SFMM PTR 11/1/09

[CreditCrazy]

Went to Magic Mountain yesterday, expected it to be completely empty, and it was. Creepy empty. I didn't really have any lines to deal with, and the park was even open until 10, so I got there at opening, stayed till closing, and got...26 rides. Could have gotten more, A LOT more, but throwing up in trash cans just isn't that much fun anymore...

 

If you're wondering how empty the park was, X2 (

) and Tatsu had empty station's around 8 (along with everything else), and Superman had a completely empty queue and station at night (that's where the creepy part came in). Got to stay on Terminator at night twice in a row, and I could have ridden it about 38 more times...but yeah, I was pretty ride-ed out by then. It was pretty great being able to ride whatever you wanted, whenever you wanted, so this is definitely the day to go (except next year they'll probably be closed on this day since it'll be Monday).

 

I also begged to ride Percy, again. Still won't let me...but I will not give up.

 

Ride Count:

 

X2 x4

Terminator Salvation The Ride x6

Riddler’s Revenge x1

Batman The Ride x1

Jet Stream x1

Ninja x2

Superman The Escape x3

Orient Express x1

Viper x1

Log Jammer x1

Yosemite Sam Sierra Falls x1

Goliath x2

Gold Rusher x1

Tatsu x1

 

Sounds like the perfect day, and it pretty much was, but I was really disappointed with Terminator's crew. There was completely NO LINE all day, yet they were making everyone watch all three pre-shows ALL DAY. Near-empty trains kept going out, and when you'd get to the station you'd find it pretty much empty, but every single time you had to go through all the pre shows. That got very annoying.

 

Pictures:

 

Here is Terminator's train coming into the station for my first ride on it yesterday.

This is new. There are now two doors in Terminator's pre-show queue blocking people from going to the next one. I guess they had a problem with this...possibly because the pre-show is boring?

Stuck? Actually it wasn't this time.

Riddler's was running good. Felt rougher than usual, but the hang-time was insane.

Rode Batman in the rear...

I thought my legs were getting ripped off.

Didn't ride Scream...really not a fan of this ride.

It is a decent looking coaster...from inside the park.

I tried to get Superman and Tatsu in the same picture, but right as the train was coming a big crowd of GP came by and messed the shot up. GP...

X2's empty switchbacks. First saw this sight going down Viper's first drop...it was lovely.

This shot came out nice...

...this shot didn't.

 

Didn't get too many pictures because I mainly focused on video.

 

Video:

 

[atem122]

Awesome PTR/video! Twas great spending the empty day with you, too bad you missed out on Scream, I swear it was decent in the front! Ah well, at least Viper was running awesome in the magic seat

[Swiminn6]

Nice photo TR, I want to visit this park in the near future.

[travanx]

Scream is my favorite ride there. I am just tall enough where I probably could stick my foot in the track, and can hit branches while holding my hands up. Scares me a lot. Was Deja Vu open all day?

 

I think I got made fun of on the Terminator thread for saying the preshow was awful. I can't believe when its not crowded you still have to watch. I guess that means they will probably do this when the ride gets old too.

 

I went the Saturday before Halloween and the park was packed beyond belief. Almost 2 hour line for Goliath. But that was worth it in the dark.

[XII]

I was there that day, and you were definitely right about X2's line. I managed to get 8 rides in 1 hour. That was awesome. Glad to see you enjoyed SFMM that day as well.

[CreditCrazy]

I managed to get 8 rides in 1 hour.

 

Wow, I could only do 4 rides in about 12 hours (all towards the front and in an inside seat). It felt a lot more rough than usual on Sunday.

 

Deja Vu was open most of the day, but I saw it get stuck around 7:30ish. Not sure if it ever re-opened.

[tanthonyam]

So what day was this??