The Coaster Guy and Park Journey are pleased to announce our second event Event Schedule: 8:30am - Parking Opens (parking is free until 9:00am) 9:15am - 10:15am - ERT on The New Revolution (including FREE Reverse POV) 10:15am - SFMM Opens for Gold Passholders and us!! 12:00 - 3:00pm - Pick up your night ERT Wristband from the Skippy PB Booth. You can find the info for the ERT here. (we will be printing vouchers for all) 2:30pm - 4:30pm - Picnic Lunch at West Picnic Pavilion (located next to lockers and Flash Pass office) 9:00pm - 9:30pm - Park Closes and night ERT Begins on Goliath and Lex Luthor: Drop of Doom (MUST get wristband during the day with Skippy PB Voucher) * Note: We are still working out the tour with the park and will update as soon as we have that info Where: Six Flags Magic Mountain When: Sunday - June 5, 2016 Time: 8:30am to 10:00pm Cost: $55 Tickets : https://www.sixflags.com/magicmountain/store/tickets Click on "Online Tickets" and then "Promo" and enter code "mountainmadness". What’s Included: ERT on THE NEW REVOLUTION!! An all day and night event including Morning ERT on The New Revolution, FREE Reverse POV on The New Revolution during ERT, backstage Tour, Group lunch, free parking and other surprises throughout the day. Look for more surprises announced as the event gets closer. If you have any questions feel free to post them below and we'll answer them. We will be posting and emailing out a full schedule as the event gets closer. FAQ's:
Today was the grand re-opening for The New Revolution at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Even though it's been open for passholders for awhile now today was the first "public" opening and Six Flags held a brief ribbon cutting ceremony. We'll also take a look at the 2017 project and new waterslides for Hurricane Harbor. Welcome to Magic Mountain on a beautiful spring day. A small stage was set up just in front of the loop, that you can actually see now. So awesome!! The first riders were members of the local JROTC. Nice decorations on the stage. Bonnie, the parks manager takes the stage to make a few remarks. No 2017 hints however. =) The mayor and mayor pro tem of Santa Clarita also made a few remarks. After a short ceremony it was time to cut the ribbon and release the kracken ... errr, confetti. As well as some nice low level pyro Some of the Six Flags team that made it all happen Over in front of the ride some nice balloons were set up in the entry area. The line just prior to opening. After the ceremony they had to remove all the pyro so there was a bit of a delay. Might be hard to see, but even the queue rope is red white and blue rather than the typical yellow. Nice touch that honestly, 5-6 years ago you wouldn't have seen at SFMM. So kudos on that!! So the ride is officially open, we took 2 rides once it opened and experienced minimal stacking (maybe 30 seconds at most) and from what we could tell this was due to 1 or 2 people having issues with the headsets. So while it didn't seem today that the VR was causing delays the real test is going to be over the weekend and if they keep the staffing up for the ride. If you are going to the park this weekend be sure to be patient, get to the ride early, but most importantly, reach out to us and send us pictures and updates on operations. ;) Decided to head to the back of the park and look at where the 2017 project is going. They've added some fences around the area ... hope we aren't to blame for this. =) But if you are going to use a nearby vending machine you can still get a peek inside. =) Lastly, more slide pieces have shown up onsite and should be moving into the waterpark soon we'd imagine. Alright, that's going to wrap it up for our New Revolution coverage, not quite as extensive as Twisted Colossus last year but we are so happy to have this classic ride back the way God, er, Anton intended. If you want to ride Revolution with NO LINES be sure you register for our event coming up on June 5. We'll have ERT on The New Revolution, Backstage tours, Food and more. Click the picture below for all the details.
We headed up to Six Flags Magic Mountain the other day to take a look at the all new white train on The New Revolution and to take a look around the park at what's maybe coming for 2017.
We'll be back at the park on Thursday so we'll have more from The New Revolution then but for now let's take a look at the new train and some nice night shots from friend of the site Cody. But the bulk of today's update is going to be looking at the potential for 2017 and a nice video we put together discussing some things about that project. Not really "what" the project us (as we don't know) but the potential and what that might mean for the rest of the backside of the park.
Written by Gregg Condon
Before we get started, don't forget to get your tickets for Mountain Madness 2.0. We've got a great day planned for you and you definitely don't want to miss it. Click the picture below for all of the details.
The nice and shiny white train
If possible it was actually a bit smoother than the red train. So good to have this back. Took a nice front seat ride today without the VR.
And despite rumors, we did confirm with the park there will not be a 3rd train. Just the Red and White. Too bad as a a Blue train would have filled out the connection quite nicely.
How about a few night shots from our good friend Cody who was at the park last night.
And lastly, a couple of gif files we created from video Cody sent us. Love the classic amusement park feel this gives off.
Alright, enough of The New Revolution for now. We'll have more of that later in the week.
Our main update this week is looking at the 2017 project area and some speculation on not really the "what" is coming but what that means to the surrounding area.
We'll start back at the Action Theater which has been completely removed.
Lots of room here for "something" whether it's a Justice League dark ride or some other type of ride.
Fences all around the area. Once they start building something it's going to be pretty obvious what's coming.
Tidal Wave is closed, whatever is coming we have a feeling it's going to be DC themed. Let's hope this ride stays with a nice Aquaman re-theme.
Elsewhere in the park, Grad Nights are coming.
"It's peanut butter jelly time!"
Season Pass previews for The New Revolution end on April 17. The ride will be closed April 18-20 and reopen on April 21 with the ribbon cutting at 11am.
Total accidental almost awesome coaster shot. Didn't even notice the train coming down the first drop until I got home. =)
Lastly, new slide pieces continue to show up on site. These are replacing the kid friendly slides at the front of the park on "Reptile Ridge". Not sure if it's also replacing the speed slides that are there as well, let's hope the middle slide is staying. That's the best body slide in the park.
Alright, that's going to wrap it up for this update.
Be sure to check out the video above and let us know what you think about our 2017 project speculation and if you think we're crazy or are making maybe a little bit of sense. We'll be back up at the park on Thursday for the grand opening of The New Revolution and then on Friday we'll be at Discovery Kingdom for a tour of The Joker. |
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