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 29, 2026
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind opened on May 27, 2022, inside EPCOT’s World Discovery area at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma, it became EPCOT’s first roller coaster and Disney’s first backwards-launched roller coaster, replacing the
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/ July 29, 2026
Tron Lightcycle/Run is a launched steel roller coaster at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World, themed around the light cycles from Disney’s Tron film franchise. Riders straddle motorbike-style vehicles and lean forward to grip handlebars as they race through a partially enclosed track meant to
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/ July 28, 2026
Project Purple is Bakunawa: a 382-foot, 100-mph spinning launch coaster with the world’s first upside-down launch, opening 2027 at Six Flags Great Adventure. Watch the official POV and teaser.
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/ July 28, 2026
Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster is an indoor launched roller coaster on Sunset Boulevard at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World Resort. Built by Vekoma with Walt Disney Imagineering, the ride opened on July 29, 1999 as Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith, using a
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/ July 28, 2026
Space Mountain opened at Disneyland in Anaheim, California on May 27, 1977, becoming the second roller coaster ever built at the park and the second version of Disney’s space-themed coaster concept, following the original at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom in 1975. Designed by Walt
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/ July 27, 2026
Screamin’ Eagle is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, Missouri, built by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters and designed by legendary coaster architect John C. Allen. It opened on April 10, 1976, as part of the park’s America’s Bicentennial celebration, and Guinness
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/ July 27, 2026
The Boss is a wooden roller coaster in the Britannia section of Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, Missouri. It opened on April 29, 2000, built by Custom Coasters International and designed by Dennis McNulty and Larry Bill, and quickly earned a reputation as one
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/ July 26, 2026
Zambezi Zinger is a wooden hybrid roller coaster at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri, built by Great Coasters International (GCI) with design work from Skyline Attractions. It opened to the public on June 19, 2023, replacing the park’s former Dinosaurs Alive! attraction in
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/ July 25, 2026
Prowler is a wooden roller coaster at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri, built by Great Coasters International (GCI) and opened to the public on May 2, 2009. Tucked into the park’s Africa section behind the Zulu attraction, the $8 million ride was the
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/ July 25, 2026
Mamba is a steel hypercoaster at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri, built by D.H. Morgan Manufacturing and designed by Steve Okamoto. It opened to the public on April 18, 1998, following an announcement made on September 11, 1997, and cost more than $10
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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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