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/ September 8, 2026
An Apollo's Chariot train crests a hill above the trees at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, July 12, 2001. Clarendon-style edit. Original ThrillZing photo of Apollo's Chariot at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.
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/ September 8, 2026
An Apollo's Chariot train tips over the crest of the lift hill into the 210-foot first drop at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, July 12, 2001. Inkwell-style black-and-white edit. Original ThrillZing photo of Apollo's Chariot at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.
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/ September 8, 2026
Cornball Express is a wooden roller coaster at Indiana Beach in Monticello, Indiana, that opened on May 18, 2001. Built by Custom Coasters International, it was one of the manufacturer’s final designs before the company closed its doors in 2002, giving the ride a bittersweet
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/ September 8, 2026
Hoosier Hurricane is a wooden roller coaster at Indiana Beach in Monticello, Indiana, running along the shore of Lake Shafer beside the park’s boardwalk. When it opened on May 27, 1994, it became the park’s largest wooden coaster and the first wooden coaster built anywhere
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/ September 8, 2026
Batman: The Ride is an inverted steel roller coaster that has anchored the Gotham City section of Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, Missouri, since it opened on April 22, 1995. Built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard, it arrived just a few years after
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/ September 8, 2026
T3 was an inverted steel roller coaster at Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky, built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma as a Suspended Looping Coaster (SLC). It first opened on April 7, 1995 as T2, becoming the first Vekoma SLC to operate in North America, and spent
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/ September 8, 2026
Invertigo is a Vekoma inverted shuttle coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, best known for seating riders in face-to-face rows as the train is launched backward and forward through a vertical loop and a cobra roll. It’s one of only four Invertigo-model coasters Vekoma
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/ September 8, 2026
Diamondback opened at Kings Island on April 18, 2009, as the park’s first Bolliger & Mabillard creation and, at the time, the largest capital investment in the park’s history at roughly $22 million. Built as a steel hypercoaster with an out-and-back layout, it introduced Cincinnati-area
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/ September 8, 2026
Corkscrew opened at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, on May 15, 1976, and made history as the first roller coaster in the world to feature three inversions. Built by Arrow Development and designed by legendary engineer Ron Toomer, the steel coaster arrived during the U.S.
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/ September 8, 2026
Valravn is a Bolliger & Mabillard dive coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, that opened on May 7, 2016. Named after the mythical shape-shifting raven of Danish folklore, it was built as the 100th roller coaster produced by B&M since the manufacturer’s founding in
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/ September 8, 2026
Steel Vengeance is a hybrid roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, built by Rocky Mountain Construction and opened to the public on May 5, 2018. It rose from the bones of Mean Streak, a wooden coaster that had operated since 1991, with RMC’s
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/ September 8, 2026
Millennium Force opened at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, on May 13, 2000, and immediately redefined what a roller coaster could be. Built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin, it stood 310 feet tall, a height that earned it the distinction of being the world’s first “giga
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/ September 8, 2026
Raptor is a Bolliger & Mabillard inverted roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, that opened on May 7, 1994. Designed by Werner Stengel, it cost between $11.5 and $12 million to build and replaced the park’s old Mill Race water ride. At its
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/ September 8, 2026
Barcelona Zoo opened its gates on September 24, 1892, inside the leafy Parc de la Ciutadella, making it one of Europe’s older urban zoos still operating today. Over more than a century, it grew from a modest municipal menagerie into a full-fledged conservation and research
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/ September 8, 2026
Thunderbolt is a wooden roller coaster at Kennywood in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, that has been dropping riders into a forested ravine since it first opened as Pippin in 1924, designed by John A. Miller. The ride was reengineered and renamed Thunderbolt in 1968 by Kennywood’s
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/ September 8, 2026
Theme park news for September 8, 2026 leads with Miral and Warner Bros. Discovery Global Experiences confirming three Harry Potter-themed lands for Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi, targeting completion in 2029, alongside new details on Popstroke’s flagship Orlando venue opening this December. This roundup also
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/ September 8, 2026
Ascend Amphitheater sits on the west bank of the Cumberland River in downtown Nashville, part of Metro Riverfront Park at 301 1st Avenue South. The city-owned venue opened on July 30, 2015, on the site of a former thermal transfer plant that had been phased
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/ September 8, 2026
Blackpool Zoo opened its gates on 6 July 1972 on the site of the former Stanley Park Aerodrome in Blackpool, Lancashire. What began as a modest collection has grown into a 32-acre wildlife park that ranks among the northwest of England’s most visited attractions, drawing
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/ September 8, 2026
Wild One was a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags America in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, and one of the oldest coasters ever operated in the United States. Built in 1917 as the Giant Coaster at Paragon Park in Hull, Massachusetts, it briefly held the title
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/ September 7, 2026
An Alpengeist train twists through the cobra roll above its teal supports at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, July 12, 2001. Amaro-style edit. Original ThrillZing photo of Alpengeist at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.
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