Great American Scream Machine Front Seat on-ride POV Six Flags Great Adventure
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- It's time to say goodbye to this classic Arrow custom looper. It was dismantled to make room for the Green Lantern, a giant B&M standup coaster that is being relocated from the former Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom park.
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RIP Great American Scream Machine. 1989-2010. You were the ride that saved Six Flags from closing. We thank you and miss you
@Joel Johnson Here's why the park almost died.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_Castle_(Six_Flags_Great_Adventure)#1984_fire
@@johngriswold4303 No. Six Flags Great Adventure's attendance took a major hit before this ride opened after a Haunted Castle fire that killed 8 teenagers was found to be the park's fault. After Great American Scream Machine opened, attendance and revenue skyrocketed.
@@johngriswold4303 no what happened was someone died died on rolling thunder because of a condition and since people are stupidly dumb they decided that that means if yiu go to great adventure you die so people didnt come
@@waveiscursed a lot of incidents happened
Proud to say my Dad was an ironworker and the Forman on the building of this coaster many years ago.
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The nostalgia of even just hearing it go up the lift.
@@Swagaholic666 Great adventure used to have a Viper too, but it was taken down around 2005 sadly :(
@@stoicoutrider2788 honestly you’re better off without it, because El Toro replaced it
@@majorian9406 I agree with you completely!!!
Nothing beat the Scream Machine.
@@johngriswold4303 It has a terrible B&M rattle
Rest in peace Great American Scream Machine, may your sister, Viper, stand tall in your honor.
Actually take viper down it sucks
Or replace the over the shoulder restraints with lap bars then that ride would be pretty great
+Daniel Sanders I just rode Viper a few months ago and found it surprisingly smooth. I had no headbanging at all
+Pieter Lootsma Yeah, Viper's not actually so bad. It's really tall too.
Too bad the Scream Machine Trains are being replaced this season.
Nothing beats the sound and nostalgia of an Arrow coaster going up the lift hill
No joke, I got teary eyed when they announced this coaster was to be disassembled. So many summers of my youth that I spent at that park. This was by far my #1 favorite coaster.
That is one sound that I miss when I go to the park, you always knew when the Scream Machine was running you could hear it go up the lift hill.
Same with the Chiller, but at least now we have the insane roar of Green Lantern.
The Loc Ness Monster at Busch Garden Williamsburg does the same sound
this was the first ever steel coaster i rode in the mid 90's. RIP GASM
Miss that Arrow Lift sound at Great Adventure. Such a great sound.
OMG Yes!
same
Daniel Blaney probably the most enjoyable part of the ride (besides the color, I liked the color scheme on this one)
Well Brent, It's called the Great American Scream Machine for more than one reason.
Classic!
10+ years later and I STILL wish I could go on this again. Such a classic that I miss so much.
Only way to get close to the experience, is to ride its taller, faster, and last remaining sister at Six Flags Magic Mountain. I went in 2017 and rode it 5x, it was so much fun reliving the experience again.
I went on every single ride in great adventure except for this one. Why did they have to get rid of it it looks so much fun. It looks way better than green lantern.
It was.
Coasterdude02149 Green Lantern is no doubt THE WORST coaster I have been on. So painful...
VinnyB yeah man I sat on it weirdly and the whole time I had to bend my knees uncomfortably
VinnyB I was expecting more pain on Chang (sorry, I don't call these rides by the tired cartoon names) when GA got it but unlike Mantis, it was surprisingly smooth-but give it a few years and it'll be a head basher. Too bad they didn't keep Scream machine and get rid of that asinine Superman flyer instead.
Coasterdude02149 yeah that ride is overrated. I had to stand in line for hours to get on it and it wasn't even worth it.
I wish these Arrow loopers would make a come back . so scary and rough and fun.
I think that style of coaster will never be replicated. they've moved on to more technically advanced and smoother ride designs. thing is, with the cpu tech they have now, they could actually build these arrow style coasters to be much more smooth and fun over all.
@Ness Bound They do have the air launched coasters, and more recently the inverting model. (steel curtain)
Vekoma, are you listening?
