Originally planned for 2014 things changed and we decided to move our Disney-centric trip to Cali to September 2015. Then work things got in the way and we had to push it back yet another month. Fun. I'm quite glad for all these changes though as it really worked in our favour. I was joined by Patrick and Abigail, big Disney fans and first time to somewhere in America that wasn't Orlando.
Our trip began on Saturday 3rd with our flight from London Heathrow. We got checked in and through security super quickly. After getting some brunch we looked at some cameras and Patrick ended up getting a new one for the trip (pretty jealous, the zoom on it was epic). We then went to get on our Hobbit-themed plane...
I was really looking forward to our flight with Air New Zealand and it didn't disappoint. The safety video was hilarious, we got a Men In Black cover because of the Rugby World Cup and the New Zealand All Blacks. Why can't all big airlines do this? It's awesome and makes everyone pay attention to the boring safety stuff. The rest of the flight went by quite quickly, mainly because I discovered iZombie and binged through the majority of it.
Once in America we had to wait ages to get through security, felt like there were barely anyone behind desks - and they say it's bad in UK airports! We then went to pick up our hire car for the first week. Abi, being the driver, got to choose the car and she went for this VW Jetta. It was quite nice and roomy inside.
We then made our way to our first accommodation for the trip, the Santa Clarita motel. The original plan was to pop into Six Flags to sort out annual passes and maybe get a ride or two done but we were so tired that by the time I checked us in we just instantly crashed.
Sunday 4th
We got up at a decent time (like 8?) and got ourselves ready for our first very long day of credding. We started well with a trip to IHOP. Had all of the pancakes and was basically defeated pretty easily, forgot how ridiculous their pancakes are. We then made our way down to the road to Six Flags Magic Mountain. We sorted out our annual passes (which are like, so crazy generic now, just a bit of plastic with a barcode and your name written on the back?) and joined the crowd waiting to get in. Concerned that it would be crazy busy and with like 18 creds to get I convinced the other two that we should start by grabbing flash passes. I think we all hated paying for them.
After getting a similar piece of advice from everyone we headed straight to X2. After some initial confusion it'd help if there was a sign saying bag lockers are practically in the actual ride station. Umm, so, there wasn't a queue. After nearly dying from shock we put our stuff in lockers and got straight on.
So after my rantings in 2013 about Eejanaika at Fuji-Q I was terrified of what was about to happen. Instead I had an absolute blast! The on-board audio was creepy (cos fright nights), the fire came out of nowhere and was epic and just the sheer air time and crazy flipping throughout. It was just amazing, how did Fuji-Q mess up their one so badly????
Next up was Viper. I enjoyed the random sponsored height marks around the park...
Viper was an odd one, it was forceful and generally smooth but as it went through the corkscrews it was like it ground the track up. I also randomly made a Swedish friend while riding, he loved X2 too.
To get to the next ride we had to make our way through what was setup for the evening horror activities, it looked like it'd be cool with UV light on it...
Next up was Tatsu with like a 5 minute wait! I wasn't really looking forward to this one as I don't like Flyers with pretzel loops and as this one is pretty big, yeah, I was concerned. Overall I found it smooth and quite gentle, like Air. Yeah it's ruined a little by the crazy forceful loop but overall I quite liked it. The setting on the hill is also really odd, love how it's swooping around and over the trees.
It was then down the hill a bit for Apocalypse/Terminator/Shadows of Evil (fright fest name). The queue looked like it was set up for some special stuff at night so we were hoping for a night time ride if there was time. I think we waited about 10 minutes for this one and we sat towards the back. Oh jeez this thing was quick, lots of awesome tunnels too. However it all felt a bit... forceless? Like, there should have been airtime but it just wasn't there? Still, the speed it picked up was still pretty great and it was overall quite a fun ride.
We then came across Ninja which I think we were all looking forward to because Arrow suspended creds are cool. It was a bit of a let down really, it didn't give itself a chance to really swing the cars about that much, does pick up some decent speed towards the bottom of the hill though. But to end the ride on two lift hills? Yeah, it's a killjoy. Unusual layout and use of landscape but overall not great.
Then, just as were passing Superman they were just opening it! Abi decided to sit this one out but Patrick and I ended up being on the first ride of the day! Happy times. The launch was great but I expected some airtime from the massive tower and yet, nothing?
Can see Full Throttle, can't see where station is?
Do, do do do, do do dooooo...
