MagicMountainMan

I looked over the SFMM schedules for grad nights or days and this Friday the 27th is a High School Grad night and from 11pm until 5am. The next Junior High Grad Night is slated for June 3rd. Weird at all having a Grad night this weekend being its a Holiday weekend. But this Friday Grad day will not impact general park day as its later at night. Woops yeah I looked at the schedule again and you're correct, I forgot to edit my post. Although the attendance projection for Friday is also very high so still don't go.

Definitely don't go this Friday, it's the first official day of Middle School Grad Nights. So seriously, say away.

FYI the park is closed today unexpectedly.

Preach brother, preach!

Believe it or not, supervisors and above have access to those guest comments, and they actually do get read. Keep commenting and maybe the park will start to notice a trend other than "the food is expensive and the lines are long".

X2 should be back to two trains any day they are finishing up now. Also, Six Flags has not deviated from their capital investment strategy within the last 5 years or so and there is no reason to think they will start now. So no, the park will definitely not be getting Justice League and a large roller coaster in the same season.

That works too!

Keep getting used to the idea. I feel like the park actually won't put in #20 until 2021 when it's the park's 50th anniversary. (If we get a new coaster in between that time there would probably be one removed first) That's all just my personal gut feeling, but it seems to be too perfect of an opportunity.

My survey just asked about what comic book characters I was familiar with and if I would like to see a ride based on them. Didn't have any cool concept art or anything like that like there was in years past.

There is no upgrade available for dining passes, you would have to buy it again at the level you want.

While a great idea, that block is also the turntable (or whatever it's called) for the storage track. And for those of you that are lucky enough to have the time right now, the park is DEAD on weekdays. Especially Tuesday through Thursday. I'm talking like maybe 3,000 people in the park which is nothing. I might have to get out there myself and ride a few rides.

Few thousand really? Doesn't seem like there are that many but makes sense if you add up the cars. About how many cars fill up that first part of the parking lot until the trees and divider? Yes a few thousand, and I have no idea how many cars fit in each lot but you can count them if you want. Also, I haven't been over to see what the pieces are behind by GL, but I highly doubt they are for the waterslides seeing as all those pieces are by Scream and Twisted Colossus. They have been putting the waterslides together piece by piece these last few days so it shouldn't be long until they actually get installed.

Considering we're to the point at the beginning of the season when on any given weekday there are only a few thousand people in the park, I wouldn't say it's entirely unexpected that there wasn't much of a wait. Better get all of your rides in now while you can!

That area is all land that the park doesn't own. It's a part of Newhall Land and Farm's new development and they're doing preliminary construction.

Yeah there are two sitting there and they are for the waterslides.

^Honestly not sure, I think it might actually be two trains right now, (also really haven't paid too close attention) but it was one train not too long ago if it isn't still. Whenever a train does get pulled for routine maintenance it does take forever though hence the increased and prolonged frequency of one train ops.

Yeah they are replacing the two middle slides on the structure that's closest to where Flashback was. Okay, but like.... Why not Ninja? What's so special? I believe it's because Ninja is one train ops a lot now. When Ninja runs one train on a busy day and there are a lot of Flash Passes, they will sometimes send one train of regular line and then the next train full of Flash Pass (effectively doubling the wait time of the regular line). Ninja just wasn't meant to run with only a single train...

Quoted for truth. Theme parks are a very expensive operation, they are labor intensive, maintenance intensive, capital intensive, etc. Ever wonder why Comcast initially wanted out of the theme park game after they bought Universal? It would have been a huge windfall for the company and gotten them out of a potential money sucking black hole. Granted they ultimately decided against that and the rest is history but I digress... Every chain has their take on the theme park business model; Six Flags' take is to keep overhead (relatively) low, incentivize paying customers with a low barrier to entry and then upsell like crazy. Just getting people in the gate makes them money due to the park-wide ads (more eyeballs=more money). Depending on whether you are a shareholder or a paying customer, your view of how Six Flags does business could change pretty drastically, but one thing is for certain, their finance guys definitely know what they're doing. So unless Six Flags decides to change some of their core business model, an understaffed maintenance and cycle shop getting behind on both regular and preventative maintenance, understaffed rides with operations that turn short lines into long lines, apathetic employees who display no motivation to exceed at their job, etc. will continue to be par for the course. Is it the business model that we as theme park and roller coaster enthusiasts like? No. Do the shareholders care what we think? No.

It's running one train right now because the other train was WAY over it's cycle limit and the entirety of maintenance has pretty much been focused on Revolution these last few months. To put it simply, there's too much to do with too few people and they are still playing catch up.

X2 is one of the first rides to close because of high winds, and for good reason. Scream also closes fast because the wind can really whip through the parking lot. Lex closes fast, maybe even faster than X2 in some cases. Yolo also closes decently fast in the wind because of roll backs and the increased risk of getting stuck on or above the loop. It takes a little more to close Goliath and Tatsu but they can close in high winds (Goliath because of its location and Tatsu more so because of the chance of valleying in the pretzel loop). Of course, most importantly, Sky Tower closes in high winds to everyone's dismay. Needless to say, if you're visiting the park on a windy day, expect X2 and Lex to be closed and a lot of other rides to be hit or miss. I honestly don't know how Twisted Colossus fares in the wind but I suppose hearing nothing is better than something.

Wow that's pretty bad, and really random. What a crappy driver, you had one job! Seriously though, it wouldn't be that hard to figure out what company that tow truck came from. Hopefully the women that were effected were not just told, "oh well it happens" like I'm afraid security would say. That tow company should pay a bit of money to get the front of their car fixed but I doubt that the company was even informed or ever will be. How bizarre.

Previous page has you covered. But yes, it's gone, and yes, that is the hottest rumor.

Yeah that's been my understanding all along was that they were just using the old chassis for the ride. That was confirmed when I saw all of the parts getting painted a fresh coat of white a few weeks ago. Supposedly that gets them around the whole "amount of cycles" you have to do before opening the ride, as in they can do a lot less, but I'm not exactly sure what the procedure is anyway... Someone who has opened a new coaster could tell you more, whoever that may be.

So much for having Revolution run backwards, I really enjoyed it backwards with no OTSRs... I'll probably ride it once with the VR headset just to see what it's like. I got sightly woozy off of Forbidden Journey at IOA and that will be tame compared to this... This all smells like a very recent corporate deal and not something the parks were originally planning to do. I'll give it a shot, I just hope I don't come off the ride puking.

Apparently today is a bring a friend free day, so naturally the Magic Mountain Parkway offramp was backed up into the freeway... Edit: Park just announced it's at capacity and hours have been extended. They also added a few extra BAFF days next week. Overall a pretty insane day to be at the park.