MEGA PHOTO TR:Magic Mountain

[thrillrider]

A few summers ago, I took a trip out to magic mountain.

 

I was looking forword to get to this park forever. I was not dissapointed. We spent a week in california. Two days at magic mountan, a day at knotts, and 4 days at Disneyworld. I really like this park, as it was a change of pace for me.

 

While there, I managed to take a crap load of pictures.

 

Here is part 1.

We left the disneyland resort, and drove up to magic mountain. There were some cool things to look at.

I am from Michigan, so we don't see many hills.

Wally world...we made it damn it...Sorry. I have watched national lampoons vacation too many times.

Nice sign.

And then the skyline started to show itself.

I see you superman.

As we pulled in, they were testing x2

I have been wanting to ride this since it was built.

But I had to wait in line first.

You know that moment just before you have sex...you know...that feeling?

I think this guy thought he was a beaver or something.

On the tram ride in, I snapped this shot. Ever since I was a kid, I have been wanting to go on this.

The main area of the park.

The merry go round.

So many choices...where should I start?

Ummm...Baja ridge sounds good.

They have the best coasters ?

x2 was like a 3 hour wait, so I decided to come back later.

Remeber the movie rollercoaster? Well, this is where the guy gets waisted by revolution.

This looks like a good ride to hit first.

Look...it's a ace coaster landmark.

There was a line, but it moved fast.

Ohhh..It looks like this is gonna hurt.

Noted.

Noted...

Next up was viper. The ride has a very impressive station.

Ummm...not sure what's going on here.

The station was packed.

Viper was amazing. And it was a great looking ride as well.

I will get to this later.

Looks like fun.

They have one of those incline rail cars.

Time to take a trip to the top.

On the way up, I got this shot.

X2 and viper tucked in the corner of the park.

A bunch of coasters in this shot.

Superman.

Deja vu and the soon to be terminator coaster.

You can see all of riddlers revenge in this shot.

Not sure what the hell this thing is.

They have a musium at the top of the tower.

Showcasses of random ride parts.

The people look like ants from up here.

X2 doing it's thing.

Tatsu comes really close to the tower.

Time for ninja.

Simple logo.

There was quite a wait for ninja.

Weird pictures on the walls.

The lift hill. Ninja was a good ride. It is better than iron dragon.

Next on the list was superman.

The line goes thru an ice burg. It was nice and cool inside.

Not sure what this is.

You have to wait for the doors to open.

This is the ride car.

I like this shot.

One thing with this park, is there is a lot of hilly walkways.

Gold rusher was next.

It was a decent mine ride.

Weird looking brakes.

This park is packed with things to do.

Scrambler.

Gotham city.

I think every six flags park has a gotham city.

I see you goliath.

Collosus

The line was full.

The station is pretty lame. I remember it looked a lot better in the movie.

Look what I found.

Impresive looking coaster.

I love the name of the bathroom.

Next up....scream.Aka, the parking lot coaster.

Is it just me, or does the sign look like the sun has got to it.

The parks pirate boat ride.

I think this is the spot where the bobsled ride used to be.

Goliath...we will get back to this later.

Yayyy..thomas.

Bird cage ride looks like fun.

Only in california.

Log jammer. It looked like fun, but the group I was with did not want to ride.

It blends in really well.

This is where we ate dinner.

Tatsu will have to wait till tommarow.

They had a plaque in the plaza.

The park looked beautiful.

This is the same stage where the band "fart" played, in the movie rollercoaster.

Goodby magic mountain...see you again tommarow.

Edited July 17, 2010 by gisco

[spaceace12]

Wally world...we made it damn it...Sorry. I have watched national lampoons vacation too many times.

 

I just bought a Wally World tshirt.....

[djbrcace1234]

the park looked very packed! I hate it when it gets that bad, but those are the kind of days I have time to go up there.

 

And nice TR!

[thrillrider]

I hope to get the rest of the pictures up soon, but I am having an issue getting the cd to load

[Sir Clinksalot]

Looks like you picked a pretty packed day to go, hopefully your 2nd day wasn't too bad.

[thrillrider]

Actualy, the next day was a lot slower. I think the longest wait was for x2, and that was somewhere around 1.5 hours. The rest of the rides were close to being a walk on.

 

I really like this park, and wish I lived closer.

[davisal771]

You just opened up a realm of memories for me

I was there 4 years ago, I'm just reminiscing on the fun times I had. Me and my brother rode every ride that was open.

 

Anyway, X2 looks very good in its new paint. I'm looking forward to the rest of the pictures

[thrillrider]

X2 was amazing.

 

I wish they would build more of these in the states.

[Top Thrill Dragster]

 

 

Wow, I have never seen the dirt over flow parking used.

[Sir Clinksalot]

Going back to this picture:

 

 

It looks like the line for Superman is out the building and going down the hill a bit.

 

Haven't seen it like that in a LONG time.

[thrillrider]

A few more.

Train, all wrapped up.

I am not sure why this model is at magic mountain, but I bet there are a bunch of people in jersey that would like to see this.

Goliath is a twisted rats nest of track.

[Chrisrad]

Was this in '08? (I think so.. Terminator was not built yet).

 

Anyway, nice TR! And I really like your clean closet thread! Great pictures.

 

I can't believe how packed MM looks in the pictures.. That just looks unbearably busy.. Perhaps because I only go on off days.

[bgwfreak777]

With all the Magic Mountain trip reports I've seen, you'd think I'd seen it all, but not so.

 

Another great report.

 

I still haven't made it to the left coast yet, but hope to soon.

[thrillrider]

I apologize for the lack of another big update on this thread, but my other disk will not load for some reason So I have scanned a few pictures that I have developed. I hope to get the disk issue figured out, so until then, I will post a few more.

The entrance to the parking lot. It's missing wally moose though.

The bayron(sp) curve. The next time I visited the park, it was gone.

I like this station for some reason.

Deja vu and psyclone.

I had only been on psyclone once.....that was enough.

It looks nice, but that was about all it had going for it.

Edited July 17, 2010 by gisco

[robbalvey]

I do not miss Psyclone one bit. I am all for tearing out rides that NEED removal. This was sure one of them! I don't think anything could have been done to this ride to make it "rideable" again, other than tear it out and replace it with another wood coaster.

[rcroques]

I'll admit that I still miss Psyclone quite a bit, but that's more because most of my tenure at Magic Mountain was spent running that ride.

 

In fact, the picture of the panel that is now in the Sky Tower brought back memories...

[thrillrider]

Psyclone was one of the worst wooden coasters I have ever been on. I am not sure if it was the rollin stock, or just bad track work.

[tanthonyam]

Wow those crowds look terrible! I have never seen a line for Revolution that long before.

[thrillrider]

We went for two days the first time we were there. One day the park was slammed, the other day it was a ghost town. We were able to get on everything in 2 days.