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.
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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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 !!
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.
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.
/\ 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 . 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.
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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I think it should be called EX-Terminator...because well its made out of wood
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".
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...
^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...
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.
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.