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Park News - (7/1/09) Some great coverage from the Termination Day event at SFMM has been posted to Westcoaster and Theme Park Review.
  (6/18/09) Check out the latest photo update from The Mountain posted to RCPro.
  (6/2/09) A BASE jumper took the plunge the other day from the top of the 415 foot tall Superman: The Escape tower. The stunt was performed and recorded as part of an upcomming TV show called MTV’s Nitro Circus. Read the LA Times for more info and a photo.
  (5/25/09) Theme Park Review is putting together a special enthusiast event at Six Flags Magic Mountain this summer called Termination Day that will take place on Sunday, June 28th. You can find out all the details here.
  (4/28/09) The LA Times has confirmed that SFMM will add a new BMX Stunt Show to the park this season. The new show will take place in the former Batman stunt show theater (next to Riddler’s Revenge), featuring BMX, skateboarding and moto-x style stunts and will be called, Mat Hoffman’s Danger Defying Daredevils.
  (4/6/09) I’ve heard from a Screamscape source that Magic Mountain may be thinking of removing the Tidal Wave ride sometime in the next year as the combined space from it and the former Freefall tower could be put to use as either the home for the new Wiggle’s World (2011) or whatever new family coaster ride they have in the works for 2010. Anyone know more?
  (4/1/09) A ton of new pictures from the park taken during the West Coast Bash, including some good Terminator updates, have been posted to Theme Park Review and Thrill Ride. Apparently 700 people showed up for the event which is just huge… and every person apparently took home a piece of wood from Terminator Salvation. Well, okay… leftover wood from the coaster’s construction. Obviously it wasn’t wood used from the actual ride since it hasn’t opened yet. Though I suppose they could have given out wood chunks from Psyclone or metal shards from Flashback… but those are probably long gone along with the park’s Tilt-A-Whirl.
  (3/20/09) Theme Park Review has announced that Six Flags Magic Mountain has released 100 more tickets to the West Coast Bash event this Sunday. This is your last chance to get in, and you have to buy them from Theme Park Review.
  (3/18/09) Theme Park Review has informed me that all tickets for the West Coast Bash event at Magic Mountain this weekend have been sold. Yes… the event is now completely sold out, so if you were waiting for the last second… it’s too late.
  (3/17/09) The LA Times posted a new article about Six Flags Magic Mountain yesterday after an interview with Mark Shapiro. He confirms that not only is Six Flags makings plans for 2010, but also for the 2011 season as that will mark the chain’s 50th Anniversary. He also confirmed all new plans for the park for the next two years. (See below)
  (12/5/08) The LA Times has posted an article giving off the list of rides to be included on the new Flash Pass system: Roaring Rapids, Revolution, Viper, Colossus, Scream, Goliath, Jet Stream, Batman, Log Jammer, Tatsu, Goldrusher, Tidal Wave, Riddler’s Revenge and apparently if you want to use X2 and the new Terminator Salvation coaster on the system, there will be an upcharge. Yes, you read that last part right, the name of the coaster has been slightly changed to Terminator Salvation: The Ride. Do we really need “The Ride” at the end though? Why not just call it Terminator: Salvation.
  (11/20/08) The SFMM website has leaked a confirmation that The Mountain will be finally adding the new electronic Q-bot version of Flash Pass to the park in 2009. Visit the park’s page that talks about the 2009 Play Passes and scroll down close to the end where it talks about “2009 Play Pass Pricing”. In the list of benefits it now says you get, “a discount on the new 2009 electronic The Flash Pass.”

2009 - Terminator Salvation: The Ride - (6/26/09) A video showing off all the preshow footage for the Terminator Salvation coaster can be seen here.
  (6/1/09) A good quality POV video shot from the front of Terminator has been posted to YouTube and embedded below.
It was shot in HD even, but it was also hand-held so expect a little shake. There is also a video after it shot from the back row that gives off a slightly different view of things and keeps the camera dryer as the mist in the tunnels fogs things up worse in the front row footage.


