Pro: Too many coasters Con: Too many coasters

“I have waited a long time for this moment”

Magic Mountain: Has the most Coasters in the World. Energylandia: Hold my Vodka, I'm gonna ruin this parks whole career.

Airtime Thrills: SFMM will soon be the first park to have 20 coasters Energylandia: Hold my beer

Secret: If you live near Magic Mountain, and go to school near there, go on Tuesdays in the afternoons. Everything is no more than a station wait.

Pros: It’s awesome. Cons: The year is currently 2020.

Magic mountain has both quantity and quality. Went for the first time December 19’ and wished we had another day!! We got two ‘perfect duels’ on both the green and blue side of colossus and freaking loved it!

Pro: it has the most coasters Con: it’s owned by Six Flags

As someone who also grew up with this park, you present so many perspectives I've never thought about. Mainly, I always thought walking so much was a completely normal experience in all parks. Honestly now that I think about it, I mentally rank literally every other park I've been to lower because of the lack of walking? Walking so much makes Magic Mountain feel absolutely massive! I'm also super familiar, so when loops are quicker at other parks it makes me feel instantly familiar with the park and that's just boring. Growing up, spending a day at magic mountain was always a test for good shoes. Either I broke them in or I left with blisters (looking at you, converse).

Pro: Has the most coasters out of any theme park! Con: You can’t ride any of them currently. Man, thanks for the likes!

Airtime thrills: it’s great cause they have two freestyle machine locations Cedar point: this year we’re also adding 7 more, giving is a total of 30 stations

Apocalypse, Twisted Colossus, and Riddlers Revenges we’re all down the only time I’ve been there. I’d love a page on their websites to show close times!

Are we not counting the parking lot tram as a transportation ride?

I visited LA for the first time last year, we planned a visit to the park on the last day and I was so hyped for it. X2 had been a bucket list coaster ever since I first saw it in the old rollercoaster tycoon games. When we arrived we found out it was closed for the entire day. The park being 9000km from where I live stings pretty hard

Chris: I go the Magic Mountain at least once a week COVID-19: Hello there

The biggest pros of the park are X2 and Twisted Colossus. The biggest con of this park was Green Lantern.

Awesome pros and cons video! A few other cons I thought of -Lack of shade and Rain Cover -Some outdated areas still with the entrance and Samurai Summit

I like the drive to Magic Mountain. Its so pretty and it would be nice if they had another entrance. Because walking to the park entrance is such a long walk

I cant believe that Six Flags named a transportation ride 'Helpful Honda Express' 😂

Six flags great America is my home park. I didn’t realize how good our collection of coasters was till I started traveling around a few years ago. Magic mountain and cedar point rival our collection but very few American parks beat it. Also great America has 3 kiddie coaster, and 3 less intense rides. So kids have tiers to work up to the intense rides.

“One entrance.” Not even, destroy the regular entrance and make the entrance by Scream.

Literally I live by SFMM. On weekdays when the park closes at 6 and I get there at 5 I still ride more coasters than I would on a weekend at the park.

Once again another great video my ninja. 👌

YAASSS ANOTHER MAGIC MOUNTAIN VIDEO THANK YOU SO MUCH

Pros : So many coasters. Cons : Couldn't re-ride any coaster on my only short week day in october...

This was a really awesome and very useful video for me! I was supposed to be visiting the US (California in particular) for the first time very soon and was really looking forward to getting these credits! Of course current circumstances have delayed my plans, but I’ll definitely keep all of this in mind for when I eventually visit! :D

I worked at SFMM from 98 to 2000. I guess you can call it nostalgia but with exception of twisted colossus I haven’t been on any ride that came in after Goliath, that was the big new coaster when I left. I recently watched a POV of scream and couldn’t help but to laugh at the epic levels of no fucks given to theme the ride area. I really got a kick out of the fact that scream literally dives at what was my favorite parking spot back in 2000 with parking lines visible and all. Can’t they al least throw down some gravel or something🤷🏽‍♂️

Finally ! A review of my favorite park. Yay

I think theming should have made the Cons list. SFMM has always been generic when it comes to theming since my first visit in 1990. It's so plain. Great rides, but no reason to draw you in. Also, last time I bought a season pass was in 2014. To my surprise, the Skytower was open way more than usual that year, complete with museum style historical items on display on the deck. It was amazing, I need to look for the pics. It had been 15 years since I'd been up there at the time. I miss it being open.

