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 18, 2026
Two dive coaster world records, one Illinois roller coaster: a 96-degree drop and five inversions. Wrath of Rakshasa opened May 31, 2025, at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, instantly becoming the steepest and most-inverted dive coaster on Earth. Built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger
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/ June 18, 2026
Flight of the Hippogriff is a steel family roller coaster located in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Hogsmeade at Universal’s Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida. Built by Vekoma on the footprint of the park’s original Flying Unicorn coaster, it opened in its
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/ June 18, 2026
Slinky Dog Dash is a family launched steel roller coaster located in Toy Story Land at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Manufactured by Mack Rides and designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, it opened on June 30, 2018, as one of two headline
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/ June 17, 2026
Behemoth is a steel hyper coaster built by Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M) at Canada’s Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario. Standing 230 feet (70 meters) tall with a 226-foot first drop and a top speed of 77 mph (124 km/h), it opened to the public on May
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/ June 17, 2026
The Bat is a suspended steel roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, built by Arrow Dynamics and opened on April 9, 1993. Unlike traditional coasters, its trains hang freely below the overhead rail on pivoting axles, swinging outward through every banked turn to
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/ June 17, 2026
Flight of Fear is famous for one thing above all else: a launch so violent it feels faster than its numbers suggest. Riders go from a dead stop to 54 mph in four seconds, then get thrown through four inversions in total darkness before they’ve
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/ June 16, 2026
The Incredible Hulk Coaster is the launched steel roller coaster in the Marvel Super Hero Island section of Universal’s Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida — the ride that fires you from 0 to 40 mph in two seconds flat before hurling you through seven
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/ June 16, 2026
Afterburn is the steel inverted roller coaster at Carowinds in Fort Mill, South Carolina, known for dangling riders’ feet beneath a suspended train as it races through six inversions at up to 62 mph. Designed by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard and built for roughly
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/ June 16, 2026
If you’re searching for “Intimidator” at Carowinds and finding a different name on the park map, you’re not going crazy — the ride is still there, still one of the tallest and fastest coasters in the Carolinas, and still delivers the same 211-foot drop and
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/ June 16, 2026
Tatsu is the signature flying roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California — the ride that tilts you face-down into a prone harness and sends you skimming just feet above the hillside at 62 mph. Designed by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard,
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/ June 16, 2026
Batman: The Ride opened on May 9, 1992 at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, and made history as the world’s first inverted roller coaster. Designed by Bolliger & Mabillard, it introduced a new breed of thrill ride — one where riders sit in
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/ June 16, 2026
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is Walt Disney Imagineering’s storied mine train roller coaster, first debuting at Disneyland in Anaheim, California on September 2, 1979, and arriving at Magic Kingdom in Florida on November 15, 1980. Conceived by designer Tony Baxter and originally constructed by Arrow
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/ June 16, 2026
Every wooden coaster fan who visits Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari in Santa Claus, Indiana ends up talking about The Legend. It’s the middle chapter in the park’s celebrated trio of wood coasters, and it earns its reputation the old-fashioned way: relentless pacing, pitch-black tunnels,
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/ June 16, 2026
The Joker at Six Flags Great Adventure doesn’t follow a script. Every trip up its 120-foot lift hill ends in a different combination of flips, drops, and spins, because the ride’s magnetic wing seats move independently of the track instead of locking riders into a
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/ June 16, 2026
Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast is the signature launch coaster at Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, Missouri – a Premier Rides LIM shuttle coaster that fires riders backwards from a dead stop to 70 mph in under four seconds. It’s been the park’s most talked-about
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/ June 16, 2026
Full Throttle doesn’t ease you in — it fires you out of the station and up a 160-foot vertical loop before you’ve had time to grab the restraint. If you’ve ridden it, or watched the trains rocket backward through the tunnel from the queue, the
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/ June 16, 2026
Fifty years ago, engineers weren’t sure two vertical loops could physically pass through each other without the trains colliding. Ron Toomer and Arrow Development proved it could be done, and on June 2, 1978, Loch Ness Monster opened at Busch Gardens Williamsburg as the world’s
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/ June 16, 2026
Verbolten at Busch Gardens Williamsburg has always been more than a launch and a drop — it’s a ride that tells a story, and in 2026 that story changed completely. The coaster reopened on May 30, 2026 as Verbolten: Forbidden Turn, keeping its Zierer track,
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/ June 16, 2026
Storm Runner is a steel launched roller coaster at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania, built by Intamin Amusement Rides and opened on May 8, 2004. Using a hydraulic launch system, it rockets riders from a standstill to 72 mph in about two seconds — one of
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/ June 16, 2026
Fahrenheit at Hersheypark stands 121 feet tall — a lift hill that climbs almost straight up before tipping riders over a first drop of 97 degrees, seven degrees past vertical. It isn’t the tallest coaster in the park, but no other ride at Hersheypark drops
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