In 2014, Six Flags Mexico will open a brand new coaster experience, the first hybrid coaster of its kind in the country. The Medusa wooden coaster will be transformed into the new innovative Medusa Steel Coaster, featuring a steel track atop a wooden base.
This technological innovation will combine the classic thrills of a wooden structure, with a new modern track and rails constructed out of steel, providing a ride that’s fiercer and smoother than ever before. The coaster will stand 98-foot lift hill, and will feature and inverting dive, reaching a top speed of 58 miles per hour.
Riders will traverse through 3,000 feet of track, tackling surprising over-banked turns, sliding around dramatic curves, and twisting through outrageous inversions, flipping head-over-heels through a winding coil. Medusa Steel Coaster will feature two newly themed trains topped with a mythic eye-catching Medusa head.
Rocky Mountain Construction is handling Medusa’s transformation. The company was also responsible for Six Flags over Texas’s New Texas Giant and Six Flags Fiesta Texas’ Iron Rattler coasters.
Watch a teaser video of the coaster in action below:
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SFM’s Medusa will become the third Six Flags wood coaster to undergo the hybrid transformation (iron horse re-track) by Rocky Mountain Construction, following the recent transformations of SFFT’s Rattler/Iron Rattler and SFOT’s Texas Giant.
The Six Flags wood coasters that I’m thinking could possibly be next in line to get the iron horse re-track…
— SFMM’s Colossus.
— SFSTL’s The Boss.
— SFGAM’s Viper.
— SFOG’s Georgia Cyclone.
Texas Giant’s transformation took approx. 12-16 months to complete. Colossus’ transformation would most likely take approx. 12-16 months. With SFMM celebrating its 45th anniversary in 2016, I could picture the iconic twin racing wood coaster closing at the end of the 2014 season, to undergo transformation during 2015, and reopen in 2016… and possibly re-themed as “Iron Colossus”.
Iron Rattler’s transformation took approx. 8 months to complete, and I’m assuming the same for SFM’s Medusa. I could see Boss’ transformation taking about 8 months, and it possibly be re-themed as “Iron Boss”… this one have 1 or 2 inversions, including a vertical loop (that could be a first). SFSTL celebrates its 45th in 2016 as well.
Viper and Georgia Cyclone are mirror image clones of the Coney Island Cyclone. SGFAM celebrates its 40th in 2016… not sure if Viper would keep the mirror image Coney Island Cyclone layout or not, or go with something different. SFOG celebrates its 50th in 2017… I would definitely prefer that Georgia Cyclone keep the mirror image Coney Island Cyclone layout, with overbanking turns and no inversions… it likely be re-themed as “New Georgia Cyclone”, as well as “The Most a Coaster can Beeeeeeee!” slogan being revived.
An iron horse re-track of SFGADV’s Rolling Thunder would have been neat. Unfortunately, SFGADV is closing its twin racing wood coaster after 34 years… El Toro will be SFGADV’s only wood coaster, until a new GCI all wood and/or RMC iron horse comes along, to make up for the departure of Rolling Thunder.
Turns out Colossus got the treatment in 2015,and SFOG will be getting the treatment.I don’t think SFGAM will get an RMC Viper now that they have Goliath.