Six Flag Magic Mountain

[scaeagles]

On Sunday morning (yesterday), my 14 year old and 4 of her friends and I left for SFMM, played there from 10am until 9pm and drove back, getting home at 3:30 this morning. Fun day.

I love coasters and we rode every one they had. I love the fun scared adrenaline rush feeling of riding a new coaster, and Tatsu is now my favorite coaster on the planet.

Then there was X2. I have been skydiving, been on stunt flights, love the whole daredeveil kind of thing, but this ride went beyond the fun scared adrenaline rush feeling. That was a scream like a little girl because I think I'm going to die and get me the hell off of it now feeling. Glad I rode it, but I don't honestly know if I would again. I was watching people get off of it for an hour or so while waiting in line for it, and very, very few people were smiling. I figured it must be rather tame and that no one was very impressed. I had it exactly freakin backwards. Everyone was scared poopless. I don't get shaky from things like that....but I could hardly walk for 30 minutes afterwards and I it gave me one hell of a headache.

Anyone else here ridden X2? Am I just a wimp?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Rode it when it was just "X". I don't know how much of a difference the ride vehicle redesign made, but yeah, I'm with you. I was a Magic Mountain annual pass holder for 5 years and figured I was pretty well immune to coasters freaking me out. X had me sweaty-palmed and shaky. In an awesome kinda way, but definitely also in a one-ride-per-visit kind of way.

[Gemini Cricket]

Didn't get a chance to ride X2 the last time I was there. It was still being revamped. But watching it being tested, I came to the conclusion that I could never, ever ride it. Yikes.

Tatsu was amazing. I totally agree. It was supercool.

Was the park still in good shape? The last time I was there with the CoasterMatt, the customer service was great, the park was clean and there were lots of security guards everywhere...

[The Original OC Adventure]

The last time I went to MM was back in '95. It was Christmas eve. The park was deserted. The longest line was maybe five minutes.

First ride was Colossus. It seemed much slower than the last time I had ridden it. I asked around and found out Six Flags installed some kind of break system to keep the speeds down. They ruined it. I haven't been back since.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I love that completely shaken up feeling - it's the reason I ride the things. :) I'd totally do that ride again.

[scaeagles]

The security was awesome. Metal detectors, strictly enforced dress code (I even saw security or 4 times tell people to pull up their pants and even saw some kids being removed from the park, though I don't know for what)...very nice.

Cleaniless....better than I had expected overall. The only really poor areas were the line queues - tons and tons of gum everywhere.

A lot of the buildings are just really poorly maintained.

I went not expecting Disneyland...it was pretty much exactly what I expected with the exception of absolutely no crowds.We rode X2 first and waited an hour, but we had purchased their equivalent of the fast pass (a set of 4 for each) and only needed them on a couple. Longest line we waited in was 10 minutes after the hour X2 wait.

[scaeagles]

I love that completely shaken up feeling - it's the reason I ride the things. :) I'd totally do that ride again.

If I do the same the next year (which my daughter made me promise to do), I'll probably do X2 again.....maybe knowing what I'm in for will make it less likely that I'm reduced to five year old girl status. I don't think my daughter will ever go near that thing again, though.....nor her friends. We were all simply terrified.

[Kevy Baby]

I am curious for CM's two cents on the subject.

[katiesue]

Well I think you're all mistaken because according to the guy next to me in line for Big Thunder yesterday, Six Flags has been closed and is now condos :rolleyes: He was completely serious as he was discussing with his compadre that Knotts was the only place left in SoCal with big coasters.

[scaeagles]

Perhaps it was just a dream.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Well I think you're all mistaken because according to the guy next to me in line for Big Thunder yesterday, Six Flags has been closed and is now condos :rolleyes: He was completely serious as he was discussing with his compadre that Knotts was the only place left in SoCal with big coasters.Bwahah! He must have heard this during the time when SF was up for sale, and there were rumors that this might happen...

[Gemini Cricket]

The president of SFMM had told a bunch of us at a meeting that that rumor had a sticking power to it that has caused them some problems. It was one of those stories that just doesn't seem to go away and is one of the questions they get all the time...