Honestly, Vekoma, if you could build an ARROW mega looper and just fix the transitions but keep a arrow style design (i know your capable of this) I will be your best friend
@@electric7487 here in the netherlands they completely re-tracked an old arrow-style-vekoma-built classic looper (python@efteling) it's now super smooth and feels like brand new.
This was the first coaster I ever rode. I was 10 years old living in South Jersey and went to GA the summer of 1989. I will never forget how terrified I was. Now im 42 and a coaster-aholic. Thank you GASM.
I'll never forget this classic. Recently found an on-ride photo of my friend and I on this years ago. RIP
I rode Viper at SFMM and it was amazing. Viper seems almost the same as the GASM. Way better than stand-up coasters. Sitting in the back of viper is really fun
I still can't believe they took this down. Great American Scream Machine was a sentimental favorite of mine. I remember seeing it as we entered the parking lot the first time I went to Great Adventure and thinking how big and awesome it looked (it was my first time ever seeing a looping coaster). I'm kinda glad I settled for this instead of waiting three hours to ride Kingda Ka the last time I went back in 2006. Man, I bet Great Adventure just doesn't look the same without this beast there anymore. :'(
It looks like a messy zone of DC advertisements with Ultimate Flight in the parking lot and Green Lantern the stand up. At least put six down seats on it. The whole mid-section is basically garbage now. it used to have a few good rides (besides the upcharge ones), games to play that didn't cost an arm and a leg, and Great American Scream Machine. Now it's filled with mediocre coasters and ones that is always broken on the path off the side to the "kingdom" section where you have to walk another mile just to get to the drop tower. The place is a mess. They should do a solid premiere launch at some point, and a GCI to replace rolling thunder. a zamperla endeavour would be a good ride too since these areas all lack rides really. Hopefully one in 2020. But seriously, they could tear down green lantern and superman and get a wing coaster and I'd care less for the loss.
Mediocre coasters? Kingda Ka, El Toro, Nitro?
Kingda Ka is constantly broken, and it's overrated, you launch, come down the ride is over. El Toro used to be amazing, it's just getting more and more rough, obvious rusted track in need of retracking. Nitro is pretty great, as is batman the ride, joker, bizzaro, even the family coaster runaway train is fun as is skull mountain, dark night is garbage-I like wild mouse coasters, it's not a good one. Huge park one wooden coaster, c'mon. Build a solid GCI. Things were much better when we had rolling thunder and great american scream machine, not a super loop and a stand up coaster.
Kingda Ka may be overrated but it's still a unique experience and something I wish I could go on again. El Toro is still #1 wooden coaster imo.
Noone cares.
This ride is in the hands of God up in heaven along with shockwave and all other good coasters that were taken down
Rest in peace Great American Scream Machine
VacuumCollector FixerEnthusiast Amen
It might have been a rough ride, but it lived true to it's name
Vortex at Kings Island recently joined as well
Railfan Andrew Rest In Peace Vortex, my favorite coaster I’ve ridden.
@@andrewschannel4259 and even fnf's garcello
**when garcello allows old and scrapped coasters**
I almost started crying when I heard the news, I have been begging my mom to let me go, hopefully I can go next Tuesday or Wednesday. This my 2nd favorite ride in the park.
If you never been on the scream machine, you missed out on something special 😢. What ride that was.
I did Viper, it's very similar
I miss this ride. The cool thing about it was that it was this old underappreciated coaster but it was MASSIVE and had gravitas that you'd notice as soon as you got to the park. It looked like what you think about when you think "Coaster". It truly was worthy of its name!
It broke my heart to learn they demolished this coaster three years ago. This was my very first coaster ride and I was proud to ride it twice more again when I returned to the park in 09.
SFGA should have never removed this classic coaster. Sure it doesn't have the best layout or smoothness, but it's a classic and you can't help but to love it.
Bring back The Scream Machine and Rolling Thunder and Great Adventure has no blunder!
Get rid of Green Lantern. Bring this back
Natasha McHattan People like think all good coasters only come fr B&M, intamin and RMC
This ride was super rough. So was rolling thunder, all though they could've rmc'd it. But this ride was terrible. Green Lantern sucks too.
