GAcoaster Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 Click here to view the whole 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: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railer Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Davidson Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 ^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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAcoaster Posted August 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29yrswithaGApass Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 That happend in 1987 when the ride was moved for Splash Water Falls but not yet the Centrifuge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAcoaster Posted August 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29yrswithaGApass Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkridedan Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 (edited) 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 August 13, 2008 by darkridedan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railer Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 ^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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CycloneMan Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsDevs4Lyf Posted August 18, 2008 Report Share Posted August 18, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29yrswithaGApass Posted January 1, 2009 Report Share Posted January 1, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29yrswithaGApass Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoshi Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truepolak90 Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAcoaster Posted January 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 That's the problem...the labor and more importantly (and more costly) the maintenance, especially when you are talking about old rides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truepolak90 Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 That is true I can imagine budget is still tight, however any chance to see tango return? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAcoaster Posted January 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2011 It's possible I suppose, but I doubt it. It never ran correctly since it was installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29yrswithaGApass Posted May 6, 2012 Report Share Posted May 6, 2012 Several new photos and video of the original Scrambler has now been added to the Spotlight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29yrswithaGApass Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IgetAround Posted July 5, 2012 Report Share Posted July 5, 2012 So my question now; is Deja Vu our own original Scrambler? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29yrswithaGApass Posted July 5, 2012 Report Share Posted July 5, 2012 So my question now; is Deja Vu our own original Scrambler? No, the last place our original Scrambler was seen operating was at Six Flags Over Georgia. The model we have now, Deja Vu, came to us from American Adventures in Marietta, Georgia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29yrswithaGApass Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Here is a rarely seen view of the Scrambler taken from the path which ran along the back side of the ride (Scrambler on left). The photo is from 1983 so the Wild Rider coaster, which would have been on the right side of this path, has already been removed from the park. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29yrswithaGApass Posted May 26, 2022 Report Share Posted May 26, 2022 Tons of new images and info are now part of a totally updated Scrambler spotlight. Samples below. Click above to check it out! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29yrswithaGApass Posted September 5, 2022 Report Share Posted September 5, 2022 I recently received this press photo of the Scrambler ride and wasn't too excited until I realized the picture was taken pre-1987 when the ride was located behind the Little Wheel in its original location. You can even see the Matterhorn in the background! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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