The Six Flags Magic Mountain (SFMM) Discussion Thread

[Swornenemy]

It could be worse. They could have contracted Caltrans to build the ride. Disclaimer: You'd have to have spent some time on California highways to get that one.

 

 

"New coaster project to be completed by 2016"

[MagicMountainMan]

It could be worse. They could have contracted Caltrans to build the ride. Disclaimer: You'd have to have spent some time on California highways to get that one.

 

...And there's always Caltrans for the win! If anyone takes longer than Caltrans does, God help us all!

 

I honestly haven't been following construction of the ride very closely, but has there been any hint as to the effects that may or may not occur in the tunnel? I'm looking forward to whatever they have in store there.

[bostonlva]

It could be worse. They could have contracted Caltrans to build the ride. Disclaimer: You'd have to have spent some time on California highways to get that one.

 

...And there's always Caltrans for the win! If anyone takes longer than Caltrans does, God help us all!

 

I honestly haven't been following construction of the ride very closely, but has there been any hint as to the effects that may or may not occur in the tunnel? I'm looking forward to whatever they have in store there.

 

 

That would be city/state projects... Anything contracted by the city/state (for example classrooms at my community college) they were suppose to be completed in 2011. Its 2013 and they have been sitting there unfinished for a year. They "said" they fired the contractors, but I dont buy that

Edited June 4, 2013 by bostonlva

[Aceattack52]

It could be worse. They could have contracted Caltrans to build the ride. Disclaimer: You'd have to have spent some time on California highways to get that one.

Wait, so this is the California Department of Transportation looking to get into amusement rides?

[Mechanic]

It could be worse. They could have contracted Caltrans to build the ride. Disclaimer: You'd have to have spent some time on California highways to get that one.

 

...And there's always Caltrans for the win! If anyone takes longer than Caltrans does, God help us all!

 

I honestly haven't been following construction of the ride very closely, but has there been any hint as to the effects that may or may not occur in the tunnel? I'm looking forward to whatever they have in store there.

 

 

that would be city/state projects... anything contracted by the city/state (for example classrooms at my community college were suppose to be completed in 2011, they are not, and they have been sitting their unfinished for a year

 

I can tell. Let me guess... Your English, spelling, grammar, and punctuation classes, would have been held in those classrooms, right?

 

It could be worse. They could have contracted Caltrans to build the ride. Disclaimer: You'd have to have spent some time on California highways to get that one.

Wait, so this is the California Department of Transportation looking to get into amusement rides?

 

- facepalm -

[bostonlva]

Pardon the mistakes Mechanic, just went through and fixed most of them (posted the origional message on my phone)

 

And no, I am taking programming classes at the college not the "core" classes

[bostonlva]

Anyway, back on topic. It would not shock me to see full testing sometime this week.... Someone told me they did rollback testing this weekend...

[RollerCoasterAwesome]

More photos for Full Throttle and some things from around the park

 

I know its only been a couple days since the last update but I thought I would share some more photos from yesterday and today.

Not much has changed but some minor things to point out about Full Throttle

The first car is now loaded with some water dummies, full testing should start very soon

The back of the old Log Jammer queue building is now painted white and some scaffolding is starting to be removed I'm curious to see if the wall will stay white or if some detailing will be applied later

The exit ramp is almost finished

Switch backs prior to the entrance ramp, you'll enter / exit under the loop and launch track

From the Sky Tower you can see some trees planted on the hillside

More landscaping

The trains look very nice I especially like the silver, blue, and red wheels

top hat / drop off the loop

Brakes

Almost vertical

Moving on from Full Throttle this is how the fountain looked a day ago now..

