Mr. Corn

Wowza!! It's been a long time since I've updated my thread!! Well the good news is I'm back and I'll be uploading a couple trip reports over the next week or so!! To kick it off, I headed off to SFMM Fright Fest '17 to see how it compared to Knott's (as I've never been to Halloween Horror Nights) and I have to say, I was sorely disappointed. But you'll be able to read about all my unpopular opinions below!! Maze Rankings: 1- Red's Revenge 2- Toyz of Terror 3D 3- Aftermath 2: Chaos Rising --Steep Drop Off-- 4- Willoughby Manor 5- Chupacabra 6- Vault 666 7- Dead End NOTE: I didn't really want to say this, but I feel like I should because it'd affect my opinions. Me and my friend who went with me are both professional actors in Los Angeles, he currently has a Disney commercial out, and I have an international Hasbro commercial out right now as well, so we definitely have a different standard for acting that the average Joe does, so I'm going to write my reviews thinking about what the average Joe expects, but just keep that in mind. Maze Reviews: ------- Red's Revenge (2x): Um, that was fantastic. It had solid theming, an abundance of scare actors, nice sets, and several sensory sections. This is definitely the most "Knott's" maze at the park, and while not everything was perfect, they had so many great scare actors that it instantly became my favorite of the night. The sections with the string were really weird and trippy, and even on my 2nd go around, I still got scared 5 to 6 times easily. It might have been a smarter idea to leave the best maze for last as things went steeply downhill from here One thing to Improve: Maybe turn up the sound on the pre-show up a bit as it was very hard to hear with all the screaming and the air blasts ------- Chupacabra (1x): It wasn't as bad as people make it out to be honestly. The sets, if you can even call them that, were absolutely horrible, but that only forced the actors to be more creative, and they really stepped it up. This was the only maze I yelled in all night!! Also, I'm not sure why this maze is called Chupacabra if you never see a Chupacabra, but that's just me One thing to Improve: While the maze needs actual sets desperately, the one sore thumb was the 2 black hallways you just walked through like switchbacks with no scares, c'mon Six Flags!! ------- Dead End (1x): Welp, that's 3 minutes of my life I'll never get back. The lady who gave us our flashlight was honestly better than any of the actors and was really pumped to be there, and it showed. The pre-show was dumb and made no sense, and it took us about halfway through the maze to realize that this was supposed to be the Willoughby Manor continued(?) but more haunted (?). Yeah, the story made about as much sense as Transformers: The Last Knight. There were less and less actors as you went on, and the only real theming moment I can remember is when the flashlight came on and the walls said "Fear Thy Darkness", otherwise, whenever the flashlight would come on, it'd show the most minimal set you could get (i.e. Fancy Chair, Curtain, Poor Little Potted Plant) and an actor would say "Boo!!" Trust me, it's much more terrifying than it sound . Honestly, the scariest things in the maze were the guiders in the robes that looked like they were from the Salem Witch Trials, and it feels like one of the people in corporate said "Hey I have a $50 coupon to Walmart, wanna make another maze for Magic Mountain Fright Fest?" One thing to Improve: If burning down the maze isn't a single thing to improve, get some minimal light for the flooring, as we spent more time running into the walls than actually walking, also, a lantern might be a better option as with a lantern you get 360* of light, while with a flashlight, you have to be pointing in the right direction, or you miss the entire scare ------- Aftermath 2- Chaos Rising (2x): Not as good as I expected, but really dang fun!! While I didn't get scared, I honestly had a blast!! The sets were really, really well done and I honestly feel like I should get some PE credit because it felt like I ran half a mile through that darn maze. The actors were trying their hardest with scares even though there were no places to hide, but overall did a decent job!! Also, the acting was absolutely horrible to the point that it was funny. There was a single African American lady in the beginning working as an evacuator who was hilarious and was really working hard, but besides that standout, the others were so horrible it was