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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/ 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 23, 2026
Rougarou is a floorless roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, built by Bolliger & Mabillard. The ride occupies the same steel structure that originally opened in 1996 as Mantis, a stand-up coaster that set world records for its type before earning a reputation…
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/ August 23, 2026
Iron Menace is a Bolliger & Mabillard Dive Coaster at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pennsylvania, that opened on May 10, 2024. Built on the site of the former Stinger coaster, it was marketed as the first dive coaster in the northeastern United…
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/ August 22, 2026
Jurassic World VelociCoaster is a launched steel roller coaster at Universal’s Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida, built on the site of the former Triceratops Encounter attraction. Manufactured by Intamin and opened to the public on June 10, 2021, it was designed to put riders…
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/ August 22, 2026
This list ranks operating roller coasters by their total number of inversions — every loop, corkscrew, zero-g roll, and cobra roll that flips riders fully upside down counts once. The figures come straight from ThrillZing’s own coaster database. The Smiler at Alton Towers Resort sits…
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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 22, 2026
Boulder Dash is a wooden roller coaster at Lake Compounce in Bristol, Connecticut, that opened on May 21, 2000. Designed by Dennis McNulty and Larry Bill and built by Custom Coasters International at a cost of about $6 million, it stands out for a rare…
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/ August 18, 2026
Corkscrew opened at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California in 1975, and it changed roller coaster design forever. Built by Arrow Development and designed by engineer Ron Toomer, it was the first modern steel roller coaster in the world to send riders upside down…
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/ August 18, 2026
The Great American Scream Machine was a steel looping roller coaster that operated at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey, from 1989 until 2010. Designed by Ron Toomer and built by Arrow Dynamics, it stood 173 feet tall and debuted as the…
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/ August 17, 2026
Volcano: The Blast Coaster was an inverted launched roller coaster at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, that thrilled riders from 1998 until its abrupt closure in 2018. Built by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel, it made history as the world’s first inverted launched coaster…
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/ August 17, 2026
Dragon Challenge was a pair of dueling inverted roller coasters at Universal’s Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida, built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard. The ride opened on May 28, 1999, as Dueling Dragons, with its two side-by-side tracks nicknamed Fire and Ice designed…
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/ August 17, 2026
Drachen Fire was a steel looping roller coaster that opened April 4, 1992, at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Virginia. Designed by legendary Arrow Dynamics engineer Ron Toomer, the ride was themed around a fire-breathing dragon guarding its mountain lair, weaving riders through a rocky, forested…
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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 16, 2026
This list ranks the 25 oldest roller coasters in ThrillZing’s database by the year they opened, from the earliest survivors of the wood-and-side-friction era up through the late 1920s, right before steel-braced ‘racer’ and ‘twister’ designs took over the industry. Every entry here has kept…
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/ August 16, 2026
Mean Streak was a wooden roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, that opened on May 11, 1991, in the park’s Frontier Town section. Designed by Curtis D. Summers and built by the Dinn Corporation from more than 1.5 million board feet of treated…
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/ August 16, 2026
Apocalypse: The Ride is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, built by Great Coasters International and designed by Jeff Pike. It opened on May 23, 2009, originally themed to the film Terminator Salvation before Six Flags rebranded it Apocalypse…
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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
Rising from the Egypt section of Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Montu is one of the most decorated inverted roller coasters ever built. When it opened on May 16, 1996, it was the world’s tallest and fastest inverted coaster, and its seven inversions still tie it…
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/ August 15, 2026
When Viper opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain on April 7, 1990, it was the tallest and fastest looping roller coaster in the world — a 188-foot Arrow Dynamics giant that hurls riders through seven inversions above the Baja Ridge section of the Valencia, California…
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/ August 15, 2026
When Goudurix opened with Parc Astérix on April 30, 1989, it arrived swinging: seven inversions packed into a single ride, jointly holding the European record for the most inversions on a roller coaster at its debut. Nearly four decades later, the Vekoma-built looper — named…
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