This is a great list!! I too am a local and have been going to this amazing park for 20+ years, also worked there for 4, I’d say the biggest plus that was left off this list is FRIGHT FEST! Six flags magic mountain is the only park that gives you access to all of the rides and scare zones in the whole la oc area. Someone on a budget can go and enjoy the scare zones and stay till 1 am with no extra cost.

I live in Utah and have been a Six Flags season pass holder for 5 of the past 10 years. I must say that your assessment of the pros and cons at Magic Mountain were spot on. The coaster collection is the reason my family makes multiple trips to Valencia on years that we have a season pass. The price and value of the season pass is also a huge pro for us. The best coasted park we have been to, however, is Cedar Point.

I personally loved Goliath. It was my first coaster I rode at the park and I thought the first drop was great.

I had like 3" of room on Full Throttle and it was actually pretty crazy hanging on the loop. The ride ops scored points with me on that one!

This sent me on a nostalgia trip back to the last time I went there sometime in 2010. Good times

Great video! I love the channel. I’m stuck with SFoG as my home park hope to make it to MM

My family has annual passes for Disneyland and we drive down from Pleasanton, Northern CA, and coming down I-5 seeing all the coasters and especially at night with all the lights on, is just breathtaking

Pro : most coasters in the world. *Energylandia looks through the blinds sneakily...

This is my favorite Six Flags park and I actually like it even more than Cedar Point because of their bigger and more diverse coaster collection. This was one of five parks I visited while there in 2014 (the other 4 being the two Disney parks, SeaWorld San Diego and Knott's Berry Farm). We did however have to drive almost 90 minutes from Anaheim to visit the park but it was completely 100% worth it.

Love your channel homie!

One time, on Skyrocket at Kennywood, they only did a visual lap bar check, leaving me about a foot of airtime room. It was amazing. It is so easy to get airtime room with those lap bars.

I haven't been there in a LONG time, but the last time I was there, I remember being frustrated with the layout- things seemed scattered chaotically. Even with a map, getting from attraction A to attraction B could be a headache.

Great video!!

Adding a second entrance between scream and TC is such a good idea!

I wish I could pop over to a park ON FOOT whenever I desire. How fun!!!

An excuse to not do homework 😂

I crack up every time at the jabs to Goliath, I love that one! 😂 I need to visit some parks outside of CA.

Knotts is right next to the 91 though :) still easy! But I feel you

Great list! Would love to see some for other parks as well

I would love to see more Pros and Cons videos about parks!!

I was this summer at Magic Mountain and it was unbelivabal. Im from germany and this park is so diffrent to european Parks. I love Magic Mountain!

Con: the lack of public transportation options to the park. Pro: the nice landscape.

I will always remember this park as being from the intro to Step by Step.

I'm a hiker, so I personally don't mind the lack of transportation rides. My top con would be the lack of a ride closure schedule. I almost missed out on TwCol because of that in 2018. The year round schedule makes it easy for me to plan my vacation here on school days and take advantage of having no lines. That makes it my top pro, but it also goes hand in hand with your top 2 pros. The amazing coaster collection and the elite top 2 are why I want to be here on days with no lines. It's now also my # 5 favorite park that I've ever been to.

I personally think the best six flags park is great America. It’s very well rounded.

