Category: Six Flags

I was honored to be invited to my second backstage Twisted Colossus Tour! The tour included the Scream! repaint this time, so I’ll be writing about that too in this update!

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Let’s start off with the Screampunk District in general!

In about two weeks the construction crews will start the complete demolition of this plaza, to place the new entrance plaza of the Screampunk District! Magic Moments theater hasn’t been touched yet, but soon will also undergo its refurbishment.  Twisted Wiches, the Gourmet Sandwich shop, is slowly starting to be refurbished. Notice the style they’re going with at the entrance of the building.  They will replace all pavement in the area, they are not exactly sure what the new layout or colors will be.  Finally, the awful looking Coca Cola vending machine collection has been removed! This is right next to the entrance of Twisted Colossus, and near the new Twisted Whiches. The park is placing sets of small stairs in the hill-side. 

Let’s move to the Twisted Colossus station!

The bridge that will be Twisted Colossus’ exit is being refurbished with new fencing and flooring. Beneath, the actual track, has received the beams that will house the drive wheels. These wheels will accelerate the train to a speed needed to get through the TWISTED Pre-lift.  The station track is connected on both sides. They yet have to modify the station platforms. The new trains and track are wider than the old.  The control-panel booth has been taken out and the gap in the station is filled. The new panel will be on station level, located on this metal platform below.  WHAT? That’s shiny Scream! We’ll get back to that later in this update.   The unused side of the station is now covered up!  Here’s the actual TC station where guests will board one of the 4 trains. They repainted the walls below the track white.  Here’s the view of the brake-runs from the station. The transfer track has been placed as well. They’ve been working on that for months due to the fact that the new track is a lot larger and thus the transfer track couldn’t just be added to the old structure but had to be altered, which turned out to be very time consuming!

There’s lots of room next to the station, this wall is bordering Scream! Plaza, so hopefully one day the fence disappears, and we’ll find ourselves a flat ride. 😀 Looks a little messy, but there sure are lots of tiny details going into a monster hybrid coaster like this. One of the many container-work-shops. 

Let’s throw in some exciting Twisted Colossus trains!

Wrapped… UNWRAPPED!  What?! It’s the famous lead car! And she’s a real beauty in person. The details on the train are incredible!   The trains have seat-belts, and lap-bars with shin-guards.  Some second row good-ness.  The nerd back-side of the train! This is only the first of 4 trains, the other trains will each have a different color scheme, blue, green, and purple.

Let’s move on to some actual back-stage construction pics of the world’s longest Hybrid Coaster! Completed lift-hills and catwalks! Here’s the trim-brake section before riders will enter the second (green) half of the ride.  That transition from blue to green!  Interesting looking structure in which two break-runs will be located. The green one on top, the blue trim-breaks on the bottom.   In case of an evacuation from the blue-brake section or the green lift-hill, behind this panel a staircase will be installed.  The empty Colossus Turnaround Colosseum… For those of you who were worried the blue trim-breaks indicated that the out-ward bank on the blue side would not be placed. Worry no longer, no such thing was ever mentioned, the blue outward-banked airtime hill will still be part of Twisted Colossus.  I say… FLATRIDE! Really, they could fit some in here, it’d be spectacular with Twisted Colossus flying by. Sadly no such thing was mentioned… 😀 Rest in pieces block-brake section! Here’s the booth and staircase that were connected to the mid-course break-run on the Ol’ Colossus. The deepest point of the ride is located before the double-up. This dip is coated with asphalt. Rocky Mountain Construction is adding a lot of extra wood to the already existing structure to support the heavy track. The old track crossing through will not be demolished, but has become part of the supporting the structure. Wood is being placed all over it! See, this is a sign of the construction moving along at a great pace, track everywhere!  And then… like Twisted Colossus wasn’t looking pretty enough yet, here’s two absolutely stunning drops. These will be filled with ejector-time!  Look at those little floater hills!   The new, white, structure seen here is the structure for the green double-down, and the blue dive underneath it.  What?!? I’m in the middle of the two drops! Notice that the old track on the left will not be demolished. It will be part of the supporting structure.  Artsy air-time hill shot!  Beyond these hills… lays the magical twisted High Five element! Oh, there it is!  They were placing the High Five element as we were taking the tour! Very exciting!

Let’s move on to Scream!

The park is taking the trains off the track to start the overhaul of the trains. Oh, and see the parking lot underneath… Yes, we learned that sadly that will stay the way it is. Scream! will remain to be the parking lot coaster it has always been. Wood of Twisted Colossus meets paint of Scream!…  All of Scream! is being painted by hand! The primer for the supports is peach, and the actual coat of paint is bright orange, as Sue from Six Flags Magic Mountain said, it really pops. It does, I was a bit conflicted with the colors at first, but now I got to walk around the ride, it really does pop. It looks great!   Busy painting!   After the primer, the bright orange is added, and then it looks like this, amazing! The helix on Scream! has completely been painted. There are two trains still on the storage tracks. The track on top of the Zero-G-Roll behind it has been painted as well! The painted track on the loop! Let’send with this shot of Scream!’s interlocking Corkscrews! Looking awesome with the new paint!

Thank you so much for checking out this rather long report of our second backstage tour of Twisted Colossus! For more details on the new Screampunk District, and to see the amazing progress made, check out our first backstage tour report here!

