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a twiket is something that you can buy for a small extra cost that allows you to come back the next day for a couple dollars (I think its about 15 dollars or 20)

Those trains look AWESOME! will the station have a retractable floor so the people can board or are they low enough to the ground? I think thats an awesome idea for trains on the launched coasters. Kudos to Intamin for their Designing skills.

Griffon looks amazing. I wish BGE was closer (I live in Southern California). The only thing I dont like about that ride is the wierd colors of the trains. Their ok but kinda strange.

The pic that came with this (Pg 5) proves one major thing, Ninja REALLY needed the amazing paint job that it got! With the paint Job it looks amazing and is really starting to get noticed. I love the ride alot because of its good use of terrain and pretty much non-stop movement until the end. I think its better to have the Lift at the end and it doesnt really matter that much to anyone.

1. Six Flags Magic Mountain 2. California Adventure 3. Disneyland 4. Six Flags Great Adventure 5. Knotts Berry Farm Sorry, I think thats all the parks I've been to! I dont travel much.

hope they covered up the trains when we have all this rain! it would really suck if they rusted over (Its been raining non stop in Southern California all day!)

heck, they removed the loop and then put it back up three days later so it wouldnt be that strange but it would be kind of retarded

Actually, Goliath was the Ride being run by the International workers that day and it had the best dispatch times and the shortest line. Tatsu was being opted by all the white people and the main Ride op was this big white guy who had little to no idea what he was doing, or so it seemed.

I dont think that someone has adressed this already but its posted on the Disneyland website here: http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/en_US/calendar/monthly/monthly?name=CalendarMonthlyPage Im planning a trip to the DL resort in June and so upon checking the website I found some important Info. Just so you know if you are planning a trip to Disneyland and are making a stop at California Adventure, The link says that California screamin will not open until 1 pm after April 30th through Fall 2007 (Monday through Friday only) because they are doing work on Toy Story Mania Underneath.

My top ten is Rather Different: 1. X (SFMM) 2. Tatsu (SFMM) 3. California Screamin (DCA) 4. Xcelerator (KBF) 5. Riddler's Revenge (SFMM) 6. Ghostrider (KBF) 7. Goliath (SFMM) 8. Silver Bullet (KBF) 9. Deja Vu (SFMM) 10. Scream! (SFMM)

I still love the park no matter what and did understand why everything was closed except for Riddlers. Thats pretty crazy though, has it ever valied before? And as for paying too much, I have a season pass and go once every month so its not too bad for me!

Well, I just got home and didnt have a chance to type up a trip report about my trip on thursday. But I can sum it up in one word. TERRIBLE. Some of you dont know but on thursday we had some humungous winds and really high gusts in Southern California. When I checked the news the day before, they said nothing about the wind and that made me mad. Thinking that it was going to be a pretty good day, I didnt worry about it. When we got to the park, it was obvious to me that X wasn't running because I watched it for 10 minutes and it did absolutely nothing. When I got to the ticket booths, the lines were gigantic. They must have been about an hour long! Luckily for me, we got there just as another booth opened up so I ran to get in line and only waited a minute before we got the ticket. It was nice. We made our way into the park and went to Tatsu and were told it was around an hour and a half wait. I decided that it would be best to just wait it out because the operations were terrible and they were dispatching the trains at terrible speeds. (Dispatch averages were about 7 minutes per train.) After an hour and fourty-five minute wait for the front row we were off. Same amazing coaster, amazingly awesome ride yet again. After that we tried Ninja but it was closed, then tried Riddlers but that was myseriously closed also. It was rather wierd. After that we hit up batman with a 45 minute line. The Wait was all the way out to the entrance. It was the normal Batman, intense, short kinda fun. When that was over we made a quick DDR stop and then headed out of the park to Wendys. When we got back we went to goliath after finding out that scream was closed (it had never opened that day) and to our luck they were running three trains on Goliath. The Dispatch times were amazing (under one minute in some cases) The line began past the switchbacks and went through the long way on each line and yet, the line was still only 45 minutes for the front! Kudos the the goliath team for doing a good job. We decided that instead of getting back in line, it would be wise to go get on something else and come back to Goliath. We decided that because gold rusher had no line, we would give it a try. I had been On it before but didnt care about it very much. Its a cool little coaster and not worth waiting very long for but because it was a walk on, I didnt worry about it. Both of the people I was with had never been on superman so we wanted to go ride that but I said no because of the way that they were operating the coaster. Because of the wind gusts, they were afraid to send the trains out for fear of them stalling. So every time that the wind died down, they would send off a train as fast as they possibly could and then wait untill the wind went down again. The line was huge and went all the way out to the entrance. I opted out and everyone else came too. We opted for Viper after that. BAD IDEA. To my dismay, they had only one train on and were flooded w/ fastpass people (partially because the Fastpass line for Tatsu was still an Hour long!) who all gummed up things. We waited a Whopping two hours for Viper and were annoyed even though we were in the front row at how rough it was compared to usual. (The front row had just as long of a line as everything else did so It didnt really matter.) We hit up goliath after that and walked all the way Up into the station. After a nine-train wait for the front, we were off. I have to say that goliath is amazing at night. After getting off, we ran around again and did the same thing. It was about 30 minutes later that we had already gotten two front row rides in and decided to call it a night. It was an ok day but the park operations were terrible. The thing I would have to say upset me the most was that they had absolutely no ride closures posted on the signs outside. Nothing at all, even the coasters that never opened and were closed with trashcans blocking the entrance! It was very discusting and Inconvinient. One good thing was that the workers were more cheerful and happy and interacted with guests alot from what I saw. It was kinda cool. Granted, they werent all extremely peppy but they were not completely grumpy either. Thanks for reading. I Have some pics I can put up and ill try to do so. (Anyone know how to downsize pics? any help would be great!) Thanks for reading! PS: Comments are apreciated!

