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/ September 26, 2026
Batman: The Ride is a steel inverted roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. Built by Bolliger & Mabillard, it opened on March 26, 1994, and it was the first inverted coaster in Southern California. Riders sit in floorless-style seats with their…
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/ September 21, 2026
Batman: The Ride at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey opened on May 1, 1993, as one of the earliest clones of the original Bolliger & Mabillard inverted coaster that debuted at Six Flags Great America the year before. It replaced the park’s…
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/ September 17, 2026
Chang was a stand-up roller coaster that operated at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky, from April 4, 1997, until September 19, 2009. Built by the Swiss engineering firm Bolliger & Mabillard, it was named for the Mandarin word for “long,” reflecting the fact…
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/ September 15, 2026
The Flying Dinosaur is the headline thrill ride of Jurassic Park at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka. It is a steel flying coaster from Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M) that opened on March 18, 2016. Riders are laid face-down, about 151 feet above the…
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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 15, 2026
The Swarm was the ride that put wing coasters on the map in Britain. When it opened at Thorpe Park in Surrey in 2012, it gave UK riders their first taste of a Bolliger & Mabillard design that strips away the train entirely, leaving nothing…
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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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/ August 11, 2026
Feet dangling, no floor beneath you, and a 150-foot drop waiting at the top — Medusa has been rattling nerves at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom since March 18, 2000, when it opened as the first floorless roller coaster anywhere on the West Coast. Built by…
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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 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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