Magic Mountain Fun Center – Polaris

We went here for a work outing. Something different, something fun for team building. First of all, this place is filthy. SO gross. I can’t imagine all the staph growing in this place. Everything just feels old and overused and germy. We waited 20 minutes to play laser tag and had to ask for help not once, not twice, but THREE times! Then my vest quit working in the middle of the game. The mini golf area is interesting. My team works in insurance and that mini golf course is a liability nightmare. Be careful! And it’s built on a hill, so if your ball goes off course, you lose it. We really wanted to ride the race karts, but they didn’t open until 5. Why I don’t know. We played some of the a arcade style games and hit a jackpot! Then we went to collect our tickets and get a funny trophy for the office but EVERYTHING was not available. Why is it on the wall of its not available? Disappointing since we paid a couple hundred dollars for our group to hang out here for a few hours. Not worth it.

DO NOT USE YOUR DEBIT/​CREDIT CARD HERE! ONLY CASH!
My family and I had a great time here but when you use your card to buy tokens they put your card details in manually… who does that anymore? Lo and behold I get a call from the bank saying that the same day I used my card there my information was stolen and almost $ 300 worth of crap was purchased at Zumies-​a store popular with teenagers like the kid who swiped my card. I DONT HAVE ANY PROOF so I cant say for sure but thats a huge coincidence. GO TO AN ATM BEFORE YOU COME HERE.
The games are a lot of fun and its cleaner than the other Magic Mountain on Brice. We went when the pizza bar was closed so I cant reccomend for or against it. They have better prizes and more chances of winning the games than at Chuck E. Cheese it seems.

Very disappointed with my overall experience. Went there thinking there was a decent amount of games to play. Little did we know only ½ the games worked and weren’t out of order or turned off. Some of the games that did work would eat your tokens. Spent $ 50 bucks for 280 tokens. We were able to come up with 2800 worth of tickets. So we went up to the prize area thinking anything we see on the wall would be avaliable. Turns out they were out of stock on everything on the wall. Which was the higher end ticket items starting at 250 and up. Not happy at all with the experience. Would never go back, unless i wanted to waste money

Waited 15 minutes for laser tag and eventually gave up. Spent over 25.00 for 3 meals then found out they got our order wrong and it should’ve been more. Between the sticky floors that apparently don’t get cleaned and the jerry rigged ticket system, and the other issues listed above, they definetly won’t be getting my business ever again.

Ugh, so disappointing. My girlfriend had been to Magic Mountain before and told me how amazing and fun it was. We came to this location because it was closer to our hotel… only to find out that this location sucks. The arcade was incredibly tiny and the machines were in disrepair. It was too late to drive to the other location so we made due but it was just not good. Do not go this location, go to the other one.

My kids absolutely love this dirty place. I have kids 7 & under so they primarily stay in the gym area. The spongy balls in this place are absolutely disgusting!!! I wonder how often they change them out:/
On the rare occasion we go to the arcade area, the majority of the games are out of order, or steal your tokens, or don’t generate tickets at the completion of the game. They need to either 1) work on purchasing & switching out games, or 2) have better token deals. I mean considering how much they charge for a lot of the attractions there should be enough money to maintain the place. Clearly the owners are trying to keep as much money for themselves as possible b/​c it’s obvious they aren’t investing anything back into the company.
I will continue to come to this germy place while my kids can still play in the gym b/​c they always have so much fun. We go regularly b/​c it’s so close & it gives the kids something to do on the weekends to burn energy. But it would be nice if they fix the place up & my hubby & I can do date night playing games, competing in miniature golf, and racing go carts.

