This is pretty much the receiving area, where everything is sorted out cataloged before it goes.where it goes. Green meets blue.ĭirt and footers, people love dirt and footers. You can see the old raised ride op area is gone. Straight section will be a brake run to control the speed through the station. Select from premium Twisted Colossus of the highest quality. Refurbishing the bridge means tearing the old stuff out. Find the perfect Twisted Colossus stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. All the ride op stations are gone and the area where the other train went through has been covered over. They removed just about everything from the station. Bathrooms will get some love too.Ī new stairway will help you get to Twisted Colossus after you've had your twisted sandwich. The area of the new Twisted 'Wiches sandwich shop, is now completely minus trees and will get new concrete and landscaping. You will also notice most of the debris has been removed and it looks like they are building something rather than cutting something down.Īlmost all of the landscaping has be chopped and cropped to make way for the new 'Steam Punk' theming. So, you may see some areas cut down while others are built up as the track is fit together to prevent warping or binding of the track. The project was carried out by Rocky Mountain Construction. Twisted Colossus uses much of the support structure from the former Colossus wooden roller coaster. The idea is to fit the structure to the track, not the track to the structure. Twisted Colossus is a steel hybrid roller coaster currently operating at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, USA. This tour was a lot more extensive than the last, since they have finished most of the cutting and reprofiling. Now, I am not one for details, but I will try to get the big ones in there for you. So, I'll try to post everything here, so you can get keep up to date and see just how far the progress has gone. I had a chance to do the latest hard hat tour of Twisted Colossus and was told they will try to have a constuction tour a often as monthly. Thanks to Six Flags Magic Mountain and RMC for letting us tour the site, it was awesome.and twisted! Edited Apby robbalvey Macho macho man, I've got to be a macho man.īasically she is saying 'Awesome, awesome, awesome.' Something like that. Of course they'll have to get in line for Twisted Colossus, but hey that'll be fun too.

Once it reopens thousands will come just to stand on this spot. The save Colossus effort, you see they load it in a truck and.Ĭan we build it? Yes we can! Except I'm just gonna watch.Ĭonnie likes to dress up in hats and invites others to participate in her hobby.Īfter 36 hours of riding they decided that my awesomeness could not be equaled and just completely tore this side of the coaster out. They fixed that section that jackhammered really bad, well it's gone and that's all that matters.

Roller coaster, only it's not for ridin', it's just for lookin'. Really, it looks amazing and the work seems to be moving along at a fast pace. So, here are some pictures and a few small progress updates from the tour. Twisted Colossus construction tour! Okay, here's the skinny, I won't go into too much detail.because you probably know everything already.

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