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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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/ August 15, 2026
Boomerang at Six Flags Darien Lake — opened on May 16, 1998 under the full name Boomerang: Coast to Coaster — is one of the best-known examples of the most-duplicated thrill coaster design in history: the Vekoma Boomerang shuttle loop. The formula is simple and
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/ August 15, 2026
Crazy Bird (Chinese name 愤怒的小鸟) is the wildest ride at Happy Valley Tianjin — and one of the steepest roller coasters anywhere on Earth. Since late 2013, this S&S El Loco in China’s Dongli district has been flipping riders over a 120-degree beyond-vertical first drop,
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/ August 15, 2026
Some record-breakers look the part. Vild-Svinet — Danish for The Wild Boar — does not. Tucked into BonBon-Land, a candy-brand theme park in Holmegaard, Denmark, this 72-foot coaster with a cartoon boar on the front of each car was, when it opened on 16 May
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/ August 15, 2026
When Green Lantern Coaster opened at Warner Bros. Movie World on Australia’s Gold Coast just before Christmas 2011, it instantly gave the Southern Hemisphere its most extreme drop. The DC Comics-themed machine tips riders over a 120.5-degree beyond-vertical plunge — at the time the second-steepest
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/ August 15, 2026
TMNT Shellraiser doesn’t just have a steep drop — it has the steepest. Tucked inside Nickelodeon Universe at the American Dream mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey, this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-themed coaster holds the Guinness World Record for the steepest roller coaster drop on
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/ August 15, 2026
Typhoon at Bobbejaanland in Lichtaart, Belgium, holds a special place in coaster history: it was only the second Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter ever built, opening on 10 April 2004 — less than a year after the model’s Danish prototype debuted. Two decades on, its 97-degree first drop
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/ August 15, 2026
Cannibal is the ride Lagoon spent nearly a decade dreaming up — and then decided to build itself. Rising over the classic Farmington, Utah park since 2015, its brown elevator tower is visible from Interstate 15, and the moment that made it famous happens right
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/ August 15, 2026
When Tantrum opened at Six Flags Darien Lake on May 25, 2018, it gave New York State something it had never had before: a roller coaster that drops at more than 90 degrees. The lime-green and orange Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter hauls riders straight up a vertical
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/ August 15, 2026
Squeezed onto the seafront of Southend-on-Sea in Essex, England, Rage is proof that a roller coaster doesn’t need to be huge to be genuinely intense. This Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter at Adventure Island packs a beyond-vertical 97-degree first drop, three inversions and up to 4.5 g into
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/ August 15, 2026
Deep in the Ruigrijk region of the Netherlands’ fairytale park Efteling, two wooden trains charge out of a medieval station side by side — one for Water, one for Fire — racing to slay a dragon. Joris en de Draak (“George and the Dragon”) is
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/ August 15, 2026
Every coaster empire starts somewhere, and for Six Flags Magic Mountain — the self-styled “Thrill Capital of the World” — it started with Gold Rusher. This Arrow mine train opened with the park on May 29, 1971, making it Magic Mountain’s very first roller coaster.
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/ August 15, 2026
Tucked into the limestone quarry walls of Crackaxle Canyon, Road Runner Express is Six Flags Fiesta Texas’ classic family mine train. Opened on May 1, 1997, this Arrow Dynamics coaster carries a fun piece of history: it was the last mine train roller coaster Arrow
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/ August 15, 2026
Adventure Aquarium sits on the Camden Waterfront along the Delaware River, directly across from Philadelphia. The facility traces back to 1992 as the New Jersey State Aquarium and reopened under its current name in 2005 after a major renovation led by Herschend Family Entertainment, which
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