Six Flags Magic Mountain

[Jerroddragon]

Here is the new Concert Art Map that is on the construction for the new land. I added some notes to them along with the Map with no extra words

Some notes
1) Its march and they still have 2 sections to complete and we are no where near part one being done...so I wonder if Summer means like July- September because as of now, not sure if this will be done by June and even early July. I hope I'm wrong but The Taz area is still all dirt

2) They added some red ropes where you meet the Looney Tunes Characters in the front of the park. This will hopefully help with people just cutting lines off to meet the characters

3) Batman and Daffy were the only two characters on Saturday

4) I tried the Chicken and Waffles, its was good. The Waffles aren't as good as the ones at HP Universal restaurant but the chicken matched with it well. Its great for the dinning pass but will say one more piece of Chicken would be nice, Mine had 3 and it was pretty filling but for 22 bucks think another piece of Chicken would be nice

5) They are still letting people with the best pass to go park in lot A and B if there is room, great update to the policy because at Knotts I almost always park at the best parking but at MM, unless I roped dropped mostly they didn't want you parking in the front lots even with the parking included before this year

 

[Rideguy70]

 

[coaster31]

Six Flags appoints Casey Hamilton as manager of park operations for magic mountain​

https://www.linkedin.com/in/casey-hamilton-b56826124?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

Literally worked his way up the food chain at the park

 

[coaster31]

 

[chris.g]

Anyone know of any rides currently down/ closed for maintenance?

 

[Jerroddragon]

Anyone know of any rides currently down/ closed for maintenance?

Lex Luther and Jet stream are down

Also I’ve been hearing many coasters are doing just one train operations

 

[BillM]

Lex Luther and Jet stream are down

Also I’ve been hearing many coasters are doing just one train operations

Back to normal with the one train operations...haha. Don't know why people go to this park. It, in my opinion, has gone downhill so much they can't fix anything.

 

[Jerroddragon]

Back to normal with the one train operations...haha. Don't know why people go to this park. It, in my opinion, has gone downhill so much they can't fix anything.

I wish both Knotts and Six Flags could get lines to move faster

No idea if this would just require more training or what

To answer your question, its because of how cheap APs are...I paid 175 and got all six flags parks and includes parking, thats just a steal. Even USH which had fair AP prices, the highest pass is still like 600 dollars and gold is 300. So if you want a park to go to alot and doesn't cost much Six Flags/Knotts are very much worth it

 

[Rideguy70]

Back to normal with the one train operations...haha. Don't know why people go to this park. It, in my opinion, has gone downhill so much they can't fix anything.

While I concur one train ops isn't great, the other option is to close the ride entirely, which I feel is worse. And that used to be the default for the park for years. One infamous visit I had in the early 2000s, there were literally more closed rides than open (it was about 8 coasters closed on a single day). That was definitely a low point.

I think the fact they actually try to keep rides open is definitely a step in the right direction, and is showing some improvement. Honestly, the number of rides that are completely closed has reduced a LOT.

With a year round park, you're nearly always going to have to have a few rides closed for refurbishment (even Disney has to close rides during the year for this). But way more rides are open in general than ever before.

 

[Ron101]

https://ktla.com/news/theme-parks/magic-mountain-hit-with-533m-value-drop-in-six-flags-reassessment/

Park value dropped by over half a billion dollars.

Don’t know how non of the acquisition executives saw this. Park has always been poorly managed and seen as an inferior product to everything else offered in SoCal.

 

[Viator]

This kind of sets off a lot of warning signs to me. Have to wonder how much SFMM gets downscaled considering the residential restrictions coming up more and more properly, alongside the ballooning in budget for what I presume is of the Vekoma Thrill Glider and the hillside grading.

I wonder if this hits seasonal offerings hard first in order to preserve whatever budget they can for upcoming large scale projects like the thrill glider.

 

[Jerroddragon]

This kind of sets off a lot of warning signs to me. Have to wonder how much SFMM gets downscaled considering the residential restrictions coming up more and more properly, alongside the ballooning in budget for what I presume is of the Vekoma Thrill Glider and the hillside grading.

I wonder if this hits seasonal offerings hard first in order to preserve whatever budget they can for upcoming large scale projects like the thrill glider.

If they start cutting things they are going to hurt more

Like that’s the one thing I point to that has impoved

If you have one train ops with no good events…like I don’t know how you’d make more money

Six flags MM needs more investment not less

I agree this isn’t good but if they pull back more I just can’t imagine how you’d make more money