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 each other four times during the course of the ride.
In 2002, the park renamed the coaster Twisted Twins after the heavy metal band Twisted Sister threatened legal action over the original name. The ride closed for good after the 2007 season. Years later, Rocky Mountain Construction rebuilt the surviving Lola side with steel I-Box track, reopening it in 2016 as Storm Chaser (renamed Wind Chaser in 2025), while the Stella side was demolished.
Stats at a Glance
- Park: Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom
- Manufacturer: Custom Coasters International
- Opened: April 1998 (as Twisted Sisters; renamed Twisted Twins in 2002)
- Closed: End of the 2007 season
- Height: About 80 feet
- Top speed: About 55 mph
- Length: About 3,000 feet per track
- Inversions: 0
The Ride Experience
Twisted Twins ran two separate wooden trains, Stella and Lola, that launched from opposite ends of the same station and dueled along nearly identical layouts. Riders on each side experienced close head-on and side-by-side passes as the tracks wove around each other, a hallmark of the dueling-coaster format popular in the late 1990s.
The coaster used Gerstlauer trains, making it notable as one of the first wooden coasters to run German-built trains rather than the more common Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters or Morgan trains used elsewhere at the time.
Closure and Legacy
Twisted Twins closed indefinitely after the 2007 season as its wooden structure aged and the park changed ownership. For several years the twin structure sat unused before Kentucky Kingdom, under new operators, brought in Rocky Mountain Construction to explore a rebuild.
Only the Lola side survived; it was reengineered with RMC’s steel I-Box track and reopened in 2016 as Storm Chaser, later renamed Wind Chaser in 2025. The Stella side, along with its original wooden supports, was torn down, closing the book on Twisted Twins as its own ride.
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Twisted Twins Photo Archive: July 2002
These are original ThrillZing photos of Twisted Twins taken at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom on July 2, 2002, restored and upscaled from the original camera files. They show the CCI dueling wooden coaster’s dark twin structure, the Lola and Stella trains loading in the station, the entrance sign and the twin lifts. The ride closed after 2007 and its site became Storm Chaser, now Wind Chaser. All photos are free to reuse under a CC BY 4.0 license with credit to ThrillZing and a link to this page.
Twisted Twins FAQs
Is Twisted Twins still open at Kentucky Kingdom?
No. Twisted Twins closed after the 2007 season. Its Lola track was later rebuilt with steel RMC track and reopened in 2016 as Storm Chaser, now known as Wind Chaser.
Why was the coaster renamed from Twisted Sisters to Twisted Twins?
The park changed the name in 2002 after the heavy metal band Twisted Sister threatened to sue over use of a similar name.
What made Twisted Twins unique among wooden coasters?
It featured two full-length dueling wooden tracks, Stella and Lola, and was among the first wooden coasters to run trains built by the German manufacturer Gerstlauer.
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Photo: BlueShirtz / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.