Six Flags Magic Mountain

Six Flags Magic Mountain is a Amusement park of the company Six Flags, located at Valencia close to Santa Clarita in California, suburbs northern of Los Angeles.

The park opened the May 29th 1971, weekend of the Memorial Day under the name of Magic Mountain . The park was the property of the Newhall Land and Farming Company, a company of development at the origin of the town of Valencia. The park was bought in 1979 by the company Six Flags which joined its name in front of that of the park.

The park is perhaps the most known amusement park of the chain Six Flags because of the fact that it was used as decoration for several films and television programs.

The park became in 2006 with the opening of Tatsu , the first park in the world comprising the most Russian mountains right in front of Cedar Point, the new record being established with 17. However with attraction Flashback shut down since 2003 and in front of being dismounted at the end of 2007 for storage as well as the disassembling of Psyclone also at the end of 2007, the total goes down again to 15 Russian mountains. Moreover with the opening of Maverick in 2007 in Cedar Not, the record returns to master key 17 in favor of Cedar Point.

History of attractions

1971 : opening of the park with following attractions: Gold Rusher, Billy the Squid, Large Carousel, Log Jammer, 99 Steam Train, Sky Tower, Eagles Side Flight-Galaxy, Eagles Flight-El Dorado Side, Bottoms Up, Subway, Sandblasters, Circus wheel, Crazy Barrels, Coaster Clown, Funicular, El Bumpo, Galaxy, Grand Prix, Showcase Theater (Famous later The Golden delicious Bear Theater ).
1972 : opening of Jet Stream ; Bottoms Up famous Spin Out .
1973 : opening of Mountain Express train, Swiss Twist, Jolly Monster and Scrambler ; closing of Billy the Squid .
1974 : opening of Electric Rainbow, the Himalayas, Dragon, Tumble Drum .
1975 : opening of Large Centennial Excursion Railroad .
1976 : opening of Revolution .
1977 : opening of Enterprise
1978: opening of Colossus
1979: rethematisation of Colossus ; closing of El Bumpo and Galaxy
1980: opening of Buccaneer ; closing of Tumble Drum and Eagles Flight-El Dorado Side
1981: opening of Roaring Rapids and Baille of mow Flora and a gaming room; The Great American Revolution famous Revolucion ; closing of Dragon, Mountain Express train, Jolly Monster and 99 Steam Train .
1982 : opening of Freefall .
1983 : opening of Swashbuckler .
1984 : opening of Sarajevo Bobsleds ; setting in opposite direction of the second way of Colossus
1985: section Children' S World rethematized and re-elected Bugs Bunny World ; Clown famous Coaster Wile E. Coyote Coaster ; closing of the Large Centennial Excursion Railroad .
1986 : opening of Shockwave ; the vehicles of Grand Prix pass from the diesel to the electicity and the attarction is famous Granny Grand Prix ; closing of Sarajevo Bobsleds.
1987 : opening of Z-Force ; Electric Rainbow famous Turbo ; the famous Himalayas Subway ; famous Enterprise Reactor .
1988 : opening of Ninja and Condor ; the funicular is famous Orient Express train ; the Baille of mow Flores is moved in the Pirate' S Cove and famous Jolly Roger ; famous Revolucion Revolution ; closing of Shockwave .
1989 : opening of Tidal Wave (a To rivet Splash); closing of Condor and Crazy Barrels
1990: zone set of themes of Baja Ridge ; Viper.
1991 : Psyclone; zone set of themes of Cyclone Bay (rethematized in Spillikin Corners).
1992 : Flashback (old Z-Force of Six Flags Over Georgia); Cyclone 500.
1993 : opening of Sierra Falls ; zone set of themes of High Sierra Territory ; Swiss famous Twist Sierra Twist ; fermerture of Z-Force, Reactor; Time Warner repurchases the parks Six Flags.
1994 : zone set of themes of Gotham City Backlot (rethematisation of the zone Backstreet ): opening of Batman: The Wrinkles, the Himalayas is famous ACME Atom Smasher ; Turbo famous Gordon Gearworks ; closing of Eagles Flight-Galaxy Side .
1995 : opening of the watery Park Hurricane Harbor .
1996 : opening of Divine Devil .
1997 : opening of Superman: The Escape; enlarging of Hurricane Harbor .
1998 : zone set of themes of The Movie District (rethematisation of the zone Monterey Landing ); opening of The Riddler' S Revenge ; Gordon Gearworks famous Grinder Gearworks .
1999 : opening of Canyon Blaster; enlarging of Bugs Bunny World ; Sierra famous Falls Yosemite Sam Sierra Falls ; Wile E, Coyote Coaster placed in storage; closing of Circus Wheel (a Trabant); Jolly Roger moved and famous Circus Wheel .
2000 : opening of Goliath.
2001 : opening of Already Considering, Thrill Shot and Panda Express train ; Wile E. Coyote famous Coaster Goliath Jr.; Jet famous Stream Arrowhead Splashdown ; closing of The Subway closed and Sky Tower ;
2002 : opening of X; Scrambler is damaged, closed and destroys (old Missile To drive out Six Flags Over Texas); Euro-Bungee; Ham-one-Rye.
2003 : Scream!. closing of Flashback.
2004 : opening of Tornado in Hurricane Harbor;
2005 : spectacle of cascade Batman Begins ; closing of Circus Wheel , Freefall , the East Express train and Revolution for the construction of Tatsu.
2006 : opening of Tatsu, the spectacle Chinese Acrobats off Hebei and of the shooting range Paintball Alley ; reopening of Revolution, Sky Tower, the East Express train, Freefall and Circus Wheel ; Arrowhead Splashdown famous again Jet Stream ; X shut down; closing of Psyclone
2007: X reopens; Psyclone is destroyed; opening of Coldstone Limited, Johnny Rockets Express train, Justice League Feast and Wii Experiment
2008: X sudden of the improvements and reopens under the name X ².