Down the massive hill we went to find Gold Rusher. Just... what? Like, what is it even trying to do? I think this might potentially go down as one of the most bizarre coasters I've ever ridden. I'm a little surprised Six Flags haven't used the space for something else yet, maybe they're keeping it for the lolz?
We then went on Riddlers Revenge. It was good but I find the stand up position just uncomfortable.
We then grabbed a bite to eat. I had bbq pulled pork which was tasty. Then we continued the cred run. Green Lantern had a predictable queue of about 15 minutes, so a little bit of time for our food to settle
A staff member sat next to Patrick which evened out our car so we got zero spins. Cretin.
I loved the theme of this flat ride...
We then queued up for Batman but just as we were climbing the stairs to the station they broke it. Massive fail. We waited until even the staff gave up on it for the time being.
As it was in the area Patrick and I did the Lex Luthor drop tower. We waited about 10 minutes. The weather was trying to spite by lightly spitting but it never turned into burdenous weather thankfully. At the top there was a great audio speil and the way the tower shakes as you get towards the top is nerve-wreaking. The drop really takes it out of you too, crazy ride.
It was then time to go into the newly themed steampunk area for Twisted Colossus. There was like a 30 minute wait, our first proper queue of the day and we can't even use our flash pass on it (it was beginning to feel like a right waste of money, but you can't predict a park like this to be so crazy empty!).
Scream's new colour scheme is odd
So as you may or may not know, I've not been the biggest fan of RMCs so I was intrigued rather than excited to get on this. I have to admit I really enjoyed this though, it has it's flaws but there are certain elements that I loved and overall it's simply an enjoyable ride. The first drop is pretty great, the little hop afterwards is a little disappointing as I was hoping for a nice pop of airtime there but nothing. The crazy stuff at the top of the next hill is random and fun. The hills after that were good fun too but without another train on the green side I think we were missing that cool duelling side of things. Then as we were going up the second lift hill another train joined us and we slowed down so it could catch up with us (so glad they did this). Having a train on the other side makes the ride 100% better. That moment where we've been inverted and we can look down at the other train passing underneath = pure joy. I wasn't even looking forward to that bit because hangtime is gross and I don't know how (of if its due to being so distracted by the interaction) but there just wasn't any awful hangtime there. Overall the green side is more fun but each side feels like it ends way too soon, especially with the amount of momentum and height you hit the brake run at. I think if they were two separate creds and you had to queue for each side I'd be massively disappointed so I'm glad that's not the case.
We then made our way over to Scream. We walked straight on this massive car-park based floorless B&M. I was looking forward to this because B&Ms are always good. It ended up being a solid ride that was super smooth. However being in a park like Magic Mountain it just fails to stand out in any way (apart from it's bright new colour scheme). I was tempted to get a quick re-ride in but the other two weren't too fussed.
We then went back round to Batman which had already re-opened.
Oh gawd, every time this launched up the tower the noise was deafening and just plain horrible
We pretty much walked on Batman's front row. It was intense. I'm not a massive fan of these inverts mainly because this was now like my 15th one, just don't really like the layout and I loathe that it's just been copied and pasted everywhere. So after ticking it off we made our way over to Goliath. I think we used the flash pass for lolz, probably took us longer to get on than in the normal queue. We got on the back row, the drop was ridiculous. The ride overall wasn't outstanding (or as intense as the one in Texas) but it was refreshing (despite the ominous clouds it was still silly hot) with a nice cool breeze. Some of the helix elements were fairly intense, I was intrigued by the idea of a night ride on this later on.
Fab pirate ship ride entrance
Goliath had been given a Monster Hunter theme
We laughed
What?
Time for some kiddy creds...
This was an ok little family coaster, was amused that we saw the train before get two laps and then the ride op accidentally stopped our train after one lap, we got out and he was like 'oh yeah, anyone want a second go?' and we just continued to leave. +1 and done.
We laughed for some time at this kids ride....
I enjoy the Looney Toons areas in Six Flags parks but this one felt a little underwhelming. Still, it did hide like 3 creds. Next one...
And another...
airtime!
We didn't bother trying to get on the other 'cred' in the other kids area. At least Canyon blaster was quite fun and wacky, end felt a bit like the inspiration for RMC?
Moving on and we finally came across the massive queue for Full Throttle (found the peeps!). Only the second queue we find and yet again we can't even use the silly flash pass we threw money at, le sigh. Still, positives, this was the second to last cred of the day and it wasn't even dark yet! Oh and I naturally got on front row after our 30 min wait!
