Explore the world’s greatest roller coasters. ThrillZing breaks down stats, layouts, records, and ride experiences for the fastest, tallest, and most iconic coasters — from wooden classics to record-shattering steel giants — so you know exactly what to ride next.
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/ September 25, 2026
New roller coasters 2027 announcements are coming in fast, led by Six Flags Great Adventure’s 382-foot Bakunawa spinning launch coaster. This tracker lists every coaster a park or operator has officially confirmed for 2027 (9 in the US and 10 elsewhere as of September 25…
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/ September 25, 2026
Ricochet is a steel Wild Mouse roller coaster at Carowinds, the amusement park straddling the North Carolina and South Carolina line near Charlotte. Built by Mack Rides, it opened on March 23, 2002, in the park’s Carolina Boardwalk area. It is a compact-model Wild Mouse…
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/ September 25, 2026
Carolina Cyclone is a steel looping roller coaster at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina. Built by Arrow Dynamics and designed by Ron Toomer, it opened on March 22, 1980, at a reported cost of about $2 million. When it debuted, it was the first roller…
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/ September 25, 2026
Vortex is a steel stand-up roller coaster at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was built by Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M), with layout engineering by Werner Stengel’s firm, and it opened to the public on March 14, 1992. Riders stand on the train instead of…
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/ September 25, 2026
Little Dipper is a small wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. It is a compact figure-eight ride with gentle hills, dips and turns, and it is built for young riders. It is often a child’s first roller coaster. The ride…
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/ September 25, 2026
Flash: Vertical Velocity is an Intamin Impulse coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. It opened on May 18, 2001, as Vertical Velocity (nicknamed “V2”), and it has no inversions. It is a shuttle coaster, so the train runs back and forth along…
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/ September 24, 2026
Dark Knight is an enclosed steel Wild Mouse roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. It opened on May 21, 2008, and was built by Mack Rides at a reported cost of about $7.5 million. It is not a big-drop thrill machine.
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/ September 24, 2026
Wild Mouse is a steel spinning roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. It opened on May 6, 2023, as the anchor of the park’s new Boardwalk area, and it was billed as the park’s 18th roller coaster. Zamperla built it, and it was…
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/ September 22, 2026
Goliath opened at Walibi Holland in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands, on March 29, 2002, and instantly became the park’s signature thrill ride. Built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin with track design from German engineer Werner Stengel, it was classified as one of mainland Europe’s first Intamin “Mega Coaster”…
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/ September 21, 2026
Little Dipper is a steel kiddie roller coaster at Memphis Kiddie Park in Brooklyn, Ohio, a small family amusement park just outside Cleveland. Built by the Allan Herschell Company, the ride opened with the park on May 28, 1952, making it one of the oldest…
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/ September 21, 2026
Disaster Transport was an enclosed steel bobsled roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. It began life as Avalanche Run, an outdoor Intamin bobsled coaster announced in October 1984. Cedar Point had originally targeted Avalanche Run to debut with the park’s May 11, 1985…
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/ September 21, 2026
Corkscrew has been twisting riders upside down at Michigan’s Adventure in Muskegon since 1979, back when the park was still known as Deer Park under owner Roger Jourden. Built by Arrow Dynamics, it holds the distinction of being the first inverting roller coaster in the…
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/ September 21, 2026
Batman: The Ride at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey opened on May 1, 1993, as one of the earliest clones of the original Bolliger & Mabillard inverted coaster that debuted at Six Flags Great America the year before. It replaced the park’s…
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/ September 20, 2026
Crazy Mouse was a compact, spinning wild mouse roller coaster that thrilled boardwalk crowds on Steel Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Built by French manufacturer Reverchon, the ride combined tight, jerking turns with unpredictable car spins, a formula that made wild mouse coasters a…
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/ September 19, 2026
Windstorm was a steel Zamperla twister coaster that operated at Old Town, the retro-themed entertainment complex in Kissimmee, Florida, just minutes from the Walt Disney World area. The ride opened on February 15, 1997, and quickly became one of the small park’s signature attractions, offering…
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/ September 19, 2026
Pteranodon Flyers opened with Universal’s Islands of Adventure on May 28, 1999, offering a slow, suspended glide above the Jurassic Park area’s Camp Jurassic. Riders dangle in single-car gondolas styled after the flying reptile the ride is named for, drifting along a steel track roughly…
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/ September 19, 2026
Racer 75 is a twin-track wooden racing coaster at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, designed by legendary coaster architect John C. Allen and built by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters. It opened with the park on May 3, 1975, giving riders two mirror-image tracks that launch side…
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/ September 19, 2026
Arthur is a steel inverted powered coaster at Europa-Park in Rust, Germany, opened in July 2014 as the centerpiece of the immersive “Arthur – In the Minimoys Kingdom” area. Manufactured by Mack Rides, it shrinks riders down to insect scale, sending suspended, spinning cars through…
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/ September 18, 2026
Mantis opened at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, on May 11, 1996, as a Bolliger & Mabillard stand-up steel roller coaster designed by engineer Werner Stengel. At its debut, Mantis set world records among stand-up coasters for height (145 feet), speed (60 mph), and length…
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/ September 18, 2026
The Big Dipper is a wooden out-and-back roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach on England’s Lancashire coast. It opened on 23 August 1923, making it one of the longest-running roller coasters still standing anywhere in the world, and it remains a defining silhouette on Blackpool’s…
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