Six Flags Over Georgia GM Greg Fuller announced at Coaster Fest 2024 that it will repaint its iconic Goliath roller coaster. The ride will sport a completely new color scheme or turquoise blue and tarpaulin grey. At a price tag of $1 million this will be part of the park’s 2025 capital investment (along with the delayed Georgia Surfer). The paint job will begin after Fright Fest and will be ready for the 2025 season. The colors are hard to make out from the slide from Coaster Fest, but the RAL Colour samples below should give a better idea of the new colors.

Painting a coaster is no small task and we’ve written before about the painting process with Baynum Paints and their work on things like Montu at Busch Gardens. An outdoor coaster, especially in the south, will be attacked by the sun and the elements causing paint to fade over time and if you look at pictures from Goliath’s opening in 2006 the fade is pretty obvious, especially in the blue. You can see this fading more evidently and the contrast of old and new on Montu during its repaint below. Many times parks will retain the color scheme and just freshen up the paint job, but in the case of Boomerang at Wild Adventures earlier this year and now Goliath, sometimes a park take the opportunity to change things up.

$1 million for a paint job is no small investment and honestly while I knew it couldn’t be cheap, I was surprised it was that high. That amount could be the cost of a small flat ride, but if it keeps Goliath looking good and running well for years to come it’ll be worth it. It’ll be sad to not be able to ride it during Holiday in the Park in November/December, but it’ll also be fun to watch the paint job happen. It’s got to be quite the trip wielding a paint sprayer 200 feet in the air!

Goliath is considered by most to be Six Flags Over Georgia’s best coaster and many argue it is one of the better B&M hyper coasters. It has some neat quirks like the second drop being bigger than the first and it dominates the skyline with how it sprawls around the front of park and past the front gate outside the park. The new colors will surely change the look of the park from the highway, parking lot and nearly everywhere in the park. It may take some getting used to, but the new paint job should pop and I’m looking forward to seeing it!