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A floorless B&M coaster whose bright yellow track is visible from the parking lot and the freeway beyond it. Scream packs seven inversions — including a signature Batwing element — into a dense 3,985-foot layout, with open-air floorless trains that leave riders' legs dangling through every loop and roll. Its tight, twisting footprint makes it one of the most disorienting multi-inversion coasters in the park despite a relatively modest 150-foot height.
Specifications
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Ride profile
Scaled against Six Flags Magic Mountain's operating coasters
Park intensity
Height
150 ft
#6 of 15 at Six Flags Magic Mountain
Ride experience
- First drop141.00 ft
- Floorless
- Steel
Ride details
Min height
4'6"
Drop
141 ft
Specs from sixflags.com
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Floorless coasters
No floor panel under your feet — open views and a different sense of exposure.
Dive coasters
A held moment on a vertical edge, then a steep release — signature B&M dive machines.
Flying coasters
You start seated, then tilt face-down into a flying position for much of the circuit.
Inverted coasters
Trains hang beneath the track so your feet dangle — B&M made the style famous.
History
Sourced timeline and background for Scream.
Timeline
2003
Scream opens
B&M floorless coaster debuts with seven inversions and a signature Batwing element.
Background
Scream opened in 2003 using Bolliger & Mabillard's floorless coaster format, which removes the floor panel found in standard sit-down trains so riders' legs hang freely through every inversion. The design gives Scream's loops and rolls a noticeably more exposed feeling than the park's earlier B&M sit-down coasters, despite using broadly similar track geometry underneath.
Seven inversions are packed into a tight, twisting 3,985-foot layout, including a Batwing element — a combination loop-and-roll maneuver that sends riders through two disorienting changes of direction in quick succession. Because the footprint is so compact relative to its element count, Scream feels considerably more intense than its modest 150-foot height would suggest on paper.
Painted in a bright, high-visibility yellow, Scream's track is visible not just throughout the Screampunk District but from the parking lot and the freeway beyond it, making it one of the park's most recognizable coasters from a distance even for people who have never ridden it.
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Sources & official links
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- Six Flags Magic Mountain — official sitesixflags.com(opens in a new tab)
- Six Flags Magic Mountain on Coaster AtlasPark page
- Ride specifications sourcesixflags.com(opens in a new tab)
- Bolliger & Mabillard — manufacturerbolliger-mabillard.com(opens in a new tab)
- Hero photo (See Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0)Image license & attribution(opens in a new tab)
- Official POV — Licensed POVWatch on YouTube(opens in a new tab)
- History & background sourcesixflags.com(opens in a new tab)