PeoplemoverMatt
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^ Likely from the last time it snowed here in 1988, as I said it had last page. Tweaked a phrase above in case anyone misread that as my saying it had never snowed here before.
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Um, the last time it snowed here was 1988, unless you count the extremely minor flurry (if it was even that) that we received in Jan '07.
Even in this past storm that hit about a week ago I think, They said it was in the 30s and there wasn't even flurries? I only say that because it was the same tempature where I live and it snowed for about 20 minutes.
Yeah, even though the I-5 was closed a whopping 7 exits north of me (and 4 north of Magic Mountain Parkway), at Parker Rd., we didn't get a single hint of snow. I drove up to Parker Rd on the night of the closure and all I found was big rigs lining both sides of the I-5 for about 6 miles up to the closure. No hint of snow. I drove up the I-5 last Tuesday (12/23) to find snow, and I had to go clear to Gorman/Frazier Park to really find it.
It does get into the 30s and even 20s here overnight this time of year, but Valencia is at a way low elevation for snow. Gets into the 50s-60s during the days. During the storm, it got up into the upper 40s during the daylight hours. When there's cloud cover, at this elevation the heat gets trapped overnight so it's still too warm to snow.
Snow at Magic Mountain is extremely unlikely, but, as demonstrated by the recent freeway closure, sometimes you don't have to go very far north up the I-5 to find snow.
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Some more information for New Years Eve...
http://www.the-signal.com/news/article/7039/
Some highlights of the article...
Tickets cost $29.99 at www.sixflags.com.Pretty cheap, I expect a huge crowd. I think this is a good idea. It makes New Years for the whole family instead of just for adults to drink too much.
I've gone looking through pages of thread material looking for my answer, and maybe I just missed it, but I haven't found it.
SFMM's website says regarding the New Year's Eve party "All activities are included with park admission." However, this article says that tickets cost $29.99. So exactly what ticket are people buying for $29.99? Is SFMM discounting admission that much for New Year's Eve or am I really missing something here?
^ On the winter wonderland note...it has been know to snow in Valencia, thus covering SFMM. Rides wouldn't likely be operating in such conditions, but people could still come in to shop, eat, etc. if they had a craft fair or something along those lines. One of the hills could be covered with snow to provide sledding if they chose to do that.Eric
Um, the last time it snowed here was 1988, unless you count the extremely minor flurry (if it was even that) that we received in Jan '07.
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I really REALLY want to go to Magic Mountain, but my parents thinks to it's too far of a drive.
Well it would seem like your choices are to drive yourself, ride in a friend's car, take a bus, or some combination of those. You're 17. It's time to start thinking beyond the parents!
Who knows, maybe they'll be impressed with your showing some initiative in figuring out a way you can go without them, and decide to drive you for fear of your getting eaten by wolves somewhere along the way.
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I don't consider it beyond the realm of possibility that a park/track owner looks at small capacity as actually a good thing since people mistakingly perceive a ride's popularity by how long the wait for the ride is. We know that wait time is a function of capacity and not necessarily popularity, but the average guest doesn't think that hard. So if I was a park owner and I wanted to ensure that my ride be perceived as 'popular' I'd probably go for a smaller capacity coaster.
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Half of this discussion is about the actual coaster, and the other half is theoretical about what else could be done with the same technology.
Problem is the half that's actually talking about the coaster is nothing complaining about how "lame" the design is. Is there some law written that says the design must be the craziest, most-whacked out design ever for a coaster of its type or else it's automatically doomed to failure? Why are we trying to place some kind of blame somewhere about that?
Are people here seriously going to ride the ride, go 130MPH or however fast it goes, get off, and really say "that was totally lame!"??? So what if it doesn't have any hills? That kind of speed alone is going to make for a really fun time. Why should the ride not exist because it doesn't have hills, flips, donkeys on fire or anything else especially when its main point and main thrill is the speed? 130+MPH, what more does it really need in order to pass some kind of litmus test?
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If you just want 1 amusement park in Japan to visit, make it Tokyo DisneySea. It isn't just "the disney park" because it's not a magic kingdom park and not something that can be found anywhere else in the world.
