakable Las Vegas mystique" gave the "Manhattan Express a unique appeal". A reporter for The Boston Globe wrote that many of the early riders seemed to have "enjoyed this coaster immensely". Paul Goldberger of The New York Times wrote that the ride looked "like a rope that has been used to capture [New York City's] landmarks and hold them hostage, a mirage of the New York skyline in the desert." Conversely, the website TripSavvy wrote that the Big Apple Coaster was rough, saying: "Instead of doubling the fun, The Big Apple’s hypercoaster heights and looping inversion elements cancel each other out—and cause some pain to boot."
  The Los Angeles Times said of the virtual-reality option: "The VR experience does a fairly accurate job of rendering the Vegas Strip, but non-MGM properties get short shrift." Among the issues were that the site of the Tropicana Las Vegas was rendered as a parking lot and that the Vegas Vic neon sign was incorrectly shown as being at Harry Reid International Airport.