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*Rawr!*
I'm a sucker for Egyptian horror stuff...so went on a fool's errand to Magic Mountain...Rant cut because I'm past foaming at the mouth about it. If you're interested in a mini-review about MM's "Fright Fest," or some cute stuffies, read on!
So.
After seeing an ad for Six Flags Magic Mtn's "Fright Fest" featuring Anubis and a bunch of Egyptian mummies and stuff, I decided to make a special trip to check it out. This says a lot: I am not a rollar-coaster fanatic, and without the thrill rides Magic Mountain is a hole. I called their information office and asked which was the Egyptian/mummy maze. After much confusion, they tell me, "Dead Man's Bog."
Bullet points:
* First bad memory resurrected: MM's parking (their expensive "close" parking) is still about a quarter mile away from the entrance. And nothing interesting is near the entrance...
* I trek to the ass-end of the park to see the "Parade of the Dead."
* Parade is lame. A dozen "zombies" and "Lady Vampires" and three hearses. Two skeletons. Woo.
* The "Dead Man's Bog is at the other ass-end of the park. I hike over there and get in line.
* Forty minutes gets me: a sub-par-charity-haunted-maze. Literally just dark with fake smoke and "zombies" going "boogedy" at people. Lasts almost three minutes. Nnnnrgh!
*I run to the "Brutal Planet." Not a bad maze; I see no mummies, though. Thirty more minutes of my life gone (25 for the line, 5 for the maze).
*Run to Samurai Summet (who puts hills in an amusement park?!?) to race through "Willoughby's Mansion." Fortunately cardiac hill deters many patrons: the line is mercifully short. No mummies again. Average maze. Event-coordinators have no idea where mummies are: "You're thinking of Knotts!"
*Race back to Zor's for a late dogwalk and to rant!
*Further phone calls result in: "The commercial was possibly a mistake," or "The Egyptian stuff might be in one small room in "Carnage E. Hall." Great: the one maze whose description made it the least-likely candidate besides the clown maze. I miss my "insider" contacts! (Hi, Jimmy!)
There were actually a couple of interesting stuffies on the midway: the blue (and red and purple) hyenas and the snaggle-toothed wolves! I wish you could just bribe the hawkers and buy one! I'm lousy at throwing games.
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I actually bought one of these from some street vendor last year! He's big: I'm thinking of re-stuffing him with something other than those annoying foam-bean-pellets.
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As for all them great plush- get in touch with Play-by-Play Ace/Acme (on 6th St?) in the warehouse district. They will sell the same plush you see in all the amusement parks to the public, though the minimum purchase is $100 or so- the super-sized ones are 30-40 dollars, and the medium ones are 8-12, depending on what you're looking for.
The showroom is a trip, like a department store of cartoon animals- though on my last trip there, it must've been some site to see one guy sitting in his car with three 5' tall scoobies strapped into the passenger and back seats!
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Thanks for the tip on carny stuffies! I'm assuming this Play-by-Play is in L.A.'s downtown...? I'll check them out! Otherwise I'd spend a bazillion dollars to -not- win one!
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Play-by-Play is in Los Angeles, yep! Somewhere buried in a pile I have some of their flyers, but you can probably google them, they're a national company, I think their headquarters are in Texas, but that's from my fuzzy morning-memory right now.
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