Alec Bailey This and green lantern dont suck. And you call rolling thunder super rough? Like i said, people like you are so conditioned and brainwashed by RMC, Intamin and B&M that y’all think all rides have to be like them
This was my first looping coaster a million years ago. Blacked out on it twice because when they tell you to keep your head back they mean it :D Still one of my favorites of all time.
My FAVORITE ride back in the day @ SFGA. Viper @ SFMM was this rides exact twin. Been on both, but SFGA was my hometown park. Now my current park is SFDK, I love Medusa, but I will ALWAYS remember the Scream Machine. :-)
In 1999 when they built Medusa (now Bizzaro), it overtook Scream Machine as my favorite looping coaster in the park. Of course then we had chiller to be a fun launcher. That did more than go over a single top hat. If it was still there even now, even loving batman, and enjoying others like joker and looking foward to the upcoming jersey devil, it'd probably still be in my top 5. Unless they'd actually fix El Toro with all the rusted out track and super jerky-ness added on with crappy trains.
Man im glad I got to ride it once before they took it down. I miss these older corkscrew coasters.
I wish someone would make rides like these again. With today's coaster tech they could be buttery smooth with better transitions but still have that retro look.
Im so glad Viper is still around! Luckily I get to enjoy it on a weekly basis. Man it would hurt my soul if they were to dismantle Viper at SFMM too...
thats what made it so memorable and wonderful, it showed its age and was one of the best rides ever.
My friend and I went after school one day when there was hardly anyone in the park. We stayed on that ride for 19 times in a row without getting off. And the 19th was just as fun as the 1st. Such a great ride
Had season passes to that park just for this coaster. Newer coasters may be taller and faster but, this thing rocked. Sad to see it gone.
I grew up in the Lehigh Valley so the GASM and Hercules at Dorney Park opening in 1989 was a huge deal in that area! It became a right of passage to get to both parks that summer to ride the brand new, rather awe-inspiring coasters; one a crazy steel looper and the other a massive wooden coaster.
It is interesting how Six Flags Great America got version 1.0 of the Arrow 7-looper Shockwave in 1988 due to low attendance at Great Adventure. One year later, Great American Scream Machine (AKA Shockwave 1.1 to me) successfully revived Great Adventure.
I wonder if this is where Six Flags Great America got its reputation for being a first mover in the coaster wars... (e.g. Batman: the Ride being cloned, Raging Bull evolving into Nitro)
RIP Great American Scream Machine. I rode all the seats while this ride was at the park. When they tore it down, I cried. This was my favorite ride and I miss it terribly. But now a new ride stands in its spot. I'll miss GASM but will always keep it in memory. I still have the photo from when my whole family( minus my little sister and grandma) rode this. Miss u GASM, ur legend lives on in all of the other roller coasters at Six Flags Great Adventure!!
Man! Wished I would have got the opportunity to ride this! Love Arrow Loopers! What a beauty that one was!
I went on this one time with my buddy back in like 09. No one was in line. We were so excited we ran to the front and the ride began with just us two on. Our excitement ended when we realized nobody was in line because this was the most painful rollercoaster on the planet! All i remember was our "WOOOOO!!!!" Turned into "ow, OW, OW, MAKE IT ST- OWWW!!"
Great memory but my least favorite coaster! 😂
If only I was to ride this coaster at least one last time, I would make the best of it. This was my first ever rollercoaster that I went on ever. The good old days.
I'm glad that I got the chance to ride it last year. It's sad to see, but Arrow Dynamics coasters are starting to dissappear from parks. The one at Gauga Lake, the Python at BGA, the Big Bad Wolf at BGE, and now the GASM at SFGrAdv. The one thing I love about coasters from AD is that classic lift hill sound of the metal chain dogs clanking against the metal anti rollbacks while the train ascends the lift.
