Six Flags Magic Mountain's Colossus - Circa 1978

Hey everyone!


I'll post as many images as I can here, but I did want to say that "Shane" has been posting some amazing 'retro' reports over at TPR, so if you want to see more I'll post the link at the end of this.


But in an effort to not be so "spammy" here are several of the images of Magic Mountain's Colossus from opening year and the year after's "re-opening" (when it was closed for major changes after a woman was ejected from the ride)


Anyway, this gives a LOT of history about the ride....



This says it all. It was a great logo and a great ride at that time!



A very rare scene. Colossus racing with the original NAD trains. The red side was Thunder and the blue side was Lightning.



Some very "interesting" facts here...



In the upper right hand photo you can see the speed dip that gave major air time and many bruises to the thighs. When the ride was reprofiled this drop was lowered aprox. 20 feet.



The double-dip, which you can still see today underneath the re-built midcourse brake.



A page from Magic Mountain's "Coaster Alamanac"


Thanks to Shane for donating these images.


To check out even more about Colossus' history and a bit more about Magic Mountain from the late 1970s/early 1980s click here:
http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/vi ... 185#499185


Enjoy!


--Robb Alvey
www.themeparkreview.com

This is pretty cool Rob! I haven't ever seen a picture of the ride racing with the old trains that's pretty cool as well as just seeing all the old stuff on it.

Nice man, historic pics are always great, I've seen a lot on TPR already, but thanks for posting them here!

[jayman]

ahhhh!
these are images from my childhood, when it was built it was all i could think about.. i still remember my first ride.. anyone by chance have the tv ad?
in any case thank you sooo much for this treat!

woah those are some sweet pics! i just had to save them to my computer [;)]

thanks for sharing these [:D]

jo this is good!

cool pictures the coaster looked really nice back in those old days