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This was not built with coaster enthusiasts in mind. I can imagine the number of bona fide coaster enthusiasts visiting Sea World San Diego is not a big number. This was built for families with tweens who are looking for something more intense than Manta, but less than Electric Eel. On that...

Seconding that they've been on for about a year already. But at least so far, it's only on one train.

I did, and recently. It was fine. Not great, not terrible. But I do think this concept will work as a dark ride because, well... pets are relatable. You don't have to see the movie to get that. So in that sense, it's going to be timeless if they do it right. Besides, the Waterworld stunt...

Rumor is an actual dark ride. With actual animitronics, very minimal on the screens. It was apparently intended to be trackless, but I'm pretty sure that didn't end up happening. It seems to be a toss up between a "traditional" dark ride vehicle or an omnimover type system.

I don't know if it was intended or not, but fact is FT couldn't run 3 trains if it wanted too. Track is just too darn short. When running two trains, the other is already back before the train in the station has even finished getting people in it. And I can confirm TC was never meant to run 4...

It's been raining like crazy for the last few weeks, a relative rarity in SoCal. I'm sure that's put them even further behind schedule, although even I can't fault them for that particular delay.

I don't know about this installation, but they do incorporate local history into their San Fransisco version.

Glad it's done so fast, but based on the reviews I keep hearing about their other model, Harley Quinn at SF Discovery Kingdom (which I'm going to visit in about a month), I don't have my hopes up very high. While I realize it's a different model, the constant reviews that it's rough, noisy...

I haven't yet been on SV, but I've been on many other RMCs. They're a very wild ride, but sometimes they can almost be TOO forceful to the point that they can be a bit painful to ride (especially if marathoning). While I can see the arguments that MF is not particularly forceful and lacks air...

The Disneyland POTC is much better, though I've heard Shanghai's is even more amazing (haven't actually done it, though.) I've also heard incredible things about Mystic Manor and all the dark rides at Elfting, but I haven't been on them either, so I can't rate them yet. Let's also not forget...

I live in LA. On a good day, SD is about 3 hours south, and SFMM is about 40 min north. So about a 4 hour separation... not sure where you get 5-6 hours on a good day. With traiffic, that could be true. Even with the distance between them, advertising will hit the entire SoCal market, so...

^^Well, there is Hangtime at Knott's. I'd consider that a dive coaster. So now there's technically 2 in SoCal. Which is yet another reason for SFMM to not get one. I am a bit unclear where in the park this'll be located, though.

^The article says it's floorless, so... If this is true, it would seem to put the nail in the coffin of SFMM ever getting a dive machine. Not that I really wanted one there anyway, but many seemed to think it was coming.

The park began as a completely independently owned and run park simply called "Magic Mountain" for nearly a decade before Six Flags ever bought it. With the exception of Great Escape, I've been to every SF park in the states (so no Mexico or La Ronde yet, either). It's pretty subjective...

Don't know if I'd have much luck here, but I've always been interested in this "inverted Tobbgan" ride from the Long Beach Pike in California. There's very little information on it out there. RCDB pretty much only says it operated from 1902-1915. Anyone know any more, or have other pics of it?

So you won't be in line for it then, right? Why waste your time on something that doesn't bring anything unique to a park. Better to boycott. :) We did all think that TC would be in 2 train operations in a few months, but here we are 3 years later, and it's been running 3 trains for the vast...

I think this'll be different, because this time, the dueling doesn't depend on the ride ops or the guests to get the dueling. It's built into the design to sit and wait there until the other train is ready to launch. Now, will you possibly be waiting there for eons? Probably, that's where the...

When FT first was announced, the enthusiast crowd was majorly disappointed. But as time wore on, it's turned out it's a HUGE hit with the GP. It's the only launched coaster at SFMM, and the GP have responded to it. So building a second, similar one in the back of the park is actually a...

I was thinking about the loading taking forever as well (it is SFMM), but do consider this... the train only holds 12, so there's much less to check than there is on TC and Tatsu. So in theory, it should go faster. In theory. But I will say that if it's the same comfort collars as Sea World...

I don't know if that's really true in SoCal. There was a big rumor a year or two ago that SFMM was going to get a B&M Dive Machine, but backed off when they heard Knott's was going forward with Hangtime.