Six Flags Magic Mountain

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[Wesker69]

IMO, I think the biggest update needs to be the bathrooms right at the front of the park, behind the funnel cake place. And the funnel cake place as well could use a major refurbishment...

Understatement. The park in general needs a full overhaul

 

[AlexanderMBush]

X2 getting reinstatements and love, alongside potentially addressing the Sky Tower? What planet are we on?

 

[Wesker69]

What planet are we on?

More specifically...

 

[coaster31]

 

[Rideguy70]

I was just there today... a few updates (which you can see on my Bluesky: Rideguy70 (@rideguy70.bsky.social))

• Magic Mover and Ninja were open!
• I didn't ride much, but I did observe that Ninja, Wonder Woman, and Revolution all had single train ops, and TC was only running 2 trains
• The candy shop at the front of the park (next to the funnel cakes) has closed and been moved into the nearby Looney Tunes store
• The Saw X maze was being worked on
• About 1/2 of the 2nd parking lot has the solar panels up
• Members who have refill mugs are being forced to either get the metal tumbler or a seasonal mug
• Basically, aside from Superman, X2, and the water rides, everything was open

 

[Wesker69]

You should've left sticky notes throughout the park with our helpful suggestions/demands to improve the park

 

[coaster31]

More

The monorail beam is finally gone

 

[coaster31]

 

[Wesker69]

Maybe part of the monorail track will find its way across the park & end up in the "boneyard" that is the "Aftermath: Chaos Rising" house.

I wandered through that area twice during a slow work day & there is a lot of park history: former ride signs, Batman stunt show set pieces, deja vu towers, etc..

 

[Wesker69]

They've updated the event page with more info if you haven't checked it out:
https://www.sixflags.com/magicmountain/events/scream-break-2024

 

[chris.g]

Thinking of heading to the park for the first time in years next month. Have yet to ride WCR and WW but how’s Apocalypse these days?

 

[Jake S]

Thinking of heading to the park for the first time in years next month. Have yet to ride WCR and WW but how’s Apocalypse these days?

It was quite bumpy when I last rode it a couple years ago.

 

[Freak]

It was quite bumpy when I last rode it a couple years ago.

Didn't they retrack it not too long ago?

 

[ParksandSights]

Thinking of heading to the park for the first time in years next month. Have yet to ride WCR and WW but how’s Apocalypse these days?

I last rode it during Fright Fest and it was running great. I think it got extensive work in 2023. Although I'll admit I tend to rate it higher than most; I love a crazy relentless GCI. The queue was also refreshed a bit, with screens actually working and some spooky lighting. Likely won't have a long wait, it rarely does

 

[JaySalahi]

I think the issue with apocalypse is the trains somehow.

I’m obsessed with Woodies, Ghostrider is my #1, and I LOVE Gold Striker up north and the Santa Cruz giant dipper.

Used to LOVE apocalypse but on my last 5 rides in the past like 18 months it’s fallen down like 45 spots in my top 100 and is by far the most uncomfortable coaster ever. It might the my height but even tho it has the same trains and restraints as Gold and Ghost, the latter I ride every month and have never been uncomfortable once since 2016! .but the lap bar on Apoc straight up Stabs to me so hard in the stomach and shakes the whole time that I’m begging for the ride to end. So much pain

Its like the only ride I compain about for being rough (minus outside x2 seats) as I love rough rides haha I’m a hands up
Matterhorn every ride kinda guy and yet this knocks me out now.

 

[Southerncoasterer]

It’s … not great. First drop and final turn around (where most of the work was done) are good. The rest is still bumpy as hell.

Ride it now while you can. I hear it’s is going down yet again for a major retrack by the end of summer, or perhaps even before.

This ride needs the Ghostrider treatment, but that ain’t cheap!

 

[Wesker69]

I have an unhealthy love for Apocalypse... (and X2)

I never found it to be too rough, but then again when you've had your brains scrambled by (original) Mean Streak at Cedar Point & Manhattan Express in Vegas, everything else has to try harder lol

I wish they'd bring back the fire & fog from the old Salvation days. Make it extra apocalyptic!

 

[Hello]

I rode Apocalypse after the retrack and I found the layout to be comfortable. People really oversell the roughness (or I could have gotten lucky)

 

[Wesker69]

People really oversell the roughness

It's not just you. It's definitely oversold.

I've had park guests tell me GhostRider at Knotts was rough as hell & I ask them when was the last time they rode it. They'd always say "it's been years". So I had to tell them it had been completely retracked & they need to ride it lol.. I'd sometimes bump into them again while working & they'd thank me for convincing them to ride it.