I never followed construction of Full Throttle and never got why so many peeps called it the YOLO cred, still don't. Still, it meant I didn't fully know what to expect from this ride. The launch was great and so was the massive loop. That's when it got weird. That inversion into the tunnel but not quite making it then going back and forth before a second launch. Just what? Who designed this weird thing? It's fun though and then going up over the loop is a neat design. Just a shame it just goes over and straight into brakes, really feels like it should go into a full layout at that point.
It was nearing 6 which meant that fright nights was on it's way (starts at 6:30). We decided to catch a show at that time in the steampunk themed theatre. Apparently we weren't the only ones planning on getting to it early to get a seat.
The show was ok, the set design was fab, as were the trampoline jumper peeps in their tron inspired outfits. There was lots of dancing segments, at times they went around the audience which was cool.
A lot of the show reminded me of the now ruined show at Phantasialand, Seven. (Ruined because magician left and now its a mediocre and very boring circus show). They even have some of the same segments like a dude standing on a table full of wibbly wobbly things. Apart from this guy was a bit old, reminded me a bit of Alice Cooper, and he was rubbish at doing the thing. I was genuinely concerned for his safety. I don't think I was alone, there like wasn't really applause as everyone was genuinely terrified he was going to seriously injure himself or his helper. You have to give him credit though, he finally managed to make the finale work and everyone went mental.
As we left the event was now in full swing and it was dark out. Love parks at night and I couldn't wait to get on certain coasters again for a night ride. We decided to grab a hot dog for dinner while we watched some live entertainment. They did some covers and were ok, the female vocalist was turd though.
After a bit it was back over to X2: Satan's Domain. Not sure why the name suggests Satan because there's no theming added to the ride area or anything. Only difference is the amazing audio track and even that has nothing to do with hell. Oh and they turned off the epic fire the burdens! Still, the ride was still a relentless beast of ridiculousness.
It was then time to experience that UV forest scare zone. It was fab, lots of roaming actors, it had a Grimm fairytale vibe with a creepy reading of some of the tales in the background...
As you can imagine, night + moving people = rubbish photos, but still...
We then rode Tatsu again, we should have used our flash passes here but we were silly and just queued up, waited about 15 minutes. At one point we talked about Doctor Who with a random staff member, still struggling to get over how big it is in America. Peeps at work don't really believe me when I tell them too. The ride itself was still great apart from the loop of evil.
It was then time to try Shadows of evil. This time we did make use of the flash pass seeing as it was the second most popular ride in the park at night! So the queueline at fright fest was AMAZING. They turned the whole thing into a horror walkthrough and it worked really well. They had a few people in cages and then one on a chain in like a performance ring. Looked like at certain times other stuff happened in that bit. They also had a pole dancer being forced to dance and then you go inside where quite a few jump scares await in random areas. There's also a crazy amount of smoke inside. It's just awesome.
The ride itself was fantastic too, it somehow gained even more speed. It was great, loved it.
We then made our one mistake, walking up the epic hill to Superman. It's so steep! However the other side had opened up during the day so needed the other +1. Abi still didn't want to give it a go. Doing it at night was amazing, the launch felt like it went on forever, was a great feeling.
We then checked out the scare zone in the DC area. It was pretty good, lots of smoke, lots of actors.
Abi with one of the fab characters
I don't get scared by scare zones, just too open and obvious but I still enjoy the atmosphere they can create. The steampunk one was next. This was way too open and meant like zero scares and due to there not being many people going through the actors just looked bored and they were really struggling to scare people. A shame. Oh and the theatre had projection mapping <3
We queued up for another go on Twisted Colossus. It was excellent, this time we got to duel on both sides. Really enjoyed the whole ride. We were pretty tired and finished by this point but I wanted another go on Goliath. Abi wanted to chill out so this time it was just Patrick and I. We sat towards the back and it was so much better at night. I proper whited out on one of the helixes, very intense. The cold breeze as we were going at such speed really woke us up too. As there was no queue we were able to just go again, we decided to move closer to the front where the other like 6 riders were. Felt even more intense at the front. Great stuff.
We were so done by this point though and to go and re-ride something else just felt like effort so we hung around the front scare zone a bit (watched fire happen) and went around the shops before heading back to the hotel for some much needed sleep.
I really loved Magic Mountain. There is a lot of rubbish but there are a lot of stand out coasters and I liked the general vibe of the park. Some parts are oddly designed and some of the hills are killer but overall it's a nice place to be. I liked what we experienced of the fright nights event and part of me wished we paid the extra 15 dollars to do the mazes but after feeling like we wasted money on the flash pass that just wasn't happening.