Fun fact. That churro cart that I used to work at actually sold stuffed pretzels, but I was only able to cook and sell about 4 at a time before having to call in and ask for more. I would get these pretzels from Big Belly Burger across from the churro cart and for some reason, that shop sold regular salted pretzels, but not stuffed pretzels

“People will come from out of town to see that X2 is down.” My first day here in a nutshell

Yeah SFMM is an amazing park. I agree they need to invest on the 2 main cons, get the observation tower working again and invest in some transport. I did hear alot of rumors about the observation tower during the summer simply because of the high winds, or someone purposefully trying to jump off from the more open lower level, or could have some metal fatigue. Even a simple funicular that replaced the Dragon (the station is still there), and connected the top of the mountain would help. I remember my knees and my legs killing me after a day at the park due to the walking. When the monorail worked, it was a rarity. With the observation tower, personally they should tear it down and then build a Stratosphere-esque type of tower where you put a revolving restaurant at the top and then add either the Fish-hook roller coaster Arrow was designing or put a drop tower on top of it.

I went to magic mountain for my high school grad night last year, I’m weak at rollercoasters (only really going to Knotts) but twisted colossus was amazing 😔👌 a long, enjoyable and not too scary ride that a ghost rider lover like me enjoyed immensely!

If I were in charge and we’re able to, I’d build a parking garage for the park close by and replace the current parking lot with a lake, like in the Step By Step intro.

one train ops. gotta love them.

Do this exact video but for Great America, also if American eagle gets RMCd do you think it will be better than Twisted colossus because they're both dueling coasters?

I agree with you on needing a second entrance. The walk to either Magic Mountain or Hurricane Harbor is fine once you get there but it is a long, tiring walk when you leave. They also need another transportation system at least on west side of the park. Walking up that hill by Goldrusher just to get to Ninja and Superman is murder.

8:45 That's gotta be one of the best warning pictures I've ever seen. Someone put that on a t-shirt 😂

I once got on viper and was so free, I as almost falling out, it was so great. best ride of my life

I live about 2 minute drive away, just on the other side of the 5. For me a big pro that goes hand in hand with the amount of coasters, is the scaling. I'm very new to coasters. I was terrified of them for years. My bro got a pass to Magic Mountain and started taking me, and it's been VERY easy to climb up, of course starting with the smaller ones like Revolution and Ninja, then being forced onto Twisted Colossus - which is now my favorite ride!! I'm still working up to the really big ones, and doubt that I'll ever make it to X2, but their selection is perfect for people trying to introduce themselves to "bigger" rides as so many are just like, one step up from the last. I really appreciate that part Edit: I do miss the log flume though!! I get sad when those go away for coasters, they're great rides in their own rite

I got lucky the last time I was there (2013) and was able to go up the observation tower. I had been going there since 2000 and that was the only time I'd been up there or seen it open

lmao the parking! I go like 2 or 3 times a year but the walk to the park from the lot is pretty much part of the experience at this point. You get used to it 😂

I went here for the first time this past December. I absolutely love this place. Easily the second best park in the country for coasters. SFGAm is my home park. I'm super happy with it and know it's better than most so I'm not complaining, but magic mountain is another level

Turkey legs are the BEST option for food at Six Flags Magic Mountain, (unless you consider the turkey's feelings.) It's wonderful to discover how you don't get stapled on Twisted Colossus; I suppose that at least the restraints aren't too tight due to the fact that they're trying to be better than Cedar Point. I also got more rides on T.C. than I did on S.V. and and felt more comfortable requesting ride where I wasn't stapled. Let Cedar Point learn the lesson of not stapling its riders on SV. Thanks for this wonderful video!

I have never been to magic mountain or knotts and they are definitely my two biggest bucket list parks

Nice video mate. Certainly agree with having access to ride down time in advance. We came over from England 9 years ago and had to book in advance and on a particular day to fit in with our movements. Would've been great to see what was open/closed. We missed Superman, Batman and the original Colossus. Thankfully we were 2 months too early for Green Lantern and just in time to ride Deja Vu before it got moved and ruined!

I have fond memories going to Magic Mountain. I live in Bay Area but still visit my family in SFV so when I drive down interstate 5 visit i know I'm close to home when I pass the park on the freeway.

Please consider doing this for other parks! I know you did the reviews already but a pros and cons would be cool too

Yo another great video👍

Last time I visited Magic Mountain was back in the '70s, 1978 I think. What I remember most vividly about visiting it in the Summer was (a) the heat and (b) the altitude. If the one didn't get you, the other did..

