Magic Mountain 2013: "Full Throttle" terrain hugging launch coaster

[Alastair]

When it was much younger, Scream looked like this:

And take a look at how they presented it in some concept art:

That's honestly the worst colour fading I've ever seen on any coaster. It's not even mildly recognisable as having a blue spine, let alone the yellow rails.

 

[Dylan]

That's honestly the worst colour fading I've ever seen on any coaster. It's not even mildly recognisable as having a blue spine, let alone the yellow rails.

To be fair, given Oblivion's original colour and the level of fading it got to, there probably wasn't a huge amount of difference (and that wasn't sun bleached!)

 

[Spark]

See we all moan about the drab colours AT use but least our fading isn't that bad!

 

[Sam]

Scream! is just utterly appalling in every way.

The ride, the name, the punctuation, the colour scheme, the (lack of) theme, the location, and the landscaping, the layout and the operations.

Utterly dreadful. Walter and Claude's shame. They should have refused to have built it once they realised where the park would put it!

 

[BigAl]

TPR has a new photo update here.



Though this particular image isn't relevant to Full Throttle, I think it's worth posting here:

Sorry Thorpe Park, Six Flags Magic Mountain is claiming to be the thrill capital of the entire planet!

 

[Alastair]

TPR has a new photo update here.



Though this particular image isn't relevant to Full Throttle, I think it's worth posting here:

Sorry Thorpe Park, Six Flags Magic Mountain is claiming to be the thrill capital of the entire planet!

To be fair, I think they have as good a claim to that title as anyone with their array of coasters, however badly themed they are

 

[BigAl]

Some stunning shots from TPR here. Here are just a handful of them:

I love that track!

 

[Alastair]

An excess of supports?

 

[BigAl]

They look like they're for the launches or a brake run, I think. I can't remember exactly what was going where from the plans so that might be wrong though.

 

[Rollercoasters4Life]

They look like they're for the launches or a brake run, I think. I can't remember exactly what was going where from the plans so that might be wrong though.

Launch on the left, brake run on the right if I remember correctly.

 

[BigAl]

TPR have more photos of Full Throttle going up here. Again, I'll post a few of them below...

Edit: Some more have gone up here now so I'll post some more below too...

 

[BigAl]

Another update from Screamscape/KHTS here:

2013 - Full Throttle - (3/28/13) A brief article about Full Throttle mentions that along with the park’s 18th roller coaster, the area around Full Throttle will also feature an area for families with kids not tall enough (below 54”) to ride it, as well as a new restaurant called High Octane Wings, which will feature original sauces. Yum! SFMM, can you send me a sampler?

 

[Alastair]

The join between the top hat and loop has been put into place (from TPR)

More pics can be found here.

 

[LiamC]

Nice pictures. The track looks stunning! I don't know why but I've always thought coasters with a pure white track look so aesthetically pleasing to the eye. The Led Zeppelin coaster at the failed Hard Rock park is one that also jumps to mind in that respect

 

[Kurtis Rogers]

Imagine how cool a the big one would look in that paint scheme

 

[LiamC]

Imagine how cool a the big one would look in that paint scheme

I agree to a point, however only if the track was changed. I really don't like the Arrow style of track! That and I can't see it being any other colour than what it is at the minute from a personal point of view

 

[BigAl]

A video for a construction update this time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC81dyj9YBg#ws

 

[Sam]

The loop is complete!

From reddit.

 

[Alastair]

That's one HUGE loop!

 

[LiamC]

What's the speed of this, sorry I haven't followed the rides specification much.

Isn't it going to need to be travelling at a considerable speed to clear that loop? I can't believe the size of it