hilarious. Walking through Deja Vu's queue and station was a serene moment for me, as I got to experience a part of Magic Mountains' history for the first time. One thing to Improve: Maybe during that police building scene, enclose the building and make it a bit tighter, as there weren't any scares during the maze, and that would be a fantastic time to get a couple in there ------- Willoughby Manor (1x): Eh. The sets were okay, the story was non-exsistant (besides the very basic understanding that it was a haunted house) and the actors were so few and far between it wasn't even funny. I counted 7 actors and 3 attempts at scares, that's just kinda sad. I saw a security guard and an actor just talking (and they just turned, looked at us, and continued their conversation) as we went through the maze, which just shows how little effort they were putting into Willoughby Manor One thing to Improve: Tighten it, the walkways were so big that groups of 4 were going shoulder by shoulder and that leads to a lot of problems trying to scare when the person is 10ft away. Overall, I was very underwhelmed with this overhyped maze, but at least this maze was not as overhyped as... ------- Vault 666 (2x): Now, to be completely honest, and I'm fine with getting hate on this, I originally wasn't planning on going in the maze. Why? Both me and my dad are diehard Christians (he works part-time at a megachurch as the director of photography and videography, and I'm currently working there in their vocal department both on mic in the adult services, and as a helper with the Kids Choir), and my friend is pretty chill with Jesus, so we all didn't think it'd be something we'd like. But, I realized that I had to give it a shot, and I have to say, I did not like this maze, but not for the reasons I expected. The whole backstory of Animal and Human mixing lab was very poorly portrayed in the 10 second pre-show, and since my friend and dad aren't enthusiasts and hadn't researched the backstory right before we went in, they didn't get what was happening at all. The scanning pre-show was unpredictable, but the acting ruined any scare (as it rivaled Aftermath 2: Chaos Rising for the worst acting of the night) and we were right off into the maze. There was no direction on where to go so people ended up going 3 different directions, and it took a couple minutes for the Salem Witch Trial Robers' to get us all back together, and the maze itself in parts was visually cool, some parts had attempts at scares, and some parts felt like they ran out of a budget. The maze felt like a rollercoaster, it went up and down with whether it was a good maze or not. Overall, for what some people say was the best maze there, I was disappointed One thing to improve: Get some sort of direction or arrows in the beginning so everyone doesn't get split up, lost, and then have to be redirected ------- Toyz of Terror 3D (2x): Definitely a solid maze that was the sleeper hit of the night. The 3D Glasses were trippy, the pre-show was quick but very effective, and that spinning tunnel was the most disorientating thing I've ever experienced. Lets start, the pre-show doesn't really give a backstory, but since this isn't a maze where a story is absolutely needed to get it, that's totally fine. However, the jump scare was super well done and really good. The 3D in all the rooms was fantastic, and the scares, while not the scariest, were pretty dang good. Now let's talk about the spinning tunnel, that thing was absolutely insane, disorienting, and overall crazy, and I LOVED it!! Bumped it from #3 to #2 maze just like that!! One thing to improve: Don't always have the actors scare the first person that enters, because then the people in the back never get scared and are extremely disappointed. ------ Overall, I was pretty disappointed with the event. While the crowds were light, there were only 2-3 mazes that I actually enjoyed, and only 1 that I got scared in (besides a single moment in Chupacabra). The scare zones were virtually non-exsistant, and I went an entire 45 minutes in the Territory Twisted without seeing a single actor, seeing 0 actors in Zombie Crossing, having 2 actors in the Viper to Katy's Kettle stretch, and seeing all of 3 actors in Zombie Crossing. Pretty underwhelming night, although the daytime rides were extremely fun. I definitely encourage you to go check out this event and see for yourself, but just go in with very low expectations!! Hope you enjoyed and let me know what you thought of this trip report below!!

