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Wow, talk about a mess of wood supports and track!

^Yeah that is the best one. The red and yellow at the top kind of clash, but it still looks great. I now see that those cables are attached to the painter platform. I thought more of them went off to the sides but I guess I was wrong!

Found this sweet video posted. It basically has the same information that we already knew, it's just a confirmation from the park! Sounds like they're going to try and get rid of all the trims, I sure hope so! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI2UkwFPw-g

Wow, awesome pics of the paint job! Nobody knows what's going on in that spot, I'd imagine Superman is not going back up there, as in the promos the S shield is on that side of the tower. But who knows, we won't find out until they want us to. What I'm trying to figure out is why there are all those cables attached to the tower? Maybe they're going to be making a huge Christmas tree out of Christmas lights? That's all I can think of as I don't see any other reason why they'd have them. I believe Sky Tower did that for a number of years.

LOL!

^Sounds like someone is stretching facts/opinions to make a point. No coaster company is perfect, but B&M is close. I'd rather have an Intamin, and I'll take the risk of problems occurring due to pushing the envelope.

^You're lucky your name is Guy. If it was anyone else they'd be bombarded by comments like "You can't judge this coaster from the POV! You haven't even ridden it!" But to be honest, I agree with you. While the back POV was much better, the front POV didn't do much for me. But now that I mention it, neither does GCI.

I know one things for sure, if you launch 2 coaster trains at the same speed and one of them is full of people and the other is empty, the empty one will go much higher than the one full of people. Objects fall at the same speed regardless of weight, but how it goes up the hill is a whole 'nother story. I wouldn't worry about the train valleying until it does. It seems like an issue as simple as a heavy train would come to fruition over the course of its installation, but the thing hasn't even run yet. Maybe it will run much slower than we all envisioned?

Here's the difference: BM will do it well. Minus the airtime, forceful g's, intensity, etc.

Don't get me wrong, but I'm pretty sure employees most of time are left out the open to prevent leaks of information. I can't see a Dippin Dot's person at one theme park knowing about the corporate plans of another theme park 2-3 years ahead, even if it's run by the same people. Most of the time, they won't say anything to regular employees until something happens that requires them to do so, like construction. I will use Seaworld Parks and Entertainment for an instance, granted it's not six flags. The General Staff of Busch Gardens Tampa were left out in the air about Cheetah Hunt until about a month and a half in after construction started. Some employees knew because of the coaster communities and the leaked information, but management didn't tell any of them anything til after. Granted, this is Seaworld Parks and Entertainment, not Six Flags. Not only that, he gave you information about parks owned by ANOTHER company. I doubt you got creditable information there, obviously. There's an inside joke on this site that any rumor about future projects comes from the Dippin Dot's guys. It's a joke, and I seriously doubt that Gigalyte actually got his information from a dippin dots guy. But the point is that by prefacing his post with that, he's implying that it's just a rumor and should be treated as such. THIS I actually like the Dippin Dot's rumors!

Maybe someone on here with No Limits could credit you and use your file to make a video of the NL model if you don't mind? I don't know how to do it, but I would volunteer if I could.

First off, thanks for the photo's! Second, congrats on your Nano! Did you win it playing the stacker game at one of the arcades?

How do you know if you got all your Funatics awards? I believe the last one I got was for the free soda--is that the last one they gave out? Also, how do you let them know you get 20% off your pass for 2011? I didn't get an email on my last trip and I'm thinking I might have missed out.

Eh, I'm definitely West Coast bias here. Ghostrider, I'd much rather keep wood. What it needs is an Intamin wood refurbishment, let them teach Knotts how to keep an extreme tracks circuit smooth and manageable like El Toro. IMO, I'd love to see Colossus resurrected. Forget the racer bologna, its outdated. Make it taller, steeper, perhaps get rid of the mild turnarounds and replace them with banked turns like Texas Giant. The things got nothing going for it, its so neutered its not close to what it used to be. Bring the double down back--seriously. No reason to build an Intamin Mega-Lite airtime machine if Colossus takes care of it instead! New trains! Aw man I'm drooling already!

The back of my 2010 Xtreme Pass says this: "Season parking passes may be used at other parks." This is NOT what your 2011 pass says, so it looks to me like they changed the parking pass policy for the Six Flags chain in 2011. Expect to pay for parking if you're not at the SF Park you bought your pass at. For example, I'm from LA and will be getting a Magic Mountain Xtreme Pass. I will be paying for parking after I drive 12 hours to go to Six Flags over Texas to ride Texas Giant this summer. There's the increase in fees that some of you SF Fanboys were encouraging because they "give away the gate." Celebrate your success.

Woah a zero-g on this ride would be NUTS! And judging by some of the track angles, it may be entirely possible!

Okay judging from previous photos, the track circled in green I believe is the bottom of the first drop. The support circled in red I believe is for the track from the bottom of the first drop to the return track. Comparing it from another angle, I believe the Yellow shows what the circuit will do. Again, the red circle represents the trip back, and the green circle represents the bottom of the first drop. I may be way off this is just my speculation!