My 10 year old son is going to Six Flags Great Adventure on Saturday with one of his best friends. I've been telling him about the Great American Scream Machine for the last week. I had no idea that it was disassembled to make room for the Green Lantern coaster, since I haven't been there for about 7 or 8 years. I'm terrified of roller coasters with high, straight drops but can go on ones with a drop that is curved (like this coaster and Batman - my two all-time faves) and has lots of loops and upside down turns. I am totally bummed that my son won't get to experience it. R.I.P. Great American Scream Machine. Alicia Stichweh
Parks need to stop tearing down these classic arrow loopers they are old and classic ride that are loved by many
Boom The Gamer they are super rough, all of them have to go
so true, this ride was so much better than Green Lantern. As if they didn't put in another B&M redundant of Bizzaro, you get a stand up transport. So people say Great American Scream Machine was "jerky and headbanging?" Green Lantern is jerky and headbanging, and also breaks your mid-torso lower section too.
@@David-gj9qr please be careful and don't hurt yourself on the pasted in horrid vest restraint B&M's that are the same things with different seating or riding a free spin. I'd also avoid all wooden roller coasters but don't worry RMC is ok because people say so even though the shin guards are horrible. Keep going on the jerky launching intamins that are constantly broken, and enjoy complaining about any side company making something great and calling it rough and not good like gravity group, S&S, and mack.
The ride put too much pressure on the track and supports, which is why it had to go sadly, although I do agree with you. I went on this ride very many times, and it was my favorite ride at the park.
Boom the Gamer i agree but i want Anaconda torn down though but arrow loopers aren't even that rough they just knock ur head around a little but there still fun rides we lost this shockwave and now vortex whyy and i think viper wont last long eather six flags will probably announce a closing date in late 2020 or early 2021 idk
I wish they would have kept this and put Green Lantern where Batman and Robin: The Chiller use to be, that way, they would have an extra roller coaster, and i love classic Arrow's, i was sad to see this go. RIP GASM
hahaha coaster gasm
or gasm
The last one remains at Six Flags Magic Mountain which is Viper.
TheSlickkEffect Nope, also Vortex at Kings Island
TheSlickkEffect unless your referring to a 7 looper, then you'd be right. Vortex is a 6 looper
I will Never forget this coaster . Rode this dozens of times ever since middle school. I even got a chance to get on the green lantern years later after this coaster was removed. Whiplash so much neck snappage on this coaster haha but it was still awesome. The orange shoulder harnesses the high awkwardly placed and angled first drop and that triple loop man. I recreated this coaster almost piece for piece as well as I could do in planet coaster just now . So much memories and this was ten years ago today wow . This is amazing this coaster still lives on in Infamy in TH-cam videos and video games such as roller coaster tycoon and planet coaster .
LOL! Yeah, I remember that too. Head bounced around like a pinball! It is a shame though. I remember as a kid I posted the newspaper articles of the ride on my bullitin board when it first opened. I was like 7 inversions...I MUST ride that! As the years went by I got older, married and I finally DID get that ride on GASM, but by then it was already very rough. Even though the ride is gone, I still have that newspaper article in my old bedroom at my parent's house.
A classic and probably the first roller coaster for many kids finally reaching that height minimum. But man it was rough on your head, the seat restraint would tear up your ears.
When I was a kid I rode this at least 15 times in a row. It was a low traffic day and no one was on line so i could just keep getting back on. Was my favorite ride next to Rolling Thunder, and they're both gone now rip.
This was by far my favorite roller coaster at Great Adventure. They NEVER should have gotten rid of it. It was hard to watch this video knowing this roller coaster is no longer at Great Adventure.
I was thinking the same thing
+Noyou Didnt You are right about the head and neck pain. I rode it enough times to know where you needed to stiffing up your head and neck so it wouldn't jerk so bad from side to side. I remember they had a bid sign warning people to take off your earrings.
+ace frehley It was my very first roller coaster I've ever been on. I rode it the year before it was demolished. A bit bumpy but very fun roller coaster.
You liked this more then EL TORO? how is that even feasable....
I would argue that this is the best name for a roller coaster ever!!
i remember riding this when i was 9 years old, it was on a school day so barely anyone was there that day, and i got on and off and on and off this ride about 10-15 times, a few times i was the only rider, and still today even thought its gone, it remains one of my favorite rides ever!!
Still my favorite roller coaster. Had many trips to SFGA between 1994 - 2001, and this was my prime destination each time. Loved the Great American Scream Machine. RIP.
I rode this coaster every summer after the school year ended. I believe it had seven loops and I loved the pretzel ones toward the end. Thanks for posting my favorite amusement park ride.
