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Went to Six Flags Magic Mountain on Tuesday, for a somewhat annual trip to the park (hopefully it'll be monthly when I have a job and am driving- soon). Here's what went down:
Soo, after a LONG 3 hour drive that was nearly free of traffic, we finally airrived at the park to find about 40-50 cars in the parkinglot. Well, we happened to have a car that was registered as handy capped, so we just drove to the closest parking spot in the park. After what seemed like a too long of a walk, we finally got into the park. We had printed tickets out online, so we didn't need to buy them.
We apparently had gotten there early, so we had to wait outside the gates and watch this stupid show they were putting on in front. It got funny, but I tried to not LOL at it.. Then after like a 15 minute wait, they finally called Mr. Six out to help open the gates
Well, as we got to the front of the line, we were told that we didn't read the fine print on our tickets, and they were just redemption slips. DOH! So we walked over to get them redemmed. Turns out, that little bit of time was just enough to allow the small group of about 80 into the park, so we didn't have to wait
The first thing we decided to do was Terminator Salvation: The Ride, because I wanted to ride it before the park got too crowded (it never did, guest count was maybee 250-300 all day). OMG, that was the most awesome ride I've ever been on I loved it soo much that me and my brother decided to ride it 4 more times, so we got 5 rides on it in the morning. It's a REALLY well themed ride. As you walk in there's a new Jeep Wrangler Rubicon sitting out front, that's been all dressed up the same as the ones in the movie (they look like they've been put through war.
There's two of these guys, one outside the ride entrance, then another inside the final turns on the ride. Ther'es also another odd looking vehicle (I think it's an industrial semi towing truck) with a big plow on the front, that sounded like it was running. These guys were also camera nazi's and wouldn't allow me to take the camera past the front of the line..
The entrance almost looks menacing, with two cameras (one is functional- visible inside the Q lines) watching over the entrance. Where the line guards are inside the entrance, there are also lockers, that cost you a dollar to use (ripoff).
But, once we were done with Terminator, we diecided to head off to Riddlers Revenge, to grab a ride in. We got inside the station, and as usual they were playing Ecuador by Sash! The Bruce Wayne Remix. However they didn't have the lights on that flash the green riddlers question mark around But anyways, there was a small weight for the front car, so bench the ride it was untill then. The ride ops are really slow with loading, so it seemed like it was going to take forever. But we finally got in, and rode after 11 seat adjustments.. :|
Now, off to the ride I came for (well the other one): Batman the Ride
I've taken an extensive library of the ride yesterday, from every angle I could get, so I can work on my recreation of the ride.I won't be putting all of them up here, but here's some I took
Now this has GOT to be one of my favorite shots of the ride in action. Those wingovers are TIGHT
Ooo, loop shot <3
After grabbing a ride, we decided it was food time, so we ate at the PaPa Johns right in front of the ride entrance. At this point in the day, ash started falling from the sky because of the wildfires up north of the park. They were far away, so the park wasn't in any danger, and you couldn't really notice the smell of fire, so it wasn't a huge concern for us, but, if you looked up, the sky was orange :shock:
Now, if that doesn't look menacing, then I don't know what does. You can see that the sky is covered with nive, UVa/UVb blocking smoke clouds
But anyways, we decided to head off to Scream! and Colossus once we were done. Now, Scream! was a LOT quieter than I remember, so they must have changed the wheels, because it was no longer screaming loud, but more of a soft roar. But anyways, grabbed a couple rides on it, front and back, so i had my fill. Now it was off to a classic woodie, the double tracked multi directional racer There was 1 kid on the ride when we got there, so it was another walkon (at this point, everything was a walkon depending on the seat you chose). We grabbed front row, and then a few ladies walked into the Q. One of them said "Hey, lets grab the back, because it comes off the track.". "Oh crap." I thought, "Another LOL moment..". Then the two guys that walked in behind them said, "Oh YES." and took the back, leaving me and my bro up front. All ours uahaha. The ride was a lot less forceful than I remember, because I could have sworn the last hills destroyed your legs from the hard restrains :| Mybee it was the MCBR trimming the train a lot, I don't know..
Soo, uhh, where were we at this time..
