alexinla

The ride is open to the public for a week? That's news to me. It is clear SFMM is using this week to see how it is best to operate and adjust operations. Smart move actually. I am with you critisising the park on poor operations, but doing so BEFORE the ride even opens to the public is a little much.

Sorry, double post

You like well themed parks and Phantasialand, one of the best themed parks in Europe, is not on your list? The park is easy to be reached by train(close to Cologne) and should be a must visit park while in Germany

New Picture from this afternoon Steel Construction around the tracks went up this afternoon. This ride will be nothing but near miss situations. (Picture credit: Phantafriends.de)

I am pretty sure that every track that is wrapped up, you will either not see or be surrounded by theming when the ride is finished. Remember, 70% of the budget for this will go into theming(as stated by the park). This will be something special and BIG!

Since today there are new views possible from inside the park. The track will cross 58 times, this turns into one of the most interesting projects around(all pics courtesy of coasterfriends.de) What the hell is going on here? Airtime? Underground digging, but why and for what? Phantasialand sure keeps it interesting!

You are forgetting about the time it takes to get from the station to the lifthill(the twisty part). I think they stated dispatch time should be around 90 seconds with 3 train operations. Sounds possible

Freefall segment? Where is that news coming from?

Phantasialand already stated that 70% of the budget will go into theming. Considering a Intamin launcher is not that cheap, I think we will be looking at something incredible. Can not wait for this to be finished.

This looks incredible!

With the new scaffolding going up, all this wrapped up track makes more sense. Phantasialand will build extensive themed elements around the ride(as expected). Still no clue what happens there, no info from the Park, they keep it interesting. edit, picture courtesy of: phantafriends.de

Talocan looks just so awsome! Leave it to Phantasialand, turning a "off the shelf" flatride into something epic! I love this themepark!

Drop of Doom does not count?

The coaster itself could probably open this Summer, but Phantasialand is special. They would not open a ride without the theming, which will be extensive. Expect a 2016 opening

You joking, right?!?!

Before we have 5 Pages of discussions old vs.new wood(HA), I can confirm that it is all new wood that is used for Twisted Colossus(why would someone even ask that kinda question?)

I was at Oktoberfest in 2014 and can guarantee you that there was no Eurostar operating.

Although it has been 20+years, during the Northridge Earthquake, the only damage SFMM had was the hill by Ninja, I am pretty sure the trees took a beating aswell, it was just never adressed.

Let's go back and have some fun on this thread! New picture from the Our Mountain Fb Page,SFMM posted this on there Instagram. Looking good!

Posts like this bugs me, what rides are faded besides Tatsu and Scream? SFMM basically repainted every coaster the past couple of years, including Viper and Ninja. Scream is next, pretty sure Tatsu is on the agenda aswell. The only "poorly kept area" that would come to my mind is the area around the old Batman Theater, otherwise a lot of old buildings have been refurbished, got new paintjobs and for me the park looks pretty good. Where is "gum all over the place"? besides that one place on Goldrushers lifthill which by now is almost "cult" I know to some it is "funny" making jokes on how "bad" this park is, when in reality, they improved a lot in the past couple of years(at least in my humble opinion)

This looks awsome!

Phantasialand opend yesterday for there "Winterdreams" season and added a pretty spectacular light/fire show using Chiapas background. Looks amazing! [youtu_be] [/youtu_be]

Here is a pretty cool video of the float out procedure of Quantum of the Seas [youtu_be] [/youtu_be]

New Artwork, plus some stats: -First Drop 67m -Track Length 1235m Source: Hapa Facebook Forum

The local cbs news had a nice Colossus farewell report, most importantly, at the end the reporter mentions that the park told him that fans will be happy with the new addition and it will uses at least part of the old structure. I think this is the first that some "reliable" news confirms a Colossus refurb Here is the video http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=10481475