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I just want to make sure its understood that nobody here is saying the rehab team does not do a good job! In fact, by what it sounds like with what they have, they are doing a terrific job. Things could be a lot worse! I believe the opinion a majority of us have is that the park is lacking a sufficient number of train rehab members due to poor infrastructure of the company, and cutting corners to save on costs, which eventually has unfavorable effects on the customers who pay and wait to ride the coasters. It's just frustrating, considering after 40 years of operation you'd think the park (and company) would know how many people it takes to rehab trains for a park with 18 roller coasters.

A perfect example of this would be the park not ordering 3 trains for Terminator, so when 1 goes down or has a train rehab, they can still run 2 trains instead of having 1 train operation with terrible capacity (with a ride that already has low capacity with 2 trains) for half the Summer. Same with this ONE team for rehabbing trains in a park that has 18 coasters! That's absurd! That is cutting corners and providing inadequate staff for such a big park that already has problems with operations and efficiency! Oh, but it's okay, you can pay the park an extra $50 for cutting corners, and that eliminates the inefficiency problem by letting you cut in front of all the people that are waiting in unfair long lines due to these poor operations! Hey californiaroar, trust me, we know it's a lot more than a simple "flip of the switch," and with only ONE team for rehabbing trains, I'd bet the maintenance team is overworked and underpaid, trust me, we're on their team! We know they do great work and probably work their asses off to get the rides we love open and ready to go! Our point is more of the infrastructure of the company and the park, how every other chain seems to figure out this maintenance and rehab schedule just fine, but for some reason Six Flags always has an issue with this stuff year after year. After so long, it's kind of hard to just excuse them with "well, maybe they've had a rough offseason and haven't caught up," and like the poster above mentioned, the only reason after years of this going on can be that they cut corners and make the guests pay for it! We know they work hard and we appreciate all the hard work they do, even if Six Flags doesn't!

When are these investors going to realize...nobody is interested in going to this park!

Hey guys, check it out!

I gotta be honest, I don't really "get" these new style of coasters from B&M.

I love when people make up some physically impossible situation like it really happened, I remember in high school people used to tell stories about visiting theme parks all the time, and they'd swear by it even though you know the whole time that they're just lying. I've always wondered what it is about theme parks that make some people lose all aspects of practicality and common sense. Last year at Haunt someone behind us in line at Supreme Scream asked why Perilous Plunge was closed (at 1am in the morning) and the friend who was with me said "They're going to be removing it, some lady died on it a couple weeks ago." I just smiled and kept quiet out of respect for my friend...

Yeah, like an extra hour on Xcelerator! Oh wait...

I'm sorry to say, but none of this is true. The train and catch cars are refurbished seasonally due to the wear and tear caused by the intensity of the elements of the ride. However, the cables are not replaced every season, nor is the catch system, nor the motors. On top of seasonal downtime which allows for thorough refurbishment, these parts are inspected and are also maintained daily like they every other ride in the park. Well maintained coasters (which believe it or not, SFMM maintenance prides itself on) including cables and motors which are taken care of daily throughout their operation, extend their longevity (which diminishes ride maintenance costs), avoids hazard, and prevents costly major component replacement in the future.

What the heck that first drop looks amazing!! Especially for being an invert!

Neither are you, but atleast I have the decency to actually read what people write before responding.

^Um, that has nothing to do with what I was talking about. What you're referring to was a purely mechanical incident which had nothing to do with the loose article policy or how the park allows guests to bring numerous loose articles with them on the ride. Read my post, I did not say the ride has been without incident, I said there has not been a similar incident like what happened the other day (a loose article coming from a car of the ride falling on the track and eventually valleying a train) since the ride has been open. So, they get the article off the track, get the train back to the station, and the ride is ready to go again. There's no reason for the loose article policy to change, it's worked for over 10 years.

No reason for there to be, IMO. As the loose article and ride configuration stands today, California Screamin' has been running without any major problems or issues like what happened the other day for over a decade. There's really no reason to change things up now!

Maybe there will be others on here to back me up, but it seems this Deja Vu rumor surfaces nearly every season about this time of the year, mainly whenever a new coaster begins getting discussed at Magic Mountain. I don't believe it for a second. Well, if they replace Deja Vu with another coaster, they still have the coaster count crown... If they were going to remove any ride, I'd rather they remove Green Lantern!

Awesome! Thank you for sharing! This looks like it's going to be quite the unique B&M invert and I am looking forward to seeing the completed layout!

