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/ August 15, 2026
Big Thunder Mountain at Disneyland Paris is the wildest ride in the wilderness — and the biggest version of Disney’s famous runaway mine train. Built by Vekoma and open since April 12, 1992, the park’s opening day, it dominates Frontierland from a location no other
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/ August 15, 2026
Some coasters brag with height and speed. Lisebergbanan brags with terrain. Opened on April 18, 1987 at Liseberg in Gothenburg, Sweden, this 1,548-meter steel coaster snakes down a wooded hillside in the middle of one of Europe’s most beloved amusement parks — and it was
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/ August 15, 2026
Space Shuttle is the roller coaster that taught the Philippines to go upside down. Standing eleven stories over the Spaceport section of Enchanted Kingdom in Santa Rosa, Laguna, this Vekoma Boomerang was the first inverting coaster of its kind in the country when it opened
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/ August 15, 2026
Crazy Bats is Phantasialand’s great shape-shifter: a Vekoma coaster that has spent its entire life indoors and worn three different identities since 1988. It opened on April 1 of that year as Space Center, became Temple of the Night Hawk in 2001, and re-emerged on
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/ August 15, 2026
Poseidon is the water coaster that anchors the Greece-themed area of Europa-Park in Rust, Germany. Built by hometown manufacturer Mack Rides and opened on July 12, 2000, it blends a genuine roller coaster layout with boat-ride sections, sending eight-passenger boats over lift hills, down coaster
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/ August 15, 2026
Every mine train coaster on Earth — every rickety ore cart that has ever rattled through a fake gold mine — traces its lineage back to one ride in Arlington, Texas. Runaway Mine Train at Six Flags Over Texas opened on July 23, 1966, as
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/ August 15, 2026
Before Boomerang coasters became one of the most-cloned models on the planet, there was Sea Serpent. Opened in 1984 on Morey’s Piers in Wildwood, New Jersey, it was the first Vekoma Boomerang built in the United States — and four decades later it still anchors
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/ August 15, 2026
Ride it while you can: Euro-Mir, the mirror-towered icon of Europa-Park’s Russian quarter, is in its farewell season. On March 25, 2026 the park announced that 2026 would be the coaster’s final year of operation before it closes for redevelopment at season’s end — the
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/ August 15, 2026
Long before 200-foot giants dominated the skyline of every major park, a jet-black Arrow looper in western New York quietly made roller coaster history. Viper at Six Flags Darien Lake opened on May 29, 1982, and became the first roller coaster in the world to
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/ August 15, 2026
Most roller coasters live in one place for their entire lives. Olympia Looping does not. The world’s largest portable roller coaster travels the German fair circuit every year — most famously to Munich’s Oktoberfest, where it made its debut in 1989 and has been the
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/ August 15, 2026
Space Fantasy – The Ride is Universal Studios Japan’s shape-shifting indoor spinning coaster — and in 2026 it’s wearing yet another costume, running as CLUB ZEDD REMIX, a music-driven overlay for the park’s 25th-anniversary celebration. Underneath every re-skin sits the same clever Mack Rides machine
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/ August 15, 2026
Crowned by a 60-foot fire-breathing dragon, Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts is the centerpiece of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley at Universal Studios Florida. Opened July 8, 2014 on the former site of the Jaws ride, this Intamin creation
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/ August 15, 2026
Don’t let the shared name fool you: Journey to Atlantis at SeaWorld San Diego is a completely different ride from its Orlando sibling. Opened May 29, 2004 at a cost of $18.5 million, this Mack Rides Water Coaster trades Orlando’s elaborate indoor show scenes for
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/ August 15, 2026
Half roller coaster, half splash-in-the-face water ride, Journey to Atlantis has been drenching SeaWorld Orlando guests since April 17, 1998. Built by Germany’s Mack Rides as a custom Water Coaster, it was the original Journey to Atlantis — the San Diego and San Antonio versions
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/ August 15, 2026
Jolly Rancher Remix at Hersheypark is what happens when a chocolate company rebrands a roller coaster: a 1991 Vekoma Boomerang, repainted in candy colors and renamed after Hershey’s hard-candy line. But under the theming is one of the park’s most historically significant rides. The coaster
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/ August 15, 2026
Fifty years after it changed roller coaster history, the Schwarzkopf classic at Six Flags Magic Mountain is back under its original banner. In July 2026 the park restored the ride’s full 1976 name, The Great American Revolution, after a decade as “The New Revolution” and
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/ August 15, 2026
Most inverted roller coasters are bolted to concrete for life. Euro-Star was built to be taken apart. Manufactured by Intamin and designed by the legendary Werner Stengel from a concept by German showman Oscar Bruch, Euro-Star is the world’s largest portable inverted roller coaster —
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/ August 15, 2026
Cobra at Walibi Belgium in Wavre is the Belgian entry in one of coaster history’s biggest franchises: the Vekoma Boomerang, a shuttle coaster design duplicated dozens of times around the world. Cobra opened on 28 April 2001, shortly after the Six Flags group acquired the
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/ August 15, 2026
When Mumbo Jumbo opened at Flamingo Land in North Yorkshire on July 4, 2009, it did something no British coaster had done in years: it set a world record. Guinness World Records officials were on hand as the bright-orange S&S El Loco debuted with a
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/ August 15, 2026
For a few glorious summer weeks in 2011, the steepest roller coaster drop in the world belonged not to a mega-park in Japan or the United States, but to Fraispertuis-City — a family-run Wild West theme park in the Vosges mountains of northeastern France. Timber
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