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/ August 15, 2026
Superman El Último Escape is the giant of Latin American coasters. Rising 219.8 feet (67 m) over Six Flags México in Mexico City, the bright-red Morgan hypercoaster opened on November 19, 2004 and immediately claimed the records for the tallest, fastest and longest roller coaster
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/ August 15, 2026
Steel Force towers over Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pennsylvania — a wall of coral-pink track that announced the hypercoaster era’s arrival on the East Coast. When it opened on May 30, 1997, it was the tallest and longest coaster on the East
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/ August 15, 2026
Deep in the wooded hills behind Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, The Beast has been devouring riders since 1979 — and no wooden roller coaster on Earth has ever matched its sheer size. At 7,361 feet (2,244 m) of track sprawled across 35 acres of
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/ August 15, 2026
Shivering Timbers is the ride that turned Michigan’s Adventure in Muskegon from a quiet family park into a pilgrimage stop for wooden coaster fans. Stretched along the park’s entrance road, the 1998 Custom Coasters International classic is a pure out-and-back airtime machine — and at
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/ August 15, 2026
Hydrus is the steel roller coaster at Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey — and one of the most symbolic rides on the Jersey Shore. Built by Gerstlauer, it opened in May 2017 as the world’s first Euro-Fighter 320 model and the sixth Euro-Fighter
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/ August 15, 2026
Huracan is a steel roller coaster at Belantis, the theme park just south of Leipzig, Germany. A Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter designed with Werner Stengel, it opened on 26 June 2010 and remains one of the most intense coasters in eastern Germany: a 97-degree beyond-vertical first drop,
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/ August 15, 2026
Falcon is a steel roller coaster at Duinrell, the woodland amusement park and holiday resort in Wassenaar, on the Dutch coast between The Hague and Leiden. A Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter designed with legendary engineer Werner Stengel, Falcon opened on 14 May 2009 and gave the Netherlands
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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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