Six Flag Magic Mountain
 

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?

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Perhaps it was just a dream.