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 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 a hydraulic launch roller coaster at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, built by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel. It opened on June 22, 2002, as Intamin’s first hydraulically launched coaster, replacing the short-lived Windjammer Surf Racers and giving the park
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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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/ 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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