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This steel coaster with the Caped Crusader theme has five inversions, including a full 360-degree loop right off the first drop. This sit-down, wooden coaster has a sci-fi wasteland theme and runs for three minutes. The thrill levels and descriptions come from Magic Mountain. The statistics on height, length, speed and year opened come from the RCDB. Ready to ride? Strap in for quick looks all 20 coasters at Magic Mountain. The 20 roller coasters of Six Flags Magic Mountain And the park has only been open since 2014. And a relative newcomer to the amusement park world is breathing on both their necks.Įnerylandia in Poland has 17 operational coasters with two more set to open in 2023 and another scheduled to open in 2024, according to the Roller Coaster DataBase (RCDB) in late April. Cedar Point in Ohio sports 18 coasters, for instance. A park in more wintry climes simply can't stay open as many days and finds it harder to compete.įinally, rivalry with Disneyland, Knot's Berry Farm and others have kept Magic Mountain and all the Southern California parks on their competitive toes for decades, he said. A longer season means more revenue, Lewison said. Then there's Southern California's weather - warm and sunny most of the year. Right? And if you're talking about Southern California, you're talking about probably one of the most prosperous regional economies in the world." "A large theme park is more likely to thrive in an area that's highly economically developed. Location, prosperity and weather all played roles, he said. "But there are some other more fundamental reasons for why Six Flags Magic Mountain has so many roller coasters." "For a number of years, there definitely was a tit-for-tat where each theme park tried to build one more coaster to get ahead of the other," Lewison said. How did Magic Mountain beat out the others in the chain, much less other parks all over the world? There are currently 27 parks under the Six Flags umbrella. I would say that it ticks both boxes, doing well in quantity and quality." How Magic Mountain climbed to the top And it has a really good eclectic mix of rides.
The park "has definitely tried to be a cutting-edge leader and pushing the envelope in terms of what kinds of coasters it builds. "I think there are a lot of great rides at Six Flags Magic Mountain." he told CNN Travel recently. Known as Professor Roller Coaster, he's ridden around 2260 of them worldwide. Martin Lewison, an associate professor of business management at Farmingdale State College on Long Island, New York, is big on Magic Mountain's collection.
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