The Six Flags Magic Mountain (SFMM) Discussion Thread

The park is having the "I Heart Haiti Kids" benefit concert today. They updated their concert information on their website yesterday to say that the concert will now be in the Magic Moments Theater instead of the Golden Bear Theater and will go on "Rain or Shine". The parks website also shows that they are open today. The park has been closed one Saturday and one Sunday this year due to rain. I'm going to the park tomorrow.

Totally forgot about the concert, I'm sure that's why they stayed open. (also the job fair)

We just got back, as we figured it would be pretty dead and needed to process KT's first pass.

It was VERY dead, even with a somewhat decent concert line up I didn't see anyone there. A lot of stuff seemed to be running so kudos for that!

Here's KT and her first ever Season Pass!!!

And here she is getting the elusive Percy/Goliath Jr. credit!

^Presh. And Congrats KT!

Funny...just the other night Diana and I were talking about SFMM and she swears that I rode this (when it was the Wile E. Coyote Coaster) with her some years back. I have ridden every coaster that SFMM has ever had, with this one being the lone exception. Even though I'm "too tall" for it in the park's eyes, it does look like I could squeeze into one of the lap bars if I was desperate for the credit---which I'm not.

I did ride the Timberline Twister at Knott's with Diana back about 1994---and that ride is made by Bradley and Kaye, just like this one. But she still swears it was at SFMM.

Nice to see Kristen with her first Six Flags season pass.

Eric

Congratulations Kristen! It won't be long until you're on Balder!

Congratulations Kristen! It won't be long until you're on Prowler!

Fixed.

My GF saw you guys walking around today...

She thought you three looked familiar.

^^^^^^ Congratulations on the pass. I hope she loves the park as much as I did at that age. I'm sure she will. They have way more great rides than they did when I first started going there when they only had three major coasters.

According to the parks website, Batman, Deja Vu and Ninja are currently closed. Did you notice any coasters closed other than those three?

^^^^ I rode that coaster when it was the Clown Coaster on my first visit to the park in 1983. I have not been on it since. Same goes for the Timberline Twister on my first visit to KBF, also in 1983.

^Superman was closed (I'm assuming due to the rain). We only went from the front to Thomas Town and back; we saw X2, Tatsu, Goliath, Scream all running, and Collosus broken down with people on it.

^Was there anything going on at the Animal Farm?

^Looked like some junk was sitting around. We actually commented that it was kind of funny there was all the signage still up (even the sign for Animal Farm while on Thomas) and they should probably take it down.

^ Yeah, before some family comes around wanting to go to the Animal Farm, find out its "temporarily closed" and say, "We'll visit it next time." lol

^^^^ Thank you. Hopefully Superman will be open today with good weather. I know it's not one of the very best but I do still enjoy it. I went to the park on this same weekend last year, on 3/1/09, and almost all the coasters were walk ons except for X2. I am hoping for a similar visit today.

Has X2 EVER been a walk on?

I've never seen it without a decent sized line or longer.

^There are several PTR's in this thread that show X2 with walk-on waits (and if memory serves me correctly Atem122 made a time-lapse video?) So it's not uncommon but I wouldn't go Memorial Day weekend expecting it to be a 5 minute wait.

Has X2 EVER been a walk on?

 

I've never seen it without a decent sized line or longer.

At the X2 campout it wasn't a walk-on. It was a stay-on.

WCB lines are usually quite manageable too if it's running.

Yeah, X2 has definitely been a walk on before. I know at Terminator's Media Day (KROQ Night) the ride had an empty station and you could stay on, and on November 1st the station was empty pretty much the whole day (that's when atem's magical video was filmed:

Speaking of KROQ night, does anyone know if they will be doing that again?

^That wasn't media day. That was a special event to promote the new ride.

KROQ has hosted all sorts of events at the park over the years, such as free concerts included with admission, park ERT nights, and park ERT+private concerts...so there's really no telling what (if any) event will happen this year.

You mean May 21st? The ride hadn't opened to the public yet; it opened to the Media in the morning and from 6-10 there was the KROQ night (when X2 was empty).

^Yeah, that's how I remember it. Gosh that was awesome, a fresh, new, GP untouched wooden coaster for us all to ride over and over as much as we wanted. X2 was stay-on that night, in fact, I remember waiting in the station while it was being fixed and there was me with my girlfriend, and another guy with his girlfriend waiting to get on the train alone. Re-rides up the wazoo! That was an awesome night!

If that's not Media Day then I dunno what is!

^That night was cool, but I didn't get to ride X2 at all that night. That guy who got his sweater in X2's wheel ruined it.

Congratulation KT! She probably broke every record now for being the youngest on many rides like the youngest baby ever on the coaster, the youngest season pass holder, and etc... She is now 3 or 4 years old now? I lost track already.

^She'll be three on Wednesday.

Too bad they wouldn't let you put KidTums on here season pass, that would have been perfect.

Honestly, they probably would have, weren't really paying much attention, but she doesn't even realize everyone calls her that so this will be much better for the Baby Book!