I collected some 300 pictures, many of which will be posted on our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram soon, so make sure to follow us everywhere! Comment your thoughts, and let’s get TWISTED!

Today’s Valentine’s Day, and a gift from California Coaster Kings to you… A Twisted Colossus and Scream! Update! Construction and make-overs continuing rapidly!

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I’m going to start off with Twisted Colossus. Regarding the brake-runs, nothing has really been changed since last week.   Mostly the entire old block-brake structure has been removed.  The structure for the double down is being placed. In the background you can see the approach to the high-five element being completed on both sides. (The green track in the below the structure will be going up the High Five next).  There’s a lot of track and wood ready to be placed.  And then here’s the beautiful moment at which they’re placing the actual High Five. All track preceding the High Five has been placed. And as I was taking pictures, the metal beams, for the 90′ degree banks in the middle of the element, were being placed.   Notice the amounts of blue and green track! Ready to go up very soon!   Here’s the crane that’s placing the High Five beams and track onto the structure. 

As a transition from Twisted Colossus to Scream!, here’s the new advertisement for the Screampunk District and Twisted Colossus, it’s on the construction walls over at the entrance to the area!   Definitely seems as if Magic Mountain is really aiming for that Spring opening!  Oh look! That’s Scream! over there! Let’s move on to the Scream! repaint.

The painting crews were busy painting Scream again.  A lot of track has been repainted already. I would say about 80%. Including the interlocking corkscrews of course! Most of the lift’s track, the drop’s track and the loop’s track have been repainted already. Wow… What’s that? That’s orange supports!   The orange is way lighter than I initially thought I saw for the helix. Maybe they’re going over it again? Maybe it’s more Steam-punk-esque this way…  Now I think about it, I kind of like both colors of the supports. But I guess I’m going with the new fresh, bright, orange! 😀 The drop, as I mentioned before has been repainted as well. The track that is. Look at that loop, all shiny repainted in blue! An overall shot of the Scream! repaint on the side where no orange is to be seen. The brake run, parts of the Zero-G-Roll, the valley between the drop and the Reversed Immelman/Dive, and the entire Cobra Roll are left to be repainted. Track wise. 

That was it for today! We’ll be back VERY SOON, for more progress, from some awesome new angles. Thanks for checking out this update! Please click here to read our wonderful Six Flags Magic Mountain Update from today to see what else is going on at the park.

Woohoo! A lot of change on Twisted Colossus and Scream! already! I separated the Six Flags Magic Mountain update and this update, since this one will be a lot bigger. At the end of this update, you’ll find the link to the actual SFMM Update from the same day. (Please note that it had rained all day before I arrived, and it was incredibly cloudy and even foggy later on, I took the pictures to my best ability and settings on the camera, but they may be a bit grayish).

I’ll be starting off with all the Twisted Colossus changes.

They’re still working with the drop track, seriously whenever I’m at the park they’re working on the drops. The structure under the lift-hill used to have track cross through to approach the old break-run. Currently that gap is being filled with more supporting structures, which they’re building over and through the old track.  It was challenging to get a picture of the beginning of the High Five element, I even rode the little train in Whistlestop Park to see if I could get a better shot. But nope… So try look for it… 😀 There’s a lot of blue track stored next to the structure. I’m expecting that to be placed this upcoming week. Notice the weird looking structure in between the two larger mass structures? That’s the new structure that they were putting together last week.  The entire track preceding the actual High Five has been placed. Including the tiny drops after the hills.   On the other side of the ride, more of the original structure has been taken away. The footers and dip in the ground below (where the original triple jump was located) is now coated with asphalt.   Exciting, and not exciting, news… The brake-runs have been placed.  The green track above is the final brake run. Which is still missing catwalks on the top brake. But the brake that leads back to the station has catwalks already. Now note what’s up with the blue track below…  Yup, that’s a brake-run too! The videos and materials the park provided show a curved turn that leads right into the second lift-hill. Which, when you think about it, would not really allow for the trains to line-up, and would put a lot of force on the lift-hill structure. Since it’ll have a lot of speed approaching the second lift. So indeed, there’s a brake run before the second lift. With catwalks already placed.  The Twisted Colossus trains arrived yesterday, were stored at the Colossus entrance this morning, and at night they were relocated somewhere else again. I’m not sure where they are now.  One last look at Twisted Colossus, they’re working on the structure EVERYWHERE! 

Let’s move on to Scream! or whatever it’ll be called when it reopens! (Yes, the name will change, it’s still unknown to me what the name will be). The new park maps should reveal the name!

The first part of the drop has been painted all blue.   More of the Dive Loop/ Reversed Immelman has been painted all blue.  More of the Zero-G-Roll has also been painted all blue.  Here are some good shots of what the painted supports look like. Only the supports in the helix have been painted so far. And from that helix-track, only 1/4th has been painted all blue yet.  PARKING LOT! Hopefully they’ll cover that up, finally.  Let’s get to the corkscrews! It’s like we’re looking at Bizarro!  I honestly kind of like the look of it with the purple supports, but it sure will look even better with the freshly repainted orange supports! Notice that the second corkscrew is yet to be repainted.   A couple more shots of the repaint. 

That was it for this week, lots of change, some surprises for people that didn’t expect the extra break-run on Twisted Colossus! Thanks for reading this update! Make sure to check out the Six Flags Magic Mountain Update of the same day, by clicking here. Which includes more repaints, X2 station work, reopening of Wonder Woman and more!

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