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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/ June 15, 2026
Kumba, Busch Gardens Tampa Bay’s roaring steel legend, is entering its final months of operation. After 33 years as one of Florida’s most influential roller coasters, the Bolliger and Mabillard classic will close permanently on Sunday, August 2, 2026, making way for a reimagined successor
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/ June 15, 2026
SheiKra towers 200 feet over Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, and every inch of that height is on display the moment the train creeps over the edge of its signature 90-degree drop. It’s the ride’s most talked-about stat, and for good reason: standing at the crest
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/ June 15, 2026
Montu is a steel inverted roller coaster located in the Egypt section of Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida. Designed by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard and opened on May 16, 1996, it towers 150 feet tall and sends riders hurtling through seven inversions
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/ June 15, 2026
Griffon is the signature dive coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in James City County, Virginia — a Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M) creation that hangs riders over a 205-foot precipice, holds them there, then drops them straight down at a full 90 degrees. Since opening on
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/ June 15, 2026
Alpengeist has been flipping riders upside down above Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s Rhinefeld section since 1997, and nearly three decades later it’s still one of the most talked-about inverted coasters on the planet. Named for the German legend of an alpine ghost that lures skiers to
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/ June 15, 2026
Apollo’s Chariot opened on March 27, 1999, at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia, and holds the distinction of being the first hypercoaster ever designed by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard. Standing 170 feet tall with a 210-foot first drop taken at 65 degrees, it
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/ June 15, 2026
Mystic Timbers is a wooden roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, built by Great Coasters International and opened on April 15, 2017. The ride winds through 3,265 feet of track at up to 53 mph, cresting a 109-foot lift hill before plunging 98
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/ June 15, 2026
Nitro is a steel hyper coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, designed and built by Bolliger & Mabillard. It opened on April 7, 2001, and immediately set records as the tallest roller coaster on the East Coast and the fastest in
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/ June 15, 2026
Twisted Timbers is the hybrid roller coaster at Kings Dominion that made a wooden clunker into one of the East Coast’s most talked-about rides. Rocky Mountain Construction stripped the old Hurler down to its wooden bones and rebuilt it with steel I-Box track, turning a
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/ June 15, 2026
ArieForce One, Rocky Mountain Construction’s record-chasing steel coaster at Fun Spot America Atlanta in Fayetteville, Georgia, is about to become a memory: the park has announced it will permanently close on August 2, 2026, putting a hard deadline on your last chance to ride. Opened
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/ June 15, 2026
Wildcat’s Revenge is Hersheypark’s first hybrid coaster — and it got there by rebuilding a 1996 wooden coaster from the rails up. Rocky Mountain Construction (RMC) grafted its steel I-Box track onto the original Wildcat’s wooden structure, opening on June 2, 2023 as Hersheypark’s first
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/ June 15, 2026
Skyrush doesn’t look like it should be this intense from the midway, but the numbers back it up: 200 feet tall, a 212-foot first drop, and 75 mph reached in the first three seconds. It’s the ride most Hersheypark enthusiasts name as the park’s best,
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/ June 15, 2026
Pantherian — the panther-themed giga coaster towering over Kings Dominion’s skyline in Doswell, Virginia — has a reputation that precedes it: a near-vertical 300-foot drop, a 90 mph top speed, and g-forces strong enough that riders have reported briefly greying out on the first turn.
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/ June 15, 2026
Maverick opened at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio on May 26, 2007, replacing the beloved water ride White Water Landing in the park’s Frontier Town section. Built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin and engineered by Werner Stengel — for whom it was his 500th coaster design
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/ June 14, 2026
Mako is a steel hypercoaster at SeaWorld Orlando in Orlando, Florida, built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard and opened on June 10, 2016. Standing 200 feet tall and stretching 4,760 feet of track, it debuted as the tallest, fastest, and longest roller coaster in
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/ June 14, 2026
Leviathan at Canada’s Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario, is Canada’s tallest and fastest roller coaster — a 306-foot steel giant that reaches 92 mph on its first drop alone. When it opened on May 6, 2012, it didn’t just break Canadian records; it marked a historic
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/ June 14, 2026
Twisted Colossus doesn’t just loop — it races itself. Opened on May 23, 2015, this Rocky Mountain Construction hybrid at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California transformed the park’s beloved 1978 wooden icon into a nearly-one-mile Möbius loop that sends two trains chasing each
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/ June 14, 2026
Most roller coasters let you settle into your seat and anticipate the drops ahead. X2 at Six Flags Magic Mountain takes that comfort away entirely. Perched on the outside of a wide wing-shaped train, you ascend the lift hill facing backwards — then spend the
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/ June 14, 2026
If there is one wooden roller coaster that coaster enthusiasts build entire road trips around, it is The Voyage at Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana. Since opening on May 6, 2006, this 6,442-foot giant has held the world record for wooden coaster airtime, delivering
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/ June 14, 2026
Lightning Rod drops 165 feet down a Tennessee hillside at 73 mph, threading through the trees of Dollywood’s wooded terrain on one of the most celebrated coasters Rocky Mountain Construction has ever built. The $22 million ride opened on June 13, 2016, as a genuine
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