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/ September 15, 2026
Hair Raiser is a steel floorless roller coaster at Ocean Park in Hong Kong, opened on December 8, 2011, as the centerpiece thrill ride of the park’s Thrill Mountain section. Built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard, it was the twelfth floorless coaster constructed worldwide
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/ September 15, 2026
Georgia Scorcher is a steel stand-up roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia in Austell, Georgia. Opened on May 8, 1999, and built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard, the ride was squeezed onto a narrow strip of land in the park’s Georgia section, replacing
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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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/ August 31, 2026
Green Lantern was a stand-up roller coaster that operated at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, from 2011 until its closure after the 2024 season. Built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard, it sent riders through five inversions at speeds up to 63
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/ August 29, 2026
Bolliger & Mabillard, widely known in the industry as B&M, is a Swiss roller coaster design and manufacturing company founded in 1988 by engineers Walter Bolliger and Claude Mabillard. Based in Monthey, Switzerland, the pair previously worked together at fellow ride manufacturer Giovanola before striking
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/ August 29, 2026
Dominator is the floorless roller coaster on Kings Dominion’s International Street, a Bolliger & Mabillard giant that sends riders through five inversions with nothing beneath their dangling feet. It holds the world record as the longest floorless coaster ever built, but it didn’t start life
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/ August 23, 2026
Rougarou is a floorless roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, built by Bolliger & Mabillard. The ride occupies the same steel structure that originally opened in 1996 as Mantis, a stand-up coaster that set world records for its type before earning a reputation
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/ July 15, 2026
Candymonium is still Hersheypark’s benchmark thrill ride five years after opening — the tallest, fastest, and longest coaster in the park’s lineup, and a two-time top-10 finisher in Amusement Today’s Golden Ticket Awards for best steel coaster in the world. This guide covers every number
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/ July 12, 2026
Manta is SeaWorld Orlando’s signature flying roller coaster: riders are locked in face-down, arms and legs extended, and sent soaring belly-first over a lagoon stocked with real rays. It’s one of only a handful of Bolliger & Mabillard “flying coasters” on Earth, and the only
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/ July 6, 2026
Superman: Ultimate Flight is the flying roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, that locks riders face-down and sends them soaring through a 78-foot pretzel loop, where the train hits its top speed of 51 mph. It’s one of only a
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/ July 5, 2026
Katun is the Mayan-ruins-themed inverted roller coaster at Mirabilandia amusement park near Ravenna, Italy — a Bolliger & Mabillard machine designed by Werner Stengel that has been sending riders through two ‘Stargate’ tunnels since April 1, 2000. It’s sometimes typed or misheard as ‘Katoon’ or
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/ June 30, 2026
Nemesis at Alton Towers is the ride that changed British theme parks forever — an inverted steel coaster from Bolliger & Mabillard that plunges riders into a man-made ravine, weaves through rock walls, and flips them upside down four times in just 80 seconds. Since
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/ June 29, 2026
Silver Star has been Europa-Park’s signature thrill ride since 2002, and even with dozens of newer coasters built across Europe since then, it still delivers one of the biggest first drops and longest stretches of airtime you’ll find in Germany. At 73 metres tall with
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/ June 26, 2026
Black Mamba is a steel inverted roller coaster at Phantasialand in Brühl, Germany — about 20 km (12 miles) southwest of Cologne (Köln). Designed and built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M), it opened to the public on May 24, 2006, and remains one
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/ June 24, 2026
Dragon Khan is a steel sit-down roller coaster at PortAventura Park in Salou, Tarragona, Spain, built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M) and opened on May 2, 1995. One of two coasters present on the park’s opening day, it immediately established PortAventura as a
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/ June 23, 2026
Shambhala is the steel hypercoaster that put PortAventura Park on the world stage — a Bolliger & Mabillard giant in the park’s China zone that still delivers one of the tallest drops and fastest launches-by-gravity anywhere in Europe. If you’re trying to pin down exactly
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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 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 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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