Six Flags Magic Mountain

[ethanuniversal]

A new permit for six flags Magic Mountain reveals they are ready to take the step with their next coaster and start pouring foundations

 

[Wesker69]

Surprised they haven't begun to at least dismantle the launch track of Superman. I'd figure they'd want that somewhat gone.

 

[coaster31]

Surprised they haven't begun to at least dismantle the launch track of Superman. I'd figure they'd want that somewhat gone.

the longer that remains standing the more I believe the rumor of S&S doing a complete revamp of the ride

 

[Wesker69]

To be fair, the park has a bad habit of leaving the remains of dead/defunct rides (and restaurants) for years...

Deja Vu towers & queue
The old monorail (although that finally got removed)
Flat ride building next to Jetstream

There's a few others too. And hell, Green Lantern sat there for years before getting shipped off.

I always joked the park was a defunct carnival graveyard where rides go to die/rot.

 

[coaster31]

I feel like this one may be a bit of a different case though, as some of those were queues or things that were not fully visible to the GP


the superman track is staring ever GP guest in the face as they walk by it, and as such I assume park staff would be spammed with people coming up to them and asking about the ride

 

[Rideguy70]

To be fair, the park has a bad habit of leaving the remains of dead/defunct rides (and restaurants) for years...

Deja Vu towers & queue
The old monorail (although that finally got removed)
Flat ride building next to Jetstream

There's a few others too. And hell, Green Lantern sat there for years before getting shipped off.

I always joked the park was a defunct carnival graveyard where rides go to die/rot.

Not all the monorail track got removed... if you look through the trees, there's still a bit visible when riding Swashbuckler. But you'd have to be actively looking for it to notice.

I have often wondered if they'd ever do anything with the lower Dragon station by Jet Stream. I thought it was so odd they took a lot of time recently to repaint it, and yet put nothing inside it. I always thought a tea-cup style ride would fit nicely in there.

But if we really want to be critical, we can talk about how Disneyland still has all the Peoplemover tracks up after, what, 30+ years?

As for Superman, it just seems like it wouldn't be too hard (on a relative scale) to just re-work the tech and create a "new" ride. Especially if they plan on keeping Drop of Doom... there's incentive to just find a new use for the rest of the tracks.