SIX FLAGS MAGIC MOUNTAIN

& Six Flags Hurricane Harbor

Valencia, California

Six Flags Theme Parks

Park News - (9/2/20) According to a local news report a pair of teenagers were arrested after they appeared to have broken into the closed Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park where they climbed the Skytower and shot video footage of themselves inside the observation deck shooting off fire extinguishers and standing on the ledge. There is also reports that sound like they may have used paint in the park and damaged a few items during their run through the park before leaving.



(8/27/20) Six Flags Magic Mountain has announced that Don McCoy is being promoted to become their new Park President. McCoy is a 35 year Six Flags veteran who is coming down from serving as the President is Six Flags Discovery Kingdom and Hurricane Harbor Concord and was previously also the President of The Great Escape park in New York.



(8/17/20) According to a report at Thrill Capital Insider, Six Flags Magic Mountain park President, Neal Thurman, has made the decision to leave Six Flags after a 25 year career. According to a statement released, Neal has opted to leave “in order to live and work closer to his extended family.”



(8/7/20) According to this article Six Flags Magic Mountain has sent out a survey to ask guests about all kinds of alternative ideas for their annual Fright Fest event this fall. Ideas mentioned in the survey ask opinions on things like:

Plexiglass barriers between guests and the scareactors

Haunted Houses with no scareactors at all (which I assume will just be creepy or use an assortment of animatronics and motion-sensor triggered gags.

Outdoor only activities with no indoor-haunts

If Scareactors have to stay more than 12 feet away, will it still be scary?

Would guests enjoy a drive-through haunt?

Would guests enjoy a Haunted Hayride style experience?

Would haunt themed entertainment options or disgusting eating contests entire guests to visit Fright Fest?

Would a Halloween themed Lucha Libra wrestling show entice guests to visit Fright Fest?



(8/6/20) Six Flags Magic Mountain has announced that their Hurricane Harbor waterpark will not open at all during 2020.



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2019/2020 - West Coast Racers - (1/15/20) Special thanks to Rob for attending and reviewing the new West Coast Racers for Screamscape! Now on to the review!



After years of Apocalypse languishing all alone in its own far corner of the park since the removal of Déjà Vu, the newly opened West Coast Racers beefs up the offerings in the south west corner of Magic Mountain. Located in newly built Underground, a good portion of open space is surrounded by the new roller coaster, from Premier Rides. This newly remodeled corner of the park also has a number of shops and food spots to keep nonriders busy.

The bulk of the queue is inside an industrial garage, a scaled down reproduction of the West Coast Customs facility in Burbank. There are various tools of the trade laying about as well as a number of placards outlining the history of the company and its numerous locations over the years. A full scale mockup of will.i.am's custom Tesla is on prominent display in the front window.

Riders make their way up a wide spiral staircase to reach the boarding level. Boarding is a fairly smooth affair, with both lap restraints and a cumbersome shoulder restraint that really doesn't seem to do anything other than appease lawyers. Each seat has its own zippered pouch for small carry-on items, such as phones or keys.

After boarding and then emerging from the station, two trains line up side by side, awaiting the launch. Magic Mountain missed out on a great opportunity to add some flair to the launch in the form of lighting or audio cues. Alas, there is nothing of the sort, just silence until the launch system kicks in. The initial launch itself is quite mild at first, but then picks up a bit about half way to the first element, though it's not the kind of launch that will flatten your eyeballs ala Top Thrill Dragster.

This is Magic Mountain's second Möbius roller coaster, similar to Twisted Colossus: although a pair of trains race and duel, there is actually only a single track. Riders return to the station to run a similar route that parallels the first one. It's likely that Magic Mountain is the only park in the world with two such layouts. Riders experience a high five element, overbanked turn, helixes, corkscrews, inline twists, and four fairly mild launches throughout a single ride; everything but a kitchen sink. Scratch that, there's one of those in the queue area.

The ride quality is fairly smooth, typical of most coasters from Premier Rides, though there is a good amount of high frequency lateral movement, the effect of which results in knee banging on the inside of train. Not a deal breaker, but not entirely pleasant either. The most notable airtime occurs as the both trains drop down into the water drainage channel on the way to the second set of launch runs. Again, Magic Mountain could have dressed this area up a bit more, as the tracks are flanked by industrial walls that shield this section of the ride from public view.

Which leads me to a small complaint about this one. Much of the ride is installed along the perimeter of this section of The Underground, defining the geography quite admirably. Subsequently, much of the ride is obscured because it sits outside of the publicly accessible areas of the park. Walking through the twisted spaghetti bowl portion of the track would certainly be an attraction for most visitors. Tear down the walls, I say!

It's quite evident this ride is not terribly extreme, though it does contain a couple instances of airtime pops throughout the course. What it is though, is a fun launched looping coaster that most families will enjoy riding together. Oddly, its 54" minimum rider height is higher than it is for Twisted Colossus, a much more intense experience. Unfortunately, that means some younger riders will have to wait to experience Racers.





(12/23/19) West Coast Racers is now open for previews for Members and Passholders (see dates previously listed for availability) but you can catch a POV view of the coaster experience in the video below.



2020 - New Additions or Improvements - (9/6/19) We’ve got a few new details about the 2020 news for SFMM. As we previously posted, new expansions to Fright Fest and Holiday and in the Park will happen, but in a new themed area called The Underground. The area will be completely transformed for each of the two holiday events, and see a new scare zone added to Fright Fest 2020 and an all new area lit-up with holiday lights for winter 2020. The Underground itself will premier this fall as the new land themed around the new West Coast Racers.



(8/29/19) So far SFMM appears to be the only park not to post an official 2020 update just yet. However, a leak of the addition appeared briefly on the website yesterday which was screen captured and posted around social media. If this early leak holds true, it appears that with the late expected opening for 2019’s West Coast Racers coaster project, the park may be going light on the capital for 2020. Instead of more ride hardware, the park will focus on making big improvements to their two big annual events next year: Fright Fest and Holiday In The Park. Of course, they could be planning to make changes to this and add something after all, so nothing is official until the park’s website is updated with the final 2020 info.

2021 - RMC Raptor Coaster - Planning Phase - (4/14/20) Unfortunately the video going over the details of the leaked RMC Raptor plans for Six Flags Magic Mountain has been taken off-line. The Coaster Kings have now posted their own report on the subject, including a link where you can download the plans yourself from the public records site. They add that the plans were actually filed back in late January and approved by March 3rd. This doesn’t mean the park is 100% going to build this, just that they have permission to do so at this point, but with all things these days, we’ll have to wait and see if it really happens for 2021 or if it gets delayed.



(4/12/20) It looks like Magic Mountain is actually planing a new coaster instead of the rumored Mack water coaster.

According to a video posted by Theme Park Tracker (see below) some leaked plans for Six Flags Magic Mountain’s 2021 plans were found online. According to their anaylsis of the plans, it looks like the park would combine the sites of the former Green Lantern coaster with the Tidal Wave site to create a space for what looks like a new RMC Raptor coaster. Assuming everything works out with Jersey Devil and Six Flags is happy with the redesigned version coming to New Jersey, then a modified version of it may very well be planned for Six Flags Magic Mountain in 2021. Of course, with we’ll need to see how things are looking for the company after the chain reopens their parks to know just how much of the planned 2021 capital budget will remain intact.