This place is A LOT of fun, but it desperately needs remodeled.
The bathrooms look a hot mess! Tile coming up. Stains all over the ceiling. Walls just looks dirty.
Sometimes a lot of the machines are out of order. Some of the Ski Ball lanes don’t work right. Almost every time we go here a lot of the machines are out of tickets, we are constantly having to flag employees down. Then we have to wait for them to come over (usually about 5min per machine). It can really get frustrating.
Get it together Magic Mountain Fun Center, get it together!

my boyfriends family was in town for the weekend and we thought it would be fun for his sisters. It was pretty sticky and gross and everything was out! They were out of soda, toilet paper and the token machines didn’t work. The putput was fun but kind of underwhelming. The staff seem like they all hate their jobs/​life. Probably won’t come back.

The kids had fun, kinda smells like feet and pee though ! Would probably be easier to get through the experience of demon spawn running around everywhere if they served alcohol !

Took the kid here. It definitely keeps him entertained and he tired him out. Both good for me.
It’s pretty standard. Two go kart tracks, bumper boats, two mini golf courses and laser tag. There is also a sizable arcade and an indoor playground.
It’s somewhat expensive. But there is almost always a Groupon for this place so make sure to check it out (it tends to change).
Most of the workers are younger high school and college kids but they actually do a good job and are attentive (who can blame them for waiting indoors at the gokarts when it was forty degrees? And to their credit they came out as soon as we asked the manager).

In the scheme of things, this place is a step-​up from Chuck-​E-​Cheese over on Sawmill.
These places smell like greasy pizza and sweaty feet, but at the end of the day, the kids have fun — but the play place here blows Chuck-​E-​Cheese away, as does the more open spaces and less broken games.

Do NOT go here!!!
A few years ago Magic Mountain used to be great! Our family enjoyed every trip we made there. Now, more than half the games don’t work and the ones that do just eat up your tokens. We went tonight and they had an event going on at night so they closed at 9:30. The go karts closed early and the kids gym was closed early. So the only thing we could do was putt putting which cost an arm and a leg for only 9 holes!!! Not only did the games not work but there was literally no one on the floor to assist. This place has turned into a disgusting playground for kids who’s parents don’t want to pay for childcare!

My kids are toddler/​preschool age. Did they have fun at Magic Mountain? Yes. But they also have fun ripping up paper and spinning in circles so I’ll review this place from a mother’s perspective.
My standards for cleanliness aren’t too high when it comes to arcade/​recreation businesses. If I kept my high standards for these places, then I’d have a seizure just walking in the door. In order to survive you must go with the flow. The carpets are almost black. The bathrooms are aging. Everything looks sticky. I’m sure every strain of influenza is oozing from the game controllers.
The employees are young and have a glazed over look in their eyes. Not terribly friendly. Honestly, that doesn’t bother me because you have to be half dead inside to not freak out from the sensory overload of the place. Bless their hearts.
I did see many staff members on the game floor helping patrons get their tokens back if a game malfunctioned. That kind of attentiveness earns a whole star by itself.
The pizza was awful, but if you come here looking for stellar pizza then there is something wrong with you.
My kids are young so they spent most of their time in the gym area. Watch out for your little ones here. Parents think this gated area is a pass to stare at their phones or gab to their pals. Their little monsters will run amok and hulk smash other children to bits. My two year old was knocked over by some much older kids because they were running full speed through the part of the gym designed for the littlest of customers.
Why on earth did I give this place three stars? You know why, moms and dads. Because kids love this junk. Meditate and find your center before taking little Billy and Jenny to Magic Sensory Overload Mountain. They’ll thank you.

It’s a budget Dave and Buster’s… $ 20 got us 150 tokens. $ 20 to kill 2hrs on a cold day (8 degrees) is a win in my book… I budget about $ 100/​per hour for my two kids at Dave and Buster’s…which is why we don’t go often… advice to management though… this place could be AWESOME! For starters rent a pole barn and some heaters and throw that up over the go carts and mini golf… I would’ve personally spent more to do those things heated indoors… in the woods next door do a winter sledding hill and bonfire! The Beach water park in Cincinnati does this and it seems it would be cheap and easy. LIGHTLY RENOVATE… some fresh paint goes a looong way! The little cafeteria area upstairs should be used for more games! I saw maybe 1family in there the whole two hours I was there… seems like a waste of space. A good bit of the games were also out of service. Invest a little in a good maintenance staff or contract that out. This honestly could be THE PLACE TO BE IN COLUMBUS with a little tlc and i bet the investment would pay off in spades! :)

