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Sign in to suggest an update →A Gerstlauer spinning coaster with freely rotating cars through tight switchbacks in the Looney Tunes Market area. It opened in 2008 as Tony Hawk's Big Spin before being rebranded Pandemonium in 2012 after Six Flags ended its skateboarding licensing deal. Each ride's intensity varies depending on which way the car happens to be facing at each turn.
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Ride profile
Scaled against Six Flags Over Texas's operating coasters
Park intensity
Height
51 ft
#6 of 8 at Six Flags Over Texas
Ride experience
- Spinning
- Gerstlauer
- Steel
Specs from sixflags.com
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History
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Timeline
2008
Tony Hawk's Big Spin opens
Gerstlauer spinning coaster debuts in the former Wildcatter location, themed to professional skateboarder Tony Hawk.
2011
Renamed Big Spin
Tony Hawk branding removed after Six Flags ended its licensing agreement with the skateboarder.
2012
Renamed Pandemonium
Rebranded to match the Pandemonium name used by sister spinning coasters across the Six Flags chain.
Background
This Gerstlauer spinning coaster opened in 2008 as Tony Hawk's Big Spin, one of four nearly identical installations Six Flags built across the chain that year and the year before, all themed to professional skateboarder Tony Hawk with red-and-black skatepark graphics and skateboard-shaped ride vehicles. Freely rotating cars spin independently through the tight switchback layout, so the intensity of each ride depends heavily on how the car happens to be facing going into a given turn.
Six Flags ended its licensing agreement with Tony Hawk amid the company's 2010 financial restructuring, and the Over Texas installation briefly operated as just "Big Spin" for the 2011 season before Six Flags settled on a permanent replacement name the following year. Pandemonium, borrowed from an existing spinning coaster at Six Flags New England, became the standardized name applied to all of the former Tony Hawk installations across the chain, unifying their branding under a single, IP-free identity.
Since then, the ride has continued largely unchanged mechanically, receiving a repaint and a continuously moving station to improve throughput. Its 1,772-foot layout in the Looney Tunes Market area remains a family-friendly spinning coaster that rewards riders willing to accept the unpredictability of not knowing which way their car will be facing at each turn.
History primarily sourced from sixflags.com. See also our data policy.
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- Six Flags Over Texas — official sitesixflags.com(opens in a new tab)
- Six Flags Over Texas on Coaster AtlasPark page
- Ride specifications sourcesixflags.com(opens in a new tab)
- Gerstlauer — manufacturergerstlauer-rides.de(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)