Oh yes, the epic arcade which had PSP's, iTouches, iPod Nano Chromatics, and Nintendo DS' inside those stupid pickup cases. My brother wased probably $60 just trying to get one on a rigged machine..
Whatever, but now we went on over to Goliath after wasting half an hour on rigged machines, and grabbed a ride. The stupid people were all determined to grab front row, so we grabbed the back seat. But then the ride ops said they need at least 15 riders to dispatch, and they asked if some of the front liners could ride this train. Nope, not one of them would budge. What idiots! We waited for nearly 15 minutes before a few people finally showed up to fill in the train more, and off we went. Oh, I forgot how much I love Goliath The helice is soo awesomely forceful
But anyways, after what seemed like too short of a ride, we got off, and wanted to hit up Superman, Ninja and all that, so we hiked back up that huge hill to get on Superman.
Along the way, we saw some Canadian Geese, because they usually migrate down here this time of year.
Umm...
And since we were at GoldRusher, we thought that we should grab a ride.
Top of first drop.
Wheee!
2nd lift.
Racing log jammer
I wish I had known about this, but since a lot of people loose hats on this ride, the people who clean them up stack them on one of the supporting foundations for superman. We had zoomed by soo fast that I never got a picture, but it was funny
At this time of day, it was about 95*F outside, and really humid, so once we got inside the AC'd Superman cave, we diecided to sit and wait inside a bit lol But it was time, and we grabbed front seats. But nOooo. The ride op decided that me and my brother couldn't ride front row, so he moved us back :evil: :evil:
This shows just how high the car gets. I was too lazy to rotate it but you can still see.
And screaming back down..
Whatever, it's still a quick ride. And LOUD as ever. Seriously, the comparison between an FA-18 Hornet jet fighter and Superman is nearly identical.
Well, not that we've got some speed, I wanted to grab a ride on Ninja, so we popped in line. It was a short wait as usual, and I didn't want to grab front car, because there were people in it already, so I just grabbed car 2.
OMG, a curved station!!11one!
Ninja onrides..
Hmm, now that we've gotten off Ninja, I saw that SkyTower was open, and operating, so we hopped onto the elevator, and rode up to the top. As it turns out, theres a museum up there, with the parks history, and track parts, and such. You can pretty much see EVERYTHING from up there!
Soo, after a LONG 3 hour drive that was nearly free of traffic, we finally airrived at the park to find about 40-50 cars in the parkinglot. Well, we happened to have a car that was registered as handy capped, so we just drove to the closest parking spot in the park. After what seemed like a too long of a walk, we finally got into the park. We had printed tickets out online, so we didn't need to buy them.
We apparently had gotten there early, so we had to wait outside the gates and watch this stupid show they were putting on in front. It got funny, but I tried to not LOL at it.. Then after like a 15 minute wait, they finally called Mr. Six out to help open the gates
Well, as we got to the front of the line, we were told that we didn't read the fine print on our tickets, and they were just redemption slips. DOH! So we walked over to get them redemmed. Turns out, that little bit of time was just enough to allow the small group of about 80 into the park, so we didn't have to wait
The first thing we decided to do was Terminator Salvation: The Ride, because I wanted to ride it before the park got too crowded (it never did, guest count was maybee 250-300 all day). OMG, that was the most awesome ride I've ever been on
I loved it soo much that me and my brother decided to ride it 4 more times, so we got 5 rides on it in the morning. It's a REALLY well themed ride. As you walk in there's a new Jeep Wrangler Rubicon sitting out front, that's been all dressed up the same as the ones in the movie (they look like they've been put through war.
There's two of these guys, one outside the ride entrance, then another inside the final turns on the ride. Ther'es also another odd looking vehicle (I think it's an industrial semi towing truck) with a big plow on the front, that sounded like it was running. These guys were also camera nazi's and wouldn't allow me to take the camera past the front of the line..
The entrance almost looks menacing, with two cameras (one is functional- visible inside the Q lines) watching over the entrance. Where the line guards are inside the entrance, there are also lockers, that cost you a dollar to use (ripoff).
