Guy T. Koepp

At this particular time I am good to go to both events. However, the rate that work is comming in I may only be able to make it to either the ERT or the party. Wait, that's a Sunday right? I am usualy not working on Sundays. If February is real busy, I may just take the first half of March off. Whatever, I'll try to be there. I hate missing Alvey parties. They are just too much fun!

Is it just me or do these trains sit 3-4-3-4? That's kinda weird. They look great though. I hope everything works out with this ride now.

Does anybody know when the Psyclone dismantleing process is to begin? I think it would make one hell of a bonfire and want to videotape it.

"I Dunno if he's wearing swim trunks?" LMAO! Check that. Uh... ...ew! Funny as always Flip. Love the new "gayer" stationman. I must apologise about my behavior with Kim though. I can't control myself when I'm around her. Dude! She's so F'ing hot! Sorry if I offended anybody woth our PDA. Keep up the good work.

^If you have a six flags season pass. It's free! So, hell yeah, it's worth it. Besides, It's realy about hangin' with your friends anyway.

Awesome news! I always look forward to California Coaster Weekend. It wouldn't be the same without West Coast Bash.

Great TR Jahan! I agree with you on the whole Suckin'... er... rockin' space mountain. The only reason I had fun on it was because I actualy was able to see the tracks. I've been waiting to ride that thing with the lights on forever. I think this is the closest I will ever get. Sorry about the fireworks. Yeah, what's up with this cold snap. It was 90 degrees out early last week and I was running the AC. WTF. Anyway, it wasn't that cold. Your just a pussy! I missed you by a couple of days. I was there Thursday with Don & Monica. Let me know when you go. I love hittin up the Mouse House. As always, informative and insightful TR. You rock, for a pussy!

Do not by any means use my hypothetical figures as any sort of fact whatsoever. I don't have any hard figures to realy make but an educated guess as to their financial crises. They are merely there to make a point that it seems to me that even as bad a shape MM is in. It might not behoove them to sell it. Being that their juice to squeeze raitio would net them a loss in a matter of years. Again, I also think 6 Flags problems don't stem from one park in particular. I think it stemmed from mis-management company wide many years back when they were making money hand over fist and thought the well would never dry up. Well, surprise!

Where did I once say they sold MM? rollermonkey wrote: ^^^Guy, I thought you were in Lighting, not water management? 352 million should go a long way towards filling that lake and sealing that crack. I responded to this.^

Thank you!

I'm so crushed right now you don't even know. Does this mean no Pave Magic Mountain T-Shirts. I weep.

352 million vs. 2.4 billion isn't even 20%, actualy closer to 15%. The only way that would be a drop in the bucket is if it was applied directly to dept. I guarantee that won't happen. There's all kinds of other expenses that would be figured into the break up of that money. It would actualy shock me if they were able to use more than 75% for debt reduction. The interest alone after one more year on the remaining 2.05 billion at even a modest rate of say 5% would be a hair over 100 million. Heres some rough math for ya. 2.4 Billion - (75% of 352 million= 264 million) = 2.136 Billion + (Interst from 06' @ 5% totaling 105.16 million) = 2.241 Billion. So in acuality, their only making a 159 million payment toward the balance in 06'. Interest in 07' would then be another 100.11 million. Which brings you up to 2.35 Billion by the end of 07. Congrats 6F you just cut off 50 Million of your whopping debt while losing one of your highest grossing parks in 07. Now to compound this, lets just say MM has 2.5 Million guests in 07'. If you only charge 1/2 admission cost @ $30 per person. You get 75 Million not including parking fees, merchandise sales &, food sales. That's 75 Million that 6F doesn't get because it no longer owns the park. Based on that figure, 2.4B - 50M = 2.35B + (75M of lost revenue in 07')= 2.425B Wow! look at that, they actualy increase their debt by 25Million at the end of 07'. I don't know about you RM, but the last time I checked, adding to your already balloning debt, compounded by the loss of income = bad business. Do you get that whole resevoir analogy now? I could be wrong though. Oh, I'm in production. Not lighting. I deal with money, budgets, and show running.

