The first few pieces of track arrived at Six Flags Magic Mountain this week for their upcoming 2013 Full Throttle roller coaster. They are still busy transforming the area of the park that it will eventually be built, but at least the pieces will already be here waiting when they are ready for them.
The pieces are being stored in the overflow parking lot, on the opposite side of Feedmill Road from their main parking lot. These overflow lots are not needed during the offseason, so it’s a good place to store them for now. The first piece is half straight and half curved. It’s hard to tell if this will be part of the top of the loop, with another piece of track to be mounted on top of it, or if it’s just upside down with regular support mount points:
The second and third pieces are completely straight:
Judging by the extra brackets on these two pieces, I’m guessing they’re either a part of a launch section or a brake run, or possibly both if it’s part of the tunnel section:
There’s a good sized forklift sitting in that lot as well to unload other pieces as they arrive:
I can just imagine Bruce Buffer in my head yelling, “It’s TIME!”
At the risk of dating myself, who is Bruce Buffer?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Bruce+Buffer
…Is there rust on the pieces?!
There might be a little surface rust/oxidation on the areas that aren’t painted. After all, it is steel and it’s been raining off and on here for several days. Don’t worry, it won’t hurt it or be visible after it’s all put together.
Do you or anyone reading this know where Premier’s manufacturing plant is?
All of Premier’s manufacturing is done in a facility close to the Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) airport, not far from their corporate headquarters.
Why cant they build the expo line like this?
I wish they would
Here’s a link to a clip I got of SlingShot from this afternoon:
http://youtu.be/IqrTcj0uvHc
No offense, but I like mine better.
http://youtu.be/Pw-EVIS_wR8
Yours is better! It looks like the amount of flips varies for each ride? Because on your video it flips many times, where on mine, it only flips twice.
I think I flipped four times during my flight. Look for my profile in the morning and I’ll explain why.
How does it shoot you up?
Sorry, how high does it shoot you up???
200-230′, depending on rider weight and if they applied full power or not.
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is there any confirmation on what color this will be? I assume it will be grey, all with Revolution being white right next to it….
According to the promotional video, the track will be white (light gray) with black supports.
Any idea of an opening date for Full Throttle? Would like to visit from Florida.
Unfortunately, no. All the park is saying is ‘Summer 2013′, which was pushed back from Spring. They’re making good progress, but there’s still a lot of work to be done. I’ll be sure to post an opening date as soon as I hear anything.
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