dylanreich

April 1st will be "April Stooge Day" at Magic Mountain, and the first 500 people to show up dressed as a stooge will get 1 hour of morning ERT on Colossus and Scream. The first TEN people to show up will get a front-of-the-line pass for an unnamed ride for that whole day. I'll be one of those first ten people.

No, it never opened.

^I wouldn't say he made a bad decision; He explained that his decision wasn't weather-related. Also, the GL:FF single-rider line has been official as of the day of West Coast Bash. Pretty sweet that the park was empty, though.

Opening at a Disney park.

^I also can't comment on their policies, but I do know that Tatsu was running LONG after they changed the closing time to 12PM, so it's not as if it wasn't too wet to keep allowing people who got in line before 12PM on. As Robb said, there's many things that they could have chosen to do. This is all a mute point now though. I'm home, warm, dry, and I can't stay disappointed forever.

^^I agree, they can do nothing about the weather. However, maybe I'm asking for too much, but I think that the park should have at least attempted to give event-goers something to try to make up for them paying $49 (many of these annual passholders, who of course are really only going for the too-awesome ERT) for not much of anything. Again, they didn't have to do anything, but it certainly couldn't hurt their image if they tried to offer something.

^^Yes, they didn't "have" to do anything, but that isn't how one gests business, is it? I'm not going to use the best analogy since it had nothing to do with weather, but it's TPR-related, so, Carnival can legally offer the cruise that TPR went on (the Klassy Kruise), but they certainly lost any future business from the TRP members that went on it with the service offered by Carnival. In turn, the point is that SFMM didn't do anything at all to even try to make up for the fact that the rides weren't going to happen (and I'd bet they knew ahead of time, considering Neal talked about how their radar was showing that the rain would be hard all day). They definitely offer a different type of hospitality compared to the way TPR was welcomed by Knott's for West Coast Bash. ^I believe Knott's will be experiencing the same type of weather.

^No problem, and yes, the compensation was a free ticket (pretty much useless, although I suppose you could bring a friend, but I would have just used the coupon book for that). When leaving the park they handed all park-goers a comp ticket. There was no 'evening' ERT, Neal (director of operations) pretty much gave a "well, sorry guys" talk to everyone. I'm pretty disappointed about spending $49 for pretty much nothing, but I can't complain when ACE members flew here for this. I think a lot of people (myself included) were looking for more compensation than what was given to all park-goers. It's not like I'm going for the food. (: EDIT: The park was closed at noon, which was announced around 11:30 (to answer your question).

^The lunch was the exact same as West Coast Bash, except for them not having the soda fountain machines ready/working. They did nothing at all about the night ERT. I should also mention that the comp ticket was for everyone who went to SFMM that day, not just the event-goers. It doesn't affect me since I have a season pass, but even considering everything, they were only offering event-goers an upgrade to a season pass at the $39.99 price offered to anybody who goes to the park. There were definitely some upset people who traveled longer distances for the event.

I'm not sure how many people would think of this as crazy, but here's an idea for SFMM: Take the section of X2 with the fire, and enclose all of it within a tunnel! Then X2 would have a tunnel(!), and the fire would always be running.

I took a few pictures at the park today. Ride operations were ok for the most part on the rides that were open. Goliath took a while to get going during ERT (about 45-60 minutes in), but was fine after that. Tatsu had a few hiccups when the park opened, but going going very quickly. The Director of Operations (Neal?) told me during lunch that Lex Luthor will most likely open between the end of May and early June, but they have no set date as of now. He didn't really have a response for me when I asked about the Six Flags post talking about a ride named "Full Throttle," just that there are rumors out about the upcoming ride. He said that the name of the ride (not confirmed as a coaster) is indeed set. There's a campaign going on at the park for the new Three Stooges Movie. There was also a "wrap" on the train. There were also many posters up around the park. I could see from Tatsu's lift that they were cycling boats (is that the right word?), but the ride was closed. I noticed that on the graphics for Lex Luthor there were a few alignment problems with it's track. (: The poster for the Three Stooges movie on the side of the structure of Colossus facing the parking lot.

I'm here at the lunch. Riddler's, Scream, and Green Lantern were not open for ERT. The park is closing at noon. I have heard that they are passing out one-day tickets as you leave. The director of operations has not spoken at lunch. I know Ace members are scheduled to have a Q&A, but I'm not sure what the park is doing about that. Goliath did take about 45 minutes after ERT started to get going, but was fine from then-on. This event is very disorganized, however. The lunch started 15 minutes late, and ALL of the fountain drink stations are empty. I'll have more comments and pictures later when I get home, my thumbs are frozen as it is.

^Sweet, thanks. I'm hesitantly excited to get on all of these rides in the rain (I've never been to Magic Mountain in this weather).

^Will do. I'll be wearing a green sweater or a green lantern shirt if I have my sweater off. Anyone know which major rides they continue to run in light rain and beyond?

Anyone else going to Coaster Enthusiast Day tomorrow? I'll probably come back with some sort of trip report... Hopefully the forecasted rain will be light. It's going to be a LONG day... Not to mention I'm running my first half-marathon on Sunday.

My "regular" soda is Pepsi Max, but I am really liking the Dr. Pepper 10 calorie (per can) soda. I try to stay away from it since it's so bad for you, but the new Monster Absolute Zero is decent.

I saw Project X. It was my first R movie in the theater without a parent as I recently turned 17 (I went with friends). I thought it was hilarious. I suppose you can only enjoy the movie if you accept that it's supposed to be over the top. The story gets shaky at some points, but gets back on it's feet in the last 20 minutes or so. I highly recommend it if you just want to laugh at... society?

The video was deleted... Interesting. I wonder why?

BEST TRIP REPORT I'VE EVER SEEN! But I've probably told you that already...

I believe it unless anyone sees any motive for them to lie. The only motive I could think of is not being allowed to say how they really got it.

^My mistake, I was looking at the wrong park hours.

EDIT: Incorrect information, don't bother reading. For anyone going to Coaster Enthusiast Day on Saturday, I noticed that the park closes at 8PM, but night ERT doesn't start until 9PM. I'm pretty excited that all of the lines will be almost all if not all cleaned out by the time night ERT starts, especially with the addition of Goliath and Apocinator to the lineup. This is obviously a constrast to night ERT at WCB, which started right when the park closed, although to be fair they did add 15 minutes to ERT then.

^Sweet! I'll definitely be going, and I'm very happy to see ERT available on Apocinator. It'll be a LONG day however, with the park closing so late.

^5th post: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=26782&start=23120 I find the naming ok if it's a multi-launched coaster, but they could have done better with theming it to it's area in the park (unless they re-theme the area).

The park will be open.