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SIX FLAGS MAGIC MOUNTAIN
& Six Flags Hurricane Harbor
Valencia, California
Six Flags Theme Parks
---- THE LATEST BUZZ ----
(1/10/2025) Vekoma's Thrill Glider is Similar To Old Dragon Fly Concept
(1/7/2025) 2026 Vekoma Coaster will be a Thrill Glider
(1/6/2025) Possible 2026 Coaster Artwork Leaked
(12/31/2024) What’s Going on With Superman Anyway?
(11/14/2024) Six Flags Confirms New Coaster For 2026
Read Screamscape’s Official Review of WONDER WOMAN: FLIGHT OF COURAGE (2022)
Read Screamscape’s Official Review of WEST COAST RACERS (2020)
 Park News - (12/31/2024) So what is going on with Superman: Escape from Krypton at Six Flags Magic Mountain? Has the park given up on fixing and reopening it? A number of pallets full of parts, many covered in orange spray paint markings, have now appeared near the parking lot, below the park’s Scream roller coaster.
The pallets contain a number of large white blocks, which appear very similar looking to the LSM Stators. The parts and crates here also look fairly clean, which would indicate that prior to being dumped into the lot under Scream, they were kept indoors in a warehouse. However, the big splashes of orange paint across them could be taken as a marker to the forklift drivers as items that need to be moved out, as they are ready to be scrapped. If this is true, that doesn’t bode well for the future of Superman at the park, as it would indicate that they are essentially washing their hands of it ahead of an official decommission. As Superman has been sitting closed for months, the only alternative is that perhaps work crews have been replacing the older stators on the tracks, and these could just be the old retired parts.
As we’ve been seeing happen in other parks in the Six Flags chain, older rides that have proven too costly to maintain and operate are getting silently retired, and only announced as being closed for good long after it is too late to get a last ride in. Superman certainly fits the bill, though I believe the park is still running the Lex Luthor: Drop of Doom freefall ride that is attached to the ride tower.
While we know the Zumanjaro drop ride at Six Flags Great Adventure is to be demolished along with the Kingda Ka roller coaster it is attached it, I do think that the unique Superman tower structure could be left standing, allowing Drop of Doom to stay at the park, even if they do opt to close Superman for good.
Never let it be said that Six Flags wasn’t a company that let a good opportunity for some free marketing pass them by, and in the case of Superman, the teaser for an all new film and theatrical reboot of DC Comics own cinematic universe was just released. If they can save Superman, it would be nice to see the old ride given one more reboot and plans to reopen it in time for the new film release.
(11/29/2024) After being rumored as an off-season project for the past several years, it looks like Six Flags Magic Mountain is finally repainting Goliath. Workers were seen putting a nice new coat of blue on the lift hill structure this week., and while I don’t see any track paint going on yet, this does seem to indicate that Goliath may be staying the same color (or close to it) that it always at the start, unlike how some other large coasters in the chain are changing their colors right now.
2025 - Park Improvements - (11/14/2024) Nothing new is expected to be added for 2025 at this time... though the Hurricane Harbor waterpark is expected to get some improvements and upgrades over the winter for the 2025 season for the waterpark’s 30th Anniversary.
(8/18/2024) The Six Flags Hurricane Harbor waterpark closed at the Six Flags Magic Mountain complex will be apparently getting some love for the 2025 season. While it doesn’t sound like this will result in a new attraction, Blooloop reports that Hurricane Harbor will receive upgrades for the park’s 30th Anniversary season, that will “include expanded shaded areas, seating, cabanas and more amenities.” Look for this along with some upgraded landscaping and some slide refurbishments that may bring about some new bright colors throughout the park as well.
2026- New Roller Coaster - (1/10/2025) Digging through the Screamscape archives, I came across an old piece of Vekoma promotional artwork, likely used at IAAPA one year, that showcased a prototype concept called the Dragon Fly, which was a unique inverted coaster system where riders rode in a similar position to how they are placed on the motocoasters. The Dragon Fly was marketed as an attempt to reboot Vekoma’s “flying” coaster concept after the Flying Dutchman / Stealth style proved unpopular, along with refined layouts such as the Stingray.
