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 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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/ July 15, 2026
The Comet is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great Escape and Hurricane Harbor in Queensbury, New York, with a history that stretches back to a demolished Ontario amusement park. Its structural steel originated from the Crystal Beach Cyclone, which opened in 1927 at
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/ July 15, 2026
Lightning Racer is a wooden dueling roller coaster at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania, built by Great Coasters International (GCI) and designed by GCI’s Mike Boodley. Planning began in 1999, and the $12.5 million ride opened to the public on May 13, 2000, inside the park’s
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/ July 15, 2026
Candymonium is a steel hypercoaster at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania, built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard. It opened on July 3, 2020, as the centerpiece of the park’s Chocolatetown expansion, and immediately claimed the title of tallest, fastest, and longest coaster in Hersheypark history.
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/ July 14, 2026
Great Bear is a steel inverted roller coaster at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania, built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard with track design assistance from Werner Stengel’s engineering firm. When it opened on May 23, 1998, it became the first inverted looping coaster in the
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/ July 14, 2026
Phoenix is a classic wooden roller coaster at Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg, Pennsylvania, and it’s routinely named one of the best wooden coasters on Earth. Riders searching for hard numbers want to know exactly how tall it is and how fast it goes —
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/ July 13, 2026
Kraken is a steel floorless roller coaster at SeaWorld Orlando in Orlando, Florida, built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard and designed by Werner Stengel. It opened to the public on June 1, 2000, after a soft opening in late May of that year, and
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/ July 12, 2026
Manta is SeaWorld Orlando’s signature flying roller coaster: riders are locked in face-down, arms and legs extended, and sent soaring belly-first over a lagoon stocked with real rays. It’s one of only a handful of Bolliger & Mabillard “flying coasters” on Earth, and the only
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/ July 12, 2026
Cheetah Hunt is a steel launched roller coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida, that opened on May 27, 2011, alongside the park’s Cheetah Run habitat in the Edge of Africa section. Built by Intamin with design input from the park’s Mark Rose,
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/ July 12, 2026
Tigris fires forward out of the station, falls back through it, launches backward, then rockets forward one last time — all before most coasters would finish their first hill. It’s Florida’s tallest launch coaster, and it packs that triple-launch sequence into a footprint barely the
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/ July 12, 2026
Bizarro was the DC Comics-themed identity given to the towering Intamin hypercoaster at Six Flags New England, one of the most decorated roller coasters in the United States. The ride first opened on May 5, 2000 as Superman – Ride of Steel, instantly becoming the
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/ July 12, 2026
Kingda Ka was a hydraulic-launch steel coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, built by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel. It opened on May 21, 2005, and instantly became the tallest and fastest roller coaster on Earth, a title it held
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/ July 9, 2026
Tormenta Rampaging Run at Six Flags Over Texas is the world's first giga dive coaster: 309 ft, 87 mph, a 95-degree drop, and six world records in one ride.
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/ July 6, 2026
The Big One is Blackpool Pleasure Beach’s signature roller coaster – a towering, seafront-hugging Arrow Dynamics hypercoaster that’s been delivering a stomach-dropping first plunge since 1994. If you’re trying to pin down exactly how fast it goes, how tall it really is, or how it
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/ July 6, 2026
Superman: Ultimate Flight is a steel flying roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard. It opened to the public on April 17, 2003, becoming the second of three nearly identical B&M flying coasters to
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/ July 5, 2026
Balder opened at Liseberg amusement park in Gothenburg, Sweden, on April 12, 2003, and quickly became one of the most celebrated wooden roller coasters in the world. Named after the Norse god of light and justice, the ride was manufactured by Intamin and designed by
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/ July 5, 2026
SpeedMonster is a launched roller coaster at TusenFryd, a theme park near Oslo, Norway. Built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin and designed by Stengel Engineering, the ride opened on April 23, 2006, and was described at the time as the biggest single investment in the park’s
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/ July 5, 2026
Katun is an inverted roller coaster at Mirabilandia amusement park near Ravenna, Italy, built by Bolliger & Mabillard and designed by Werner Stengel. Opened on April 1, 2000, it takes its name from the Maya calendar term for a period of roughly 20 years, tying
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/ July 4, 2026
Abyssus is a steel launched roller coaster at Energylandia in Zator, Poland, built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma as an extended version of its Shockwave model. It opened on July 14, 2021 as the headlining attraction of the park’s new Aqualantis area, becoming Energylandia’s 17th roller
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/ July 4, 2026
Flying Aces is a steel wing coaster at Ferrari World Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin and opened to the public on February 24, 2016. As only the second wing coaster Intamin ever produced, following Skyrush at Hersheypark, it
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