I enjoyed that ride every time we visited six flags jersey. Great ride
Would prefer this over the Green Lantern. Not implying that Green Lantern is bad, just hurt my chops and not my taste of tea. It is a cool design of a ride though. Ended up finding out that The way I was standing or w.e. kinda messed the ride up for me. Cool ride but this is just a beast!
watching this video brings me tears, I rode this legendary coaster the same year they tore it down.. it always gave me a headache at the end but omg it was well worth it every time!
Lol this looked like the best arrow looper Ever just By the video I miss arrow they were pioneers for the first modern steel coasters
This was one of the most brutal coasters I ever rode...Fun but it hurt!!
My sister used to be a ride operator on this ride. She misses it dearly
They need to bring it back. It would be a sensation, again!
Nothing like the sound of an Arrow lift hill!
Chang is now being relocated to six flags new england and being renamed Green Lantern. Can't wait to ride it. Should be open this year.
I remember all of the headaches I had from the GASM (LOL ;-) One hell of a rough ride, but loads of fun.
Raphael Web brutally fun🍻
Grateful that I was able to get on this masterpiece before it was tore down. I wish they can make an updated one of this ride or Rolling Thunder
This was the first metal rollercoaster I ever rode.
Went on it with my cousins about 25 years ago.
it's actually a steel coaster not a metal coaster
@TheJedigir the reason why rides like GASM and Magnum XL-200 were rough was because the technology used at those times were not advanced. There was no computer that made these large rides, thus causing the coaster to be very rough. You can make the thing all over again from scratch because you need to replace every part, so it was more cost effective to simply take out the ride since it was popular (simply because it was too rough).
Thanks for sharing. I went on this coaster with friends back in college. Wasn't sure if I would remember it, but the video brought it all back.
First upside down coaster I was ever on. Please don't ever delete this!
Though the ride may have been dated by today's standards, it will always hold a place in my heart as this was my first roller coaster that I ever rode on. People always forgot about this coaster. There was hardly ever a line and you could ride it pretty much non stop if you wanted too on the right day. Probably why they took it down to bring in some new blood.
Same. Went on it once. Never to ride it again. Glad I got to experience it.
it's was a thousand times better than its once neighbor "superman-underwhelming broken flight" as well as it's replacement "Green Lantern nutcracker crappy stand up redudant of bizzaro."
Well it’s nice to know that this ride’s twin “viper” at six flags magic mountain in Valencia California is still operating
man the shockwave nostalgia is real when I watch this
My mom was dared to ride each coaster at this park this year! If this coaster was still here, it would be on the list.
R.I.P Great American Scream Machine :'( We'll miss you!
This roller coaster was featured on Reading Rainbow.
Thank God I was lucky enough to ride that thing. I rode it like 4 times in a row at 9:30 on the last weekend it was open. Gotta love the classics!
My first Rollercoaster ever 😊 It set me up for life!!!
It's too bad Vekoma hadn't developed the trains with the new restraints like on the Blue Hawk at Six Flags Over Georgia in time. This would've been the perfect coaster to put them on.
LOVE the sound of an Arrow
This ride was the best Arrow I've ever ridden. Loch Ness Monster is also great, but at least for myself nowhere near the thrill of the GASM!
That first big drop is SO nostalgic to me. Man I miss this ride and hate that they took it down.
Scream Machine was a great ride!!
Back in the mid 1990's, while on vacation in NYC, I went on a bus trip to Great Adventure, and went on this truly amazing coaster.... The first time I ever went on an inverted coaster, despite living at the time 45 minutes away from Canada's Wonderland. I wanted to get back to Great Adventure, to ride it one more time..... RIP Great American Scream Machine, you will be missed.... On an aside, I have seen rumors that another Arrow coaster, Dragon Fire @ Canada's Wonderland, may be next......
@TheJedigir the reason why they tore this down is because it land area was big enough for gl and they count every rider that goes on the ride each day and it just happens to have a low rpd average compared to others. So the rough discourages others to go on so that helps it torn down. they in fact were planning to take it down for eltoro but found the spot it is today.
