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/ August 28, 2026
Penguin Trek is a family launch coaster at SeaWorld Orlando in Florida, built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard. It opened to the public on July 7, 2024, following a soft opening on July 2, replacing the long-running dark ride Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin,
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/ August 28, 2026
Phoenix Rising is a steel inverted family roller coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida. Built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard, it officially opened to the public on July 21, 2024, becoming the park’s tenth coaster and one of the most anticipated
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/ August 23, 2026
Iron Menace is a Bolliger & Mabillard Dive Coaster at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pennsylvania, that opened on May 10, 2024. Built on the site of the former Stinger coaster, it was marketed as the first dive coaster in the northeastern United
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/ August 22, 2026
Talon is an inverted steel roller coaster at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pennsylvania, built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M) and designed by Werner Stengel. It opened to the public on May 5, 2001, at a cost of about $13 million
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/ August 17, 2026
Dragon Challenge was a pair of dueling inverted roller coasters at Universal’s Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida, built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard. The ride opened on May 28, 1999, as Dueling Dragons, with its two side-by-side tracks nicknamed Fire and Ice designed
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/ August 11, 2026
Medusa opened at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California on March 18, 2000, making history as the first floorless roller coaster on the West Coast. Built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard, the $15 million steel coaster gave riders the sensation of having their
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/ August 10, 2026
Wildfire is a steel Bolliger & Mabillard roller coaster at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri. The $14 million ride opened to the public on April 4, 2001, and was designed by Werner Stengel’s engineering firm, giving the Ozark Mountains theme park its first major
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/ August 5, 2026
Pipeline: The Surf Coaster made history when it opened at SeaWorld Orlando on May 27, 2023, debuting as the world’s first B&M Surf Coaster and the first new stand-up roller coaster design since 1999’s Georgia Scorcher. Manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard, the ride reimagines the
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/ July 22, 2026
X-Flight is a Bolliger & Mabillard Wing Coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, that opened to the public on May 16, 2012. It was only the fourth wing coaster built anywhere in the world and the second in the United States, following
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/ July 19, 2026
Riddler’s Revenge opened on April 4, 1998, at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, as the park’s eleventh roller coaster and its single biggest investment to date at a cost of roughly $14 million. Built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard, it was designed
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/ July 1, 2026
Oblivion opened at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England on 14 March 1998 as the world’s first dive coaster and the first roller coaster to feature a near-vertical drop. Designed by Bolliger & Mabillard and engineer Werner Stengel, it was marketed as the ‘world’s first vertical
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/ June 19, 2026
Yukon Striker is a steel dive coaster at Canada’s Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario, built by Bolliger & Mabillard and opened on May 3, 2019. Standing 223 feet tall with a 245-foot drop and a top speed of 81 mph, it debuted as the world’s tallest,
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/ June 15, 2026
GateKeeper is a steel wing coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, designed and built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M). It opened on May 11, 2013, delivering Cedar Point’s most successful opening weekend in the park’s history. Riders sit in pairs on either
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/ July 31, 2023
The train stops. You are tilted forward, hanging face-down over 214 feet of open air, staring at the ground far below. It holds that way — one second, two, three, four — long enough that your brain stops waiting for the drop and starts to
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