New Six Flags Coaster to Offer Salvation

Six Flags Magic Mountain has mostly kept the wraps on its new coaster, but the L.A. Times Funland blog offers a few more details. Based on the movie, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins set to be released in May, the fairly standard wooden coaster will feature a pre-show, budgeted at $1 million, that will warn guests about impending doom and invite them to join the resistance. Actors from the new film, Common and Moon Bloodgood (gotta love the names!), will appear in pre-show videos. The boarding station will double as a training room, and the coaster will serve as fighter vehicles.

While the theme sounds promising, I still find it odd that Six Flags chose an old-school wooden coaster to tell a new-age sci-fi story. And it's doubly odd that nearby park competitor, Universal Studios Hollywood, has its own attraction tied to the Terminator franchise. Read more about the Terminator coaster coming to Six Flags Magic Mountain.

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Photo: Despite its high-concept theme, Terminator: The Coaster will be a fairly standard woodie. Six Flags 2008. Used with permission.