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 8, 2026
Thunderbolt is a wooden roller coaster at Kennywood in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, that has been dropping riders into a forested ravine since it first opened as Pippin in 1924, designed by John A. Miller. The ride was reengineered and renamed Thunderbolt in 1968 by Kennywood’s…
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/ September 8, 2026
Wild One was a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags America in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, and one of the oldest coasters ever operated in the United States. Built in 1917 as the Giant Coaster at Paragon Park in Hull, Massachusetts, it briefly held the title…
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/ September 7, 2026
Steel Venom was a steel shuttle coaster that operated at Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio, opening on May 5, 2000, as Superman: Ultimate Escape under the park’s original Six Flags ownership. Manufactured by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel, it was one of the earliest…
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/ September 7, 2026
Vortex was a steel looping roller coaster that operated at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, from 1987 until 2019. Built by Arrow Dynamics for roughly $4 million, it opened on April 11, 1987, on the same plot of land once occupied by the original suspended…
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/ September 7, 2026
Wicked Twister was a launched steel coaster that towered over the shoreline at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, from 2002 to 2021. Built by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel, it used linear induction motors to fire a single train back and forth between two…
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/ September 7, 2026
Jack Rabbit is a wooden roller coaster at Kennywood park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, that has been sending riders down its signature double-dip drop since June 18, 1920. Designed by legendary coaster engineer John A. Miller and built with Harry C. Baker, Jack Rabbit is…
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/ September 7, 2026
Flying Turns at Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg, Pennsylvania is the only wooden bobsled roller coaster operating anywhere in the world today. Unlike a conventional coaster, its cars run without a fixed rail through smooth, banked wooden troughs, relying purely on gravity and momentum to…
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/ September 6, 2026
The sooperdooperLooper opened at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania on May 8, 1977, and it made history as the first roller coaster on the East Coast to feature a vertical loop. Designed and built by German manufacturer Anton Schwarzkopf, the ride introduced generations of Hersheypark visitors…
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/ September 6, 2026
Whizzer is a steel roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, that has been spinning riders through its signature loop-de-loop layout since May 29, 1976. Built by German manufacturer Anton Schwarzkopf and designed by Werner Stengel’s firm, it opened as “Willard’s Whizzer,”…
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/ September 5, 2026
This list ranks the 25 newest roller coasters to debut in the 2020s, ordered strictly by opening year, most recent first. It spans a spinning farm-themed family ride in the English countryside and a record-setting megacoaster in Saudi Arabia, and every entry here is currently…
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/ September 5, 2026
The Giant Dipper is a wooden roller coaster at Belmont Park on Mission Beach in San Diego, California. It first opened on July 4, 1925, as the centerpiece of the Mission Beach Amusement Center, a $2.5 million development backed by John D. and Adolph Spreckels.
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/ September 5, 2026
The Giant Dipper is a wooden roller coaster at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, California, that has been thrilling riders in the same oceanfront spot since May 17, 1924. Designed by noted coaster architects Frank Prior and Frederick Church and built by…
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/ September 4, 2026
Montezooma’s Revenge opened at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California on May 21, 1978, and instantly became one of the most talked-about rides in the country. Built by Schwarzkopf and designed by Werner Stengel, the shuttle loop coaster used a spinning flywheel to catapult…
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/ September 4, 2026
The New Revolution is the name Six Flags Magic Mountain gave, starting with the 2016 season, to its pioneering steel coaster that first opened on May 8, 1976. Built by Anton Schwarzkopf and designed by Werner Stengel, it holds a landmark place in coaster history…
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/ September 3, 2026
No manufacturer has a cult following like Rocky Mountain Construction. The Idaho firm turned dying wooden coasters into world-beaters with its I-Box hybrid track, invented the single-rail Raptor, and hasn’t built a bad ride yet. Here is every operating RMC in ThrillZing’s database — all…
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/ September 3, 2026
If B&M is coaster engineering’s craftsman, Intamin is its daredevil. The Swiss-Liechtenstein manufacturer owns virtually every speed record that matters, and this list ranks its 25 fastest operating coasters from ThrillZing’s database. The podium is the world podium: Falcons Flight (155.3 mph), the fastest coaster…
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/ September 3, 2026
Bolliger & Mabillard doesn’t chase speed records — the Swiss manufacturer chases perfection, and somehow ends up fast anyway. This list ranks the 25 fastest operating B&M coasters in ThrillZing’s database by top speed. Fury 325 at Carowinds wears the crown at 95 mph, the…
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/ September 3, 2026
Every ride on this list is made of lumber, older than your grandparents, and still running. These are the 25 oldest operating wooden roller coasters in ThrillZing’s database, ranked by the year they first carried riders. The elder statesman is Leap-The-Dips at Lakemont Park in…
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/ September 3, 2026
Pantheon is Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s Intamin multi-launch coaster, themed to five Roman gods and engineered like all five showed up angry: four launches, two inversions, a backward spike, and a 95-degree beyond-vertical drop. Opened in 2022, it tops out at 73 mph — among the…
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/ September 3, 2026
The 2020s have already produced the fastest roller coaster ever built. This list ranks the 25 fastest coasters that opened from 2020 onward, by top speed, using the verified stats in ThrillZing’s coaster database — every ride on it is operating today. The headline act…
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