TheStig Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 Hey everybody, As most of you know, TPR hosted a DVD release party following a seriously awesome day st SFMM with some great surprises thrown into the mix. This was my first visit to the park, and I will admit that it did NOT live up to all the bad things I had heard about it. I had a VERY enjoyable visit to the park and I look forward to returning soon! I didn't take a TON of pictures, but here they are anyways. Enjoy! And bye to Jahan aswell! Both of those guys are very dedicated to their jobs and perfect roll models for the new SFMM "image". I hope you enjoyed my PTR, thanks for looking! My flight was in a few hours, so it was time to say goodbye to Mike. He's one of Magic Mountain's best, honestly! We left and then came back around 5:00 so that I could ride Ninja. Ninja was great, even if it was really cold outside! We took another spin on Goliath, which I have to say had the best crew in the park. Good job, guys! Luckily it had been rebuilt just in time for us to ride. This is about how high I saw the car get the entire time I was there. We would have ridden Superman, but according to Ryan it had been torn down already... Tatsu was pretty much awesome as far as flyers go. It actually did something unlike the SUF's! Ninja was closed because of the cold. I'll come back later and get it... Here we are on Orient Express. For some reason, I look VERY little. Mike, please don't eat me! It is a really fun ride though, I enjoyed it. Revolution won't be getting rid of its OTSR's anytime soon, oh well... The next day I went back with Robb, Ryan and Mike to get the rest of my credits. Its hard to focus when there are SOOOO MANY patches on Jeff's jacket! There was sooooooooooo much food to be had! I finished up my day at SFMM with a few night rides on Viper and then Revolution. After that it was off to the Alveys! Here is one of the slides from the presentation. I didn't take any others, but this is harmless enough, right? We had a bit of a break before the presentation, so I went and got my Goliath credit. Other side of the station. You can see one of the old X trains sitting over in the transfer area. Most of the station has been painted to the dark gray and dark red color scheme. Soooooooooo many gallons of paint! Now it was time for another highlight of the day, the X2 tour! Hehe, Wes is soooooooooo silly. The Thomas Town area provides some great angles of Goliath. TT should be a nice expansion for the park! Wes found his whip back stage. Check out those rims, dawggg. Another shot of the pile of scraps. This one is better because it has 10% more Guy in it than the other one! Looks like the Flashback trains had the same demise. Oh well! Yeah, that'll buff out. The old Metro Cars are back here as well. Apparently the metro will be taken out, although its not definite yet. Tim Burkhart talked to us about why Flash back was taken down, what is going to be done with the land, and possible use for the area in the future. Mr. Metal-eating-crane and pieces of Flashback laying around behind it. More dirt. You can see where the old entry walkway was around the back. Ah, Flashback Dirt! As you can see, there is pretty much NOTHING left! Here is the part that a lot of us were waiting for....Flashback destruction tour! Thank you Mooseburger Lodge! We had a fantastic lunch! Chris demonstrates the proper way to eat the chocolate cake. Notice the Tatsu cups, those were placed on the table and filled with T-Shirts for all of us! It was time for lunch after Colossus, and my god what a lunch it was. Everything was fantastic, and just look at that cake! It honestly was some of the best carrot cake I've ever had (although I couldn't finish it)! Here is another horrible picture, this time of Colossus. Honestly, it wasn't bad at all! Its definitely a classic coaster, and I really enjoyed it. Chuck, Guy, Kyle and Wes on Batman. BTR's always pack a punch, this one was no different. Here is a horrible picture of Riddler. This standup ruled, definitely my favorite of the three I've ridden. Gold Rusher was testing, so we got in line for it and ended up being the first train of the day. It was a fun little mine train, definitely interesting! I found this thing (sky shot?) interesting. I'd like to try it someday, maybe next time... Our group headed over to Deja Vu as soon as the park opened. It was closed and nobody was in the station, so we headed elsewhere for the time being. Guy leads the way down the Tatsu exit ramp while providing helpful tips such as the dew-point from the previous night, and how humid it was today! Raaaa, I'm Tatsu! My pretzel loop is sooooooo forceful that you might deficate yourself! Please enjoy ERT on me, raaaaa! Sky Tower was not open today, but there is some work being done in the observation deck which when finished will be really awesome! On our way over to Tatsu for ERT, Neil stopped us in front of Viper where we were surprised with Viper ERT! Once we parked, we me outside of the main gates to pick up our wristbands and nametags. Eventually we were let into the park at 9:30 after the director of operations, Neil Thurman, gave us a little speech. The day started out with us waiting for parking to open up at 9am.