I don't mind walking because I walk fast but sometimes I do feel that walking to the park entrance can be a pain in butt and a second entrance would be great. I'm at Magic Mountain almost every week with my daughter. I enjoy watching your videos and I would enjoy the chance to run into you some day. I have been going to Magic Mountain for years and I definitely have a lot of memories of rides that use to be there that I've been on including The Galaxy. Actually I remember 5 of us rode that once. Me, my two brothers and my mom and dad. During the ride people were jokingly telling us our chair was breaking during the ride. When the ride operator came to let us out she looked at us in shock because she didn't realize there were 5 of us. The sign on the ride said NO MORE THAN 5 riders at a time.

Me and my son’s only visit was right when they went 365, we went mid week in a January and, other than Superman and Goliath being down for maintenance, it was amazing not dealing with lines.

Great video. We are a small coaster group of 6 people that frequent the mountain every other week. California Coaster Enthusiasts on Facebook. Your perspective seems right along with ours in your pros and cons. You should join us someday. Great video.

Its a awesome park, probably could do with some work hear and their, but its still an elite park!

Great list. Biggest con is no transportation rides besides Helpful Honda. They knew they needed it when the park was SMALLER than it is today!! Really wish they had a sky bucket or monorail type ride or both again. Or at least another funicular on the riddler side. Sometimes for whatever reason you have to go from back to the front or visa versa for your locker or lunch or whatever, currently itsthe only thing I super don’t like. Besides the sky tower being closed!! I love Scream and Goliath btw...so for me the collection is definitely awesome. Some more trees in some areas would be good, log hammer area now full throttle used to be SO much nicer.

When I went to MM with my family we took the bus from LA, it was also the week of Christmas so that walk to the bus stop from the park entrance was brutal with how cold and windy it got by 10pm

had no idea you were local, that's cool! i've lived in scv my whole life and only been there once! i wanna go more once covid slows down

Loved 💚it

I went to SFMM on one of their shorter days right after New Years in 2018. I was disappointed that I didn’t have nearly enough time to ride everything, much less get second rides (except for Twisted Colossus), but overall I was pretty impressed with the park. Everything was running at least two trains except for Full Throttle, and in the afternoon they were able to get TC racing almost every time. I also ended up at Twisted Wiches for lunch and I was surprised by how good it was, especially for a Six Flags park. I just wish I had a few more hours to get over to the back of the park to get on all the coasters. I’d love to do a west coast tour eventually but it’ll be at least another 5 years before I could even think about a big trip like that

Top Five Roller Coaster Collections 1: Cedar Point (No-Brainer. Millennium Force, Steel Vengeance, Maverick, Top Thrill Dragster, and Magnum XL-200 all in one park? Instanity.) 2: Six Flags Magic Mountain (Having the most coasters in the world will put you in the top five. If it wasn't for the sheer quality of the coasters at Cedar Point, this would probably be number one.) 3: Hersheypark (The addition of Candymonium gives them a really well rounded collection. They never cared about records. They always focused on building high quality roller coasters and their lineup is elite because of it.) 4: Six Flags Great Adventure (A homer pick, but the El Toro/Nitro combo is one of the best top two of any park, really only bested by Cedar Point and maybe Carowinds. Kingda Ka is a blast, Bizarro is criminally underrated, and Green Lantern is one of the better stand up roller coasters out there. Jersey Devil could potentially push this park into the top three when it opens.) 5: Six Flags Great America (This park really gained some momentum this past decade. The additions of X-Flight, Goliath, and Maxx Force have taken Great America from a great Six Flags park to one of the best parks in the country.)

