Six Flags Magic Mountain Fright Fest
Haunted Halloween Theme Park Attraction
Six Flags Magic Mountain
26101 Magic Mountain Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355
661-255-4100 or 818-367-5965
Website: Six Flags Magic Moutain Fright Fest
2009 FRIGHT FEST DATES: October 3-4, 9-11, 16-18, 23-25, 30-31.
2009 FRIGHT FEST HOURS: Six Flags Magic Mountain is open 10:30am to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, and from 10:30am to 10:00pm on Sundays. Most of the Fright Fest’s Halloween activities take place after sundown.
2009 FRIGHT FEST TICKETS: Regular admission tickets allow you into the Six Flags Magic Mountain all day, even before the Halloween fun starts at night.
- $53.99 General Admission
- $29.99 for children under 48 inches tall
- Children under 2 years old are free.
You can also purchase a “Flash Pass” (Regular or Gold) in order to avoid waiting in line.
2009 FRIGHT FEST DISCOUNTS:
- Advance General Admission tickets for Six Flags Magic Mountain are available online for essentially half price: $26.99 for a single ticket, which you can print at home.
- Discount coupons are often available in the advertising sections of major newspapers for a $29.99 adult admission price, and you can usually find discount coupons at Jack in the Box restaurants.
- Group rates are available for ten or more ($25 for adults, $15 for children).
- Thre are also Season Passes ($63.99) and VIP Tours (a wopping $299 that includes parking, admission, food, games, and front-of-the-line privileges).
FRIGHT FEST PARKING: Six Flags Magic Mountain charges $15 general parking, $20 oversized vehicle parking (RV, trailer bus, etc), $30 valet parking.
2009 FRIGHT FEST MAZES: Six Flags Magic Mountain began charging an additional fee in 2008 for their walk-through haunted Halloween mazes! No word yet on whether they will rescind this for 2009 or whether there will be any new maze for 2009s. Here is a list of the ones from last year…
- Willoughby’s Haunted Mansion (at the top of the hill)- haunted house with a variety of rooms, including bungee-jumping ghouls
- NEW FOR 2008: Willoughby’s Industries Warehouse 13 -a waste disposal facility with toxci secrets
- Dead Man’s Bog – the dumping ground for Willoughby’s failed experiments
- John Willoughby’s Brutal Planet – the highlight of the haunt, with extensive industrial-strength scares, a great variety of rooms, and a sense of mass pandemonium
- The Jokester’s 3D Lair – what haunt would be complete without one of those colorful killer clown-type mazes?
FRIGHT FEST ATTRACTIONS: No information available for 2009. Previous years have offered these shows…
- Heckles and Twitch Show
- Wheels of Fright
- Monster Bash (Disc Jockey)
- Spinning Thumber Bumpers
- Colossus – Backwards! (Fright Fest Exclusive)
- X2, Tatsu, Scream Goliath, Batman the Ride, The Riddler’s Revenge, Viper, and more – In the Dark!
2009 FRIGHT FEST ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN: Six Flags promises a “special trick-or-treat trail just for kids.” Past years have also included these attractions…
- Bugs Bunny World
- Pint-Fright-Fest-ivities
- Kid Scaryoke
FRIGHT FEST SCARE ZONES: Free-roaming ghouls provide Halloween scares in the Gotham City, Samura Summit, and Golden Bear Plaza sections of Six Flags Magic Mountain.
FRIGHT FEST FEATURES: All the usual Six Flags Magic Mountain rides and attractions are open for business, but Magic Mountain promises to transform them into eerie, haunted Halloween versions of your usual favoites. The park also suggests that you take your young children trick-or-treating at Six Flags.
- A ghoul haunts a Scare Zone
FRIGHT FEST ADVANTAGES: Like Knott’s “Scary” Farm, the Halloween scares are not limited to the walk-through mazes; there are ghouls roaming free in a couple areas of the park. Often, the usual Six Flags Magic Mountain rides will be altered for Halloween. Unlike the Knott’s Halloween Haunt, your ticket allows you into Magic Mountain all day: the park does not close in the evening and then re-open at night in its haunted version. This gives you time to stand in line for all the roller-coasters by the day and enjoy the Halloween attractions by night. Unfortunately, the decision to charge extra for the haunted mazes negates the one big advantage that Six Flags had over the competition, which was the Halloween events were a free value-added attraction on top of the usual rides.
OTHER FRIGHT FEST INFORMATION: Children under 12 are allowed to wear Halloween costumes.
FRIGHT FEST DRAWBACKS: You have to drive to Valencia. Six Flags Magic Mountain closes relatively early — at 10:00pm. Most of the Halloween attractions do no open until 5:30 or 6:30pm; consequently, even if you finish with the roller-coasters by dark, long lines can still make it difficult, even impossible, to get into all the haunted mazes during the evening. Typically, the mazes are filled with brightly uniformed park staff helpfull pointing you in the right direction; their presence often undermines the atmosphere.
FRIGHT FEST BOTTOM LINE: Six Flags Magic Mountain has not been celebrating Halloween as long as Knott’s Scary Farm and the Queen Mary Shipwreck, so it has not developed its Fright Fest attractions as extensively; it also lacks the built-in atmosphere that benefits those theme parks on Halloween. It may or may not be worth the drive out to Valencia if you’re only interested in the Halloween attractions, but it may be worth your time if you’re also interested in the extensive variety of roller-coasters.
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