SFMM - January 16th 2011

As Some of you may know, i took a day trip to SFMM on Sunday. It was a beautiful day with sunshine, few guests, and 78 degree weather [:D].

btw, i know i am not the best photographer. I have VERY shaky hands.






Driving, Driving, Driving, Driving... #9835;




More Driving...




I spy an X2 from Magic Mountain Parkway!




The cars were literally all the people in the park...




I decided to buy a parking pass to go along with my season pass i bought a couple months ago... 4 visits would pay it off, and especially come in handy if i go up to SFDK this summer...




Scream and Colossus!! To bad Colossus was not operating today... [:(]




I stand by ACE plaque honoring Revolution since it was the first modern looping coaster [:)]




Revolution needs a paint job. This was my first ride of the day. I must say, it was running extremely great today. Very smooth compared to the summer, and the brakes were not really turned on [:D]




Tatsu!




More Tatsu!




Even More tatsu!




After riding Tatsu a billion times, we decided to head over to Ninja, the black-belt of all coasters!




Ninja lift motor!




We decided to go up into the Sky Cabin, to get some great pictures. I did not know there was a museum up there, so that was fun. An even cooler surprise, is i ran into Jeremy T from NL-E and Coaster Philosophy. My Mom, Jeremy, and I took a photo inside a replica Colossus car! I had a nice long chat with Jeremy about coasters while my mom looked around at the great views.




An old chain from a roller coaster up in the museum




More old parts up in the sky tower museum




I am in a Scream seat!! [:D]




Old pictures from SFMM's history. Im sure jayman could tell us about these [;)]




A model of Ninja!




A model of the Orgasmic GASM!




Me standing by a window of the Sky Tower/museum!




A picture of Apocalypse and Deja-vu from the sky tower!




Another picture of Apocalypse and Deja-vu from the sky tower!




Apocalypse has a very fun and twisted layout.




More Apocalypse and Deja-Vu



Even More Apocalypse and Deja-Vu!




Ninja!




Green Lantern is supposed to go here, once construction starts




Superman Escape From Krypton, with Goliath in the backround




Tatsu's paint is faded




Tatsu




S:EFK with Scream and Goliath in the backround




Sylvester!




X2 and Viper




X2 and Viper




Viper Batwing WIN




Viper main layout with train in corkscrew




More X2 and Viper!




X2!

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Viper!




Old mascot from the park before it was taken over by SF. I think Jayman could tell us about this [:)]




This is staring back at you in a mirror




Some prop in the museum... idk where its from... im guessing Terminator before the theme change




/me hugs tatsu




I am short compared to Tatsu and the sky tower!




Sleeping on Tatsu [:)]




Tatsu Over bank




S:EFK




Then put the "apocalypse" right over the old Terminator words...




sign




prop




prop




Apocalypse!




I had a very fun day and i cant wait to go back soon

[Coasterkidmwm]

Originally posted by Jcoasters
/me hugs tatsu

Your future wife will be even bigger around the waist than that pole.

i didnt know he was going to marry your sister?

Originally posted by Coasterkidmwm

Originally posted by Jcoasters
/me hugs tatsu

Your future wife will be even bigger around the waist than that pole.

lol

[jayman]

yes , i can tell you about those pictures.
the original mascots were a wizard and three trolls named " bleep , blip , and bloop" they ate "fun" to survive, but unfortunately there wasnt any .
so they created magic mountain so that they could have food.
there was a miniature train kind of in the area where goliath is now , that went to "trollywood" where the trolls were. there was also a full sized narrow guage railroad.
the small swartzkoph wildcat was called "mountain express" it was where flashback ended up .
the miniature cars were on the track where the looney tunes old timey cars are, i'll find a scanner and show the picture of me driving them in 1973 when i was very very little ( like 2-3 years old, but suprisingly enough i actually remember. particularly the gold rusher and jetstream) .
trivia.
there is still one troll left in magic mountain. if you look at the exit for the bumper cars you will see him .
the station for ninja was originally the top station for a transport ride called "the dragon;'which was just a 4 seater dragon shaped car that went up and down the hill. if you look under the ending lift on ninja you'll see the other station . it made it easy to get down from the top of the mountain where magic pagoda was to gold rusher and jet stream. before 1981 when roaring rapids was built there was no way to walk under the jet stream. the best bet was to take the funicular up to the top of the mountain and the dragon down the other side if you were headed towards spilkin corners or goldrusher and jet stream .
the monorail used to stop in a tunnel under super man and there was a steakhouse.


the giant sky wheel looking thing was where swashbuckler and bucanneer are.

[Coasterkidmwm]

Originally posted by Yaminub

i didnt know he was going to marry your sister?

She runs marathons.

Originally posted by jayman

yes , i can tell you about those pictures.
the original mascots were a wizard and three trolls named " bleep , blip , and bloop" they ate "fun" to survive, but unfortunately there wasnt any .
so they created magic mountain so that they could have food.
there was a miniature train kind of in the area where goliath is now , that went to "trollywood" where the trolls were. there was also a full sized narrow guage railroad.
the small swartzkoph wildcat was called "mountain express" it was where flashback ended up .
the miniature cars were on the track where the looney tunes old timey cars are, i'll find a scanner and show the picture of me driving them in 1973 when i was very very little ( like 2-3 years old, but suprisingly enough i actually remember. particularly the gold rusher and jetstream) .
trivia.
there is still one troll left in magic mountain. if you look at the exit for the bumper cars you will see him .
the station for ninja was originally the top station for a transport ride called "the dragon;'which was just a 4 seater dragon shaped car that went up and down the hill. if you look under the ending lift on ninja you'll see the other station . it made it easy to get down from the top of the mountain where magic pagoda was to gold rusher and jet stream. before 1981 when roaring rapids was built there was no way to walk under the jet stream. the best bet was to take the funicular up to the top of the mountain and the dragon down the other side if you were headed towards spilkin corners or goldrusher and jet stream .
the monorail used to stop in a tunnel under super man and there was a steakhouse.


the giant sky wheel looking thing was where swashbuckler and bucanneer are.

wow, thats really intresting... thanks jay!