I used to get club annual passes to Magic Mountain when I lived in Cali. Every year we would go, there would be more and more bangers that would show up, more and more fights that would break out. People got stabbed in line outside and had tickets stolen. You could smell people smoking speed. Cars get ransacked in the parking lot. Pissing in the corners of the park. There weren't even this many problems when they served beer at MM. Eventually, I got tired of not being able to look around and make eye contact with people, and watching my back in line and stopped going - along with most of my club (ACE) and friends

They can't afford to raise admission prices, otherwise no customers. They can't afford police 24/7 and the security at the park is a joke. You get in trouble, they say " Do you want to leave, or do you want us to call the cops?" (They caught us in the parking lot with beers and smoking a J once)Remember its still ~ 45 ish minutes from Los Angeles, its kind of in the middle of nowhere. I bet response time to a call is loooong.

Anyways, sucks its closing down, but totally makes sense - thought it would have been done years ago. Lots of good memories from there. KNAC Summer of Rock '84, we saw Motley Crue, Molly Hatchet, Great White, Quiet Riot - tons of bands that summer. Special private club-only parties, only a couple hundreed of us in the park. Halloween, the whole park was decorated, haunted houses, all the staff dressed up. Superman the ride launch party, I rode it 20 times in a row. Viper is THE best coaster I've ever been on, and I've been on plenty. I hope some of the coasters get relocated, it'd be a shame to lose them forever