Colossus
Location	Six Flags Magic Mountain
Type	Wood
Status	Open
Opened	June 29, 1978
Manufacturer	International Amusement Devices, Inc.
Designer	International Amusement Devices, Inc.
Track layout	Racing out-and-back
Lift/launch system	Chain
Height	125 feet (38.1 m)
Drop	115 feet (35.1 m)
Length	4,325 feet (1,318.3 m)
Max speed	62 miles per hour (99.8 km/h)
Inversions	0
Duration	2:30
Max vertical angle	64°
Capacity	2600 riders per hour
Height restriction	48 inches (121.9 cm)
Colossus at RCDB Amusement Parks Portal

Colossus is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. When it opened in June of 1978, it was the tallest and fastest wooden roller coaster in the world, and the first roller coaster in the world with two drops in excess of 100-feet.^{[citation needed]} Colossus features two identical side-by-side tracks, but it is not considered a racing roller coaster since the trains rarely line up to leave at the same time. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2816 × 2112 pixel, file size: 2. ... Six Flags Magic Mountain is an amusement park located just west of the Valencia neighborhood of Santa Clarita, north of Los Angeles. ... The Texas Giant, a large wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, TX Thunderbird in the PowerPark amusement park A wooden roller coaster or woodie is most often classified as a roller coaster with laminated steel running rails overlayed upon a wooden track. ... is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... An inch (plural: inches; symbol or abbreviation: in or, sometimes, ″ - a double prime) is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... A centimetre (American spelling centimeter, symbol cm) is a unit of length that is equal to one hundredth of a metre, the current SI base unit of length. ... Image File history File links Portal. ... A typical roller coaster The roller coaster is a popular amusement ride developed for amusement parks and modern theme parks. ... Six Flags Magic Mountain is an amusement park located just west of the Valencia neighborhood of Santa Clarita, north of Los Angeles. ... A typical stretch of Valencia Boulevard. ... A racing roller coaster consists of two coasters that travel along parallel tracks to simulate a race between the trains. ...

Colossus was built by International Amusement Devices, Inc. and opened on June 29, 1978. The coaster's six trains are six cars long; each car contains two rows of two seats, for a total of 24 seats per train. is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ...

View from the parking lot

Colossus has been reprofiled several times since it opened. The most significant reprofiling was in 1979. One very visible change was done in 1991 to a pair of camelback hills on the parking lot side. The valley between the hills was leveled off and a block brake was added. The original track can still be seen below the block brake. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 340 pixelsFull resolution (2815 × 1195 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 340 pixelsFull resolution (2815 × 1195 pixel, file size: 1. ...

In 1978, 20-year-old Carolina Flores was ejected from the Colossus ride and died.

During the Halloween season, the coaster's web-like structure is accompanied by a giant black spider. The cars on one side of the track are also flipped around, and it is ridden backwards.

It was featured in the 1983 film, National Lampoon's Vacation. It is also the coaster that the family rides in the opening sequence of the sitcom Step by Step. The coaster was featured in a game on the Nickelodeon kids' game show Wild & Crazy Kids. The game, hosted by Omar Gooding, pitted boys against girls to see which team could keep the most water in mugs while on the ride. The boys won, but just barely. National Lampoons Vacation is a 1983 comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and starring Chevy Chase, Beverly DAngelo, Anthony Michael Hall, Dana Barron, Randy Quaid and Imogene Coca. ... Step by Step may refer to: Step by Step (TV series), a sitcom that aired on ABC in the 1990s. ... Nickelodeon may refer to: Nickelodeon movie theater, an early 20th century form of small, neighborhood movie theaters Nickelodeon (film), a 1976 film directed by Peter Bogdanovich Nickelodeon (TV channel), a cable TV network whose demographic is primarily children and pre-teens in the United States. ... Wild and Crazy Kids was a game show on Nickelodeon in which large teams would participate in head to head physical challenges. ... Omar Gooding (born October 19, 1976 in the Bronx, New York) is an American actor. ...

External links

• Colossus Review Photos and more information on Ultimate Rollercoaster.com.