Well next saturday I'm making my first trip to California with my family...I'll have 1.5 days at SFMM and 2 at KBF so I'm excited about that. What I was wondering was if anyone who has been to either park has any general tips that will help me get the most out of my time there. What are the chances that X will be running during the wintertime? Should I go there first no matter what? Also..other than Flashback, what coasters at SFMM should I expect to be closed? Thanks for any help and/or advice...
1. Voyage
2. X
3. Millenium Force
4. Top Thrill Dragster
5. Raging Bull
SFMM is only open on saturday and sunday, and we're getting in on saturday afternoon..so I'll go to the park for the end of that day and all day Sunday. KBF on the other hand is open everyday so that is much more flexible.
1. Voyage
2. X
3. Millenium Force
4. Top Thrill Dragster
5. Raging Bull
Get to SFMM directly @ open and instead of heading to X first, head to the back of the park first. scream, BTR,Riddlers,Deja Vu, Goliath and S:TE.
Judge the crowds.. Most likely hit X during lunch time, the wait when we went was about 45 minutes not too bad.
Viper was not running when we went but everything else was.
If they are open make sure to Hit these coasters:
SCREAM!
X
Riddlers Revenge
Goliath
Deja Vu
Superman The Escape
S:TE when I was there seemed to be only running 1/3 of the way up the tower, but i still think that ride is pretty decent
As for KBF:
XCELERATOR: If you've been on TTD you will like this ride a helluva lot more, I did and its great! Light crowds and usual 2 train ops will enable you to power ride this ride.
Silver Bullet: AKA Silver Boring, the ride is weak and in my opinion sucks. Ride that later on in the day.
You should be able to easily powerride everything at KBF with in the first 6 hours or so.
I was just at Magic Mountain. Most of the rides were open. Even Deja Vu. All the ones on Sammuri Summit were closed. And Revolution...but for the most part, alot of rides were open.
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking, isn't thinking of.
^ Deja Vu when i was there ran very well, The thing that really was kinda interesting was they checked the seat belt and the OTSR at the same time, but the loading time was just as long if not longer then ours.
The single person line however was a joke, people in a group of 4-7 would line jump everyone else in line and that really made the wait longer.
Raging Bull-since your pressed for time maybe you should skip Dejavu if you've already rode it at sfgam since there the same. But if you have time to kill it would be interesting to see what the difference is. Just a pointer
Oh, and do not try to experience PSYCLONE This coaster is so shakey and rough...it hurts so bad. Other people liked it but my family did not however, it truly is a pain.
Galvan316 wrote:^ Deja Vu when i was there ran very well, The thing that really was kinda interesting was they checked the seat belt and the OTSR at the same time, but the loading time was just as long if not longer then ours.
The single person line however was a joke, people in a group of 4-7 would line jump everyone else in line and that really made the wait longer.
Galvan, it seemed so much quicker when I went there. They were extremely effecient at checking both restraints at one time. The grouper also did a great job and the train left the station way quicker than our's ever did.
Top 5 wood-5-Goliath 4-Ravine Flyer II 3-Phoenix 2-Voyage 1-El Toro Top 5 Steel- 5-Velocicoaster 4- Maverick 3- Fury 325 2-Steel Vengeance 1-X2 Coaster Count: 444