Hey y'all I just uploaded a SFMM Fright Fest '17 Trip Report on my TR thread!! Feel free to check it out!! Link: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=72745&start=10

^If you have to tell why us it's funny, it removes what little humor was there *sighs*

Also, incase I didn't iterate enough in my first post, I HATE WHEN PEOPLE BRING "SOURCES" INTO THIS CRAP. Phewwww, I feel much better now. I mean, it's totally cool if you want to share sources, but if you have nothing concrete to back it up and show to people, it just causes a lot of confusion and fighting. I've now seen: Someone say they have a top secret source that says Gerst Infinity and they've seen the promotional material, Someone comment about how they have a highly reliable source who was able to prove an Intamin Launcher similar to Maverick, and Someone say they have a source that says Knott's will get a Raptor Track. Obviously not all of these can be correct, so that means 2 people are lying, and now it causes a lot of confusion and arguing as people have to decide which source to believe. These kinds of irresponsible things absolutely bug the crap outta me, and now I don't feel like I can make a solid opinion, as whenever I try and share something, a little 10yr old comments about how they have a world class source and that I'm wrong. ARGH. Thank you for listening to my rant

Guys, in all honesty, I have a feeling that we're about to become the next KD 2017. We've had 0 leaks, 0 potential leaks, 0 rumors backed up by facts, and we've done just slightly over 0 teasing, especially compared with with Dominion, Great America, and Cedar Point. At this point, I have set my expectations to the level that we'd get a Pipe Scream, with either a Superloop or a Troika taking up the other space. Knott's is in a tough spot, because Magic Mountain is killing them on coaster, and Disney is killing them on theming, operations, and dark rides, so I believe they should stick with the one opening in the SoCal market, and that is flats. Looking at cold hard facts, there is literally nothing that shows that we're getting a big new fancy coaster, except that fact that there's been almost an acre cleared. The worst part is when everyone starts bringing in all these "sources" as I've literally read tonight that one guy has a source for a Gerst Infinity coaster and has seen the promotional material, and then I turn around and another guy claims he has a very reliable source that says "Maverick of the West". Knott's is probably the one announcement that we have nothing on, and so I'll be stunned if we get something major (i.e. Monster at Adventureland type Infinity, Maverick of the West, etc)

Looks like RMC Mean Streak is just too lit

#TwistedTimbers

Six Flags America is gonna get a wall, and Six Flags Mexico is gonna pay for it

Now if they had put a picture of Boss, things would be a lot more interesting...

The News Story debuted leading it to be widely spread around the park, and then the news story was pulled. Let me know if there's anything else I can do to please your rudeness

EDIT: App.com has retracted it's news story, and it appears that the ride is operational again, although that is yet to be confirmed

Anyone know what happened?!

Hey, just wanted to throw something out there. One of my close friend's cousin currently works at Nitro and does the ticket checking for the line jumping stuff, and she just got word that she's being moved to a "new ride with boarding passes" for next year. This leads me to believe that whatever they're adding will be so cool, that enough people will try and jump the line to warrant a system like this. Just something I wanted to send out there to all the over-analyzers on TPR who will of course come to the conclusion that we're getting an RMC Trex or some other ridiculous thing like that.

Hey Guys, I found a totally legit leak for Knott's Berry Farm's 2018 Coaster. It looks like Ghostrider's crew will be moving over to this new attraction, so it will therefore will be named.... The Stackin' Kraken!! The world's first B&M Dive Coaster where the ride will go down every 20 minutes to replace the wheels, as they'll develop flat spots sitting so long on the break run for the crew to get their act together and send the train out. Still more reliable than Lightning Rod!! Here's the logo!! Thoughts?!

A High Capacity RMC Raptor

Michigan's Adventure 2018: Pipe Scream "Coaster" 2019: Waterpark Addition (Bonzai Pipelines at Great Escape Clone) and 2 kiddie flat rides 2020: Zamperla Motobike Clone 2021: New Show/Repaint Thunderhawk 2022: Zamperla Endeavor Six Flags Magic Mountain 2018: Tilt Track Rollercoaster replacing Jet Stream with a Screampunk District style area redo and retheme 2019: Bugs Bunny Boomtown, Thunder Rapids Clone, finish the Metropolis Area 2020: A nice SFOT Style Flat Rides Package and a Screampunk District style area redo for Samuri Summit 2021: Intamin Pre-Fab (possible El Toro Clone) replacing Ninja and a "We managed to not go out of business in 50 years" celebration!! 2022: Mack Aqua Twist accompanied by another land overhaul (Probably the area by Viper and X2)

Here's my overall thoughts on the addition: Positives: -Insane Ejector Air -Heavily Themed Queue -Possible water effects -Quarry backdrop -No bins on the station leading for faster load times We'll have to wait and see: -I personally don't think the colors will look good against the Quarry, but it's just a rendering, and seeing how Riddler's Revenge at SFMM turned out, I'm holding out hope Negatives: -OSTRs. I've ridden rides with "barely touching" OSTRs, and even if these are the snug vest restraints that they appear to be, they don't provide the freedom of a lapbar -Dispatch Times. RMC Says that it'll take 80 seconds to dispatch a train. That's like checking one California Screamin restraint every 10 seconds, and that makes me very worried -Color Scheme. The color scheme does not remind me of Wonder Woman in any way, shape, or form -WHAT THE HECK IS WITH THAT NAME. I'm hoping Six Flags was just rushing to get that announcement out and the final name will be different, because I'm sorry, but Wonder Woman: Golden Lasso Coaster is just plain horrible. Overall, I think it'll be a solid addition to the park, and I'm holding out hope that everything besides the capacity gets fixed before opening day. Let's just say in a fantasy world that the ride has lapbars, they pick a super wicked name, and the paint turns into Red, Blue, and Yellow with dark grey splashed in there, I think the ride's only problem will be long lines

