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Twisted Colossus is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. Originally designed and built by International Amusement Devices , the roller coaster opened as Colossus , a dual-tracked roller coaster , on June 29, 1978.
Colossus is a steel roller coaster at Thorpe Park in Surrey, England, and the park's first major attraction. It was built by Lichtenstein-based manufacturers Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel as an adaptation of Monte Makaya in Brazil .
Colossus was a wooden roller coaster which opened in 1978. In 1978, Colossus opened, and at the time was the fastest and largest dual-tracked wooden coaster in the world. Following its first season, it was closed and extensively redone. When it reopened, it was a much smoother ride.
After 36 years as a gleaming fixture at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, Calif., the iconic roller coaster 'Colossus' will soon be shutting down -- but to honor the ride's closing, a group of ...
The iconic Colossus roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain caught fire Monday afternoon. Colossus is the most famous coaster at the suburban Los Angeles theme park. It is currently closed ...
A dual-tracked roller coaster is a roller coaster that consists of two tracks. They can be configured as racing, dueling, or Möbius loop roller coasters. Some dual-track coasters operate only one track side at a time, including Rolling Thunder and Colossus. Others may opt to run one side facing frontward and one side facing backward.
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Colossus is a portable roller coaster, so it was fairly inexpensive, costing around $2.5 million USD. It can be dismantled and rebuilt within a day. It traveled on a European fair circuit for approximately two years, before Lagoon purchased the attraction. The ride was later installed at Lagoon in 1983, where it has operated since.