All the fountains are back up and running

The waterfall in the background was also back up and running

Daffy Duck

Advertisement overload

Still running one train

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This is the result of 10 years in the Sun

If only it could look this good! (at least the parking spots faded too)

The events been running for the past few weeks and continues through the middle of June

Stage in front of DC Universe

Lighting equitment

New flowers for Batman

Maybe one day Batman could run as Namtab

The left side seems to consistently go higher than the right side

At least they have signs to tell you if the ride closes early (the sign was not supposed to be there but no one had removed last night)

Superman

Continuing the Superman trend, Superman and Lex Luther bus

Other ad warped buses include X-2

Goliath

Tatsu

And Yolo bus - the 6th bus to complete the fleet is Viper but I haven't seen that one run yet

x-2's second train in for refurbishment (this photo was one I took about a week or 2 ago but the train is still in refurbishment its just sitting on a different section of track now)

Train 3 and 1 are currently running and after ridding both, train 3 has a lot less violent shaking in the final raven turn. Hopefully when train 2 returns the ride will be slightly less violent.

Apocalypse is back to 2 trains but for some reason train 1 is extremely bumpy and has a lot of vibration the ride was pretty painful. Couldn't tell you if train 2 was the same didn't get a chance to ride in that train. In all honesty my ride on Colossus was smother than Apocalypse. Maybe it was the day or the heat but the ride was definitely rougher than usual results may very. I'm curious to know if any one else has noticed the ride becoming progressively rougher.

Fire

Speaking of fire one happened to be put out right behind Apocalypse

Thanks for reading!

Edited June 5, 2013 by RollerCoasterAwesome

[JJ728]

It could be worse. They could have contracted Caltrans to build the ride. Disclaimer: You'd have to have spent some time on California highways to get that one.

Our tax dollars at work.

 

[jray21]

It could be worse. They could have contracted Caltrans to build the ride. Disclaimer: You'd have to have spent some time on California highways to get that one.

 

They really are the worst!

[Zem]

As you mentioned the sun really does seem to take a huge toll on the appearance of the rides out there. Scream seems really dull and so does Tatsu. Apocalypse only opened in 2009 and has already lost that nice wooden brown color and is more of a gray now.

[chickenbowl]

Thanks for the update! It really looks like they could open in a week or two, but I guess another month or two will have to do. They just better get it open by WCB!

[Riextol]

Thanks for the pictures.

[thrillseeker4552]

Thanks for the report! When I went back over Spring Break, I found Colossus to be MUCH smoother than Apocalypse. I rode in the back row, and it almost felt like a steel coaster. Has some good pops of air too (although sometimes painful)!

[Sir Clinksalot]

Agreed about Colossus. There is only 1 spot where it's bumpy and that's the double-up just before the 2nd turn-around. Other than that it's actually pretty smooth these days.

[bostonlva]

“@stuscher: just watched Full Throttle do two launches into the loop both times rolled back though!!!” -

[johnnyknottsville]

Just watched Full Throttle complete a test run looking great!!! Don't have pics but i'm starting to see a few pop up on Facebook.

[chickenbowl]

^Awesome! I'd love to see some pics or even a video. I'm curious to see the pacing through some of those elements.

[Sir Clinksalot]

I'm going to head up to the park tomorrow. Hopefully I'll be able to catch a few test runs.

[bostonlva]

 

[bostonlva]

 

https://www.facebook.com/thrillnetwork

[harper83087]

Wow, the trains really give the loop some size perspective in the pictures. Seems like it's been hard to truly picture the size without anything close to compare to. Can't wait to see some testing videos! I should start planning a late summer/early fall trip

[Arkhamar]

Sweeet! That"s some serious height on the loop! Can't wait to see the 2nd launch out and back into the tunnel! Can't wait to see videos of this beast running from different angles! ....sheesh, can't wait to ride this period!!

[Vonni]

Do any of the SF parks have a giant swing? The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are CF and Hershend parks. Forgive me if I spelled Hershend wrong.

[Riextol]

^Six Flags over Texas just opened the worlds largest giant swing.

 

It's exciting to see YOLO testing. Opening day is getting closer.