[scaeagles]

The portion to that related to AZ is that SFMM sold all their coasters to Anaheisur Busch who was going to use them to build a park in Eloy, Az (half way between Phoenix and Tuscon).

[Kevy Baby]

(half way between Phoenix and Tuscon)Where is Tuscon?

[scaeagles]

100 miles or so south of the metro Phoenix area along interstate 10.

[CoasterMatt]

X2 is my dream coaster made real.

I got to ride the original setup with the wonderful man who designed it, Alan Schilke, and the story of it's original design and construction is amazing.

[Kevy Baby]

100 miles or so south of the metro Phoenix area along interstate 10.I knew that it where TUCSON is, but what about TUSCON?

:evil:

[scaeagles]

I invented a special emote icon for a coworker because we didn't have one that truly fit the sentiment of many things I was thinking. It's this -

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As close as I could come to expressing my thoughts, but it fits in this circumstance as well.:)

[scaeagles]

X2 is my dream coaster made real.

I got to ride the original setup with the wonderful man who designed it, Alan Schilke, and the story of it's original design and construction is amazing.

Then you are amazingly hard core and I bow to you. It's the only coaster I've ever been on that truly freaked me out. I'd love to hear that story, though, to try to understand a mind that could invent something so....so....X2.

[Kevy Baby]

I invented a special emote icon for a coworker because we didn't have one that truly fit the sentiment of many things I was thinking. It's this -

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As close as I could come to expressing my thoughts, but it fits in this circumstance as well.:)It looks a man lying on his back with an erection

[scaeagles]

My thoughts of you did not involve lying on my back with an erection, I promise.

[Kevy Baby]

My thoughts of you did not involve lying on my back with an erection, I promise.Well, I know I am no MBC

[NirvanaMan]

I really liked X but haven't been back since they redid it. I am pretty upset since X was one of my fave coasters ever. Oddly, it didn't freak me out. What does freak me out is that tall one that feels like you are going a mile up in the air on the first drop. Is that Goliath? Whatever it is called, that is one I would never do again.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Goliath is JUST on the edge of how hi I'll go. Any taller than that and I'm out, but I can hold it together for Goliath.

[scaeagles]

Goliath was my second favorite behind Tatsu. Height isn't an issue for me. Plus, don't you find that Tatsu feels higher than Goliath because you are looking straight down most of the time?

[CoasterMatt]

I rode Goliath 15 times without leaving the train for a special event.

It wastes all that good momentum with hardly any airtime and high g helices that aren't fun.

Tatsu is just about a perfect layout, imho - excellent pacing, smooth motion from element to element, and the best part of the ride isn't the first drop, but the giant pretzel loop nearly 2/3 of the way through the course.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Goliath was my second favorite behind Tatsu. Height isn't an issue for me. Plus, don't you find that Tatsu feels higher than Goliath because you are looking straight down most of the time?
I haven't ridden Tatsu yet. Haven't even seen it.

But for me, it's not the height as much as the slow climb. Superman? not a problem. Maliboomer, no issue. But that interminable climb where I just have nothing to do other than watch the world get smaller and imagine giant gusts of wind or small planes losing their barings. Goliath I can just handle in that regard. Supreme Scream at Knott's was too much. I don't know which one's taller, but the slow vertical climb had me paniced. I pretty much stopped breathing half way up.

By the way, it's fitting that you started this thread on our anniversary about the site of our first date. Should have let us know you were going*, I would have given you a map with a guided tour of all the places in the park we've made out. It would have looked something like this.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/gdiddy/map1cmfirst.jpg

Man I love that carrousel.

Anyway, that was after the first date. The tour became much more straightforward after the second date.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/gdiddy/map1cm.jpg

[Cadaverous Pallor]

:D

[Alex]

You made out on your first date? GD is a slut!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

You made out on your first date? GD is a slut!But we were totally virginal before then...

[Alex]

So you didn't make out before your first date? How unusual.

[scaeagles]

I thought making out WAS the first date.

[Alex]

And it is good to know that you never made it out in the outer two seats of that ride in the lower left corner. I'll sit there.

[Ghoulish Delight]

And it is good to know that you never made it out in the outer two seats of that ride in the lower left corner. I'll sit there.
That ride didn't exist by the second date. But rest assured, we got those seats when it did open.