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FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Customer Cesar Romero, with niece Valeria Ocampo, holds his phone showing a bar code so that it can be scanned by employee Daniel Abidin, right, at the entrance to Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, which re-opened on April 2, 2021, after more than a year of being closed due to the coronavirus outbreak. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Apps help theme parks boost their Covid safety – and collect data on you Heading to Six Flags Magic Mountain for ...

Print Heading to Six Flags Magic Mountain for some gut-twisting roller coasters? Prepare to walk past a thermal camera that automatically takes your temperature. Want to enjoy a Dole Whip at Disneyland? Have your smartphone ready to order it on the park’s app. Trying to find your way to the Studio Tour ride at Universal Studios Hollywood? Open a map on your phone. Theme parks have for years been relying on technology to better manage crowds, speed up the purchase of food and drinks, and eli...

The theme park, which welcomed back visitors April 16, had been shuttered for more than a year. Universal Studios Hollywood reopened on Friday to a sold-out crowd. The popular Southern California theme park had been closed for more than a year due to the pandemic. The entire opening weekend sold out, according to a park official. For the moment, Universal Studios is only open to California residents. The theme park reopened Friday with strict new health and safety measures in place at a greatly...

L.A. County To Transition Magic Mountain COVID-19 Vaccination Site To COC After several months of operation, the large-scale COVID-19 vaccination site at Six Flags Magic Mountain is set to transition away from the amusement park in favor of a smaller site at College of the Canyons (COC), County officials announced Monday. Starting on April 19, College of the Canyons and Palmdale Oasis Park Recreation Center are scheduled to begin operating as County-operated vaccination sites in the northern pa...

Knott’s Berry Farm Announces Reopening Date Of May 6, Reveals New Attractions Deadline 1 hr ago California’s first theme park may be among the last to reopen, but reopen it will on May 6. Knott’s Berry Farm announced on Monday it will reopen first for season passholders on the early May date and then on the 21st to the general public. Nearby Disneyland has set a reopening date of April 30, while Universal Studios Hollywood will unlock the gates to Hogwarts castle this Friday, April 16. ...

MORE Six Flags recently reopened at reduced capacity. Guests still formed long lines, and not everyone maintained social distancing. Photo by Angel Carreras. After more than a year of enduring a global pandemic, Californians can now scream. At amusement parks, that is.  Six Flags Magic Mountain welcomed visitors again this past weekend as theme parks got the green light to reopen due to reduced COVID-19 case numbers. During closure, Six Flags held driv...

Orange County Fair, Theme Parks Set Sights on Summer As events and theme parks prepare for the return of customers throughout Orange County, officials say they expect the county to be almost fully reopened by July. The Orange County Fair is set to take place this summer, and both Knott’s Berry Farm and Disneyland are scheduled to open by next month. All three have started hiring employees. Officials expect restrictions to ease further in the following weeks as more vaccine doses are distribut...

Print Donald Kolwyck and his wife, Sharon, were next in line to ride the Full Throttle roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain when a voice on a loudspeaker announced that the ride was temporarily offline for technical problems. “Oh, I guess we are back to normal, then,” Kolwyck joked, noting theme park rides’ reputation for breaking down. Normal? Not quite. More than a year after closing because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Six Flags Magic Mountain is back to operating stomach-churning t...

Six Flags Re-Opens To Pass Holders, General Public Next Week Six Flags Magic Mountain re-opened Thursday to a limited number of guests after being forced to close in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.  The re-opening of the theme park comes as Los Angeles County entered the Orange Tier, as COVID-19 cases continue to decrease.  “Six Flags Magic Mountain is the undisputed Thrill Capital of the World, and we are excited to get our park open and our world-class collection of coasters running...

California theme parks, stadiums allowed to begin reopening Thursday By (0) Visitors walk past the closed entrance to Universal Studios Hollywood theme park on June 28, 2020. Parks and stadiums in California will begin to reopen under coronavirus guidelines on Thursday. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo April 1 (UPI) -- After remaining closed for more than a year, theme parks and stadiums in California are allowed to begin reopening Thursday, with restrictions, under state COVID-19...