I stopped by Six Flags Magic Mountain on Sunday, January 25th to get an update on both the park and the Twisted Colossus construction. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to post the pictures before leaving town on business early Monday morning. By the time you see this, there will have most likely been a bunch more progress made, however since the park isn’t open again until the weekend, these may still be new for some people.

The first thing you see upon arrival is that the lift hill and first drop visually appear to be complete. There’s obviously a lot more work to be done, such as adding motors, sensors, chain, etc, but this part of the structure and track look done:

The catwalk and handrails also appear to be complete all the way up to the top on both sides:

There are lots of coaster parts lined up all the way across the front of the coaster. You’ll also notice that both tracks have started up the second hill, the beginning of phase 2:

Here’s a closer shot of where the track was as of Sunday afternoon:

And a little bit closer:

What the heck…let’s zoom all the way in:

The structure coming out of the High 5 element looked different to me, but I’m not sure how:

There were several new track pieces on the ground, ready to be installed:

A lot of demolition work had been done on the old block brake run that was over the even older double-down element. It looked really thinned out:

If you look closely, you can just see one curved piece of track left over from the old double-down, and I’m sure even that will be gone by the time you read this:

I am glad they finally got rid of the double-down. I was afraid that they were going to say that it needed to remain to help keep the structural integrity. Good riddance to that eye sore:

Demolition work is continuing on the front of the coaster, right up through the end of phase 2:

Here’s a bunch more track ready to be installed:

I’ll never get tired of looking at this pre-lift track. It simply doesn’t look possible that a coaster train would even be able to navigate it. It’s equally as bizarre to be able to see all the way through the coaster from the parking lot to the station. I sure can’t wait to ride it:

There are many units of white lumber stacked between Twisted Colossus and Scream. It’s been hard to watch them cutaway and remove so much of the old coaster, but it’s nice to see so much lumber ready to help build it back up:

Lastly, I saw what appears to be pallets and pallets of five gallon buckets. I don’t think this has anything to do with Twisted Colossus. My guess is that is the paint for Scream, which we all know is finally getting a refresh. Unfortunately, I couldn’t zoom in far enough to read what colors they were:

That’s it for this update. Again, I apologize for the delay. I’ll be up here in Oregon through the end of the week, but should be able to get another update this weekend when I’m back home.

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