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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 27, 2026
InvadR is a wooden roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Virginia, built by Great Coasters International and designed by Jeff Pike of Skyline Design. The ride opened on April 7, 2017, in the park’s New France area, giving guests a family-friendly wooden coaster themed…
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/ August 26, 2026
FireChaser Express is a steel family launched roller coaster at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. It opened on March 22, 2014, and is marketed by the park as the nation’s first dual-launch family coaster, sending riders forward out of the station and then backward through…
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/ August 24, 2026
Iron Dragon opened at Cedar Point on June 11, 1987, bringing Arrow Dynamics’ suspended coaster design to the Sandusky, Ohio park. Riders sit in cars that hang beneath the track on a swinging chassis, letting the train swing side to side through the turns as…
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/ August 13, 2026
Manta is a steel launch coaster at SeaWorld San Diego, built by Mack Rides and opened to the public on May 26, 2012. Rather than towering into the sky, Manta hugs the terrain of the park’s Mission Bay shoreline, a design choice forced by strict…
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/ August 8, 2026
Cobra’s Curse is a steel spinning roller coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, tucked into the park’s Egypt section beneath a towering 80-foot statue of the fictional Snake King Venymyss. Manufactured by Germany’s Mack Rides, the coaster opened to guests on June 17, 2016, becoming…
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/ July 29, 2026
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind opened on May 27, 2022, inside EPCOT’s World Discovery area at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma, it became EPCOT’s first roller coaster and Disney’s first backwards-launched roller coaster, replacing the…
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/ July 26, 2026
Zambezi Zinger is a wooden hybrid roller coaster at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri, built by Great Coasters International (GCI) with design work from Skyline Attractions. It opened to the public on June 19, 2023, replacing the park’s former Dinosaurs Alive! attraction in…
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/ June 18, 2026
Flight of the Hippogriff is a steel family roller coaster located in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Hogsmeade at Universal’s Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida. Built by Vekoma on the footprint of the park’s original Flying Unicorn coaster, it opened in its…
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/ June 16, 2026
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is Walt Disney Imagineering’s storied mine train roller coaster, first debuting at Disneyland in Anaheim, California on September 2, 1979, and arriving at Magic Kingdom in Florida on November 15, 1980. Conceived by designer Tony Baxter and originally constructed by Arrow…
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