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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/ September 17, 2026
Revenge of the Mummy is an indoor launched steel coaster at Universal Studios Florida that blends a roller coaster with a dark ride, sending riders through a cursed Egyptian tomb inspired by Universal’s Mummy film franchise. It opened on May 21, 2004, in the building…
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/ September 17, 2026
Space Mountain opened in Tomorrowland at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom on January 15, 1975, and it remains one of the most recognizable roller coasters in the world. Designed by WED Enterprises (Walt Disney Imagineering) and built by Arrow Development, it was among the first…
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/ September 17, 2026
Twisted Twins was a wooden dueling roller coaster at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky. It opened in April 1998 under the name Twisted Sisters, sending two mirror-image wooden tracks named Stella and Lola out from a single station so that riders raced past…
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/ September 17, 2026
Woodland Run is a wooden roller coaster at Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky, originally built by the Dinn Corporation and designed by Curtis D. Summers and John Fetterman. It opened in August 1990 as Thunder Run, giving generations of Louisville-area thrill-seekers their introduction to out-and-back…
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/ September 17, 2026
Shockwave was a steel looping roller coaster that towered over the Orleans Place section of Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. Built by Arrow Dynamics and designed by legendary coaster engineer Ron Toomer, it opened on June 3, 1988, as a showcase of the…
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/ September 17, 2026
Demon is a steel looping roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, built by Arrow Dynamics and designed by Ron Toomer. The ride first opened on May 29, 1976, as Turn of the Century, a milder coaster with airtime hills and a…
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/ September 17, 2026
Déjà Vu was a Vekoma Giant Inverted Boomerang shuttle coaster that opened at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois on October 7, 2001. Riders sat in dangling, ski-lift-style chairs suspended below the track, launched out of the station by a catch-car vertical lift, sent…
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/ September 17, 2026
Every B&M coaster you’ve ever ridden — from Batman: The Ride to the newest hypercoaster at your local Six Flags — traces back to one ride in Gurnee, Illinois. Iron Wolf, which opened in 1990 at Six Flags Great America, was Bolliger & Mabillard’s first-ever…
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/ September 17, 2026
Zach’s Zoomer is a wooden roller coaster at Michigan’s Adventure in Muskegon, Michigan, built specifically to bridge the gap between kiddie rides and the park’s larger wooden coasters. It opened on July 22, 1994, designed by Custom Coasters International with trains built by Philadelphia Toboggan…
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/ September 16, 2026
Viper is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, that opened to the public on April 29, 1995. Designed by Dennis Starkey and built at an estimated cost of $4 million, the ride was constructed as a near mirror image…
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/ September 16, 2026
Viper was a steel looping roller coaster that operated at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey, from 1995 to 2004. Built by Japanese manufacturer TOGO at a cost of about $4 million, it replaced the short-lived Ultra Twister and featured a compact…
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/ September 16, 2026
Runaway Mine Train opened on July 4, 1974, as one of the founding attractions at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, making it the park’s very first steel roller coaster. Built by Arrow Development, the pioneering firm behind the mine train genre, the…
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/ September 15, 2026
Shock Wave opened on April 22, 1978, at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, Texas, built by German manufacturer Anton Schwarzkopf and designed by engineer Werner Stengel. Standing 116 feet tall, it briefly claimed the title of the world’s tallest complete-circuit roller coaster before being…
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/ September 15, 2026
How tall was the Tower of Terror at Dreamworld, really? The answer depends on whether you’re measuring the coaster or the structure it rode up. Tower of Terror II, the Intamin-built shuttle coaster that once rocketed riders skyward on Queensland’s Gold Coast, stood 115 metres…
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/ September 15, 2026
The Flying Dinosaur is the headline thrill ride of Jurassic Park at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka. It is a steel flying coaster from Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M) that opened on March 18, 2016. Riders are laid face-down, about 151 feet above the…
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/ September 15, 2026
Colorado Adventure is a Vekoma mine train roller coaster that has carried riders through Phantasialand’s Wild West-themed Mexico section in Brühl, Germany, since 1996. Designed by Peter Clerx, the custom MK-900 M model sends trains styled after runaway locomotives across nearly 4,200 feet of twisting…
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/ September 15, 2026
Blue Tornado is a steel inverted roller coaster at Gardaland in Castelnuovo del Garda, Italy, near Lake Garda and the city of Verona. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma, it opened to the public in 1998 as one of the park’s marquee thrill attractions, and a…
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/ September 15, 2026
Big Grizzly Mountain Runaway Mine Cars is a family roller coaster in the Grizzly Gulch section of Hong Kong Disneyland, built by Vekoma and opened on July 14, 2012. It sends runaway mine trains through a gold rush-era mountain town, using two chain lifts plus…
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/ September 15, 2026
Flug der Dämonen, German for “Flight of the Demons,” is a Bolliger & Mabillard wing coaster at Heide Park Resort in Soltau, Lower Saxony, Germany. It opened on March 29, 2014, as Germany’s first wing coaster, replacing the former Wildwasserbahn II water ride that had…
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/ September 15, 2026
Fluch von Novgorod (“Curse of Novgorod”) opened at Hansa-Park in Sierksdorf, Germany, on April 9, 2009, as a custom Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter built around a launched, dark-ride opening sequence. Riders depart the station through an indoor show scene before an LSM launch system rockets the train…
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