The Dragon Fly was really more of an evolution of Vekoma’s attempt at copying the Arrow Suspended coaster design concept, as the description of Dragon Fly does mention that the trains were “completely open”, offered a “forward seating position and swinging suspension.”
The second image was something sent to me showing off what is supposed to be a technical drawing of the current Thrill Glider concept, which appears to be an evolved version of the unbuilt Dragon Fly concept. I’m not 100% sure, but it does look like it too might offer the swinging style suspension, similar to what Ninja already offers at the park, but now in a flying style riding position.
(1/7/2025) A little more information was uncovered about the 2026 Vekoma roller coaster coming to Six Flags Magic Mountain. According to documentation files, the ride is described as a “Thrill Glider”, which is said to be an odd concept that Vekoma proposed several years ago but never built. According to the old legends, this was indeed a variant of a motocoaster, but one that would use Inverted style coaster track, include a few inversions, and riders would be seated on a unique looking vehicle, in a posture more like how you would sit when riding a motorcycle style vehicle. Add in what definitely appear to be launch track segments, and the hillside terrain where this ride is going, and suddenly the SFMM 2026 project just got so much more interesting.
While nothing has been rumored just yet, there are those who are afraid that the arrival of this new inverted style coaster might also give the park enough reason to look at removing Ninja. Let’s hope not, as right now I think Superman is more in the crosshairs.
(1/6/2025) Artwork was discovered showing off the layout of a new Vekoma roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain, on the hillside behind the demolished theater, what is assumed to be the park's 2026 project. The red line shows what is believed to be the layout, based on the placement of the support footers on the drawing. My initial thought is that this is a launched ride, with what looks to be a booster section in mid ride, that would closely follow the hillside terrain in this location of the park. Now I'm wondering about one of the early rumors which suggested that it could be a motorcycle themed coaster of some sort. I believe another rumor suggested that it could have a top hat style element, which could be that unusual shaped turn on the right side of the image.
(11/14/2024) A press release from Six Flags today confirmed that the company is planning to spend over $1 BILLION on the parks over the next two years. Some of this will come in the form of enhancements to the guest experience, such as new themed areas, dining upgrades and technology enhancements. While we’ve seen the 2025 capital projects ($500 million) already announced, they decided to post a list of teasers of what they are already confirming will come to some of the parks in 2026 as part of another $525 million capital investment plan.
Six Flags Magic Mountain was listed as adding “a first-of-its-kind coaster in North America” to the park for 2026. This is likely going where the former Golden Bear theater venue sat, which was cleared out completely in 2024 as if it was going to be a 2025 project, and then all work just suddenly came to a halt. Now we know to expect something finally in 2026, but I’m thinking that this could possibly be a very different project under the NEW Six Flags management than what the old Six Flags may have been previously planning, as the timing of everything seems to indicate that the new management team may have hit the E-Stop on whatever previous plans were in the works to come up with something even better.
(6/13/2024) It has been quite some time since we’ve heard anything at all about the construction that was taking place at Six Flags Magic Mountain, clearing out a former theater to make way for a yet-to-be-announced future attraction. Unfortunately, it seems the reason we haven’t heard about any new progress in weeks is that it appears that all work had entirely stopped on the site once they cleared everything down to the “slab” foundation of the former venue. You can see some current photos of the site, and construction walls posted here.
Given that Six Flags parks in general have been very slow to start actual construction on most projects over the past decade, often waiting until the later part of the year, mixed with the fact that it’s hellishly hot at Six Flags Magic Mountain all summer, I’m not too surprised by this at all. Add in that we still don’t know what is coming to the park, the demolition job would have been an entirely separate project (with separate permits) from the upcoming construction project, so it is most likely the crew that was hired to clear the site has completed what they were hired to do and moved on.
That said… there does appear to be some new activity taking place next to Wonder Woman however. Click Here for that update.
(3/15/2024) It seems that it was an interesting day at Six Flags Magic Mountain on Friday. In addition to Wonder Woman being reported as valleying at some point, it seems that the first 2025 teaser has been posted onto the construction walls outside the former Golden Bear Theater site. It’s got the typical park logo and tagline, “Thrill Capital of the World” along with a picture of a strange robotic/cyborg bird above the words, “Epic Thrills Are Cycling In’ along with a multi-color background in tones of blue, orange and gold, which are the same colors on the bird.
