AllenA07

I'm not sure how quickly that actually it, I can't imagin that it is terribly difficult to remove a wooden coaster. I don't recall how long Texas Cyclone took to come down, but I recall it being done in a day or so. I think Flashback might take a bit longer to remove, but nothing substantial. Yes I meant the cyclone, sorry about the confusion.

I noticed in one of Robb's pictures the old Psyclone sign is still standing. I hope they pull that out quickly. For some reason it has always annoyed me when there has been signs advertisting something that no longer exists. I assume thought that the park will get that thing out soon enough.

Isn't that pretty much how the whole park is? True, it should be taken that my statment was conditional upon the assumption that Magic Mountain has some kind of theming.

I'm curious if the theme around the whole "Cyclone Bay" (was it Pysclone or Cyclone bay?) has changed at all. It'll be interesting to see how that area changes now, without having a trademark (yeah I'm ignoring Deja Vu) ride back there, that they can really theme around. Even if a Wiggles/Thomas the Tank area is placed where Psyclone was, it seems as the park is going to have a patch of the park with little to no theme.

I actually believe that the shed which housed the transfer track was the station house for the Bobsleds, and I'm unclear exactly where Shockwave was stationed. I recall Shockwave being at the park when I was a little (say 3ish) however beyond it simply existing, I can't really remember much about the specifics of it.

^Yeah but the Bobsleds and Shockwave both left due to the ride rotation program. I've been on neither, so I cannot comment on if they sucked.

Congratulations, I wish the best to all three of you.

Key club days I remember kids running around the park much more, during Cheer days most of the girls (this is, of course, depending on the event) end up staying near Golden Bear. Those events last basically all day.

When I was working at the park I would always hate when cheer weekends would come around. Since I often ran the sound for them I got to deal with all of those teams first hand. The best people were the cheerleaders or coachs that stood there and watched, the worst ones tended to be parents of young kids who told me their entire life history. While running cheer however I do have some of my most unique memories from the park, including two job offers and occasionally flirting.

You had the picture in there of the "xtreme parrot" show. They've actually always offered pictures with the birds for $5, at elast for the past several years. I did however notice that they cut one of the shows out, even during the off season I thought they had 4 shows on the weekend.

Did anybody else catch the Z-Force (Flashback) ad on that site?

I can't believe these forums have only been around two years now, I would have actually have guessed longer. I"ve been coming to this site since the late 90's, and honestly it seems weird that TPR ever existed without forums.

It'd be about 5 pages single spaced. Rough rule is about 500 words per page single space, and about 250 words per page double spaced.

So it's 3000 words, which is about 12 pages of typing single spaced... I'd say doing a history of a single park might be a good idea. Now just wondering because this is (or at least it seems) to be a High School paper... I'm curous what you have to write this for, since 12 pages sounds a bit long for a high school paper. I didn't encounter a paper that size until college, and even now (I'm a senior at UCLA) as a History major that paper would still be seen as a "decent" size.

Speaking of Freefall, how is it? A few months ago that ride looked doomed, is it operating?

I'm looking foward to seeing Psyclone gone, that will be a strange site. It's interesting though, Robb brought up the picture of Shockwave... For some reason the parks coasters in that back area just don't survive. Psyclone is the third coaster being taken out from that spot in the last 20 or so years. Of course two of the rides would be doomed because of the wonderful Ride rotation program, which landed us Flashback, which is also slated to be removed. How ironic.

Does the park still offer free parking after 6? A few years ago when I live near the park, I enjoyed going at night and taking advantage of the free parking.

How often are rounds generally made. It was farily seldom I saw my supervisor when I worked at the park, typically if he was around it was because I was encountering some kind of technical problem... Or a bird flew away at the show.

I highly doubt this is the norm, but twice while working at the park I had to get on my cell phone and place calls to Magic Mountain. When I was working up on Summit there were two seperate times where somebody couldn't take the hill, and seeing as how I was denied a radio each time I asked, I ended up just using my cell phone to call for help. Otherwise the only time I would be on my phone was backstage out of sight from guests.

I normally ate at the always tidy (sarcasm) Mooseburger Lodge. The prices are about the same (or were the last time I was at the park long enough that I ended up having to eat) as elsewhere in the park, and there are free refills.

I live down in New Mexico and we got this storm eariler in the week. Dropped a ton of snow on us out here.

Maybe they'll finally install Bench: The Ride... Now I'll be left to wonder if any of you remember Bench: The Ride.

Almost all of my reading is for school now. I'm up to around 200 pages a day of reading things that are in some nature historial. My last big read was the Thomas Paine collection, however to be fair I only read his three biggest books (Common Sense, Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason), and left out many of the others. However when time allows for some fun reading, I've been making my way through the Jack Ryan collection by Tom Clancy for a while now. I've only got a few more books before I finish up that series. Good books if you're into that kind of thing.

I think losing the 1st gen Freefalls is a shame. It remains one of the only rids I've ever been on that has really scared me. Something about it just seem so much more dangerous than a modern tower ride. I'm curious to see when SFMM loses theirs. It's packed in there pretty tight with attractions, so one would assume the ride will be gone by the new season. However I don't know, this is SFMM so more than likely they'll just shut down the southern half of the park for a few months and claim it's in rehab.

How Thomas More's political philosophy in Utopia can be seen as a hybrid system between Epicurean philosophy and Plato's Republic in a modern (well 16th century modern) world.