Undoubtedly, the best type of B&M is their Flying design. Although I've only been on one, (Tatsu, that is) however, I Like Tatsu better than any other B&M design I've ever seen. Even though there are problems with some of the different designs and layouts that make them unexciting, Tatsu is a prime example of an amazing layout, a fun ride, and an intense experience. With some better experience, and more planning, they could make the flying coaster a well known ride type. I look forward to seeing what they do with the flying design in the future. Floorless coasters would probably come next, then hypers and then Inverted's (I dont care as much for inverted coasters, their fun but not my favorite)

Does anyone have any idea where i can get discounted tickets for MM? Im going tomorrow and have a season pass but i have two friends who dont. I heard the commercial going around and knew that there was 35 dollar tickets but where do I buy them?

Im going on the 6th of June to Disneyland and hope for minimal crowds. My School gets out on the 25th of May (I live in pasadena but go to a private school). None of my friends at public schools (LA county) get out untill the 21st of June so hopefully earlier in the month should be fine. Knotts is very empty on weekdays so i advise going on a mid-weekday (Tuesday through Thursday). As for SFMM, avoid weekends, other than that, it should be fine. (Check on your way into SFMM and see how many trains X has in the transfer area, if there are two trains running, head for Tatsu first. If X has only one train, make sure thats your first stop.)

Hard Decision for SFMM, and Knotts. Its between: Knotts: Xcelerator or Ghostrider SFMM: X, Tatsu, Scream or Riddlers but If i had to pic one, It would be Ghostrider at Knotts and X at SFMM X has that "HOLY CRUD!!!" factor while still being an awesome ride ( the ride isnt long enough in my opinion but whatever) and Ghostrider is fun and has alot of airtime. People say that its rough and granted it is, but it is still extremely enjoyable and fun.

any idea what they play for scream? (i know this is WAY off topic but: Do you know what music they use for the disneyland commercials? its kinda stupid but i like it.)

Ive been trying to find the music they play for Scream and X, does anyone know where I can find that?

Well... if they have those people walk around in the Colossus County fair area, it could work pretty well! BTW: does anyone have any idea how busy it will be at the mountain tomorrow? im going with my friends and need to know so we can formulate a plan *evil laughter* anyways... yeah any info would be great!

There are only a few different layouts of the B&M flyers but which one is your favorite?

Thanks anyways. Arent they already testing it though?

I've Searched all over the place but I cant seem to find anything, Does anyone Know when the Finding Nemo ride is supposed to be opening? I heard June 11th being tossed around as a possible date but I dont know. Im planning a trip for the 6th of June and want to know the possibility of it being open! Any info would be great!

I think you are all being extremely overly critical of Knotts. Yes they do have lots of rides closed but it is to be expected. Rides like Xcelerator and Ghostrider need to be closed because they have a really busy summer ahead of them. I mean, come on, its the off season. If Knotts was in say, New York where it was cold and wet you would all be saying "oh its just the off season. rides can't really be Expected to have all of its rides open all the time." I think they do a wonderful job at their park and they shouldn't be critizised for it at all. Come to think of it, Ive had some amazing experiences in the past at Knotts and the closure of these rides is neccissary. People complain and complain that Ghostrider is "too rough" (which doesnt exist for Ghostrider in my opinion) and in order to make changes to the ride, it needs to be closed. Other than that, Glad you had a good time at the other parks.

if your looking for something around 60 dollars per night, try Anaheim (around Disneyland) Ive found some hotels there to be around 60 dollars a night. Ive never actually stayed in them but I found one right across the street from the park for about 70 dollars. When you get to SFMM, go to Tatsu first unless X only has one train. If X only has one train, head for that first. Tatsu Builds a line later in the day that is hard to take off (especially these days it seems) With slow operation on Tatsu, waits can get gigantic. (Flashpasses do work but they only let you ride in the back two rows. The best ride is in the front on Tatsu)