Mr.Six Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 Very nice Photo trip report! There were 'sooo' many awesome pictures in that TR. Nice to see the X station, I was up there a few weeks ago and its already changed a lot. Thanks for the comments! Its all about the park moving forward and I'll continue to do my best. It was really great to finally meet you, next time you come out we'll have to do another epic TR, do I sense an action figure in the next one? Who knows. -Mike
TheRapidsNerd Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 Looks like a great couple days. Thanks for the pics. Guy leads the way down the Tatsu exit ramp while providing helpful tips such as the dew-point from the previous night, and how humid it was today! That gave me a good laugh.
CoasterDude211 Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 Awesome TR! Sounds like everyone had a great time at the park that day and I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to my trip there in March and hope that the park is still as good as it was during your visit. It's just too bad X2 won't be open then. -Robby
sixflagsguy5 Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 Thanks for the update Colin. By the way, did Colossus or Superman The Escape have both sides running? I'm trying to get a credit estimation figured out for my spring break trip. Sounds like you had fun.
Guy T. Koepp Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 Awesome TR Colin (pronounced cole-lynn). As always, it was awesome to see you again. I was sooooooo glad your first Magic Mountain experience was a good one. If all goes acording to the master plan. That experience should get better and better as the months progress. Hope your flight went well and you got some sleep. Take care bro. See you on the next one!
Wes Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 Awesome Photo TR Colin! It brings back soooooooooooo many memories. Also, thank you for reminding me I need to get a hair cut.
Meteornotes Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 Pictures of destroyed Flashback make me so happy. Thanks for posting! dt
RaptorBoyASU Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 Yay for a PTR. As you may have seen, I brought my camera, but left my memory card in my computer.
COASTER FREAK 11 Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 Great PTR colin. lots of cool pics. And Jahan, for a second there I thought you were in a disney uniform! lol
SharkTums Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 ^It wasn't a Disneyland Costume, it was a Chuck Costume!!!
piers Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 It was a very lovely report! I so wish I lived elsewhere. Glad you all had a wonderful time, I so wanna visit a SF park so I can make up my own mind about it all. Love you Colin!
gotdane Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 ^It wasn't a Disneyland Costume, it was a Chuck Costume!!! I actually thought "it's a mini, Persian Chuck!" Great TR Colin!
robbalvey Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 Pictures of destroyed Flashback make me sooooooo happy. FIXED! And, BTW.... this picture - OMG Colin! What happened to you?!?! --Robb
Moose Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 ^^Aren't you like ten feet tall? How did you do this? Kyle, smooth move. Great report. I hope i can make it out to the Mountain eventually.
arrowfanman Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 ^It wasn't a Disneyland Costume, it was a Chuck Costume!!! It SO was. Great PTR Colin! I always love reading about "first time" visits to SFMM and this one was a great one! I agree--the Goliath crew is the best crew in the park! Hope to see you back in a few months. -Jahan
Homer Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 Colin, in that picture which you looked like a dwarf, you reminded me of this really annoying kid at my workplace. Other than that, great TR. Glad to see the new management taking shape and well, Jahan being a model employee.
TheStig Posted January 24, 2008 Author Posted January 24, 2008 I blame the photographer, I'm really not that small! See, look, I'm like half a Waffle House! Glad all of you liked it. I really did enjoy the park a lot more than I thought I would. I hope to make my return visit for WCB, so I'll possibly see a lot of you then. Thanks for reading guys!
socalMAN123 Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 Ah, if you return to WCB maybe we could hang out this time! Just kidding, but it was cool to meet you and glad you had a great first visit to the Mountain! ---Brent
TheStig Posted January 24, 2008 Author Posted January 24, 2008 ^Dude, I am SOOOOOO SORRY I didn't hang out with you more! I didn't even notice you without the hair! Next time I promise. And thanks, I really did enjoy the park. I'd put it on par with SFGAm currently, I was pretty much blown away.
RCFreak Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 Dude, it was awesome meeting you and hanging out for a bit. SFMM really went all out for us all and It's awesome that it was your first experience with the park instead of a what it normally was (you can definitely tell there's a difference then the past) Awesoempics and see you at WCB if you end up making it.
BeemerBoy Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 Nice report, Colin. I'm still trying to wrap my brain around all the love shown to MM lately. "I'm half a Waffle House."
Jew Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 It was horrible meeting you Colin. You are getting soooooo much love in this thread, I had no choice but to say that. Fun TR. Hope to see you again for WCB.
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