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/ August 15, 2026
Adrenaline Peak is the star coaster at Oaks Amusement Park in Portland, Oregon — one of America’s oldest continuously operating amusement parks, entertaining riders on the banks of the Willamette River since 1905. The Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter 320 opened on March 24, 2018, giving the historic
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/ August 15, 2026
Saw – The Ride is a steel roller coaster at Thorpe Park in Surrey, England, themed to the Saw horror-film franchise. When it opened on 14 March 2009, it was billed as the world’s first horror-movie-themed roller coaster — and its 100-degree first drop was
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/ August 15, 2026
Abyss is a steel roller coaster at Adventure World in Bibra Lake, a southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Opened on 1 November 2013, the custom Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter cost A$12 million — the single biggest investment in the park’s history — and brought a beyond-vertical
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/ August 15, 2026
The Monster is the headline steel coaster at Adventureland in Altoona, Iowa, just outside Des Moines. Opened on June 4, 2016, the $9 million ride was the first Gerstlauer Infinity Coaster ever built in the United States — a custom layout that packs 133 feet
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/ August 15, 2026
Defiance is a steel roller coaster at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park in Glenwood Springs, Colorado — a mountain-top theme park perched on Iron Mountain, roughly 1,300 feet above the town below. Built by German manufacturer Gerstlauer as a Euro-Fighter model, Defiance opened to the public
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/ August 15, 2026
Dahlonega Mine Train is a genuine piece of American coaster history. It opened on June 16, 1967 with Six Flags Over Georgia itself, making it an original opening-year attraction — and one of the earliest examples of the Arrow mine train, the ride style that
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/ August 15, 2026
Colossus the Fire Dragon is the blue-steel heart of Lagoon’s skyline. This Anton Schwarzkopf double-looper has been hurling trains through its twin yellow-ringed loops in Farmington, Utah since 1983 — and today it stands as one of only two Schwarzkopf double-looping coasters still operating in
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/ August 15, 2026
Cedar Creek Mine Ride is Cedar Point’s classic runaway mine train — an Arrow Development coaster that has been rattling over the lagoons of Frontier Town since May 24, 1969. It is the second-oldest coaster still operating at the park, younger only than the 1964
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/ August 15, 2026
When Alton Towers unveiled Oblivion in 1998, the world’s first vertical-drop “dive machine” was a sensation. Just two years later, the second one ever built rose on a Taiwanese hillside: Diving Machine G5 at Janfusun Fancyworld in Yunlin County. Built by Swiss masters Bolliger &
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/ August 15, 2026
When Efteling retired its beloved 34-year-old Bob bobsled coaster, the Dutch fairy-tale park replaced one ride with two. Max & Moritz opened on June 20, 2020 in the park’s Anderrijk area: a €15 million dual powered coaster from Mack Rides, with two side-by-side tracks named
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/ August 15, 2026
Gemini is Cedar Point’s beloved racing coaster — two trains, side by side, dueling down 125 feet of steel track laid over a massive lattice of wood. Opened on June 17, 1978, the Arrow-built hybrid was marketed as the tallest, fastest and steepest coaster in
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/ August 15, 2026
Zoomerang has been flinging riders backwards over Lake Compounce since 1997 — and in true fashion for America’s oldest continuously operating amusement park, even this off-the-shelf thrill machine carries a genuine piece of coaster history. The Bristol, Connecticut park’s Vekoma Boomerang was the first anywhere
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/ August 15, 2026
High above Fiesta Village at Knott’s Berry Farm, a train of 30 riders prowls along nearly half a mile of orange track, stalking its prey — and at one point, it pounces straight through the vertical loop of another roller coaster. Jaguar! opened on June
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/ August 15, 2026
Eurosat – CanCan Coaster is Europa-Park’s indoor icon: a Mack Rides coaster spiraling entirely inside the giant silver geodesic sphere that towers 45 meters over the park’s France area. Originally opened in 1989 as the space-themed Eurosat, the ride was gutted and rebuilt in 2018
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/ August 15, 2026
Few coasters have lived as many lives as The Flying Cobras. This Vekoma Boomerang at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina has operated under four names in two states: born as The Mind Eraser at Ohio’s Geauga Lake in 1996, renamed Head Spin in 2004, relocated
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/ August 15, 2026
At the edge of Italy’s largest theme park, a train of 18 riders is held nose-down over a near-vertical abyss. For a few agonizing seconds, nothing happens. Then the brakes release. Oblivion: The Black Hole at Gardaland is Italy’s first vertical-drop coaster — a Bolliger
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/ August 15, 2026
Big Thunder Mountain brought Disney’s runaway mine train to Japan on July 4, 1987, four years after Tokyo Disneyland opened. Rising out of Westernland — Tokyo’s take on Frontierland — the red-rock mountain and its rattling ore trains have been one of the park’s most
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/ August 15, 2026
Part ghost story, part dark ride, part water coaster — De Vliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman) at Efteling in the Netherlands refuses to be just one thing. Opened on April 1, 2007 after a €20 million build, it wraps a full roller coaster and splashdown
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/ August 15, 2026
Plenty of parks own a Vekoma Boomerang. Walibi Holland is one of the very few that gave theirs a soundtrack. Speed of Sound, the Dutch park’s shuttle coaster in Biddinghuizen, runs a synchronized music track through speakers built into the train — turning one of
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/ August 15, 2026
Deep in France’s Champagne countryside, Krampus Expédition brought a first to the country when it opened at Nigloland on June 12, 2021: a full-circuit water coaster. Built by Mack Rides at a cost of €12 million — the largest investment in the family-run park’s history
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