I agree! If 6FGAdv is the saving grace. Then call the whole company F***ed! I at least can enjoy being at MM once or twice a month with my kids. I was at GAdv twice last year. If it wern't for the awesome company that escorted me around the park for the day. I would have found the park miserable, disjointed, and overcrowded. Honestly, If it wern't for El Toro & Nitro I wouldn't bother going back. Luckily, there are plenty of other parks within a few hours that are fun to go to. That way, I can go ride ET and Nitro, then leave in hopefully less than 4 hours and go visit a couple of nice parks. People are so quick to bag on Magic Mountain when the whole Company is in the S***er! The 6F park that I have been to that was exceptional was 6FNE. It was beautiful. Had great employees and was an overall enjoyable place to go to. Let's face facts here people. All of the parks are in need of some serious TLC. Some More than others. Magic Mountain has it's issues. Believe me, it has issues. It is by far not the only problem in the Company. The whole company overspent when the rain was pouring down, not saving anything for when a drought came along. When the drought did hit, they had no reserves to keep their lake from getting drained. Now a new owner is desperately trying to fill that resivoir back up again. Only problem is, their still in the middle of a drought. They think that by decreasing the size of the lake, it might fill back up. Unfortunately they keep failing to notice the huge crack in the dam. Unless they patch that crack. No matter how much smaller they make the lake, it will just drain out. Six flags needs to fix the holes! Not the lake.

That was the funniest thing I have seen in a long time! Your comedic timing is impeccable. They just keep getting better. Keep up the good work! Guy "Kimmy is finaly out of my life!" Koepp

You didn't hear. She came crawling back to me after she found that Ron was only a fraction of the man that I am. I tossed her to the gutter as I had already ditched her for Jazz from Danny Phantom. After a barage of phone calls and flowers, and stuffed toy bears. Jazz finaly asked me to take her back for the both of us. Turns out Jazz is into chicks as well and Kim is just her type. Honestly, she realy is more of a third wheel there for Jazz and My playtime. I'll keep her around for awhile untill she pisses me off again. Then it's into the mud scumqueen!

I would love to see a link to this video. Not the park video. The video of this interview. Honestly, it appears as if the cast member was turning to stop the kid from doing something behind him and unavoidably tapped the kid on the face.

I just wanted everybody to keep their eyes out for the new season of Kim Possible starting in February on the Disney Channel! Woo Hooo!

I'm told the gag reflex gets suspended during pregnancy! Yay for you! Happy birthday Robb!

Enjoy it all in good health!

Very clever and cute. You did a awesome job of telling your story. I do agree with Jahan about tightening it up a bit. The Disney castle thing was quite funny as well as the infamous Elissa picture that seems to always rear it's head just as it's slipping from memmory. I have found my TPR hooded sweatshirt quite magical as well. Nice work. Keep it up!

Elissa, is there going to be a rideworld event this year?

This is very odd. I just got an email from my ACE rep that this event is going to be on the 2nd-3rd. Weird? As to the other questions. You can go if you have a CF pass as well. It is an upcharge event. But you do get a pretty nice discount.

Awesome Job Flipdude! Eat that Kimmy! Oh, and Laura. The only thing you should be worried about me, is the fact that I would wreck every other man for you. You would be treated so "well" that you would always be comparing other men to me. I can't deny I'm F'ing awesome! Kimmy was on my doorstep this very morning begging me to take her back. I threw her in the mud like the scum queen she is. Take my sloppy seconds Ron! Have fun knowing that you can never be the man I am! He he he! Guy "This stuff just keeps writing itself, doesn't it Flipdude." Koepp

IMHO Michael Bay & good plot/acting is an oxymoron. His action sequences are put together like a hip hop video. Disjointed and confusing. As I have to pick and choose what films I see now a days. I can guarantee that I probably will think twice about even renting this thing on video. I realy have not liked anything MB has ever done and this one looks like a "butchering" of the Transformers that I was raised with. So if I was at the video store and it was between this and lets say "Steel Magnolias." I would pick the latter. Just my 2c.

Acer Joe looks like a Fat Elvis. LOL! Poor Elissa has a Fat Elvis doing her hair. Awesome!