I don’t recognize the bird at all as being something from an existing IP that I recognize, so anyone else have a guess? Since the park already has Tatsu and Batman, the use of a bird wouldn’t indicate a Flyer or Inverted coaster, so for now I’m going to start thinking along the lines of something tall, or maybe fast… since I’m also not seeing any wings on this bird, but there are cybernetic leg joints, so perhaps it’s a techo-roadrunner. Of course there is the use of the word “Cycling” to consider as well, so could this be something motorcycle themed?
(3/11/2024) With Six Flags Magic Mountain hard at work clearing out the former site of the Golden Bear Theater, the speculation and rumor machine is ramping up about what could be coming. As you might expect from a park like Six Flags Magic Mountain, which has made a reputation for itself by building giant crazy sounding roller coasters, the rumor mill is going to run a little wild before we know what is coming.
As for the site, as we previously mentioned the Golden Bear theater building and stage itself have been removed and cleared out, but the concrete seating built into the hillside is still there. It would take a lot of work to break up all the concrete to remove it, so I can see them just sort of leaving it in place, and only working on the areas that they may need to break up to add in new footers or whatever is necessary. Pictures and videos of the site clearing show a staircase leading up and out of top of the hillside from there, to an network of old maintenance pathways that wind around and under Superman: Escape from Krypton. It’s also worth mentioning that there seems to see some clean-up work and a little clearing to the trees on the hillside on the opposite side of Superman from there, heading down towards Crazanity. Between all that and the huge section of open space still left open from the removal of the Log Jammer that was never re-used when they put in Full Throttle, we are looking at a fairly large potential space that could be put to use here.
Soi what is coming? We really don’t know right now to be honest. The one persistent rumor I’ve heard for the longest amount of time was that Six Flags may be working with Vekoma to build some kind of custom mega-coaster project that could go here. Something tall, very fast, and could quite possibly have a very large number of inversions. A few other oddball rumors have also been floated in that I’m not very confident about right now, involving other companies that may have submitted proposals or have been trying to get a successful bid on the project, but have since falled by the wayside. One other name did come up this weekend however as a potential competitor to Vekoma for the project that I think might have a little merit… Gerstlauer.
Six Flags have worked with them on and off over the years on a number of projects, including a batch of spinning coasters, the Dare Devil Dive coaster at Six Flags over Georgia, and of course they made the trains for the first two RMC IBox conversion coasters, The New Texas Giant and Iron Rattler. While that relationship came to a sudden end when there was an unfortunate incident on the Texas Giant, that did not stop Six Flags Fiesta Texas from buying a new spare train from them for their Iron Rattler over the past year.
So while we still don’t know exactly what it is, those two are my top contenders for the moment.
(12/9/2023) Remember back in August when I told everyone to keep an eye on the Golden Bear Theater, because our sources reported that it would be leaving? Well, this is all now officially coming true, as Six Flags Magic Mountain has filed the necessary demolition permits to take down the theater completely to the slab. Our last update about the rumored removal also indicated that the site would likely be repurposed for a new roller coaster for the 2025 season, so as before, keep your eyes on this location over the next 18 months.
(10/4/2023) While we don’t know much yet about what Six Flags Magic Mountain has planned, sources tell us to keep an eye on the theater spot, as we previously indicated. The park’s next coaster is expected to go in this location, and is expected to open in 2025 if all goes as planned. While there have been lots of rumors about finally brining a Giga style coaster to the park, the latest rumor actually claims Vekoma may be involved. While Vekoma has never built a Giga (or a true Hyper) to my knowledge, they have started to work with Six Flags lately, adding the family Rookie Racer coaster to Six Flags St. Louis just this past week, and the new Super Boomerang was announced for 2024 at Six Flags Great Adventure. So more Vekoma products may be planned for Six Flags in the years to come.
(8/25/2023) Is Six Flags Magic Mountain making early plans to add something new? I don’t have a timeline, or even a hint yet about what may be in the works for Magic Mountain’s next big attraction, but instead the focus is more on what may be leaving the park. According to a source the park may be preparing to remove the Golden Bear Theater.
The removal of this theater would open up the entire hillside from Full Throttle down to Swashbuckler and Buccaneer for future attraction development. Now the question is, what would you like to see put here instead?
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