Twisted Colossus Tour #3

Today we were once again honored to be invited up to Six Flags Magic Mountain to get another close-up look at Twisted Colossus. 

I know we've said this before, but it bears repeating ... WE ARE SO UNBELIEVABLY EXCITED FOR THIS RIDE. We seriously want to pull an Eric Cartman and freeze ourselves until the ride opens. But we also really do like seeing the progress of the ride. =)

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Pictures and Words by Gregg Condon


Click on any of the pictures below to see a larger version. 

We've got a LOT of pictures to get to, so let's just cut right to the good stuff today. 

Our first look at the purple train. It's really awesome. 

The detail on the trains is amazing.

Look Ma, Comfortable restraints!!!

For those that like to see how things work.

Moving down into the ride itself

LOTS of track waiting to be placed

Not sure if it's all here, but it looked to be very close to all from what we could tell.

Supports are starting to go up on the final turnarounds.

And for the next elements to be done.

Close up of the two new lift motors, each is 200hp.

The new trains are about 500lb heavier than the Morgan Trains Colossus was using when it closed.

Safety first!

This is all new wood, and obviously new steel.

More stuff ready to be installed.

For those that were worried, they are painting the structure. Although anything that is in direct contact with track will remain unpainted. This is to give it that "steel" look, and also for track inspection.

Oh yeah, there are some new elements up on the ride to show you. =)

Don't cross the streams!!!!

And how do they get to the top gun stall? Like this.

Insane!!

Airtime!

Nerd shot

Moving further down into the structure

Exiting the High Five

Another interesting tidbit, RMC only is responsible for the track and any replacement of wood 10 feet below the track. So anything under that 10 foot mark has to be done by the park, which they are doing now, as you can see.

More twistyness

HIGH FIVE!!

The High Five and first turn-around

More of the Top Gun stall

No caption necessary ...

Watch out for that Train!!

There's not one piece of straight track in this entire picture

Coming down the drop

Moving over to the station

All of the bushes that were here are gone

Not sure what's going here, we suggested a beer garden. =)

New fence around station exit. So don't go in there!! =)

Ride Control panel!!!

New exit bridge

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Moving over to Scream, it's re-paint is pretty much done. 

New fence installed around parts of the ride.

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And last but not least, a look at the progress of the Steampunk District. 

Really like the way this turned out. And the trees are nice and trimmed down. We also asked what was replacing the Cool Zone, not sure. We did suggest another Beer Garden. =)

Very nice

Sandwich place, won't be "Subway" which is a good thing.

Lots of landscaping and new concrete going down

They were pouring concrete so we couldn't get to the other side. Also really do like the colors on the theater. Wasn't sure about it from the concept art, but that's very nice looking.

Alright, that's going to wrap it up for our tour. Thanks again to the park for having us out, we are so glad they are doing these and they did say there would be another one next month. 

We are also a few weeks away from any kind of opening date announcement, so as soon as we know anything, you will too. 

Thanks again for all of the support. We all appreciate it. 

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