By Brady MacDonald From The Orange County Register Six Flags Magic Mountain is tearing a page from the Disneyland and Knott’s Berry Farm playbooks with a series of food festivals designed to offer a more premium experience as the amusement park chain seeks to target a more affluent audience. Thrill seekers looking for a break…

LOS ANGELES—An 8-year-old girl from Riverside who was hit in the face by a cell phone while riding a roller coaster at Magic Mountain needed 10 stitches to close the wound, and her family is looking for answers to how it happened, according to media reports. Josh Evans told Fox 11 his daughter was hit…

LOS ANGELES—Responding to concerns from the theme park industry, Los Angeles County has slightly eased its upcoming COVID-19 vaccination or testing requirement for visitors to large venues such as Six Flags Magic Mountain and Universal Studios Hollywood, but the overall mandate will remain. Under a recently enacted county Health Officer Order, all attendees and employees…

LOS ANGELES—Responding to concerns from the theme park industry, Los Angeles County has slightly eased its upcoming COVID-19 vaccination or testing requirement for visitors to large venues such as Six Flags Magic Mountain and Universal Studios Hollywood, but the overall mandate will remain. Under a recently enacted county Health Officer Order, all attendees and employees…

SPRING, Texas—A Texas water park says a chemical exposure that sent dozens of people to hospitals was caused by “improper installation” of a water filtration system. Six Flags officials said Wednesday that a third-party service company improperly installed the system at Hurricane Harbor Splashtown, causing pool-sanitizing chemicals to be released in an outdoor kiddie pool…