Another week and another Twisted Colossus construction update from Six Flags Magic Mountain. It was a gorgeous day here in Valencia and the clear blue sky made it much easier to see what was going on with Colossus than the overcast sky from last week. The downside was that it was pretty hot, over 90 degrees, so I got a bit of a sunburn. But I’m not complaining. I know a lot of you are in the off-season right now and won’t be able to ride your favorite coasters for several months. This photo update is from Sunday, 9 Nov 2014.

Approaching the structure from the parking lot, it doesn’t look much different from last week. I think they’ve finally finished rebuilding the top of the lift hill and you can sure tell the color difference in the fresh white wood and the old dirty wood:

From what they’ve built, the new first drop looks to be a bit steeper than the old drop:

The structure leading from the first drop up to the second hill was being worked on last week. As you can see, there’s not much left of it until you get to the very top:

Here’s a closer view of where they have left it for now:

I’m not sure if you noticed it in the first photo above, but there’s quite a large section of structure missing leading to the second turn around. The entire double-up element they were working on last week is now gone. In this next photo, you can see the giant gap between where the track ends on the left and where it resumes on the right:

This is where the left track now ends on the left side:

And this is where it picks back up on the right side:

As you can see here, they removed the entire structure from this section, all the way to the ground:

I was going to go in for a closer look (not really), but I left my hard hat at home:

It’s getting much easier to see through the structure from the parking lot as they keep removing more wood. There is clear blue sky looking right through that one middle section, but look how dense it becomes looking to the right where the structure hasn’t been removed yet:

Zooming in through the structure pass-throughs, you can see piles of scrap wood that have already been removed. Additionally, you can also see several footers that used to support part of the structure that is no longer there:

Zooming in even further, you can see more footers that still have the stubs of the support columns that have already been cut away. You can also see the very “twisted” pre-lift hill track on the far side:

Here’s a little better shot of that twisted track. I can’t wait to experience that:

Just to the right, I spotted a pair of parallel green track pieces that look like they’re leading towards the lift hill. It’s hard to tell from so far away, but this may be where the blue track transitions into the green track, right before heading back up the lift hill:

The structure pass-through on the other side of the coaster is pretty bare as well. You can see right through to all the palm trees and blue support columns for Goliath. Check out all those bare footers that used to hold up part of Colossus:

There is a lot of steel support columns and other new parts starting to collect out front:

The brown supports and colored track I mentioned last week are still sitting there. I zoomed in on those small pallets to the left. They are stainless steel nuts, which I imagine they use a lot of:

Check out how cute these baby bents are:

Inside the park, it looks like they thinned out a few more trees, as you can now see even more of the pre-lift hill track from the viewing area:

All of this track has now been securely bolted down. If I’m not mistaken, the red lines are a visual indicator that easily shows if the nuts have come loose during the daily inspection:

I didn’t notice anything different in or around the station since last week:

I didn’t notice anything new or different in this area either:

Nothing new to report on the lift hill, either. I can’t help but wonder if that green track I pointed out earlier is actually the end of the storage track that you see here. The position seems about right:

That’s it for this week. I did do a general park update as well, but probably won’t get around to posting that until tomorrow night, so please check back for that.

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