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Psyclone was a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Opened in 1991, it was patterned after the legendary Coney Island Cyclone. The Psyclone featured 11 hills, 5 high-speed banked turns, and a long pitch black tunnel. It also had the only wooden roller coaster trains ever built by Bolliger & Mabillard.
The ride sustained structural damage after the Northridge earthquake in 1994 and though repaired to operate safely again, the ride dynamics suffered greatly in regard to vehicle tracking. Major modifications happened, including adding trim brakes that slowed the trains down to the point of making the trains crawl through each turn. The heavy trains took their toll on the track structure, and the coaster became very rough. Because of this, ridership at the attraction had drastically declined, in part because it earned a poor reputation among park visitors and also because ride operators at the ride were required to load a minimum of 17 passengers in the train prior to dispatch. This policy was enforced to reduce the chances of the vehicles from stalling mid-ride due to lack of momentum. Because of this policy, during low attendance periods, the ride, while technically operational, would go for extended periods of time without dispatching a train as the operators waited for 17 riders to arrive. A 2006 poll of roller coaster enthusiasts ranked Psyclone 178th out of 179 wooden roller coasters worldwide.
On January 23, 2007, the park announced that Psyclone would be demolished for future expansion, following the closure of another roller coaster in the park, Flashback. The coaster closed at the end of the month. That spring, Psyclone was torn down and the location was blocked from guests' view with a sign stating that the land would be reserved for future attractions.
Psyclone was dismantled and scrapped during the last week of February 2007. The area of the park where Psyclone once stood is now occupied by another wooden coaster, Apocalypse.
Psyclone is a ride at Canada's Wonderland. On May 5, 2002, this Mondial ride was opened to the public at the park. The 1 minute and 54 second ride features 40 seats facing outwards which rotate from a central pendulum as the ride reaches its maximum arc angle of 120 degrees. Even though the ride height is , when the ride reaches the top of its swing, the height becomes high.
Psyclone is the eighth studio album for Australian rock singer Jimmy Barnes, It was released in Australia by Mushroom Records and peaked at #2 on the ARIA chart.
Barnes said in 2010: “When I made Psyclone, I was at the height of my alcoholism and addiction,” he recalls. “I was literally staring into the abyss".
Psyclone may refer to:
- Psyclone (Canada's Wonderland)
- Psyclone (roller coaster)
- Psyclone (album), a 1995 album by Jimmy Barnes
- "Psyclone!", a song by Super Furry Animals from their 2005 album, Love Kraft
- Psyclones, an experimental music industrial band