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/ September 17, 2026
Disney’s Beach Club Resort is a deluxe, New England seaside-themed hotel on Crescent Lake in Walt Disney World’s Epcot Resort Area. Designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects and modeled on 19th-century Newport, Rhode Island cottages, it opened on November 19, 1990 alongside its shingle-and-nautical sister…
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/ September 17, 2026
Disney’s Yacht Club Resort is a 630-room deluxe hotel on Crescent Lake in the EPCOT Resort Area of Walt Disney World, designed by architect Robert A.M. Stern to evoke a New England shingle-style seaside hotel of the 1880s, the kind you’d find on Martha’s Vineyard…
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/ September 17, 2026
Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge is a deluxe Walt Disney World resort built around three 11-acre savannas where giraffes, zebras, antelope, and flamingos roam in view of guest rooms and public spaces. It opened on April 16, 2001, in the Animal Kingdom Resort Area on Bay…
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/ September 17, 2026
Flight of Fear is the steel launched roller coaster at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, famous for firing riders into a pitch-black building with no idea what’s coming next. Built by Premier Rides and designed by Werner Stengel’s Ing.-Büro Stengel, it opened on June 18…
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/ September 17, 2026
Woodstock Express is a wooden roller coaster in the Planet Snoopy section of Kings Island near Mason, Ohio. It holds a special distinction among the park’s rides: it’s one of the original attractions that opened with Kings Island on April 29, 1972, making it more…
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/ September 17, 2026
Ragin’ Cajun was a spinning “Crazy Mouse” roller coaster that opened at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, on May 28, 2004. It anchored the park’s newly built Mardi Gras themed area, throwing riders through tight switchbacks in cars that spun freely once the…
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/ September 17, 2026
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is a mine train roller coaster in Frontierland at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California. It opened on September 2, 1979, becoming the first installation of what would grow into a family of Big Thunder Mountain attractions across Disney parks worldwide, and…
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/ September 17, 2026
Sarajevo Bobsled opened at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, in 1984, timed to coincide with that year’s Winter Olympics held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Built by Intamin with trains from Giovanola, the steel bobsled-style coaster sent riders through banked, wall-less curves meant to…
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/ September 17, 2026
Chang was a stand-up roller coaster that operated at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky, from April 4, 1997, until September 19, 2009. Built by the Swiss engineering firm Bolliger & Mabillard, it was named for the Mandarin word for “long,” reflecting the fact…
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/ September 17, 2026
Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort is a Deluxe-category Walt Disney World hotel on the southern shore of the Seven Seas Lagoon in Bay Lake, Florida. It opened on October 1, 1971, as one of the two original Walt Disney World hotels (alongside Disney’s Contemporary Resort), and…
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/ September 17, 2026
The Lost Coaster of Superstition Mountain is a wooden roller coaster at Indiana Beach in Monticello, Indiana, built inside and around a themed mine shaft mountain that has anchored the lakefront park for decades. Custom Coasters International completed the ride in 2002, reworking the aging…
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/ September 17, 2026
Wilderness Run is a steel kiddie roller coaster tucked into the Camp Snoopy area of Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. Though modest in size, the ride carries an outsized claim to fame: it was the first roller coaster ever manufactured by Intamin, the Liechtenstein-based company…
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/ September 17, 2026
The ride most people still call “the Dragster” at Cedar Point never really left, even though it was declared permanently closed back in 2021. Top Thrill Dragster was the Sandusky, Ohio park’s hydraulic-launch icon: it opened in 2003 as the world’s first 400-foot-plus “strata coaster,”…
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/ September 17, 2026
Woodstock Express is a steel family roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma and opened on May 10, 1999. It anchors Camp Snoopy, the park’s Peanuts-themed area designed for younger guests and families, giving kids a first taste of…
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/ September 17, 2026
Universal Studios Singapore opened on Sentosa Island as part of the Resorts World Sentosa integrated resort, with a soft opening on March 18, 2010 and an official grand opening on May 28, 2011. Owned and operated by Genting Singapore under license from NBCUniversal and Universal…
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/ September 17, 2026
WildCat was a steel roller coaster that operated at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, from 1979 until 2011. Designed by Werner Stengel and manufactured by Anton Schwarzkopf, it used the compact Wildcat/65m model, a design built around small four-passenger cars threading an overlapping, interlocking figure-eight…
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/ September 17, 2026
Universal Epic Universe opened on May 22, 2025, as the fourth theme park at Universal Orlando Resort and the first major new theme park built in central Florida in over two decades. Owned by NBCUniversal and operated by Universal Destinations & Experiences, the park sits…
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/ September 17, 2026
Avalanche was a steel bobsled roller coaster at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, built by German manufacturer Mack Rides and opened to the public on March 26, 1988. It was one of only a handful of Mack bobsled coasters ever built and the only one…
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/ September 17, 2026
Stadium Australia opened on March 6, 1999, at Sydney Olympic Park as the centerpiece venue built for the 2000 Summer Olympics. Designed by HOK Sport (now Populous) at a cost of about A$690 million, it held roughly 115,000 seats in its original Olympic configuration, making…
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/ September 17, 2026
King Cobra was a steel stand-up roller coaster that operated at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, from 1984 to 2001. Manufactured by the Japanese company Togo and designed by James Rogan, it stood out in coaster history as the first stand-up roller coaster in the…
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