magic mountain 29 july 2009 now with pics!

[jayman]

on wednsday my brother, mom,dad and i went to magic mountain and met up with oscar for a day of fun !
the night before my family and i stayed at a motel nearby, so my brother and i were at magic mountain before the parking lot even opened. we met oscar before the gates opened and when they did we booked it towards terminator salvation. we were the first guests to arrive at it's entrance ..
i was pretty excited, in fact a little too excited .. i'd been wanting to ride a gci since i saw those trains for the first time ..well, we were able to get in two last car (well second to last , we'll get to that) rides within the first 15 minutes, and yes the ride is good.. BUT, well, it's no ghostrider. and instead of a last car theres a sound system mounted where it ought to be. nevertheless i can see why it was a good move for magic mountain to install it .. gcis are very "freindly " rides apparently , and this was no exception .. it had some decent air and lats, but almost zero intensity..afterwars was a spin on tatsu, maybe a 30 minute wait .. aftrwards we basically took the park as normal we were able to hit everything with the obvious exceptions of deja vu and superman (some things twice) before 5 oclock , and headed over to x 2 .. x2 was still as great as ever, even if not as suprising as it was when it had first opened, and the wait was less than an hour ..
one thing i had noticed throughout the day was the overall new look magic mountain had, in a word CLEAN! very very clean , and even safe ..the new owner wasnt kidding when he said he was going for a new park image, and i really noticed a difference.. i will post pictures as soon as i get home from work . , .. ..

Silly jayman, of course GCI's aren't intense. [:p]

[jayman]

they are pretty though ..

That they are, and I'm riding EK tomorrow too, so yeah!

Originally posted by jayman
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[jayman]

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52.89 KBthis was some of the theming .. when we arrived it was not going ..

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50.12 KB this is the station .. flyby to the right ..


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these folks are headed for some of the best positive gforces to be had at magic mountain


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79.94 KB tim and i were really stoked to be the first riders on terminator that day


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59.96 KB another bit of the terminator theming .. tim is convinced that this vehichle is the one used in the movie.


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87.67 KBi really think this rollercoaster is beautiful.., even if it lacks depth


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71.06 KBtatsu and revolution somehow compliment each other , sadly revolution actually HURT


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81.08 KB another good shot of tatsu .

we went to the "museum"atop the sky tower

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35.92 KBand i was convinced that i would throw this peice of crap out of it ..
i 'll post more pics later .. oscar took these and they are huge .. but just for fun's sake .. heres one more .

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Looks like you had alot of fun.

[jayman]

heres a beautiful shot of viper and x2

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60.76 KBjust beautiful stuff poking out of the trees..


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and a really great shot of the two giants.. goliath and collossus ..

The Terminator theming looks really fantastic, but the ride doesn't really impress me.

[Turbo]

Damn, I need to get up there for the summer again. They have beautiful theming.

Originally posted by Turbo

Damn, I need to get up there for the summer again. They have beautiful theming.

What are you smoking? [stoning]

[Turbo]

^Many many things lol

I meant with all of the trees being filled out. I usually go there in the winter

Yes, it is a beautiful park. It's got loads of trees all over, and nicely trimmed hedges. I was up there back in july, the 15th. Termy has like $1,000,000 worth of flatscreens alone! And yes, it's a gorgeous ride, but it kinda lacks that awesome punch it looks to have [:(]