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/ September 27, 2026
Ninja is a suspended steel roller coaster tucked into the Samurai Summit area of Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. Built by Arrow Dynamics and opened on May 21, 1988, it was the fifth of only ten suspended coasters the manufacturer ever built, and…
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/ September 25, 2026
Carolina Cyclone is a steel looping roller coaster at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina. Built by Arrow Dynamics and designed by Ron Toomer, it opened on March 22, 1980, at a reported cost of about $2 million. When it debuted, it was the first roller…
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/ September 21, 2026
Corkscrew has been twisting riders upside down at Michigan’s Adventure in Muskegon since 1979, back when the park was still known as Deer Park under owner Roger Jourden. Built by Arrow Dynamics, it holds the distinction of being the first inverting roller coaster in the…
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/ September 18, 2026
Adventure Express is a steel mine train roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, built by Arrow Dynamics and opened to the public on April 13, 1991. Designed by Ron Toomer, the ride was conceived as a heavily themed jungle expedition, with park officials…
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/ September 18, 2026
Canyon Blaster is an indoor steel roller coaster at the Adventuredome, the glass-domed amusement park attached to Circus Circus on the Las Vegas Strip. Built by Arrow Dynamics and opened on August 23, 1993, as the anchor attraction of what was then called Grand Slam…
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/ September 17, 2026
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is a mine train roller coaster in Frontierland at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California. It opened on September 2, 1979, becoming the first installation of what would grow into a family of Big Thunder Mountain attractions across Disney parks worldwide, and…
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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 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 12, 2026
River King Mine Train is a classic Arrow Dynamics mine train coaster at Mid America Adventure in Eureka, Missouri. It opened on June 5, 1971, as one of the park’s original attractions, and it still holds the distinction of being the oldest operating permanent roller…
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/ September 12, 2026
The Bat is a steel suspended roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, built by Arrow Dynamics and opened on April 9, 1993. It first ran as Top Gun, themed around the Paramount film of the same name, complete with jet-fighter trains and movie-inspired…
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/ September 12, 2026
Ninja is a steel looping roller coaster in the Studio Backlot section of the park long known as Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, Missouri (rebranded Mid America Adventure in August 2026). Riders climb to just over 108 feet before diving into a course packed…
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/ September 12, 2026
Mad Mouse is a steel Wild Mouse roller coaster at Michigan’s Adventure in Muskegon, Michigan. Built by Arrow Dynamics, it opened to the public on August 7, 1999, as the park’s third steel coaster, debuting the same year as the ride now known as Woodstock…
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/ September 8, 2026
Anaconda was a steel looping roller coaster at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, built by Arrow Dynamics and designed by legendary engineer Ron Toomer. Opening on March 23, 1991, it replaced the park’s earlier King Kobra shuttle loop and cost around $5 million to build…
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/ September 8, 2026
Big Bad Wolf was a steel suspended roller coaster that operated at Busch Gardens Williamsburg from 1984 to 2009. Built by Arrow Dynamics and designed by Ron Toomer, the ride carried swinging, individually hinged cars through the park’s Bavarian-themed Oktoberfest section, giving riders a pendulum-like…
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/ September 8, 2026
Double Loop was a steel roller coaster at Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio, that made history in 1977 as the first coaster in the world to feature two consecutive vertical loops. Built by Arrow Dynamics at a cost of $1.35 million, the ride quickly became…
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/ September 8, 2026
Corkscrew opened at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, on May 15, 1976, and made history as the first roller coaster in the world to feature three inversions. Built by Arrow Development and designed by legendary engineer Ron Toomer, the steel coaster arrived during the U.S.
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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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/ August 29, 2026
Arrow Dynamics was an American roller coaster manufacturer whose engineering breakthroughs defined the modern steel coaster industry. Tracing its roots to Arrow Development, founded in Mountain View, California in 1946 by Ed Morgan and Karl Bacon, the company reorganized under the Arrow Dynamics name in…
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/ August 25, 2026
Thunderation is a steel mine train roller coaster at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri, that has sent riders rattling through the wooded Ozark hillside since it opened on April 10, 1993. Built by Arrow Dynamics, the ride’s stylized name, ThuNderaTion, nods to TNT and…
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