well, my school planned a trip to Six Flags for Sadie Hawkins this year and I was really excited to go with all of my friends. We left from my school about and hour late and arrived at the park around 11. After we managed to get into the park, we tried to get on Revolution but the line was rather large and I deemed it "not worthy to wait" so we took the Orient Express up the mountain to Ninja, which was also closed because it was rather windy yesterday. I had my friends wait by the entrance to Ninja while I ran to check out Tatsu's line. The line went through all the switchbacks and down the mountain a little ways so we decided to wait untill later. After that we headed down the mountain to Superman, which is was also closed because it broke down, so we headed to Riddler's. Bingo! walked up into the station (which was packed and amazingly clean but we managed to get on in four trains with two train operation and loved it. One of my best friends loved it because it was so "unusual" in his opinion. He never thought about how wierd it would be riding a coaster standing up and he loved it. After that we tried to get on freefall but it was closed so we headed over to Batman. Not to bad of a wait, about five-ten minutes with two train operation. After that we made a quick DDR pit-stop and spent our money wisely! While in the Arcade, some friends from my school came in and told us that Goliath had only a five minute wait. We hightaled it over there and to my surprise, found THREE trains operaiting with extremely minimal stacking. Even though it seemed to be running fine right then, I told the people in my group to mark my words that Goliath would be having major problems later in the day. Goliath was fun with some rapid loading and unloading and amazing operation. One of the people in our group loves wooden coasters so, naturally, our next stop was colossus. The line seemed longer than usual and it was. All in all it had about a fifteen minute wait witch really wasnt too bad. The guy who likes wooden roller coasters loved it (and the trains ), however, he Did make sure that we knew Ghostrider at Knott's was way better. Some it was now about two and we decided it was time to eat (I protested because scream had almost no line and claimed it would probably build one but no one really listened to me and I had to go with them) and we walked to the Colossus cookery. Very good service, extremely decent park food, etc. After we spent a long time eating, we walked to Scream. GUESS WHAT? it had a gigantic line for which I gloated about for a little while and then we left. The next stop was Yosemite Sam's Sierra Falls. For being an almost completely unknown ride in the park, it was really fun. Not too long but it got you wet enough to cool you down. Then, came the biggie. It was time for X. Some of the people in our group chickened out, and some claimed to be sick, so out of a group of about 12 people, 3 of us went and waited. While waiting in line for X, I have to say I was UNDENIABLY and EXTREMELY impressed. Dispatch times were at an all time low, 2 minutes was one of the longest dispatches. The shortest was, get this, (I timed it) about One minute from unload to load and Dispatch. Also, inside the station on both sides, they had people directing people to rows instead of letting them flood the station which was extremely good because there wasnt an exponential wait inside that station. We where assigned row three, right side. Now, people have been complaining alot that X is rough, and I Honestly have to say I have no idea what they are talking about because my ride yesterday was the smoothest ride I have ever had on X. (out of 18 total rides) It was a little Jerky on the last raven turn but other than that it was amazingly "smooth" (smooth for X that is). In total, with two train operation, we waited about an hour and a half. Not bad at all. My best friend who was right next to me loved the ride. When we were going down the drop, I heard him say "oh SHIT" (this wouldnt except that hes one of those almost perfect guys who has never cussed in his life) He loved the ride and couldnt wait to come back and go on it again. After that, went on Viper. It was just your normal Viper. Rather fun, nice and flippy and long. Waited two or three minutes. We had about 45 minutes left till dinner started so we tried to go back to Goliath. On our way over there, we ran into the silly stupid parade. it was truely Six Flags style. (three floats, one car) It was kinda stupid. So we walk into the line for goliath, guess what? it broke down at around three, and built up a huge line because they didnt block off the entrance and so the que just filled up. It made me angry but I couldnt do anything about it. So we headed back to the "grande oak pavilion" thing and ate then headed up to get in line for Tatsu. I have to say I was extremely unimpressed with the operations of Tatsu. early in the day, they took off a train and had one train one station operation. with a line of three hours. Ouch. Earlier in the day, it had about a thirty five minute wait for the front row. So they decided to go down to one train. It didn't work out to well because it was terrible operation and it took forever. The line supposedly built back up in about an hour to a three hour line. When we got in line it was down to about an hour and a half because they put the second train back on. It really wasnt too bad. we were up in the station at 9:00 (we got in line at 7:00) and disaster struck. Station one broke down. To our luck, they split us and sent us to station two. It made me happy. It was dark when we finally rode and I have to say, it was absolutely amazing. Tatsu is so much fun in the dark. I love it. After that we hit up Viper with no line twice and Revolution once and then called it quits. It was Fun. Everyone had a good time and I earned myself a new nickname "tour-guide Teddy" and had an amazing time. Also, while we were waiting on the bus, we were informed that a Train on goliath had gotten suck on the chain lift with the top two cars over the top. Get this, the train was completely full of students from my school. The lift hill had been overworked and it died. It was funny (to me) because I said something would happen to it later in the day. (as I wrote earlier) Im sorry this is so long and there are no pictures. I never remembered to take out my camera untill the end when it was dark. There arent very many important things right now that are going on so I didnt know what to take pics of. Thanks for Reading if you made it this far! Comments Please!