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Magic Mountain has released some of their 2026 seasonal festival lineup on their website (https://www.sixflags.com/magicmountain/events). Their calendar looks pretty standard so far (I believe Holiday in the Park will be added after the current event concludes). The only interesting thing I can see so far is that there is only one night with a 4th of July celebration. While I personally think the chain could use the anniversary as an excuse to expand the Star Spangled Night(s) event to be a week long and drive some more attendance by way of "here's a length of this event you don't normally get", the company might not want to spend the resources it'd take to do any more for a new/expanded event. DC™ Heroes and Villains Fest June 19 - July 25, 2026 Star-Spangled Night July 4, 2026 Fright Fest presented by SNICKERS® September 18 - November 1 Tricks and Treats September 25 - November 1, 2026 Oktoberfest September 25 - November 1, 2026

There's a few very easy steps to remedy the Preferred Parking situation.  Make the lot for Prestige Passholders only. No more parking upgrade at the tollbooth. Some people use Preferred when the Handicap Lot is full, but frankly that's another can of worms on its own. Have the system count how many cars have been scanned into the Preferred lot. If the number of passes currently scanned in exceeds the total number of parking spaces, then the lot is full. The exit gate lifts for each car that leaves. That can decrease the number of cars currently scanned into the parking lot by 1 with each lift. If the preferred lot is full, then the associate puts up the block against the entrance and turns on/puts out the "LOT FULL" sign. The lot remains "full" until 10+ cars have left. I believe there has to be some way for them to track the number of cars in the lot without building a new parking toll system from scratch. Someone online claimed that the Preferred lot attendants were too lazy to check the lot (which, granted, this user probably didn't think it through before commenting). In reality, they shouldn't have to go look for spots or keep track on their own. Cedar Point could use a better Prestige parking lot setup as well. Theirs is even more packed and confusing to get into/out of.   In other news, last night was super crowded. The thing I noticed last night was that, much like with the Bandstand, the standing room for Jingle Jazz was interfering with the walking path. I'd love to see if anything could be done to help with that, whether it be moving it further back into that alley or reworking the logistics of how much of the pathway is dedicated to thru-traffic.

They are seriously going to have to figure out how to handle Preferred Parking now that they oversold the prestige passes so badly. It was especially bad tonight since they plowed all of the snow into one lane of the road along the walkway to the park, so you had people circling around trying to go both directions in one lane.

Me waiting for Kings Island to open so I can ride Phantom Theater Opening Nightmare be like:    119 days to be exact...

tonight, Saturday 12/20 is the perfect storm. It’s the warmest weather of the event, it’s Saturday, and school is out for break. It’s the first big crowd of this year’s event