Between that park and the rest of the Tokyo Disney Resort (hotels, atmosphere, shopping, dining), there isn't much room for disappointment. It's right there at the Maihama Station on the JR Keiyo Line so transportation to/from whereever in Japan is pretty easy.
That being said, Tokyo DisneySea does require the thrill aspect of a park trip to be curtailed a bit in favor of immense & immersive themeing and top-notch service. If you're the kind of park goer who puts thrills above themeing & service, DisneySea might not be the best pick for you. In that case, "The Magic Mountain of Japan" would probably be more enjoyable for you. I'm sure someone around here would be more than willing to point you in the direction to find that park.
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^ Not completely. I'd be interested to know where all their assets went and who might currently be using them today. The patents especially.
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The model was hastily created leaving many things out and moving other things (like Jumpin' Jellyfish) to where they really wont be going.
You'll notice the model completely lacks an entrance to California Screamin'. That doesn't mean in the future Screamin' will just sit there without an entrance. They just didn't have the time or effort to put the entrance in the model, especially when Screamin's entrance was totally irrelevant to the model's purpose which was to be a visualization of an idea of how Paradise Pier would look after the project was completed. Same goes for the scream shield tunnels.
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^ What the crap?? How low is it going to go? <$1.00?!
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Hypersonic was the second most painful coaster I've ever ridden. It wasn't like Spin Bullet at Joypolis that gave me a sort throat for a month after I whacked my brain stem against the back of that pile of crap, but I had six seperate and unique on-ride photos taken on Hypersonic of me and my cousin in total extreme pain because our shins were about to fracture.
I'm 6'2" and my cousin was about 6 inches shorter. We were not oversized at all for this thing and, just, holy mother of freaking crap those restraints sucked. Now combine that with the fact my head and neck was totally unsupported by Flight of Fear's trains, multiply that by 17 rides in one day combined between those two, and yeah, King's Dominion just beat the living crap out of me.
DO. NOT. BUY. HYPERSONIC!
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Probably not, but after all the hoopla & hysteria over the midnight countdown has come & gone, I'd like to be able to ride for a lil' while afterwards. I think the general public would have been pretty receptive to the major rides (X2, Goliath, Viper, Tatsu, Batman, Riddlers, Scream!, Collossus, etc) remaining open at least until 1am, but maybe I'm wrong.
It is true that most folks leave the parks by a certain hour anyway. Disneyland at midnight is a ghost town unless there's something big to stick around for, but after the 10:30 Fantasmic! show, just everyone's gone or on their way out. So while I would prefer to stick around after midnight and ride coasters at least for a little while, I can see why Magic Mountain thinks it's not the best use of money to stay open just to indulge we night owl riders.
That being said, for New Year's Eve, there are A LOT of people still in the park at 12:00am, and to just tell them all that the rides are all closed and they have nothing left to do but either buy something or leave just seems like a missed opportunity to me. If it was up to me, I'd have left the rides open until 1am, but I'm sure there are plenty of cost-related reasons why that's not a great idea.
Perhaps a special ticket offering for New Years' Eve post-midnight coaster rides (ERT), similar to the $50 campout/X2 preview would have been a decent idea?
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The rides close at midnight? That sucks. "Happy New Year everyone! Rides are closed now!"
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Whenever you see one of those signs in front of a ride, you can take it to the bank that they're ripping out the ride & replacing it with a stand-up inverted floorless wooden rapids ride with a loop, a launch, fire, tunnels and on-board audio playing the theme to the "Meow Mix" commercials throughout the ride.
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Ugh, I hate Qbots... I prefer parks like CF's where you wait in the freaking line and thats how it is.
Well if that's what you prefer, QBots aren't keeping you from doing that. You're still free to not pay them a nickel and wait in all the lines you like.
Meanwhile Lo-q and Six Flags will be selling people a product/service hybrid that has extremely low cost to them for exorbitant amounts of money and making the profits they need in order to grow & sustain their businesses. Businesses are known to do that from time to time...
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I do it with what works best for *me* and that may not be "by the book" or what other people would suggest.
If everyone "dieted" this way, I think there'd be a lot less obesity in the world. I did the same thing when I went from 289 to 175. Doesn't really matter exactly how you do it, just that you're committed to losing & you're going to make SMART CHOICES about food FOREVER!
