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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/ July 25, 2026
Mamba is the steel hypercoaster that has defined the skyline of Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri since 1998. Built by D.H. Morgan Manufacturing and designed by Steve Okamoto, it towers 205 feet over the park’s Africa section and remains Missouri’s fastest coaster and
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/ July 24, 2026
Poltergeist is the coaster that skips the climb and goes straight for the scream: instead of a chain lift, linear induction motors catapult the train to 60 mph in about 3.5 seconds, then dump riders into a tightly wound cobra roll, sidewinder, and corkscrew inside
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/ July 24, 2026
The Wonder Woman Golden Lasso Coaster opened on May 12, 2018, at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio, becoming the world’s first single-rail roller coaster to open to the public. Built by Rocky Mountain Construction, it introduced the company’s Raptor track, a slender single
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/ July 23, 2026
Superman: Krypton Coaster carves its 4,025 feet of track through a former quarry at Six Flags Fiesta Texas, sending floorless trains skimming rock walls and launching riders out over open cliff edges twice in one 2-minute-35-second run. Built by Bolliger & Mabillard and designed by
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/ July 23, 2026
Twisted Cyclone is the ride that convinced a lot of coaster fans that Six Flags Over Georgia had one of the best hybrids in the country: a wooden coaster’s bones wrapped in RMC’s steel I-Box track, delivering nonstop airtime and a genuinely unique inversion nobody
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/ July 23, 2026
Front row or back row is the great debate of coaster fandom — ask any group of riders in a station and you’ll hear passionate cases for both ends of the train. The truth is that front row or back row isn’t just a preference;
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/ July 22, 2026
X-Flight is a Bolliger & Mabillard Wing Coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, that opened to the public on May 16, 2012. It was only the fourth wing coaster built anywhere in the world and the second in the United States, following
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/ July 22, 2026
Maxx Force is a launched steel roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, that opened on July 4, 2019. Built by S&S – Sansei Technologies and designed by Joe Draves, it replaced the Pictorium, the park’s longtime IMAX theater, and introduced a
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/ July 21, 2026
Goliath opened at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois on June 19, 2014, rising from the site of the former Iron Wolf coaster. Built by Rocky Mountain Construction (RMC) and designed by Alan Schilke, it paired RMC’s steel-topped Topper Track with a traditional wood
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/ July 21, 2026
Vortex is a suspended roller coaster at Canada’s Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario, that opened on May 12, 1991. Built by Arrow Dynamics, it was part of a small lineage of suspended coasters the manufacturer produced in North America during the late 1980s and early 1990s,
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/ July 19, 2026
West Coast Racers is Six Flags Magic Mountain’s launched, side-by-side dueling coaster, where two 12-passenger trains race through the same layout at once, crossing paths more than a dozen times before either one crosses the finish line first. Built by Premier Rides and opened on
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/ July 19, 2026
Scream! is the floorless coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain where your legs dangle free through seven inversions, and it’s one of the park’s most-searched rides for a reason: riders want to know the height cutoff, what the seats actually feel like, and how it
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/ July 19, 2026
Riddler’s Revenge opened on April 4, 1998, at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, as the park’s eleventh roller coaster and its single biggest investment to date at a cost of roughly $14 million. Built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard, it was designed
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/ July 18, 2026
Xcelerator is the hydraulic launch roller coaster at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, and it’s the ride that started an entire category: when it opened on June 22, 2002, it was Intamin’s very first hydraulically launched coaster, a technology later scaled up for
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/ July 17, 2026
Silver Bullet is a Bolliger & Mabillard inverted steel roller coaster at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. Themed to the park’s Ghost Town section, the $16 million ride opened to the public on December 7, 2004, giving riders a western-flavored spin on the
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/ July 17, 2026
HangTime is a steel dive coaster at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, built by Germany’s Gerstlauer Amusement Rides. It opened to the public on May 18, 2018, replacing the site once occupied by the Boomerang shuttle coaster and the RipTide Top Spin ride,
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/ July 17, 2026
GhostRider is a wooden roller coaster in the Ghost Town section of Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. Designed by Robin Hall and built by Custom Coasters International at a cost of about $24 million, it opened to the public on December 8, 1998,
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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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/ July 16, 2026
Exterminator is an indoor spinning roller coaster at Kennywood amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. Built by French manufacturer Reverchon Industries and opened on April 18, 1999, it was Kennywood’s first indoor coaster and remains one of the more unusual attractions in the historic park’s
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/ July 16, 2026
Steel Curtain is a steel hypercoaster at Kennywood amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, that opened to the public on July 13, 2019. Manufactured by S&S – Sansei Technologies and designed by Joe Draves, the ride was built on the site of the former Log
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