Thanks for reading, hopefully the wait for the next part won't be too long.
Our trip began on Saturday 3rd with our flight from London Heathrow. We got checked in and through security super quickly. After getting some brunch we looked at some cameras and Patrick ended up getting a new one for the trip (pretty jealous, the zoom on it was epic). We then went to get on our Hobbit-themed plane...
I was really looking forward to our flight with Air New Zealand and it didn't disappoint. The safety video was hilarious, we got a Men In Black cover because of the Rugby World Cup and the New Zealand All Blacks. Why can't all big airlines do this? It's awesome and makes everyone pay attention to the boring safety stuff. The rest of the flight went by quite quickly, mainly because I discovered iZombie and binged through the majority of it.
Once in America we had to wait ages to get through security, felt like there were barely anyone behind desks - and they say it's bad in UK airports! We then went to pick up our hire car for the first week. Abi, being the driver, got to choose the car and she went for this VW Jetta. It was quite nice and roomy inside.
We then made our way to our first accommodation for the trip, the Santa Clarita motel. The original plan was to pop into Six Flags to sort out annual passes and maybe get a ride or two done but we were so tired that by the time I checked us in we just instantly crashed.
Sunday 4th
We got up at a decent time (like 8?) and got ourselves ready for our first very long day of credding. We started well with a trip to IHOP. Had all of the pancakes and was basically defeated pretty easily, forgot how ridiculous their pancakes are. We then made our way down to the road to Six Flags Magic Mountain. We sorted out our annual passes (which are like, so crazy generic now, just a bit of plastic with a barcode and your name written on the back?) and joined the crowd waiting to get in. Concerned that it would be crazy busy and with like 18 creds to get I convinced the other two that we should start by grabbing flash passes. I think we all hated paying for them.
After getting a similar piece of advice from everyone we headed straight to X2. After some initial confusion it'd help if there was a sign saying bag lockers are practically in the actual ride station. Umm, so, there wasn't a queue. After nearly dying from shock we put our stuff in lockers and got straight on.
So after my rantings in 2013 about Eejanaika at Fuji-Q I was terrified of what was about to happen. Instead I had an absolute blast! The on-board audio was creepy (cos fright nights), the fire came out of nowhere and was epic and just the sheer air time and crazy flipping throughout. It was just amazing, how did Fuji-Q mess up their one so badly????
Next up was Viper. I enjoyed the random sponsored height marks around the park...
Viper was an odd one, it was forceful and generally smooth but as it went through the corkscrews it was like it ground the track up. I also randomly made a Swedish friend while riding, he loved X2 too.
To get to the next ride we had to make our way through what was setup for the evening horror activities, it looked like it'd be cool with UV light on it...
Next up was Tatsu with like a 5 minute wait! I wasn't really looking forward to this one as I don't like Flyers with pretzel loops and as this one is pretty big, yeah, I was concerned. Overall I found it smooth and quite gentle, like Air. Yeah it's ruined a little by the crazy forceful loop but overall I quite liked it. The setting on the hill is also really odd, love how it's swooping around and over the trees.
It was then down the hill a bit for Apocalypse/Terminator/Shadows of Evil (fright fest name). The queue looked like it was set up for some special stuff at night so we were hoping for a night time ride if there was time. I think we waited about 10 minutes for this one and we sat towards the back. Oh jeez this thing was quick, lots of awesome tunnels too. However it all felt a bit... forceless? Like, there should have been airtime but it just wasn't there? Still, the speed it picked up was still pretty great and it was overall quite a fun ride.
We then came across Ninja which I think we were all looking forward to because Arrow suspended creds are cool. It was a bit of a let down really, it didn't give itself a chance to really swing the cars about that much, does pick up some decent speed towards the bottom of the hill though. But to end the ride on two lift hills? Yeah, it's a killjoy. Unusual layout and use of landscape but overall not great.
Then, just as were passing Superman they were just opening it! Abi decided to sit this one out but Patrick and I ended up being on the first ride of the day! Happy times. The launch was great but I expected some airtime from the massive tower and yet, nothing?
Can see Full Throttle, can't see where station is?
Do, do do do, do do dooooo...
Down the massive hill we went to find Gold Rusher. Just... what? Like, what is it even trying to do? I think this might potentially go down as one of the most bizarre coasters I've ever ridden. I'm a little surprised Six Flags haven't used the space for something else yet, maybe they're keeping it for the lolz?