Yeah, I pretty much agree with this. Whenever there is a supervisor around, operations change dramatically. However, even some supervisors aren't that great at being "friendly" to guests either. I don't know what it is about this park and the insistence on some of the employees to basically look down their nose at paying customers. I would like to know how Disneyland keeps their ride-ops in check, I'm guessing there's cameras making sure everyone is doing their job, something we all know SF just can't afford and won't ever do. I go to the park about 4-5 times a year on very random occasions. It doesn't happen every time I visit, but I'd say every other trip there is a crew that has no regard for the guests waiting in line. Meaning, all the guests are sitting in line or in trains wondering why nothing is moving and its because the ride-ops are too busy standing at the dispatch booth talking to each other acting important because they know the rides not moving until they decide. However, I really don't dig "deep" into my Magic Mountain files and come up with situations from the past---in fact, I don't specifically remember the ones from a year ago! But I DO know it has happened often enough to see a pattern at the park, and its usually with random crews on random rides. I don't let it ruin my day, it just becomes kind of a peeve of mine that a crew running a roller coaster could do it so poorly and have no regard for people, guests, that paid to come into the park. I'm certain that if anyone on this site was running a ride, it would NEVER have these types of problems. Unfortunately we can't have a TPR Crew running the rides at Magic Mountain! But mostly I came on here after my trip to report my day, and if something on the trip happened like my Colossus story, I have no problem sharing it publicly, because maybe someday a higher up at the park will see it and things will change. I love Magic Mountain and will always visit and get a Season Pass because I love their rides, I just wish it was better run so it would be nicer, and overall maybe it would impress guests more and do better financially!

The ops at MM are terrible. I rode Colossus on my last trip, and it took the crew 10 minutes to wipe, discuss, then clean some spit on the train, all while the ride only had 1 train operation. Gates open, everyone hops in and pulls down lapbars. Upon walking snail pace to the front of the train to check restraints, female ride op tells the male ride op on the right side of the station "ew, there's spit on the train." He stops and checks it out, continues checking restraints. Then she told him to get the paper towels and spray. He said it's not that bad, just let the train dispatch. She said okay, then started to check restraints from front of the train. Stopped halfway. Told him it was nasty and she had to clean it. He was done checking right side restraints and walks up to the middle of the train to look at the spit himself again, and they begin to discuss the spit. He finally decides it is kind of nasty and snail paces to the cabinet at the back of the station for paper towels and cleaner (cue dragging feet noise). He takes his time as he doesn't want to accidentally rush and hurt himself, and finally finds the cleaning materials, and brings them to the girl so she can finally wipe it off. At the trade off across the track, they discuss spit at the back of the train for 30 seconds or so. How gross they say. She walks to the center of the train (cue dragging feet noise) and starts spraying the spit and cleans the spit off the train. He watches to verify the train is spit free. They discuss how the train used to have spit, and now doesn't. She goes to the trashcan and dumps out the paper towels. Walks back to dispatch to place the cleaner near the panel, to avoid a situation where the cleaner might get lost or stolen. She proceeds to the front of the train to start checking restraints from the front again. With guests in train with nothing to do but stare and wonder what the hell is taking so long, she finally gets to the back of the train and has checked all the restraints. Male ride op meets her back there and a conversation/flirtation at the back of the train continues one more time before she walks to the dispatch panel, and he walks to the dispatch panel at the front of the station. Finally the words "Clear, dispatch" is announced and they both, amazingly, find a way to simultaneously push the dispatch button. That, my friends, is a Six Flags Magic Mountain dispatch if you were ever wondering.

Because Athiests don't kill people. Because nobody but the religious are hypocritical. I didn't know this was a religion bashing thread, furthermore, how many of you making fun of Christianity are celebrating Christmas this year? Yeah, who's the hypocrites now.

This makes no sense. Donate $100 for a peg? $5000 for a beam?! The wood must be made out of Jesus turds or something...

I don't care if Magic Mountain doesn't want to provide quality food for guests in the park, that's fine. What I don't understand is how they neglect to take certain business steps in order to take advantage of the situations they have once guests walk through their gates. Think about it: as an amusement park you already have customers walking around getting hungry and thirsty the entire day, from morning until night, and yet the park doesn't seem interested in creating a quality food environment to profit off of them. Which is retarded. Think about any restaurant trying to be successful, the hardest part of making money is getting customers to walk into your restaurant. Once you do that, if you're a good quality restaurant with good service you will eventually gain word of mouth and business with increase. But when you're a theme park you already have thousands of guests in your vicinity, and you practically already have customers to cater to! To have such terrible food quality that a good amount of guests would rather leave the park for an hour to save money and get better quality food is a huge fail for the park and company IMO. Even Panda Express at Magic Mountain, while the prices are considerably the same as a combo you'd get outside of the park, the quality can be TERRIBLE. Would I be willing to bet my $10 that the Magic Mountain Panda will give me bad food again? Of course not. I'd rather leave the park, go to a real Panda, spend less, and know I have more options and know my food will be made fresh. By charging ridiculous amounts of money for terrible quality food you're not only nickel and diming people who decide to eat at the park, you're making them regret it by serving them bad food. It's not a way to make people want to spend money in the park again, and it's not a way to run a park if you expect to be successful. There is a great amount of money to be made in food at theme parks, it's too bad Six Flags has decided to give it the cold shoulder.

They need to take a page out of MM's book when it comes to painting coasters...I think Superman will already be done by this week!

Never heard of him.

I wouldn't quite say that... Wow, out of a 4 paragraph post you've managed to pick 5 words out that you have an issue with. Good job on that. How about this instead: Nobody that works there cares enough to do anything substantial about the food situation at Magic Mountain, and therefore, it won't change. Doesn't matter how much people say they care, or how much they tell you they care; doing nothing about a situation and just letting it continue to suck is pretty much the same as not caring at all.