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Postby BP317 on September 26th, 2008, 2:42 pm
The land clearing behind DejaVu has been confirmed as the new Terminator GCI wooden coaster.

http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/sixflags/35226/

http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/six-flags-magic-moun-3069/

Six Flags Magic Mountain will officially unveil plans this week for Terminator: The Coaster, a $10-million wooden roller coaster scheduled open Memorial Day weekend 2009.

The 2,850-foot-long coaster with Millennium Flyer trains will include a 100-foot lift, five hills, six banked turns as well as visual and audio effects and a loading station fly-through. The three-minute start-to-finish ride reaches a top speed of 55 mph.

The Great Coasters International woodie will be built next to the Déjà Vu looping steel coaster and in the same location as Psyclone, a reviled wooden coaster mercifully removed from the Valencia amusement park in 2006.


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Looks like a mix of Evel and Renegade, both very good coasters, and good wood is something socal desperately needs. Cant wait to ride it :).
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Postby Chitown on September 26th, 2008, 6:42 pm
Evil Kneivel west. :)
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Postby demonbulleagle on September 26th, 2008, 10:00 pm
It might be, I still really want to ride EK.
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Postby Chitown on September 26th, 2008, 10:09 pm
Well, it might be a clone of EK, but it is now confirmed to be called Terminator based on the new Terminator Salvation movie.

http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-bl ... -mou-2874/
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Postby demonbulleagle on September 26th, 2008, 11:06 pm
Oh wow, That says Family Friendly all over it.
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Postby Bob O on September 27th, 2008, 12:16 am
Its a insult to the Terminator franchise to be connected in any way toward SFMM.

Nothing about Terminator give's a impression of wood, now a steel coaster, maybe?? But with SF's lack of ability to theme rides it will be a sad comparsion to the great T2 3D attraction at USF/USH !!
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Postby Chitown on September 27th, 2008, 3:01 am
This doesn't happen often, but I agree with Bob O.

A wooden coaster themed to this really makes no sense, and I am going to guess this new movie has nothing to do with Universal.

Oh well, it's a new woodie for this park which they need since they got rid of one and the other sucks.

Say a prayer. Hopefully SFGAm will get a GCI woodie. Only chance of a decent thrill coaster in the future.
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Postby Bob O on September 27th, 2008, 9:18 am
Im glad that we agree every now and then!!
I also agree that SFMM can use a good wooden coaster/

Being a BIG fan of Terminator I hate to see the name on a ride if it nots done correctly.
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Postby Coastermonkey61 on September 27th, 2008, 10:55 am
Oh, you didn't know? In the new Terminator movie, all the Terminators are made out of maple.

So this fits perfectly, now idea what you guys are talking about...
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Postby BP317 on September 27th, 2008, 11:05 am
I hope theres a bit more to it than an EK clone, remember when the B&M flyer word was going around we all thought SFMM was getting a SUF clone and they ended up with a ride thats 100x better. EK is a good ride but it would be nice to see something longer at a bigger park, plus I think would be a bit underwhelming for people who visit SFMM. Then again I dont think SF is afraid to add things that are underwhelming.

That being said regardless of an EK clone or not at least socal will finally have a good woodie, Ghostrider has gotten pretty unpopular down there because of roughness.
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Postby BP317 on October 21st, 2008, 6:40 pm
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Postby JordanSDMF on October 22nd, 2008, 12:02 am
What happend to Six Flags. I think the whole thing where each park would have like classic names to Six Flags, like Shockwave went around, Batman of course, Superman, Viper, and so on. And how like 3 similar roller coasters would be made for 3 seperate parks. Like the SUFs, and Ride of Steels. WTF. Terminator to me is this big, mean, dark B&M that goes really fast through many inversions. Not some wooden roller coaster. Lara Croft does all of those cool flips while in action and stuff. It just doesn't make sense. Down with Shapiro. Death to the infadels.

Didn't Six Flags design and build Viper and SFGAm? I still think Viper is the best wooden roller coaster I have ridden. I really don't care for the new wooden roller coasters. Especially those "Hybrids". Haha they are kind of eco-friendly too just like the cars. No more killing trees! But Viper to me is a SOLID, good woody.