The park

Russian mountains

Old Russian mountains :

Sarajevo Bobsleds (1984-1987) become Vibora with Six Flags Over Texas
Shockwave (1986-1989), built by Intamin AG and put in stockage
Psyclone (1991-2006), built by DIN Corporation, destroyed in 2007.
Flashback (1992-2003), built by Intamin and destroyed in 2007.

Watery attractions

Tidal Wave a To rivet Splash

A park, decoration of TV and cinema

The park is visible partially in several films or televised series:

in the film Rollercoaster (1977), the park plays a big role in the final scene
in the film KIS against the phantoms (1978)
in the last two episodes of the series Wonder Woman , entitled the Phantom of large the eight
under the fictitious name of “Walley World” in National Lampoon' S Vacation (1983)
in the credits of commencement of the series Our beautiful family
in the film California Man (also named Encino Man 1992)
in the film True Lovesong (1993)
in the film Space Cowboys (2000)

Possibility of sale

June 22nd, 2006, the company Six Flags announced that it considered several options for six of its parks, of which perhaps Magic Mountain and its watery park, with an aim of selling them to property developers with my PS to close them and to replace them by dwellings. The reason called upon by the persons in charge of the parks was the drops in number of visits and the hard behavior of certain visitors (notably of the teenagers and young people adult, who form a broad percentage of the public of the park). The statistics of February 2007 indicate a fall of 12% since the previous year, seems it had with the increase of 10 $ of the price of the tickets (the price reaching 60 $) during the season 2006 like that of the carpark, passing to 15 $. For the entirety of the chain Six Flags, the frequentation with the second quarters 2006 was lower by 14% compared to the second half-year 2005. Moreover certain visitors report than the objects bearing the name “Six Flags Magic Mountain” are balanced with half price while the products of the other parks remain full fares.

When Six Flags announced the sale of five parks in January 2007, Magic Mountain did not make party of the list. Wendy Goldberg, the spokesperson of Six Flags indicated that after fuller evaluation, the Californian park remained profitable and that the company would wait until the sales climb with the season advancing.

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