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/ September 7, 2026
Alpengeist's track sweeps over the Bavarian village rooftops at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, July 12, 2001. Clarendon-style edit. Original ThrillZing photo of Alpengeist at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.
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/ September 7, 2026
Steel Venom was a steel shuttle coaster that operated at Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio, opening on May 5, 2000, as Superman: Ultimate Escape under the park’s original Six Flags ownership. Manufactured by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel, it was one of the earliest
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/ September 7, 2026
Vortex was a steel looping roller coaster that operated at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, from 1987 until 2019. Built by Arrow Dynamics for roughly $4 million, it opened on April 11, 1987, on the same plot of land once occupied by the original suspended
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/ September 7, 2026
Wicked Twister was a launched steel coaster that towered over the shoreline at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, from 2002 to 2021. Built by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel, it used linear induction motors to fire a single train back and forth between two
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/ September 7, 2026
A Raging Bull train arcs over the Southwest Territory bell tower at Six Flags Great America, August 10, 2005. Original ThrillZing photo of Raging Bull at Six Flags Great America.
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/ August 30, 2026
Grizzly is a wooden roller coaster at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, that has been rattling through the park’s forested Old Virginia section since it opened on March 27, 1982. Designed by noted coaster engineer Curtis D. Summers, its double-figure-eight layout closely follows the blueprint
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/ August 29, 2026
Dominator is the floorless roller coaster on Kings Dominion’s International Street, a Bolliger & Mabillard giant that sends riders through five inversions with nothing beneath their dangling feet. It holds the world record as the longest floorless coaster ever built, but it didn’t start life
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/ August 24, 2026
Siren’s Curse opened at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, on June 28, 2025, becoming the tallest, fastest, and longest tilt coaster in North America. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma, the steel coaster replaced the former WildCat Luminosity attraction near the Cedar Point Marina in the
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/ August 24, 2026
Iron Dragon opened at Cedar Point on June 11, 1987, bringing Arrow Dynamics’ suspended coaster design to the Sandusky, Ohio park. Riders sit in cars that hang beneath the track on a swinging chassis, letting the train swing side to side through the turns as
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/ August 22, 2026
Talon is an inverted steel roller coaster at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pennsylvania, built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M) and designed by Werner Stengel. It opened to the public on May 5, 2001, at a cost of about $13 million
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/ August 16, 2026
Son of Beast was a towering wooden roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, that opened on April 28, 2000, as the tallest and fastest wooden coaster in the world. Built by the Roller Coaster Corporation of America with track design by Werner Stengel’s
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/ August 15, 2026
On April 2, 1999, Medusa at Six Flags Great Adventure changed coaster design forever: it was the world’s first floorless roller coaster, a Bolliger & Mabillard creation where riders sit in open-sided seats with nothing but air beneath their feet. Add seven inversions across nearly
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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
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
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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/ July 27, 2026
The Boss is the wooden “terrain twister” that carved a name for itself in the wooded hills of the Britannia section, using the natural landscape instead of steel supports to launch riders through six track crossings and a 150-foot first drop. This guide covers everything
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/ July 16, 2026
The Racer is a wooden racing roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, that opened with the park on April 29, 1972. Designed by legendary coaster architect John C. Allen and built by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters, it features two parallel tracks, Blue and Red,
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/ June 19, 2026
Phantom’s Revenge is a steel hypercoaster at Kennywood amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, and one of the most celebrated coasters in the United States. Born from the bones of the 1991 Arrow Dynamics-built Steel Phantom, the ride was radically reimagined by D.H. Morgan Manufacturing
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/ June 16, 2026
Fifty years ago, engineers weren’t sure two vertical loops could physically pass through each other without the trains colliding. Ron Toomer and Arrow Development proved it could be done, and on June 2, 1978, Loch Ness Monster opened at Busch Gardens Williamsburg as the world’s
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/ June 16, 2026
American Eagle is the twin-track wooden racing roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, which opened on May 23, 1981. Built by Intamin of Switzerland — its first-ever wooden coaster — it debuted as the world’s tallest and fastest wooden roller coaster
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