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Just like Tatsu, X2 is completely overrated. Too many thrills in one roller coaster is never a good thing. My favorite ride at the park is Shockwave. Followed by Canyon Blaster and Deja Vu.

Right: So if you missed it several pages ago, you got the opportunity to search another link with photos. It isn't unheard of to have the same information, or updates of similar content, posted more than once sometimes. I would rather have 2 updates of similar information than 0 updates at all. I get more out of looking at photos than reading the description updates on here anyway.

Psh, this is just how the park always operates. Wait until the very last minute to start construction with very little going on, then begin to rush to complete the ride at the opening date as it comes nearer. This increases the chances for a problem or something to go wrong, and when the ride doesn't open on time this "problem" is what the park blames for the ride opening delay, not their own god awful planning. Generally these are the issues that cause a delay of the final opening of the ride. Not saying that's what is going to happen with this ride, but it's a bad habit to get into especially considering it gives you minimal time for error correction if a mistake arises or it doesn't operate the way it's designed (which with Magic Mountain, ANYTHING can happen, and it usually does). With this park the best thing to do is just wait until it's actually open. Anything other than that like planning a trip before the ride is actually operating is a gamble IMO. To me it doesn't seem like there's that much involved in a ride like this, but we'll see.

If you've never been to either go the Magic Mountain. Hour drive from Knott's on the 5, (DON'T take the 405) less if you avoid traffic (I've done 45 min). The park has some of the best rides in the country in a pretty sweet environment. Don't worry about food, just leave the park for an hour and go to Claim Jumper, Panda Express or In N Out. Knott's is okay but is a 1/2 day and limited. Except for Xcelerator (or Monte) the coasters are not even comparable. I would suggest hitting up Disneyland for a day before going to Knott's. Want a coaster rush? Hit the Flags.

Exactly. And a lot of people knew this the second the "family" idea was introduced, even when the consensus thought it was a great direction for the park to move towards. The Metro Station: Sad to see it going down. The park needs a transport ride badly, IMO. I know it was doomed but now that it's finally happening and Log Jammers gone it seems like that somewhat charismatic area will be changing soon, perhaps some future plan will be going down in that area. Hopefully something cool!

Ah, and when people said it wouldn't work and the park should concentrate on what they're good at---coasters---they were chastised because the park kept saying "families is where the money is." Even though it was practical to assume families would NOT be interested in driving their kids an hour to take a ride on the lamest kiddie train ride ever, with Disneyland right down the street. Wrong again!

You're making up a situation that never happened. Nobody did this.

Looks like a lot of fun, and the new hyper/giga track and lift style Intamin has picked up is fancy. I would LOVE if Magic Mountain got one of these!!

Now THIS is a picture that shows all the weird angles on Leviathan's hammerhead! http://www.cwmania.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10032/089~2.JPG posted by kunpc1 @ cwmania.com

The train didn't valley there, it's being hoisted over the last raven, and being held in place by ropes. They're doing it this way so it can make it back to the transfers on its own. Much easier/quicker than disassembling the train. Nope. Someone mentioned there was when the ride opened, but I don't remember that. In regard to X2 valleying before the last raven: there was an instance where they physically "removed" a section of the track in that very spot to disassemble the train car by car and take it back up the hill to the storage transfers, but they haven't done that in a while. In fact there used to be a picture of the cut out track piece floating around here or other coaster sites for some time. Pretty interesting to say the least.