We then went on Riddlers Revenge. It was good but I find the stand up position just uncomfortable.
We then grabbed a bite to eat. I had bbq pulled pork which was tasty. Then we continued the cred run. Green Lantern had a predictable queue of about 15 minutes, so a little bit of time for our food to settle
A staff member sat next to Patrick which evened out our car so we got zero spins. Cretin. 
I loved the theme of this flat ride...
We then queued up for Batman but just as we were climbing the stairs to the station they broke it. Massive fail. We waited until even the staff gave up on it for the time being.
As it was in the area Patrick and I did the Lex Luthor drop tower. We waited about 10 minutes. The weather was trying to spite by lightly spitting but it never turned into burdenous weather thankfully. At the top there was a great audio speil and the way the tower shakes as you get towards the top is nerve-wreaking. The drop really takes it out of you too, crazy ride.
It was then time to go into the newly themed steampunk area for Twisted Colossus. There was like a 30 minute wait, our first proper queue of the day and we can't even use our flash pass on it (it was beginning to feel like a right waste of money, but you can't predict a park like this to be so crazy empty!).
Scream's new colour scheme is odd
So as you may or may not know, I've not been the biggest fan of RMCs so I was intrigued rather than excited to get on this. I have to admit I really enjoyed this though, it has it's flaws but there are certain elements that I loved and overall it's simply an enjoyable ride. The first drop is pretty great, the little hop afterwards is a little disappointing as I was hoping for a nice pop of airtime there but nothing. The crazy stuff at the top of the next hill is random and fun. The hills after that were good fun too but without another train on the green side I think we were missing that cool duelling side of things. Then as we were going up the second lift hill another train joined us and we slowed down so it could catch up with us (so glad they did this). Having a train on the other side makes the ride 100% better. That moment where we've been inverted and we can look down at the other train passing underneath = pure joy. I wasn't even looking forward to that bit because hangtime is gross and I don't know how (of if its due to being so distracted by the interaction) but there just wasn't any awful hangtime there. Overall the green side is more fun but each side feels like it ends way too soon, especially with the amount of momentum and height you hit the brake run at. I think if they were two separate creds and you had to queue for each side I'd be massively disappointed so I'm glad that's not the case.
We then made our way over to Scream. We walked straight on this massive car-park based floorless B&M. I was looking forward to this because B&Ms are always good. It ended up being a solid ride that was super smooth. However being in a park like Magic Mountain it just fails to stand out in any way (apart from it's bright new colour scheme). I was tempted to get a quick re-ride in but the other two weren't too fussed.
We then went back round to Batman which had already re-opened.
Oh gawd, every time this launched up the tower the noise was deafening and just plain horrible
We pretty much walked on Batman's front row. It was intense. I'm not a massive fan of these inverts mainly because this was now like my 15th one, just don't really like the layout and I loathe that it's just been copied and pasted everywhere. So after ticking it off we made our way over to Goliath. I think we used the flash pass for lolz, probably took us longer to get on than in the normal queue. We got on the back row, the drop was ridiculous. The ride overall wasn't outstanding (or as intense as the one in Texas) but it was refreshing (despite the ominous clouds it was still silly hot) with a nice cool breeze. Some of the helix elements were fairly intense, I was intrigued by the idea of a night ride on this later on.
Fab pirate ship ride entrance
Goliath had been given a Monster Hunter theme
We laughed
What?
Time for some kiddy creds...
This was an ok little family coaster, was amused that we saw the train before get two laps and then the ride op accidentally stopped our train after one lap, we got out and he was like 'oh yeah, anyone want a second go?' and we just continued to leave. +1 and done.
We laughed for some time at this kids ride....
I enjoy the Looney Toons areas in Six Flags parks but this one felt a little underwhelming. Still, it did hide like 3 creds. Next one...
And another...
airtime!
We didn't bother trying to get on the other 'cred' in the other kids area. At least Canyon blaster was quite fun and wacky, end felt a bit like the inspiration for RMC?
Moving on and we finally came across the massive queue for Full Throttle (found the peeps!). Only the second queue we find and yet again we can't even use the silly flash pass we threw money at, le sigh. Still, positives, this was the second to last cred of the day and it wasn't even dark yet! Oh and I naturally got on front row after our 30 min wait!
I never followed construction of Full Throttle and never got why so many peeps called it the YOLO cred, still don't. Still, it meant I didn't fully know what to expect from this ride. The launch was great and so was the massive loop. That's when it got weird. That inversion into the tunnel but not quite making it then going back and forth before a second launch. Just what? Who designed this weird thing? It's fun though and then going up over the loop is a neat design. Just a shame it just goes over and straight into brakes, really feels like it should go into a full layout at that point.
