What a difference a couple of weeks make! You saw in my last Scream! update that much of this track at Six Flags Magic Mountain had been painted, but they were just starting on the support columns. Most of the coaster has now been painted and it definitely “screams” for your attention. These photos were taken on Sunday, March 1st.

The new colors are so bright and vibrant that you can see them from quite a distance. It doesn’t matter if it’s sunny or cloudy, you can easily see it from not only the parking lot, but also from the nearby freeway. It looks like a brand new coaster:

Most of the work on the lift hill and first drop is done:

The orange looks great against the ominous rain clouds behind:

As you can see, not everything has been finished yet:

This looks so much better than the old, fading paint that was on there before:

It’s hard to tell in this lower quality posted photo, but in the original you can clearly see the difference between the high gloss orange paint on the top half of this column versus the peachy colored primer coat on the lower half:

Here’s a shot of the new paint job as seen from the far side of the parking lot:

Nothing has been touched inside the station yet, including the track:

There are still lots of small areas that still need to be finished. The heavy rains that we’ve had lately have not helped matters. This is the very top of a support column underneath the top of the lift hill:

You may not have noticed in the above photos, but most of the screening material on the chain link fence has been replaced all the way around the coaster:

Here’s one final shot of the coaster from inside the screened fencing:

That’s it! If the rains stop, I suspect that this project will be completed in the next couple of weeks, not counting the station. We’ll have to wait and see what they do there.

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