  (5/27/09) A cool photo update showing off Terminator Salvation at sunset has been posted to Coaster101.
  (5/25/09) Lots of new Terminator Salvation ride reports have been coming in this weekend from America Coasters as well as a video embedded below showing off the entire pre-show queue entertainment experience from Theme Park Review. Then take a look at the ride from a new set of pictures from Coaster Capture as well as WestCoaster.

  (5/22/09) Make the jump over to Theme Park Review to see the first photo from the Terminator Salvation media day first ride event. The coaster looks awesome and the big surprise... it has a fire effect. Yes... a fire effect on a wooden coaster. Lets hope that wood was treated with some liquid metal or something.
  (5/20/09) The first TV commerical for Terminator Salvation has been aired and can be found on YouTube, embedded below for your enjoyment. It also says that it opens on May 23rd... in just 3 more days. I’m not sure how they’re going to pull that one off though, since I thought that they had just started testing.

  (5/18/09) Pictures of Terminator Salvation making a test run can now be found posted to Theme Park Review. They’ve also posted a video of it to YouTube which I’ve embedded below as well where you can make out the large electric box on the back of the train, similar to the one found on Medusa / Bizarro at SFGAdv I’d wager, that contains all the hardware for the onboard audio equipment. For just a test ride, that train is flying already.

  (5/16/09) A new construction update for Terminator Salvation can be found at Westcoaster this week. They also report that Terminator has already has a successful first test run, so expect to see more test runs in the near future.
  (5/12/09) A new Terminator Salvation construction report has been added to Theme Park Review.
  (5/9/09) You can get a great first look at the new trains for Terminator Salvation on the LA Times website today. As you can see, the speakers for each row are embedded into the back of the car in front of them, so I can only assume that the front row will have it’s own unique speaker setup. On a related news item, you can see the current construction progress on the ride posted to West Coast Thrills in their latest trip report.
  (5/8/09) A new construction update on the Terminator coaster can be found at America Coasters. The queue is now starting to form along with a few preshow elements, and tunnels being added to the coaster.
  (3/26/09) The LA Times has posted a story about the actual story to be told wit the Terminator coaster’s themeing. While in the queue you will get to watch videos featuring a couple of the film’s stars (Common and Moon Bloodgood) who urge you to Join The Resistance. (No Christian Bale will not yell at your while you wait in line…)
  (3/8/09) All new construction pictures of Terminator Salvation have been posted to Theme Park Review. They’ve also got pictures of Mr. Six and the launch of the park’s new FlashPass system… ie: Q-Bots. Meanwhile new water blasters have been added to the end of Log Jammer and they report they will be part of Tidal Wave when it reopens too.
  (2/26/09) A new construction update from Six Flags Magic Mountain has been posted to here where they show off the newest Mandatory Lockers installed at the park, these just outside Batman: The Ride and Goliath. (These are in addition to the lockers installed last year at: Tatsu, X2, Scream and Riddler’s Revenge.) Oh, and there are a bunch of new Terminator photos to enjoy as well.
  (10/22/08) According to the LA Times, Six Flags Magic Mountain will announce Terminator: The Coaster sometime later this week and have posted a typical piece of SFMM concept art that looks like it would fit well onto the old Coaster Wall. The stats mentions in the article say it will stand 100 feet tall, 2,850 feet long, feature five hills, six heavily banked turns, a station fly-through and hit a top speed of 55 mph. Of course the real impressive part of the ride however may be that the $10 million price-tag also includes “visual and audio effects”. Now I don’t know if my audio effects they’re just talking about an area or two or if this will become the first wooden coaster with a full onboard soundtrack. Either way, I want to know more.

2010 - New Coaster / New Waterslide - Planned - (3/17/09) In an interview with the LA Times, Shapiro confirmed plans to add a new roller coaster to the park for the 2010 season as well as a new waterslide into Hurricane Harbor that same year.

2011 - Wiggle World - Planning - Planned - (3/17/09) Shapiro confirmed once again that a Wiggles World is on deck to be added to Magic Mountain for the 2011 season as part of the chain’s 50th Anniversary.
  (12/5/08) As part of the interview on the LA Times with Mark Shapiro, he mentioned that Six Flags Magic Mountain would be adding another roller coaster in 2010 and is on deck to get a Wiggles World shortly after that (2011/2012?).