East and West coast sisters that briefly held the height record, and introduced coaster fans to maneuvers they had not experienced previously in America. Today, those loops would be much larger, with smoother variable radius transitions between loops and other elements. But in their day, Scream Machine and Viper were revolutionary!
Love the sound of an Arrow
first one i rode when moved to the us in 1991, loved it, miss it
Too bad :-( this was the best ride ever & my all time fave ! Right up there with medusa
RIP GASM. Thanks for 21 years of screams. You were once the tallest and fastest in the world and now you're gone, but not forgotten.
I remember the train always getting stuck on that brake hill. The part where it slowed down immensely in this video. Ah, the nostalgia
I wish it could be relocated too. It's such a good ride
It's a shame that they are getting rid of this classic. This was one of my top 10 roller coasters.
This ride was so much better than Green Lantern. The proper course of action would've been to put Lantern where the chiller used to be, and keep the epic, eye candy of the entrance Great American Scream Machine. Now it just looks messy from the outside. And now we lost Rolling Thunder too? There should be a compact solid GCI to replace the latter and S&S should get to work past there kennywood success and six flags should get a custom looper of epic proportions and remove lantern-send it somewhere that needs it and make it floorless there.
I agree with you but rolling thjnder should have went and it's also sad to see the abandoned part of the park where the chiller used to be I also think it's rediculous that the chiller is gone for a stupid wild mouse which should get replaced for a real coaster
matt13ms chiller had so many problems it was drowning six flag's wallet to keep up with the thing it wasn't them saying that we need a wild mouse and to get rid of a good ride
True about the problems with Chiller but a terrible wild mouse ride (by terrible I mean it's just a poorly designed boring design, wild mouse rides are generally fun, the one in Atlantic City that spins is freakin awesome, or the ones that used to be in Seaside, even the one in Wildwood) was a stupid replacement. A new launch coaster would make a proper replacement and GCI would be perfect for a rolling thunder replacement.
Seiko Zoorhess agreed both those coasters would be nice!
3 years later... Justice League: Battle for Metropolis now sits where the chiller does. and the dark knight coaster has nothing to do with the chiller.
I love it when people bash GL. Lifts my spirits.
I think this was the first coaster to have the half-loop half-corkscrew inversions. A page out of Hot Wheels.
I think the Viper at Darien Lake is older....
this was a great ride but it hurt like hell bout time they took it down goodbye gasm welcome Green Lantern cant wait to ride it!
Wow....reminds me so much of viper at magic mountain
lmao
This was a great ride and it was long.
The Six Flags skyline doesn't look the same without the Scream Machine. It wasn't as rough as most made it seem (Except for one horrific bump before the 2nd loop). I miss it, Green Lantern sucks!
I'm bummed I found out too late to get a few last rides in. I loved Scream Machine.
Dad is one scary ass first person ride on that roller coaster because I was never at Six Flags great adventure when the roller coaster had first launched back in 1989 and I can’t believe someone was prayed enough to ride the front seat of this rollercoaster and see this thing going through all of these loops and everything but I heard back in 2010 that roller coaster had been demolished and I believe many of the parts may have been sold for scrap or they may have sold the parts to another theme park and renamed it.
Real steel coasters are the best, if they will just do a little reprofiling and put the new vekoma vest restraint trains on them. For all the rough boomerangs, Sidewinder at Hershey is made enjoyable, and what SF Over Georgia did to "Ninja" is "Blue Hawk" is basically something that could be done to any arrow or vekoma looper. Also, if your going to choose to replace something like this, they could've gotten something more original for the park, not another B&M, and a horrid stand up coaster that is just as headbanging and breaks your thighs. time to replace the replacement, sent green lantern to SF America in Maryland and make it floorless there. We don't need it here, it adds nothing to the lineup at all.
Smoothest part of this ride and Shockwave is the lift hill.
Well the B&M that could replace GL could be a small wingrider like X-Flight with a twister layout to save some space. GL could sit on top of its original site at KK.
RIP Great American Scream Machine. I truly love Arrow Multiloopers.. Luckily his brother Viper is still unharmed in SFMM =)
Reminds me of a verrrrry long Double Loop @ Geauga Lake. That ride took about 20secs lol. Love the line for this ride at the end, none....best kind!