2:39 ahh yes the firsy kitty ride they had me operate i also was an attendant at Goliath, Drop of Doom, and Full Throttle. once they mad me work as grouper and headset duty at The New Revolution. it was lame lol the lead was kinda mean too

I would sure love to see a pros & cons video of Kings Island and Cedar Point

This is my home park to but I live 2 and a half hours away so I go when I can but I went maybe like 5 or 6 times last year I can’t wait till it opens back up to go again 😁 loved this park since I was a kid 💜💜 when you said I guess people love Scream or Goliath like I got offended Goliath is my most favorite ride in the park since I was a kid pretty much 😂

I love Magic Mountain ❤️

I live in europe and when I had the chance to visit six flag magic Mountain in june 2009 my experience sadly wasn't that great. I only managed to ride 4 rides which was mainly due to slow one train operations on a busy friday. I stood 3.5 hours in line for Terminator salvation (I think now its called apocalypse), 3 hours for x2 and another 3 hours for tatsu the last ride the old colossus was the only ride we were able to almost walk on. So we rode it twice. In the end all rides were great and I will never forget how awesome X2 and Tatsu were. But in the end what really disappointed me were the length of the ride. I was used to German parks with coasters having usually pretty long ridetimes. Even if I was standing in line vor 2.5-3 hours for the most hyped coasters I would get ridetimes 90-120 sec out of them. Both X2 and Tatsu disappointed me in that regard, the rides were great but both times when I hit the break run I was like, wait thats it. I waited this long for auch a short ride?

Pros: massive coaster collection and cheap annual passes and memberships make multiple visits easy. Cons: kids are pretty much confined to one area and there’s a lack of things to do for the less daring. There’s also not as many flat rides and water rides as there used to be, though Crazanity was a good addition.

Twisted, X2 and Goliath are my favorite rides 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼

For discovery (My home park), on days that its super crowded, they open up the overload parking lot, and its SO MUCH CLOSER than the main parking lot.

not even a day ago, i made a bazillion posts about this park and how much I enjoyed my time there. what a coincidence my favourite coaster channel posts a video about it at the same time! My favourite thing about the park is the diversity it has for rides. I remember going with my older brothers, who are all just as much thrill-seeking as me, and my young sister, who did NOT like roller coasters. She actually enjoyed her day there as much as we did, which is such an important thing for parks in general. She even went on Ninja with us, and hopefully next time she'll want to try something bigger. Some things that bothered me were: The lack of shade in certain waiting areas, specifically the long line for X2. It is a popular attraction, so naturally, the park should provide the waiting area with adequate shelter from the blazing SoCal sun. The lack of seating in certain places was also a bit of an issue. My mum came with us when we went, just to watch us ride, but there was hardly anywhere to sit. I think that there should be more benches for spectators. And lastly, I felt the food options were very limited. There isn't much for vegetarian options, which is a little bit frustrating for me.

Great Park! My only time if been there was in 1999 and I thought every Six Flags would be like MM, since it was my first SF Park. Little did I know. But I don't know if MM will be the first Park with 20 Coasters. Energylandia might want to be the first Park with 20 Coasters too.

When I went to magic mountain for the first and only time I was overwhelmed because I was trying to get to every coaster because I didn’t know when I would get back. Luckily, now I know what coasters are the best so when I do get back I won’t be so overwhelmed and can just ride the best ones multiple times

14:57 I did exactly that (including Green Lantern) with the exception being Gold Rusher and replacing it with Justice League, and Lex Luthor. (I know they are not credits but those are all of the rides I did at magic mountain on August 15th 2017 which was a 10:30 AM to 6:00 PM day. I was so damn happy with that.)

I used to take either the Metrolink Train from Downtown LA to Newhall, or NoHo Express to the McBean Transit center and take a bus that goes to Six Flags (Stop's in front of X2 two ravine turns). Sometimes I take my bike when I get up to Santa Clarita, and take the trail right by the transit center and go downhill The Old Road. to feel that wind in my face right before I get into the park. Also, just to comment on the lockers at Great Adventure, they are a definite pros and cons. Pros: You have 2 hours to use the lockers and with them littered all over the park you can pay for one and come back in two hours. So you can ride multiple rides within 2 hours and only pay $1. Cons: Because of NJ state law, you can't have anything in your pockets or loose articles to put along the side so it's mandatory to stuff your belongings in the locker.

I can not wait to go to this park

The car park reminds me of Alton where you have to walk to it’s entrance. Especially if your in the hotel but there’s a tram so it’s cool however I do it sometimes for my daily exercise when I’m there