mich311e Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 We went to SFMM on Friday 10/24 for the first time since October 2005. Friday was just my husband and I and we rode every ride but Tatsu. I wanted to ride it first but I think my husband was scared, having never rode it before. X2 is AWESOME! We had only rode X once, back in 2005. I think we waited for about an hour for X2 but everything else had a short wait time. We rode Superman all by ourselves, that's never happened before. When we were walking through the que we were wondering if it was even open yet. Then when we came back I said "Again!" and they let us stay on and 2 more people got on. So we had a great time. We left the park for a while to get food and came back and rode some more. We got our wristbands for Fright Fest and our Twicket - it is $10, for those that have asked. We did 3 of the Fright Fest mazes. Loved all the guys in the scream zone by Gotham City and the clown show (I can't remember their name) was great. On Saturday the 25th we returned with my parents and my 4 year old son. He's a Thomas fanatic so we hit up Thomas Town first. He totally loved it! Then we did all the kiddie rides with him, the petting zoo, the Batman Stunt show, and then the bumper cars. The park was PACKED on Saturday. I mean, it looked like the middle of summer packed! It was hard to move in the crowds and I saw rides like Riddler's with major lines. My mom was ready to leave (they took my son to Universal Studios on Friday) so we left, had dinner and took them to our hotel. My husband and I returned to SFMM at 8 pm and it was even more packed! We parked all the way over in the dirt lot! We made our way back in and went to wait in the Tatsu line. It took about an hour and 20 minutes total. At one point the ride broke down and a whole bunch of people got out of line so we moved up quite a bit! Then we finally got on. Holy cow, Tatsu was so awesome!! My husband was shaken up for a while afterward, lol. Then we headed over and rode Colossus forward then backward. Backward is so fun! It was awesome. SFMM looks great these days, glad to see the park clean and kept up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooksta77 Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Back to the 8th I was planing to go and about 2 weeks ago I noticed it said closed for a private event so it's been on the website just how many people would check before they went??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 ^I totally agree with you and people should check the website before going, but they don't. The other problem is that if you go to the main site for Six Flags Magic Mountain it clearly says "Open Weekends!" Only if you click that, will you see that in fact they are closed on Saturday. It's a hard situation for everyone (the park and the guests) when this happens, but all parks do it so there's obviously a good reason ($$$) behind it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooksta77 Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Yeah that's true and you're right They should definetly say the are gonna be closed on this certain day on the MAIN page not the calender that most people never look at! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trcg721 Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 If you go to there web site you will notice something on the right side that says it will be closed. It will show up after the advertisement for the 09 play pass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooksta77 Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Thanks for pointing that out! Only thing is that was just put there if I'm not mistaken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixflagsmagicmountain Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 That's pretty crazy renting out the entire park for a whole saturday. I'd be interested to know what company did this, and how much they had to fork over. Most private events at the park are just from like 6pm-1am or something like that usually aren't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrowfanman Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 This has happened only one other time in the park's history, in the '70s. I'm sure the park will have a force at the end of Magic Mountain parkway, explaining the situation. -Jahan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willthethrill Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 I'm lucky enough to have gotten a ticket to the event this Saturday from a friend who works for the Gas Company. Its Sempra Energy's company picnic. I'm really looking forward to it because the park is open until 10. It should be like ERT there after 8pm. (I'm hoping) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooksta77 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 ^^ I think Jahan meant that it's only the second time someone rented out the park for an entire Saturday. SFMM is rented out on a regular basis, but usually on days when it wouldn't be open anyway, or for an evening, on which they shut down early (at, say 6pm instead of 8pm). Eric Oh ok thank you for clearing that up for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixflagsmagicmountain Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 ^^Oh, really? Well I guess now we know who, all I wonder now is how much it cost. Must be really expensive to rent the park for an entire day, especially on a Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooksta77 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Well it would have to be enough to operate the rides so That could be something worth looking into! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebl Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Mind you, this is speculation, but I have heard that a five-hour private party at SFMM is somewhere in the neighborhood of $50,000. Not a bad deal if you can get, say 5000 friends at $100 each. It'd almost be like ERT on everything. Again---speculation. Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolliger&Mabillard Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 So a few friends and I went to Fright Fest last night. Colossus backwards is always a personal treat for me as I am one of the few individuals who liked (or at least could bare) Psyclone. It would be cool if the Ops cared enough to race them. X had continuos downtime throughout the day but we got two night rides so no complaints there. The 5 buck wristband didn't hurt the pocket, and since my season pass has gotten me into four Six Flags parks this year I should be the last person to complain about upcharging. All in all, the best crew award goes to the Riddler's crew. Train's dispatched with the one cycling approaching corkscrew 2. As a former operator of that ride I know that's not easy. Best maze IMO I'd have to say was whatever on Sammuri Summit. I didn't pay attention to the names. All in all, I got my backwards ride on Colosus and garlic fries, so I was happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccontrol27 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 The private event has sold over 20,000 tickets. For reference, the park had around 10,000 this past Saturday. They would much rather take the guaranteed attendance of 20,000 and piss off a few people who didn't know better than have a normal operating day with half of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebl Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 "It would be cool if the Ops cared enough to race them."(Bolliger&Mabillard) On my last visit a couple of weeks ago, that actually happened. Purely by chance, of course. I was in the front seat of the backwards facing orange-winged Psyclone train. The forward facing train we raced got off the lift first, but we caught up going around the first turnaround. During the next stretch, we were a bit ahead, but the forward train caught up and passed us on the second turnaround and we never caught up again. But a completely fair race is not possible on Colossus because of the track layout. Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooksta77 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 It's cool to see them racing! That is something I wish they did every time I took a trip to the park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenA07 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 I will agree that it is fun when Colossus is racing, it really does add another dimension to the coaster. However as Eric said the race is never fair, and as I understand it (this may just be an urban legend, if anybody actually knows I'd love to hear) racing it is not the greatest thing in the world for the structure itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Alumni Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 The private event has sold over 20,000 tickets. For reference, the park had around 10,000 this past Saturday. They would much rather take the guaranteed attendance of 20,000 and piss off a few people who didn't know better than have a normal operating day with half of that. But it was pouring rain on Saturday. A normal Saturday has a much higher attendance than 10K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooksta77 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Yeah that's true! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolliger&Mabillard Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 But you also have to consider that if it rains agin THIS saturday, that's still 20k Guarenteed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooksta77 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Yeah if it rains this is great for SFMM, if it turns out sunny.... well they might have made more $$$. That's just my opinion. -Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebl Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 "...as I understand it (this may just be an urban legend, if anybody actually knows I'd love to hear) racing it is not the greatest thing in the world for the structure itself." (AllenA07) I think that may have been true at one time, but with the lighter Morgan trains, racing isn't as much of a problem as with the old three-bench PTCs. Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrs28330 Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Remember that racing trains will slow down dispatch times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooksta77 Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Well are the lines for Colossus backwards long? Because regular colossus doesn't have long lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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