Robb's Starbucks strategy is actually quite perfect. While not nutritious, it's also not extremely bad like most other Starbucks. Robb can satisfy that mental urge for Starbucks while not setting himself back really at all. That's a win-win all around.
Good on ya Robb! Keep us posted on your progress!
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Well with the QBot pricing structure, it's kinda impossible for a free QBot to be included without jacking up the Xtreme Pass' price well past $200. However, doing that might be the only way I'd ever use a Q-Bot, just like having the Flash Passes included was the only way I ever used them. (Not that I'm against the Q-Bot idea, I just don't see myself ever being in a position where I'd buy one at Magic Mountain.)
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As ridiculous as the prices are, though, I'll admit that I'd cough up the dough for one if I was somewhere other than my home park.
I don't think I would. I'd try the old tried & true strategy of trying to go on an off-season Tuesday-Thursday. But if that failed & my only choice was either cough up the dough or have a really miserable experience waiting in long lines in horrendous heat...that'd be a tough choice. It would depend on the park & how much I really wanted/needed to ride everything that day.
Now I'm curious, why don't they just say a regular Flash Pass is $45 for the first person & $29 per additional person, and Gold is $90 & $54 per additional person? It's a simple pattern. That language would sound a whole lot better than having the big, scary three-digit figures up there on the sign.
Listen to it: "Buy the Flash Pass $45 AND add your friends for JUST $29 each! Buy the GOLD Flash Pass for $90, plus JUST $54 for each additional friend!" Doesn't that sound better than those scary multiplied numbers that intimidate the crap out of you?
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FYI - Interstates 5, 405 and 210 have reopened. 14 is still closed at San Fernando Road (Newhall Ave.) because of the fire that's still burning on the southeast corner of the SCV.
As for the QBot, those prices are INSANE!! No wonder the people who use it love it so much. It outprices just about everyone, so those select few who do use it don't have any competition.
But, as nutty as it is, it's like selling water in the Sahara desert. When the summer weekends come, people will pay that & more to not have to wait in those horrendous lines in 100+ degree heat. Ergo, the park makes insane amounts of money, which is GOOD for a place like Magic Mountain. Boatloads of revenue with little to no operating expense. It's nuts, but it's the kind of thing a debt-laden park chain needs. So, I for one, welcome our new QBot overlords.
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Current freeway/road closures
5 in both directions between 126 and 118. Southbound I-5 being diverted onto the 126 and told to proceed west to the 101.
14 between San Fernando Road (Newhall Ave) and 5
405 between 118 & 5
210 between 5 & 118
Balboa north of San Fernando Road
The Old Road at Calgrove through the Newhall Pass
Metrolink service on the Antelope Valley Line is cancelled all day today.
If you're attempting to reach SFMM from anywhere south, best to pick another day. As of now, unless you feel like traveling out to Moorpark, going north to Fillmore, and then maybe making your way east here on the 126, you won't make it out of the SF Valley.
When this happens, traffic within the Santa Clarita Valley becomes horrendous. Stay home, try again once the fires are out and the roads are back open.
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Um, call me crazy here, but I wouldn't exactly feel comfortable entrusting my safety to people who couldn't spell safety!
If their signs are wrought with spelling/grammar errors, that's a problem! Professionalism, anyone?
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Good luck Robb!!
Though it wasn't my original goal, I did about 100lbs in about 120 days from September to December 2002. It was just about the best thing that I've ever done for myself.
Go for the insane, then go beyond the insane, and keep going!!
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Burn them. Burn them all!!!
Advice on SoCal in June
in Ask Alvey
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Hmmm...funny...I've lived here all my life and I've never lost my voice or had any smog-related issues. I must be breathing different air.
My advice would be try to hit SFMM on the Thursday or Friday, unless you're willing to buy the Q-Bot Flash Pass to bail you out of the hot & slow coaster queues.
That would save DLR for the weekend, but, FastPass is free, most of the attractions there are indoors, & there are shows n' things to see & do while dealing with crowds.
I might be in the minority with this, but I always viewed Disneyland as a much easier park to visit when crowded than Magic Mountain.