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Scream

Six Flags Magic Mountain · Operating · 2003

Scream

150 ft · 63 mph

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Thrill rideSix Flags Magic MountainOfficial park siteScreampunk District
Bolliger & Mabillard logo
Bolliger & Mabillard
150 ft · 63 mph

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.

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Ride profile

Scaled against Six Flags Magic Mountain's operating coasters

Steel

Height

150 ft

#6 of 15 at Six Flags Magic Mountain

Height150 ft
Speed63 mph
Length3,985 ft
Inversions7

Ride experience

  • First drop141.00 ft
  • Floorless
  • Steel

Ride details

Min height

4'6"

Drop

141 ft

Specs from sixflags.com

History

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Timeline

  1. 2003

    Scream opens

    B&M floorless coaster debuts with seven inversions and a signature Batwing element.

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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.

History primarily sourced from sixflags.com. See also our data policy.

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