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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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/ August 15, 2026
Few coasters have lived as many lives as The Flying Cobras. This Vekoma Boomerang at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina has operated under four names in two states: born as The Mind Eraser at Ohio’s Geauga Lake in 1996, renamed Head Spin in 2004, relocated…
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/ August 8, 2026
Nighthawk was a steel flying roller coaster at Carowinds, the amusement park straddling the North Carolina-South Carolina border in Charlotte. Riders were flipped into a face-down, arms-forward flying position before soaring through a vertical loop, a double corkscrew, and a series of disorienting Lie-to-Fly and…
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/ August 5, 2026
Ice Breaker is a launched steel roller coaster at SeaWorld Orlando in Florida, built by Premier Rides using its Sky Rocket model. It opened to the public on February 18, 2022, after an original 2020 debut was pushed back by the COVID-19 pandemic, and it…
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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 the wooden racing roller coaster that opened Kings Island itself on April 29, 1972 — and more than five decades later, its twin Blue and Red trains are still launching side by side across Coney Mall for a photo-finish sprint to the…
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/ July 15, 2026
Candymonium is still Hersheypark’s benchmark thrill ride five years after opening — the tallest, fastest, and longest coaster in the park’s lineup, and a two-time top-10 finisher in Amusement Today’s Golden Ticket Awards for best steel coaster in the world. This guide covers every number…
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/ July 14, 2026
Great Bear is Hersheypark’s original inverted thrill machine, the coaster that dangles your feet in midair and throws you through four inversions at speeds pushing 60 mph. More than 25 years after it opened in 1998, it’s still one of the fastest, most re-rideable coasters…
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/ July 13, 2026
Kraken is the ride that put SeaWorld Orlando on the coaster map. It’s a steel floorless roller coaster built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard and designed by Werner Stengel, opening to the public on June 1, 2000, after a soft opening in late May…
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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
Every wooden coaster fan who visits Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari in Santa Claus, Indiana ends up talking about The Legend. It’s the middle chapter in the park’s celebrated trio of wood coasters, and it earns its reputation the old-fashioned way: relentless pacing, pitch-black tunnels…
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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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/ June 16, 2026
Raging Bull is the ride that put Six Flags Great America on the map for serious coaster fans — a 202-foot Bolliger & Mabillard hyper-twister that plunges riders into an underground tunnel before ripping through more than 5,000 feet of banked turns and airtime hills…
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