We arrived at Magic Mountain and the first thing we saw was X looming above the park. We walk into the park and we are told X will be closed for an hour. We walk up to X and decide to wait it out. After half an hour X opens up early! We run through the empty line and choose fourth row. We are sent off as the first train of the day! We slowly climb the lift and we suddenly hear a loud screeeech. Our train jerks to a halt and we wait for a few moments for some help. A teenage girl walks up the hill and says "we will get yall off as soon as we can". Some rude people start yelling at her about how they want to see a mechanic not her (LA has such a nice crowd). Its at this point I notice the line is huge so rerides will be unlikely. A mechanic slowly trudges up the hill taking his time, makes a few adjustments and then sends us off. We get thrown into a little bunny hop then drop straight down. After that our train rockets over a second hill slamming me around the weird restraints. After that I dont remember much but slamming around and a couple of loop like barrel rolls. We finish the ride with some more head banging flips and drops. When we get into the station the operators tell us we get a free reride. I politely ask to get off and practically the whole train gives me the finger as they go off. After that, I walk to the giftshop and buy some $8 Advil. I was pretty upset that X was nothing more then a headbanger. I was still considering giving this an eight because of its originality, but it got a seven because of the major headache it gave me. Magic Mountain needs to get their act together. X almost always has a 3 hour wait, so ride at opening.
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