This happens to be my first review ever and im only posting this so i can for warn anyone who may be thinking about throwing there little one a party here.
So just to start this place is by far overly priced as far as party packages go.
secondly the place is so filthy and the staff is so rude and unaccommodating i was embarrassed for having even booked my sons 3^rd birthday here. We did not even get half of what was promised with the packages. The host did not entertain play with or even wish the birthday boys happy birthday nor did we even see her except when it was time to receive the bill. we did not receive a birthday photo, mug, redemption tickets or tokens. The kids gym reeked and the carpet was sticky half of the games in the arcade did not work or stopped working shortly after playing. im not even gonna comment on the bath rooms but i would have preferred a port o potty over there facilities. All in all worse birthday party experience to date. trust me parents this place is not worth your hard earned dollars!

Magic Mountain is a fun place for the kids. Expect to pay bundle most days. However, they do run specials, which are responsibly priced.
The ghetto migrants over the «270 fence»…I guess that’s why they hire a off duty police officer for security.

OH MY GOD!
I loathed this place.
There were kids EVERYWHERE, which sounds stupid because it is a family fun center, but it seemed like parents turned their bratty kids loose and sat in the waiting area.
I can’t tell you how many times I was stepped on, cut off, or just pushed out of the way. Some of the parents were worse.
I will avoid this place like the plague… even though my son begs me daily to return.

My family and I came to Magic Mountain for the first time, just this last weekend.
We truly couldn’t have been more disappointed. From the rude staff to the HORRIBLE mini golf course to the Ridiculous pricing to the nasty smelling filthy blue ‘water’ to the fact that people on the course are so damn rude, we finally picked up our golf balls around hole 7 and walked out.
If you have all the money in the world to blow on a really crappy afternoon, by all means, go to Magic Mountain. If you have standards… stay home! Omg! We will NEVER return!

Everything seemed to be coated in a fine layer of vaguely sticky something-​or-​other (if you’ve ever been on the subway in NYC then you know what I’m talking about.) There was one surreptitiously located hand-​sanitizer dispenser. The only thing that was magical was that I left without catching pinkeye or something similar. Which of those would make a better opening sentence for this review? Pick the one that you think is best and read it first. I really feel like this place could use a bath and some lower prices, and the staff that we interacted with couldn’t have been more apathetic if this was an apathy factory instead of a family fun center.

Magic Mountain has some pretty cool family fun attractions: bumper boats, put-​put golf, go carts, lazer tag, play area.
You can find coupons online but it’s still pretty darn expensive!

Took our 5 year old here for a fun morning. The place is basically empty on a Thursday morning so no complaints about wait times to do activities. He had a fun time on the kids playland and at the arcade. We didn’t eat anything the snack counter, so I can’t comment on that.
The biggest complaint that we parents had and what will keep us from coming back is that the indoor activities were absolutely filthy. The carpet doesn’t look like it’s been vacuumed in ages. If you or your child have asthma or other respiratory problems, think twice before coming here.
My wife commented that when it comes to cleanliness, she’d rather take our kids to Chuck E. Cheese. That’s really saying something.

Went there with my family last night. Did the mini golf thing — the courses looked well maintained and definitely challenging. Bumper boats are a lot of fun — not only do you get to bump others but you can squirt them with water instead (everyone in the family was SOAKED afterwards — massive win). Didn’t get a chance to do the go karts — too long of a wait. Laser tag was a LOT of fun too.
Didn’t really get a chance to check out the arcade.
I’m writing this review not as a strike against the facility but as an FYI for anyone else who visits there.
First off — if you go there on a Saturday night — it’s massively busy. Expect long lines to ride go-​karts. Secondly — be very prepared for tons of unruly, unsupervised kids running all over the place. It’s not Magic Mountain’s fault they are like that — more blame gets put on the parents who are not watching their kids. My wife and I heard (on more than one occasion) conversations between kids that their parents literally just dropped them off there — and most of those same kids were acting up and being rude around anyone near them.
Very good facility –partially ruined only by unsupervised kids.