Whoever said the improved entrance at DCA is a new design? Also, I don't understand Disney's passion with the Glendale/Hyperion bridge, or how it has any more to do with California than the Golden Gate Bridge. Looks like some old beaten up, average LA freeway bridge to me... Great find, what are the chances? The people on the ride were annoying though!

Ugh, some people are so retarded. How do they have the ability to completely lose all common sense once they step into amusement parks? And the people that were "injured" weren't even on the arm of the ride that broke and started dragging! Thank god nobody was, otherwise there might have been a couple deaths or serious injuries. What bugs me most is nobody the news talks to ever has a clear idea of what's going on, like they're purposely abstract to find some way to make parks look like dangerous hell holes with rides that break down all the time. I think we hear of these more and more because they're popular stories centered around theme parks, and because of how quickly and easily news travels online these days. Think about it, thousands of rides are operating world-wide at almost every second of every day, and we only hear about something like this every couple months. When you consider the rides operating and the fact that we don't hear of something like this every day, it pretty much explains how safe you are to be sitting on a ride. Much safer than going 80 MPH on any highway.

I am all for a Rocky Mountain treatment of Colossus. The ride barely has any nostalgia anymore, and needs a facelift. And So Cal needs an airtime machine.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's broken down...

Scream is a great ride, in a bad location. It's too bad the park has never done anything to face lift the ride or make the area that you walk through to get to the ride look less like a mistake. I remember at a time the ride plaza concrete was spray painted colors of the ride and it looked terrible! The forgotten step-child of all the rides at the park...although I hope they never take it out because I think the back seat is awesome! But I've sat all over the train and never had a rough ride, so I'm not sure what some of you guys are talking about. Are some of you running out of stuff to talk about?

It does in fact look like the trims at the top of the first hill have been adjusted to let the train ride through faster. Time the train from the end of the launch to the bottom of the first hill, and it trimmed about 2 seconds off from the off-ride video, to the POV video. That's the only explanation as far as I can tell.

I can't decide if I like the entrance or not. It looks a bit small (as in areas for guests to enter) and plain to me, and doesn't really match the DCA vibe IMO, especially considering the wide variety of attractions the park has to offer. I don't know, just seems like they could have done more. As for the other stuff going on around the park, everything looks absolutely fantastic. Very classy, detail oriented, top notch. I believe sometimes they hide the WoC fountains, but I may be wrong. If they don't I also wish they would bring them down when the show is not running, as it ruins the view across the lake when they're up all day. I too enjoyed the large California letters in front of the park, and I will miss them.

^There is an employee cafe behind Food Etc. just on the other side of the exit ramp of Goliath. In fact if you were exiting Goliath and they didn't have the painted wall on the right side of the exit ramp, you'd be able to see the outdoor patio where the employees eat. The food there is OK, I wouldn't say it's a step above the food they have around the park, but they have basic salads, chicken strips, fries, hot dogs (staying warm in water) and burgers, and the prices are pretty decent (I think it was about $4 for chicken strips, fries and a drink). The difference is atleast sometimes they have the fries coming out of the fryer, or they cook a burger off the grill so its warm and fresh. It is amazing though how some parks (namely Disney and Universal) have food that I almost crave when I think about going to the parks, namely the Gumbo in a bread bowl at Disneyland, and some of the BBQ I've had a Universal among other things. Soooo good it makes my mouth water just thinking about it. And from what I remember they don't gouge you with high prices nearly as much as Six Flags (although I'd say by the quality of the food they'd almost be justified if they did).

^I see. Thanks. Haha Seriously. I'm not even saying I need some luxury OMG lah-tee-dah food, I'm just saying it'd be nice if they served warm, freshly made food that isn't terrible! I mean look at these prices, you're telling me they can't afford to give guests good food when they gouge them like this? One souvenir cup and one meal pays for 3+ hours of 1 employees salary!

I don't know why it's so damn hard for the park to serve some good quality food to it's guests. Every time I eat at the park my fries are cold, or my food is dry, and it just makes me never want to eat at the park again. Why on earth would I spend $13+ bucks on a "combo" meal when I can go to In N Out for a nice sit down lunch, with a warm juicy burger in air conditioning? I mean it's not rocket science: the park only makes burgers, chicken strips, pizza and bbq, and they still do it wrong. It's stuff we can all make at home for 1/2 the price, and I'm sure it'd be delicious. But at Magic Mountain, the wait in line to get the food is long, they charge way too much for it, and it's still terrible. The only thing I've ever had that's consistently good is funnel cakes, but there's practically no way to screw those up.

Uh oh! A certain theme park on the West Coast (not to be named in this thread) better have a roller coaster up its sleeve if it plans on keeping that most roller coasters in the world crown!