# What Is This SoCal Theme Park in This Video? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 9, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-socal-theme-park-in-this-video/830829 "2019-03-09T14:36:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-socal-theme-park-in-this-video/830829/1 "2019-03-09T14:36:27Z")
In [this video](https://youtu.be/NtdOEkdim9Y?t=132) (if you click the link, it will start when the hostess and her son get on the coaster), the hostess rides the Ninja at what I assume is a SoCal theme park (the hostess lives in L.A.). What park is it? I apologize for the movie shill – Buzzfeed’s got to pay the bills, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-socal-theme-park-in-this-video/830829/2 "2019-03-09T14:45:10Z")
A comment says it is The Ninja at Six Flags Magic Mountain. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-socal-theme-park-in-this-video/830829/3 "2019-03-09T15:07:25Z")
Yup, can confirm. That’s Magic Mountain. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-socal-theme-park-in-this-video/830829/4 "2019-03-11T03:44:21Z")
Yup, the trees gave it away for me. Fun Fact: Magic Mountain was the stand-in for Wally World in “National Lampoon’s Vacation” ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-socal-theme-park-in-this-video/830829/5 "2019-03-11T20:32:10Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Fun Fact: Magic Mountain was the stand-in for Wally World in “National Lampoon’s Vacation” More importantly, it was “the Park” in _Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park_. Also the site of the last act of the late-70s Sensurround tail-end-of-the-disaster-movie-fad extravaganza “Rollercoaster”. It was common for us kids back then to point out the spot where the fleeing villain got splatted trying to cross the coaster track. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-socal-theme-park-in-this-video/830829/6 "2019-03-18T07:35:33Z")
So many memories in that park. I was born and raised 20 minutes from Disneyland. But Magic Mountain was my go-to park during my teens in the 1980s. I remember seeing it featured in the film “Rollercoaster”. I believe the “Revolution” was called “Whipper Snapper” in NL’s “Vacation”. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-socal-theme-park-in-this-video/830829/7 "2019-03-18T15:42:44Z")
Magic Mountain was where Spinal Tap MK II made their free form jazz odyssey debut. In the film, the nadir of Spinal Tap is illustrated when they perform at a theme park (second billed to a Puppet Show!), so I found it extremely sad and yet hilarious when Blue Oyster Cult (a band that also features the Heavy Metal Umlaut) played Magic Mountain in the 80s.