Great American Scream Machine

Six Flags Great Adventure · Jackson, New Jersey, USA

Defunct · 2010Record holder

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Height: 173 ft53 m
Drop: 155 ft47 m
Top speed: 68 mph109 km/h
Length: 3,400 ft1,036 m
Inversions: 7
Track: SteelLift hill
Opened: 1989
Status: Defunctclosed 2010

About Great American Scream Machine

★ World's tallest looping coaster, with the most loops (7) of any coaster, at opening (1975)

Great American Scream Machine was a steel roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, USA. It opened in 1989 and closed in 2010. The ride stood 173 feet tall, dropped 155 feet and reached 68 mph over 3,400 feet of track, with 7 inversions.

An Arrow Dynamics looping coaster with seven inversions that ran at Six Flags Great Adventure from 1989 until its removal in 2010.

Field note: one of the last surviving coasters of the mid-1970s looping-coaster boom still running its original layout.