But, once we were done with Terminator, we diecided to head off to Riddlers Revenge, to grab a ride in. We got inside the station, and as usual they were playing Ecuador by Sash! The Bruce Wayne Remix. However they didn't have the lights on that flash the green riddlers question mark around
But anyways, there was a small weight for the front car, so bench the ride it was untill then. The ride ops are really slow with loading, so it seemed like it was going to take forever. But we finally got in, and rode after 11 seat adjustments.. :|Now, off to the ride I came for (well the other one): Batman the Ride
I've taken an extensive library of the ride yesterday, from every angle I could get, so I can work on my recreation of the ride.I won't be putting all of them up here, but here's some I took
Now this has GOT to be one of my favorite shots of the ride in action. Those wingovers are TIGHT
Ooo, loop shot <3
After grabbing a ride, we decided it was food time, so we ate at the PaPa Johns right in front of the ride entrance. At this point in the day, ash started falling from the sky because of the wildfires up north of the park. They were far away, so the park wasn't in any danger, and you couldn't really notice the smell of fire, so it wasn't a huge concern for us, but, if you looked up, the sky was orange :shock:
Now, if that doesn't look menacing, then I don't know what does. You can see that the sky is covered with nive, UVa/UVb blocking smoke clouds
But anyways, we decided to head off to Scream! and Colossus once we were done. Now, Scream! was a LOT quieter than I remember, so they must have changed the wheels, because it was no longer screaming loud, but more of a soft roar. But anyways, grabbed a couple rides on it, front and back, so i had my fill. Now it was off to a classic woodie, the double tracked multi directional racer
There was 1 kid on the ride when we got there, so it was another walkon (at this point, everything was a walkon depending on the seat you chose). We grabbed front row, and then a few ladies walked into the Q. One of them said "Hey, lets grab the back, because it comes off the track.". "Oh crap." I thought, "Another LOL moment..". Then the two guys that walked in behind them said, "Oh YES." and took the back, leaving me and my bro up front. All ours uahaha. The ride was a lot less forceful than I remember, because I could have sworn the last hills destroyed your legs from the hard restrains :| Mybee it was the MCBR trimming the train a lot, I don't know..Soo, uhh, where were we at this time..
Oh yes, the epic arcade which had PSP's, iTouches, iPod Nano Chromatics, and Nintendo DS' inside those stupid pickup cases. My brother wased probably $60 just trying to get one on a rigged machine..
Whatever, but now we went on over to Goliath after wasting half an hour on rigged machines, and grabbed a ride. The stupid people were all determined to grab front row, so we grabbed the back seat. But then the ride ops said they need at least 15 riders to dispatch, and they asked if some of the front liners could ride this train. Nope, not one of them would budge. What idiots! We waited for nearly 15 minutes before a few people finally showed up to fill in the train more, and off we went. Oh, I forgot how much I love Goliath
The helice is soo awesomely forceful But anyways, after what seemed like too short of a ride, we got off, and wanted to hit up Superman, Ninja and all that, so we hiked back up that huge hill to get on Superman.
Along the way, we saw some Canadian Geese, because they usually migrate down here this time of year.
Umm...
And since we were at GoldRusher, we thought that we should grab a ride.
Top of first drop.
Wheee!
2nd lift.
Racing log jammer
I wish I had known about this, but since a lot of people loose hats on this ride, the people who clean them up stack them on one of the supporting foundations for superman. We had zoomed by soo fast that I never got a picture, but it was funny
At this time of day, it was about 95*F outside, and really humid, so once we got inside the AC'd Superman cave, we diecided to sit and wait inside a bit lol
But it was time, and we grabbed front seats. But nOooo. The ride op decided that me and my brother couldn't ride front row, so he moved us back :evil: :evil:
This shows just how high the car gets. I was too lazy to rotate it but you can still see.
And screaming back down..
Whatever, it's still a quick ride. And LOUD as ever. Seriously, the comparison between an FA-18 Hornet jet fighter and Superman is nearly identical.
Well, not that we've got some speed, I wanted to grab a ride on Ninja, so we popped in line. It was a short wait as usual, and I didn't want to grab front car, because there were people in it already, so I just grabbed car 2.
OMG, a curved station!!11one!
Ninja onrides..
Hmm, now that we've gotten off Ninja, I saw that SkyTower was open, and operating, so we hopped onto the elevator, and rode up to the top. As it turns out, theres a museum up there, with the parks history, and track parts, and such. You can pretty much see EVERYTHING from up there!
