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[GAcoaster]

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Spotlight!

Here are a couple of previews:

In one of its original locations:


Themed by Time Warner:


The rides last (operating) location in the park:


Almost, but not quite:

[Railer]

Scrambler's are a fun and classic Carnival ride. Nowaday's you kind of have to "theme them up" to keep intrest high, though. My favorite indoor one was always Poltergeist at Seaside. My first time on it, it had Tool blasting with a pretty decent light show. Ater seeing the video of it now though, with what they did to it, it looks like the lamest ride in the world. Maybe intrest will be so low that they will give it back to us. Now our park needs the rides that we gave to all the other one's in the chain.

[Josh Davidson]

^Themed Scramblers? Um -- I see plenty of Scramblers at theme parks which are generically themed to nothing.. I.E off the top of my head is the one next to Volcano: The Blast Coaster at Kings Dominion.

[GAcoaster]

I just realized I forgot to mention in the description that at one point (I forget which year) the park made the ride more "permanent" by setting the driveshaft into a covered trench, eliminating the steel diamond plate cover that originally ran from the motor to the central column. That used to be a tripping hazard, and the ride really had no attachment to the ground until that modification was made.

You can see that covering in the top photo.

[29yrswithaGApass]

That happend in 1987 when the ride was moved for Splash Water Falls but not yet the Centrifuge.

[GAcoaster]

I thought so, but I wasn't positive. I liked choosing a seat that was over the shaft since it meant the step up into the car was shorter if you could stand on it.

[29yrswithaGApass]

I'll find a picture of the driveshaft and motor house at GA and we can add those to the Spotlight with the ride's boilerplate. Just like Disneyland, a Spotlight is never complete!

[darkridedan]

Yay! This ride was always one of my favorites. Thanks for bringing back great memories!

I was excited when the park moved the scrambler parts to the El Sombrero pad. It meant that I could have the chance to operate another classic from my childhood. I had asked friends in the construction department to rename the ride the Salsa Mixer but alas, they were to call it El Sombrero. Then as the season approached, operations redesigned the ride sections and gave the Frontier Adventures flats to 220 and Medusa to 230 because of the closure of Viper. Then the scrambler moved to the Lakefront and then disappeared altogether.

Edited by darkridedan, 12 August 2008 - 08:52 PM.

[Railer]

^Themed Scramblers? Um -- I see plenty of Scramblers at theme parks which are generically themed to nothing.. I.E off the top of my head is the one next to Volcano: The Blast Coaster at Kings Dominion.

More Scrambler's have no themeing at all than one's that do. GA's had the "space" theme, Poltergeist was indoor's, The one you mentioned and the video of GA's now. So there are a few themed one's out there. I've been going on Scrambler's since my Grammar School's Carnival in the mid-seventies, I need something to look at if i'm on a Scrambler after all these years of riding them.

[CycloneMan]

I used to love the Scrambler when I was little. But I only rode it twice at GA. Both as Centrifuge, but In Movie Town and in the Boardwalk. I had a Scrambler at my park in my neighborhood, so I used to ride that one all the time, so the one at GA just never appealed to me. Though I was sad when it wasn't re-built. Though I had no idea that the one at SFOG was originally ours.

-Dainan "Learn something new everyday" Rafferty

[JetsDevs4Lyf]

Woohoo one I had the pleasure of riding. The scramblers have always been a favorite of mine whenever I find one at an amusement park. I really am dissapointed someone else got to profit from our loss of the ride, but the thought of the indoor Scrambler painted up and all like that is pretty cool. I hope we see something like it again since it is one of those classic park rides in my opinion.

[29yrswithaGApass]

JUST ADDED!

Be sure to check out our Scrambler Extras Album in our GAH Spotlight Related Media Gallery. We just added some pictures of GA's relocated Scrambler at Six Flags Over Georgia and a "new" video of the ride when it was located near the Showcase Theatre before being rethemed to Centrifuge.

[29yrswithaGApass]

According to Screamscape today:

Park News - (1/26/11) I’m hearing that Shake, Rattle & Roll may not return to SFOG for the 2011 season at all, though a future return the next year was not ruled out.

Bring our baby back home to New Jersey!

[Yoshi]

I really hope the ride comes back to Great Adventure especially since I can't ride the one at Dorney anymore thanks to the stupid rule of no single riders being added a couple of years ago.

[truepolak90]

I wish they would consider taking St Louis swings that are being removed for there new ride and put it in the teepees old spot. Then put the scrambler in flying waves old spot relocate musik express and put it in evolutions old spot and move the bumper cars and put it in the old pirate flights and flings spot then move fling to choas spot and reopen tango and give them new names (exept tango) and you have 5 new flats to advertise with only cost of transportation and construction as well as labor.

[GAcoaster]

That's the problem...the labor and more importantly (and more costly) the maintenance, especially when you are talking about old rides.

[truepolak90]

That is true I can imagine budget is still tight, however any chance to see tango return?

[GAcoaster]

It's possible I suppose, but I doubt it. It never ran correctly since it was installed.

[29yrswithaGApass]

Several new photos and video of the original Scrambler has now been added to the Spotlight.

[29yrswithaGApass]

It is surprising that Eli Bridge never came out with a Scrambler with open seating. This rendering from the 1979 park map could have been the inspiration.