Walley World Roller Coaster From ‘National Lampoon’s Vacation’ Is Closing
By Peter Sciretta/June 6, 2014 12:00 pm EST
The coaster was also featured on tv episodes of Wild & Crazy Kids, Doogie Howser, M.D., Knight Rider, Wonder Woman, and The A-Team. It appeared in other films like the 1982 teen film sex comedy Zapped! starring Scott Baio.
The wooden roller coaster opened in June 1978 and was deemed the tallest and fastest wooden roller coaster in the world and the first with two drops greater than 100 feet. The coaster cost $7 million to build, which was a huge sum in the late 1970’s. The attraction has been located in the the Colossus County Fair area of Six Flags Magic Mountain.
Here is the National Lampoon’s Vacation scene where the Griswold family arrives at Walley World only to find that the park is closed:
No details have been revealed as to the plans for the coaster after the closure. It has been rumored that Six Flags will replace the wooden track on Colossus with I-Box track and rename it the “Iron Colossus”. So it is possible that the iconic coaster will have new life in a different form, but there is also the possibility that Six Flags will completely replace the attraction with much bigger and faster metal coaster.
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