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Cyclone Bay

The back corner where the wooden Colossus twins became Twisted Colossus and the racing continues.

  • Attractions3
  • Places to eat0
  • HeadlinerTwisted Colossus

Cyclone Bay holds the park's wooden-coaster heart. Colossus raced white wooden trains for four decades; after the 2015 Rocky Mountain conversion it races itself as Twisted Colossus, a steel-tracked hybrid that duels its own second train around the old footprint and includes a section where the track literally high-fives itself.

West Coast Racers, the launched racing coaster built with the park's partnership branding, sits alongside. This back corner is hot, loud and — on weekdays — the emptiest big-coaster real estate in the park.

Do not miss

  • Twisted Colossus racing itself
  • West Coast Racers' side-by-side launches
  • Goliath at the bay's edge

Cyclone Bay tips

  • Twisted Colossus is at its best when both trains dispatch — if the queue is short, ask the ride hosts which dispatch pattern gets the duel.
  • This corner is the park's best afternoon zone: the crowds thin and the rides here keep capacity all day.

Attractions in Cyclone Bay

Twisted Colossus

48"122cm

Roller coaster · 2½ min · Line-skip

The 1978 racing wooden twins rebuilt in steel — now a single hybrid that races its own second train and high-fives its own track twice.

Colossus was Magic Mountain's racing wooden coaster from 1978, famous from film and famous for its white structure. In 2015 Rocky Mountain Construction rebuilt it as Twisted Colossus: the wooden structure remains, the track became the inversions-capable Ibox steel, and the two original tracks became one continuous circuit ridden by two trains that can race.

Tips for Twisted Colossus
  • Ask the station crew if the racing dispatch is running — the high-five element only happens when both trains duel.
  • Ride the back car for airtime, the front for the race view; there is no wrong row on this one.
  • The 48-inch minimum plus lap-bar restraints make this the best first big coaster at the park.
  • Late afternoon is its quietest window — the back corner empties after the lunch rush.

Full guide to Twisted Colossus →

Goliath

48"122cm

Roller coaster · 3 min · Line-skip

The 255-foot Giovanola hypercoaster with a 61-degree first drop, an underground tunnel and the helix that greys out the front row.

Goliath opened in 2000 as the park's giant drop machine: 255 feet down at 61 degrees, 85 miles per hour, into a course of hills and one extended helix that has become the ride's signature — a sustained high-g spiral that quietly dims the vision of riders in the front row.

Tips for Goliath
  • Front row for the grey-out helix; back row for the first-drop airtime.
  • If tunnels in darkness are a no for a young rider, this is not the intro coaster — the tunnel is fast and total.
  • Queue in the late afternoon; the bay-side location keeps its line shorter than the summit rides all day.
  • Hydrate before riding if you are sensitive to sustained g — the helix is where low water intake shows up.

Full guide to Goliath →

West Coast Racers

48"122cm

Roller coaster · 2½ min · Line-skip

Two side-by-side launched tracks racing four-abreast through the bay — the modern family-thrill coaster and the park's best head-to-head show.

West Coast Racers is a Premier racing launch coaster: two separate tracks, four launches between them, and trains that genuinely race through crossings and helixes. It opened in 2019 as the park's first new big coaster in years and immediately became the family favorite of the thrill tier — 48 inches, no inversions, relentless but never brutal.

Tips for West Coast Racers
  • Both tracks ride differently — ask which is the red/blue side and do both if the queue allows.
  • The racing outcome depends on dispatch timing; midday dispatches are likelier to be true side-by-side.
  • Pairs well with Twisted Colossus for the two-race afternoon in the bay.

Snacks worth stopping for

Turkey leg

Savory snack carts

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The smoked turkey leg the size of a toddler's arm, walked around the park on the theory that it is a meal.

Our take: Split it between two people or commit to being finished with food for the day. Salt-forward, photogenic, a theme-park rite.

Savory Gluten-friendly Walkable

Nearby

Six Flags Magic Mountain map See where this land sits All attractions Every ride in Six Flags Magic Mountain Six Flags Plaza The entrance plaza, where Full Throttle's giant loop hangs over the front of the park like a gate. DC Universe The superhero strip, where Batman and The Riddler's Revenge run adjacent inverter-and-standup formation.