During our special hard hat tour of Twisted Colossus at Six Flags Magic Mountain earlier this week, we were also taken over and shown the progress being made on Scream!’s new paint job. As part of the new Screampunk District makeover, Scream! is getting changed from a magenta/blue/yellow color scheme to an orange/blue color scheme.

The entire vertical loop has now been painted a solid blue:

As we were walking underneath the coaster, we could see that the entire corkscrew section has also been painted blue, and most of the support columns were now orange:

There are two coats of paint being applied. The first is a faint, muted orange which is actually a primer coat. The final coat is a much more vibrant, glossy orange. The support column you see in the foreground only has a primer coat of paint, while the column behind has the final coat of paint:

To avoid the mess of an overspray and wasted paint, the entire coaster is being painted by hand using brushes and rollers:

Rather than higher a company that specializes in painting roller coasters (i.e. Baynum Painting), the park opted to handle the job themselves in-house. They hired skilled laborers with painting experience and set them loose on the coaster. I have to admit, they look like they’re doing a great job:

There were quite a few guys painting all over the coaster. I almost didn’t even see this guy working directly overhead, on the top of the lift hill:

There were multiple lifts being used, allowing them to get into all the nooks and crannies. I couldn’t help but notice that not all of the support junctions had been primed like we saw in an earlier update:

The orange pops quite nicely in our bright Southern California sun:

The blue has a beautiful shine to it as well:

Put them both together, and it really does look much nicer than what we had:

As you can see in the previous picture, they aren’t quite done yet. However, at the pace they were working, I don’t think it will be long before they finish:

Just to put all the rumors and speculations to rest, the park confirmed that nothing else about this coaster will be changing. The name will remain the same, although it will be getting a much needed new sign out front. No sense in calling the new area “Screampunk District” if they get rid of the ride named Scream!, right? There also won’t be any work done underneath the coaster to get rid of the parking lot lines. They had talked about re-striping them, but didn’t want to delay the reopening of the coaster any longer than necessary. <just kidding>

What do you think of the new colors? Do you like them, hate them, or don’t really care as long as the trains keep rolling? Leave a comment below and let us know!

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