It was nearing 6 which meant that fright nights was on it's way (starts at 6:30). We decided to catch a show at that time in the steampunk themed theatre. Apparently we weren't the only ones planning on getting to it early to get a seat.
The show was ok, the set design was fab, as were the trampoline jumper peeps in their tron inspired outfits. There was lots of dancing segments, at times they went around the audience which was cool.
A lot of the show reminded me of the now ruined show at Phantasialand, Seven. (Ruined because magician left and now its a mediocre and very boring circus show). They even have some of the same segments like a dude standing on a table full of wibbly wobbly things. Apart from this guy was a bit old, reminded me a bit of Alice Cooper, and he was rubbish at doing the thing. I was genuinely concerned for his safety. I don't think I was alone, there like wasn't really applause as everyone was genuinely terrified he was going to seriously injure himself or his helper. You have to give him credit though, he finally managed to make the finale work and everyone went mental.
As we left the event was now in full swing and it was dark out. Love parks at night and I couldn't wait to get on certain coasters again for a night ride. We decided to grab a hot dog for dinner while we watched some live entertainment. They did some covers and were ok, the female vocalist was turd though.
After a bit it was back over to X2: Satan's Domain. Not sure why the name suggests Satan because there's no theming added to the ride area or anything. Only difference is the amazing audio track and even that has nothing to do with hell. Oh and they turned off the epic fire the burdens! Still, the ride was still a relentless beast of ridiculousness.
It was then time to experience that UV forest scare zone. It was fab, lots of roaming actors, it had a Grimm fairytale vibe with a creepy reading of some of the tales in the background...
As you can imagine, night + moving people = rubbish photos, but still...
We then rode Tatsu again, we should have used our flash passes here but we were silly and just queued up, waited about 15 minutes. At one point we talked about Doctor Who with a random staff member, still struggling to get over how big it is in America. Peeps at work don't really believe me when I tell them too. The ride itself was still great apart from the loop of evil.
It was then time to try Shadows of evil. This time we did make use of the flash pass seeing as it was the second most popular ride in the park at night! So the queueline at fright fest was AMAZING. They turned the whole thing into a horror walkthrough and it worked really well. They had a few people in cages and then one on a chain in like a performance ring. Looked like at certain times other stuff happened in that bit. They also had a pole dancer being forced to dance and then you go inside where quite a few jump scares await in random areas. There's also a crazy amount of smoke inside. It's just awesome.
The ride itself was fantastic too, it somehow gained even more speed. It was great, loved it.
We then made our one mistake, walking up the epic hill to Superman. It's so steep! However the other side had opened up during the day so needed the other +1. Abi still didn't want to give it a go. Doing it at night was amazing, the launch felt like it went on forever, was a great feeling.
We then checked out the scare zone in the DC area. It was pretty good, lots of smoke, lots of actors.
Abi with one of the fab characters
I don't get scared by scare zones, just too open and obvious but I still enjoy the atmosphere they can create. The steampunk one was next. This was way too open and meant like zero scares and due to there not being many people going through the actors just looked bored and they were really struggling to scare people. A shame. Oh and the theatre had projection mapping <3
We queued up for another go on Twisted Colossus. It was excellent, this time we got to duel on both sides. Really enjoyed the whole ride. We were pretty tired and finished by this point but I wanted another go on Goliath. Abi wanted to chill out so this time it was just Patrick and I. We sat towards the back and it was so much better at night. I proper whited out on one of the helixes, very intense. The cold breeze as we were going at such speed really woke us up too. As there was no queue we were able to just go again, we decided to move closer to the front where the other like 6 riders were. Felt even more intense at the front. Great stuff.
We were so done by this point though and to go and re-ride something else just felt like effort so we hung around the front scare zone a bit (watched fire happen) and went around the shops before heading back to the hotel for some much needed sleep.
I really loved Magic Mountain. There is a lot of rubbish but there are a lot of stand out coasters and I liked the general vibe of the park. Some parts are oddly designed and some of the hills are killer but overall it's a nice place to be. I liked what we experienced of the fright nights event and part of me wished we paid the extra 15 dollars to do the mazes but after feeling like we wasted money on the flash pass that just wasn't happening.
Thanks for reading, hopefully the wait for the next part won't be too long.
We were amused that for taking part in the survey we were also given a fast pass when the park had now closed 