This whole new era of woodies just isn't my taste.
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Postby BP317 on October 22nd, 2008, 5:54 am
/\ First off this ride will be better than Viper.
Second its pretty clear that this ride will be lightly themed and the only reason its named Terminator is because of the movie coming out. The article says "visual and audio effects." I would assume the visual effects would be the station flyby and the audio effects who knows. I dont see onride audio on Millennium Flyer trains, anyone remember what they "tested" Scream with the onride audio? Id say thats more likely than audio on the trains, although I dont think either is likely :lol:. I think the most likely audio effects the ride will have will be like the tunnels X2 has, which are none. I also think the "visual effects" will probably be the station flyby.

http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/files/rockinscream_193.wmv


This whole new era of woodies just isn't my taste.

Thank god for the new GCI, Gravity Group, and Intamin wooden coasters. Woodies were a dying breed before this boom and if these companies werent making there would be no new woodies pretty much ever (I dont think there would be a high demand for "90s woodies" such as Dinn and RCAA). The new ones are some of the best wooden coasters in existance.
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Postby tp41190 on October 22nd, 2008, 3:48 pm
I think it should be called EX-Terminator...because well its made out of wood :lol:

However, even with the lame name it still going to be a quality ride that SFMM needs. They got rid of one wooden coaster and replaced it with a better one.

Although, with Six Flags going with GCI now...I wonder if this will be any clue for our next "big attraction".
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Postby Coaster Justin on October 22nd, 2008, 6:07 pm
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I hope that SFFT gets the next GCI Coaster because their only wooden coaster Rattler is bad (After reading trip reports.)
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Postby RBull4life on October 22nd, 2008, 7:27 pm
I wouldn't call it a clone of EK, in fact, this appears to be perhaps better than EK. As far as the name, well, lets just say that I agree with BobO.
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Postby FParker185 on October 22nd, 2008, 9:00 pm
for Viper it was built by SFGAm, it was designed mostly in house though they employed Dennis Starkey for that (Stand Comany and CoasterWorks)
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Postby Jerrykoala2112 on October 26th, 2008, 10:52 pm
The reason Six Flags is giving coasters scary names (popular also) is probably to attract more people. Examples

1. Terminator(like evil)
2.The DarK Knight(wild mouse. Yawn)
3. Evil Kneivel(wasnt too scary but was good. and short)

I dont understand. There was a comment above saying it was a disgrace to give it these names. I agree!
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Postby MForce4ever on November 5th, 2008, 10:25 am
It does look somewhat like EK but I think it's about time SFMM got a good woodie (not that I ever rode Psyclone but I've heard it was terrible) and Colossus was so/so...GCIs are usually good unless the parks screw them up with PTCs...
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Postby Jerrykoala2112 on November 6th, 2008, 8:04 am
Like I said above about the famous names. I agree with Bob O

Its a disgrace to give them those names. But the park wants more people to come.

Pretty soon....there will be Harry Potter Coasters everywhere.
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Postby MForce4ever on November 8th, 2008, 10:24 am
^What is IOA building for 2010? I don't think that it's a bad idea to theme a coaster to a movie, but it depends on the coaster and movie...like Dark Knight was an epic FAIL however the original Batman the Ride is still probably one of Six Flags best ideas ever...
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Postby JordanSDMF on November 9th, 2008, 5:24 pm
If they aren't willing to spend the time and money for good theming to a movie, it's just disgusting. And Terminator off the bat seems more like a steel roller coaster. Woodies would be themed more for like.. western movies and such.
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Postby BP317 on November 24th, 2008, 1:33 am
Very important and breaking news....its been renamed from Terminator to Terminator Salvation.
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Postby bigb7965 on November 24th, 2008, 4:09 pm
just like the movie...
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Postby onyxhotel08 on November 27th, 2008, 2:05 am
Oh no rumor has it their Deja Vu will be down till April/May at the earliest. Rehab is the major problem now but the park is said to be wanting Vu closed while construction heavily increases in the coming months next door. Magic Mountain and Silverwood are probably going to re-open their GIB very close to each other.
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