I thought I'd give a bump to an old thread I started. I wanted to share a couple things that I noticed during a recent visit to Six Flags Magic Mountain -When riding Superman: Escape from Krypton, I was the only person in the car (the park was DEAD), so as I got off I helped the ride staff in undoing the seatbelts and raising the OSTRs for my row, which I realized took an additional 5 seconds or so for each. Now that added time wasn't a problem on a practically abandoned day at the park, but would add a lot of time to dispatches when they had to wait for the station to clear out so the ops could go in and undo the seatbelt and raise the OSTR. Is there any reason why they'd have to attach the seatbelts when nobody is sitting in that seat? -On Goliath, a lady was loudly complaining that the op didn't put enough effort into her restraint check. I have to give a big thank you to Robb and that other ride op for showing me how obnoxious that is, as I could clearly see her restraint was lowered almost to the lowest point, and her seatbelt had a good length of slack. What is the policy for dealing with someone like that? Any help with those questions would be fantastic!! Thanks!!

Six Flags Fiesta Texas's GCI

I am legitimately confused by that post. This guy has problems with management, so he decides to go to the park after an astounding 3 month break? What happened with them? Sorry, but the amount of stupidity found among Coaster Enthusiasts nowadays is just astounding

Six Flags Magic Mountain Trip Report: July 14, 2017 In an attempt to ride that all new Justice League: Battle For Metropolis, GP Dad and I ventured out to Six Flags Magic Mountain located in Santa Clarita, California!! Here is our adventure, documented with my handy iPhone 6. Please Enjoy!! ---------------------------- Quick breakdown of what I rode, and an even quicker review- Justice League: Battle For Metropolis (3x): WOW!! This ride was FANTASTIC!! Easily the best dark ride I’ve ever experienced, and I’ve ridden every Universal and Disney Dark Ride. Light years ahead of Voyage to the Iron Reef, and definitely better than Toy Story Midway Mania. Here’s a quick breakdown of every part of the attraction: Queue- I didn’t like the queue setup at all, 0 shade and boiling hot concrete Preshow #1- Very poorly written and low quality animation. This preshow actually killed the rerideability for me, as I gladly would have done it a couple more times, however I didn’t want to suffer through this preshow Preshow #2- Poorly written and confusing, however, was better than the first one due to the Cyborg animatronic. Both preshows had equally terrible writing however Station- The station actually impressed me, and reminded me of a DC Comics and Six Flags takes on Transformers theme, in a good way Ride- The ride itself was fantastic. Amazing integration of sets and screens, and several WOW moments during the ride. Definitely my favorite dark ride, and the best Cedar Fair or Six Flags dark ride to date -------------- Goliath (2x): I have to say, it’s a pretty solid ride. If you’re in the back, the drop provides some really nice airtime, and overall it’s a fun coaster with no-gimmicks. Probably in the top 5 at Magic Mountain, but definitely in the top 6-7 -------------- The New Revolution (1x): Having no Virtual Reality was amazing, and really helped the overall experience. The ride itself is okay, the drops are fun, the loop is fun, and overall, it’s a fun, but not super thrilling ride -------------- Twisted Colossus (5x): Hands down one of the best attractions Six Flags has produced!! Fantastic Airtime, Innovative Elements, and some unique design choices that provide an out of control feel. Sadly, even on a dead day where trains were half full at best, I only dueled 3 out of 10 times. I wonder if there’s a way they could reprogram it so the green side would do a full stop before the lift, giving the crew some extra time to load -------------- Riddler’s Revenge (1x): Just to start off, the new paint looks fantastic, even if the color scheme sucks, and the queue upgrades look really nice. The ride itself is smooth with just a couple sections with some headbanging, and the non-inverting loop is really fun. The operations were a complete chaotic disaster, and even though there were 7-8 employees in the station, only 4 of them were doing their job. The others did absolutely nothing, except be rude when you tried to ask them something -------------- Superman- Escape from Krypton (3x): The air conditioning was honestly one of the highlights of our day lol. The attraction itself is gimmicky, but fun, and provides some amazing airtime. The front row is definitely the place to be, and Jocelyn, one of the ride ops, was honestly the hardest working person I’ve ever seen at a park, friendly, engaged, and talkative, all while doing her job better, and faster than any of the other restraint checkers. -------------- Full Throttle (2x): Six Flags really hit it out of the ballpark with this one. Despite the gimmicky nature of the ride, it’s very smooth, has great airtime (especially on the drop) and even better hangtime. I really wish the ride was longer however -------------- Tidal Wave (1x): I was extremely unimpressed with this ride. First of all, the operations were horrendously slow, and I honestly thought they were going to have to E-Stop the ride, because our boat was having a lot of trouble connecting on the lift, and when it hit the conveyor belt, there was a horrible metal gnashing sound. The employees quickly stopped the ride, let the base of our boat drain a bit, and then we inched our way up the lifthill before experiencing a waterless and airtimeless ride. This ride should be call Tida Wave, because Six Flags took the L on this one -------------- Gold Rusher (2x): So the 2nd time I rode, I thought it would be a cool thing to ride in the back row of the back train, bad choice. It was rough, but definitely manageable, and did jolt around a lot, but had a lot of fun moments with ejector air. As the train was going into the drop by the lifthill, the back car flung up, and I had the most epic moment of airtime in my life!! It was literally standing airtime, and gave me a huge rush. However, when I got off, I realized that when I had that amazing airtime moment, the phone in my pocket smashed into the lapbar ahead, and was damaged. My LifeProof case suffered quite the trauma, and the entire bottom section was cracked, but luckily, my physical phone survived. Rest in Peace little guy, you will be missed -------------- Ninja (1x): When I walked into the station, I thought I was looking at a Fright Fest maze for a second. The floors are disgusting, the tapestries above are torn off, the walls are literally falling down, one of the murals was smashed like a phone that got flung off El Toro, and overall, the station is in complete disrepair. The ride itself is below average, and is extremely bumpy. Bumpy, swinging, and intense moments do not mix well at all. I honestly would rather this ride be removed for a new family coaster than it get a refurbishment. -------------- Tatsu (2x): The first time I rode it, I was less than impressed, as the restraint was extremely tight, and the train had a very bad B&M rattle. However, the second time I rode it was much better. The second time was much smoother, and due to the restraint being looser, I actually got some airtime going into the brakes, a very weird feeling indeed lol. -------------- Road Runner Express (2x): I really wanted to hit 25 attractions by the end of the day, and desperate times call for desperate measures. It was an okay family coaster, and was much smoother than Castle Park’s clone. If you want a credit, do it, otherwise, skip it -------------- Total Rides: 25 -------------- Thank you so much everyone for reading, and be sure to let me know what you think of my Trip Report below!! Thanks!! (Please feel free to share any photos in this Trip Report, I just kindly ask that you credit my Instagram, @Slides.Inc) Feeling some Dorney Park vibes right now Now Six Flags Magic Mountain has a dueling, and a non-dueling attraction!! The InvadR naming team strikes again Look!! John Duffey is in Justice League: Battle For Metropolis!! Let's see here. Shrubs that will be dead in 6 months, no shade, boiling hot concrete... yep!! It's Six Flags!! Whoever decided to repaint Riddler these colors deserves to be fired, immediately Riddle me this, Riddle me that. What ride got a sucky new color scheme, and has operations that are crap? This slide kinda reminds me of the Dublin Waterpark one, except you don't fall off As always, I start out with the one good photo I took so that way you actually look at the rest of these 10 photos I literally can't come up with a funny caption, so... moving right along

If you say so. I go probably too much...lol..I haven't even seen an argument. One reader from GAdv said it best. Save for maybe Disney, every park has its riff raff. We're not the GP. I haven't seen any real issues in years and the minor ones I have seen I have simply snapped into school teacher mode and corrected other peoples' kids. More importantly, Screamscape rumor of SF building two more 4Ds and theorizes a 2 in 3 chance that we get one. It would be awesome, however, I think a hand me down coaster is more likely. We could always repaint and retheme JJ and build the 4D Joker on the path from the Creek to Superman. Now if SFA got a 4D . . . paint it red & black and call it "Harley Quinn's Crazy Spin". At least they'd get points for originality/color scheme in theming Or they could think outside the box and call it...

I'm absolutely stunned you haven't gotten a "Nina Kleppe likes this" yet, so here ya go

So we don't like WDW Net?

Because spending tens of thousands of dollars makes a ton of sense. If you've even been reading the thread you'll see that I said the light thing was a joke. I was trying to be sarcastic like everyone else. Geez. And if you even read my post you'll also see that I clearly don't think they are TRYING to block the camera. Geez again. Here's a link I think you need to see West Coaster King: bfy.tw/Cbmw