Negative-G - Six Flags The Great Escape 2014

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Wanting to showcase their new ride and to let vacationers to the Lake George region know that The Great Escape was for more than just kids the Screamin' Demon was placed on a hill overlooking Route 9 so no passer by could miss it.

Six Flags The Great Escape, Queensbury, New York

The Steamin' Demon was built by Arrow Dynamics who were responsible for a majority of the steel coasters in the 1970's and 1980's.

The Steamin Demon rollercoaster at Six Fags The Great Escape, Queensbury, new York

Arrow despite building a huge number of rides during its heyday was not that creative. They had pre-designed loops, corkscrews, drops and helices and then kept using those same pieces in different order for different rides. It wasn't that creative or original but if a park needed a coaster that had seven loops they pretty much just put part these pre-designed parts together to make their various "custom" looping coasters.

The Steamin Demon rollercoaster at Six Flags The Great Escape, Queensbury, New York

Arrow either built their "custom" designs or they had their production model coasters like the "Loop-Corkscrew" model that the Steamin' Demon. Arrow's names for their production models were about as creative as a company of old school engineers could get. Their first looping coaster just had a corkscrew so they named it the "Corkscrew".

This design was the basic corkscrew model with a vertical loop added before the corkscrew so Arrow named it the "Loop Corkscrew Coaster". That's the sort of marketing name that only an engineer could come up with.