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26101 Magic Mountain Valencia, CA 91355

800-987-9852 

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  • 2008 | Best L.A. Roller Coaster: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

    Otherwise known as the ride that Ewoks would have built -- if they weren't fighting off stormtroopers with rocks and saving the Empire. You board a little black dangling pouch of a car and, suspended from the track above, thread your way through trees, swinging side to side, bobbing and weaving through the foliage, dodging branches and swooping over ponds. You feel like Chow Yun-Fat floating through the bamboo. It's pleasant. It's almost beautiful. Or, as the Ewoks say, it's "yub... More »

  • 2008 | Best L.A. Roller Coaster: Simulation of Quidditch, or Broomstick Riding

    Silver Bullet at Knott's is like Harry Potter taking a pleasant little joyride on his broomstick. Tatsu at Magic Mountain is like Harry flying on his broomstick, chasing after the golden snitch with Voldemort on his tail about to devour his soul. For those of you unfamiliar with the Potter oeuvre, translated, that means: Tatsu is worse. So much worse. You hike up Samurai Summit to the loading zone, cram into a bucket seat. A brace comes down over your chest and ankles, and the seat tilts... More »

  • 2008 | Best L.A. Roller Coaster: Substitute for Actually Dying, then Coming Back to Life

    Each seat on Magic Mountain's X2 is equipped with speakers (à la Space Mountain), and as the ride pulls out of the station, Frank Sinatra croons in your ear, "It had to be you." Then, Metallica's "Enter Sandman" comes on, overlapped with yelling from the ruthless drill sergeant in Full Metal Jacket. "Just remember your training, and you'll survive," joked my friend Mark, who's been in the military, as we got onboard."What training" I said, which sounded more like, "What... More »

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    wmoon | Seattle, WA | 26 Reviews

    | Sat, July 25, 2009

    I love to go to here because they have some of the best roller coasters you can ever think of riding. I'm a big amusement park guy.

  • frank1512
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    frank1512 | New York, NY | 11 Reviews

    | Wed, September 30, 2009

    Don't go on the weekend.

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    laweeklybestof | Los Angeles, CA | 71 Reviews

    | Wed, May 6, 2009

    Otherwise known as the ride that Ewoks would have built — if they weren't fighting off stormtroopers with rocks and saving the Empire. You board a little black dangling pouch of a car and, suspended from the track above, thread your way through trees, swinging side to side, bobbing and weaving through the foliage, dodging branches and swooping over ponds. You feel like Chow Yun-Fat floating through the bamboo. It's pleasant. It's almost beautiful. Or, as the Ewoks say, it's "yub yub."—Gendy Alimurung

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