Magic Mountain New Rules

As of January 2007 Magic Mountain will be changing their image.

After years of struggling financially, the theme park wants to appeal to more families.  Over the past ten years, I believe since 93 actually when they had a riot there, the park has attracted a gang type attendance.  Kids get dropped off there and parents do not supervise behavior.  Magic Mountain has adopted some new rules to try and tone down the malicious and gang-like behavior they see at their amusement park.

Some of the new rules are as follows:

No going shirtless-I assume this means men too?

No bathing suits outside of Hurricane Harbor

No foul language or inappropriate behavior.

No line cutting. (Hasn’t this always been a rule?)

I like the thought behind this, but really I think if they want to appeal more to families, they need to add more attractions that are geared toward the younger kids.  I know they have the kids area there already, but the little ones can go through there in an hour and be bored with it.

I will predict now a news story in the future once these rules take place that some one will accuse them of racial profiling…just a feeling I have, we’ll see if I’m right.

Anyway, I’m all for it…but I don’t see a realistic way to monitor it consistently.