Negative-G - Six Flags Great America 2022

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The Raging Bull roller coaster at Six Flags Great America, Gurnee, Illinois

Since Marriott's Great America opened up in 1976 The Demon has been the parks looping coaster.

The Demon roller coaster at Six Flags Great America, Gurnee, Illinois

That last statement wasn't entirely accurate so let's do a little clarifying. The Demon opened with the park as the Turn of the Century and ran under that name until the end of the 1979 season.

Between the end of the 1979 season and the start of the 1980 season saw the removal of the Turn's airtime hills that were replaced with two vertical loops and a bunch of "demonic theming" that included tunnels, a cheesy soundtrack for the queue, and this demonic stone cave that you dive into after the rides mid-course brake run.

Unfortunately the waterfall that you dive under as The Demon comes out of the cave is long gone as it was rusting the track. Actually I have heard rumors that the corkscrew on The Demon was replaced with the corkscrew from the long gone Shock Wave coaster due to the rust damage. I'm not sure if that is true but it'd be nice if some of the Shock Wave lived on.

Sadly my favorite theming element that was added to the Turn of the Century went away with the waterfall as there used to be a lake under the corkscrews. The water in the lake was dyed blood red and as the Corkscrew looped overhead there were a couple of fountains that would spray some of the red stuff towards the trains but not high enough to get riders wet.