On our way home from Columbus, we stopped to let the kids have some fun at Magic Mountain. It’s a pretty cool place, over all, but I doubt we’ll be back.
When we tried to buy go-​kart tickets, the worker said that the go-​karts weren’t available for 30 to 45 minutes for refueling. So we bought some tokens to let the kids play some video games.
On the inside, there are quite a few video games and other types of games for the kids to play. The games all require tokens, which can be purchased four for $ 1 and they offer deals on tokens when you buy in large quantities. I found that a lot of the games were broken. Some of them did not count the tokens correctly. This happened at least three different times on three different games. They do have service personnel to make on the spot repairs, however.
There is a huge play center that is about 25 feet tall for kids to play in. This thing puts McDonald’s play centers to shame! It costs $ 6 per child and they can play as long as they want. And they had a safety attendant watching the kids while they play.
This seems like it would be a good place for a child’s birthday party. There were several rooms for rent and they do offer pizza and other food options. We didn’t try any food though.
Also, they have laser tag! I love laser tag and it’s only $ 7 per round, which is much cheaper than some places I’ve been. We didn’t try laser tag either, as we really just stopped here to ride go-​karts.
They have two different go-​kart tracks. One is for kids who want to ride with their parents or single riders on a slow go-​kart. The other is a track that has some sort of powder on it to allow for drifting. The second track has two types of go-​karts, one type for kids, and the other type for drifters. We waited about ANOTHER 30 minutes while the workers, who seemed to be in slow-​motion, took their time getting people seated in karts and racing on the track. They have one of those annoying radio kill devices in each go-​kart so they can stop them when someone crashes. This is a nice safety feature, but annoying for experienced go-​kart riders. They had about 25 go-​karts in the station, but only 15 were operating, even with a long line of people waiting. They run their whole go-​kart process very inefficiently and you will breathe the exhaust fumes while waiting in the long line inside the station. Go to the drifting track, there is probably a shorter line.

I suppose on Christmas Eve most people spend the day doing something that involves crazy last minute shopping or insane relatives. But my family decided to switch out our quarters for game tokens and hit up Magic Mountain. We had a blast. I will say that it has been years since I have been to this establishment. What was once a clean well-​kept arcade mecca has become a grave yard for dead arcade games. When you first walk in the door you will be greeted by the smell of feet looming in the air. Maybe it is about time for them to clean and bleach the large indoor child’s playground…
Our family always goes for the ticket games. We love it; it feels like what I would imagine Vegas to feel like. But unfortunately many of those games were broken. Some games posed as thieves and stole our tokens and tickets. The staff was pretty good about helping us though. For example, the ticket counter ate about 150 of our tickets and the lady at the counter just went ahead and honored our word. I was impressed with her willingness to help us solve our dilemma. Besides that though we had a blast and in only a few hours won bunches and bunches of tickets. We did not end up cashing them in because we are hoping maybe next Christmas Eve there will be better prizes behind the counter.
Although the games were lack luster, Magic Mountain made up for it by having a pretty cool Laser Tag thing. It was definitely worth the money. The equipment was pretty modern and functioned well. We had such a blast. Our teams were uneven so we let the kid who was working there be on one of our teams (big mistake in my opinion). Maybe I am a poor loser to complain about this, but during the game all he did was babysit his base so none of us from the other team could score. What a jerk, right?! Not cool dude for the sophomore class.
Although we had fun I am not sure this place was really the best Magic Mountain I have ever been too. Maybe with a little cleaner and a game technician on staff this place could be great. One suggestion– if you do come here bring the antibacterial hand gel. You will want to use it often.