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/ September 19, 2026
Windstorm was a steel Zamperla twister coaster that operated at Old Town, the retro-themed entertainment complex in Kissimmee, Florida, just minutes from the Walt Disney World area. The ride opened on February 15, 1997, and quickly became one of the small park’s signature attractions, offering…
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/ September 18, 2026
Mantis opened at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, on May 11, 1996, as a Bolliger & Mabillard stand-up steel roller coaster designed by engineer Werner Stengel. At its debut, Mantis set world records among stand-up coasters for height (145 feet), speed (60 mph), and length…
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/ September 18, 2026
Oakwood Theme Park was Wales’s largest theme park, set across about 80 acres of hilly woodland at Canaston Bridge near Narberth, Pembrokeshire. It opened on 14 April 1987 as a small family-run attraction under the McNamara family before growing into a major regional draw, later…
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/ September 18, 2026
Crystal Beach Park was a lakeside amusement park in Crystal Beach, Ontario, that opened on May 28, 1888, and operated for 101 years along the northern shore of Lake Erie near Fort Erie. Its location made it a favorite cross-border escape for Buffalo, New York…
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/ September 18, 2026
Tropicana Las Vegas stood at 3801 South Las Vegas Boulevard, on the southeast corner of the Strip’s most famous intersection with Tropicana Avenue, directly across from MGM Grand and near the Strip’s southern gateway. It opened April 4, 1957, and operated for 67 years before…
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/ September 17, 2026
Ragin’ Cajun was a spinning “Crazy Mouse” roller coaster that opened at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, on May 28, 2004. It anchored the park’s newly built Mardi Gras themed area, throwing riders through tight switchbacks in cars that spun freely once the…
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/ September 17, 2026
Sarajevo Bobsled opened at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, in 1984, timed to coincide with that year’s Winter Olympics held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Built by Intamin with trains from Giovanola, the steel bobsled-style coaster sent riders through banked, wall-less curves meant to…
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/ September 17, 2026
WildCat was a steel roller coaster that operated at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, from 1979 until 2011. Designed by Werner Stengel and manufactured by Anton Schwarzkopf, it used the compact Wildcat/65m model, a design built around small four-passenger cars threading an overlapping, interlocking figure-eight…
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/ September 17, 2026
Whirlwind was a steel Vekoma coaster that operated at Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg, Pennsylvania, from 1993 to 2004. Before arriving in Pennsylvania, the ride had already lived a full life as Whirlwind at Playland Park in Rye, New York, where it thrilled riders from…
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/ September 17, 2026
Twisted Twins was a wooden dueling roller coaster at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky. It opened in April 1998 under the name Twisted Sisters, sending two mirror-image wooden tracks named Stella and Lola out from a single station so that riders raced past…
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/ September 15, 2026
Tower of Terror II was a steel shuttle roller coaster at Dreamworld on Queensland’s Gold Coast, built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin. It opened on January 23, 1997 as the original Tower of Terror, an LSM-launched reverse freefall coaster that rocketed a single 14-passenger train from…
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/ September 13, 2026
The Crystal Beach Cyclone was a wooden roller coaster that operated at Crystal Beach Park in Crystal Beach, Ontario, Canada, from 1927 until its dismantling in 1946. Designed by Harry G. Traver and built by Traver Engineering, the Cyclone was one of three so-called “Terrifying…
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/ September 12, 2026
X-Flight was a Vekoma Flying Dutchman roller coaster that opened at Six Flags Worlds of Adventure (Geauga Lake) in Aurora, Ohio, on May 26, 2001. Billed as the Midwest’s first and only flying roller coaster, it stood out with neon green track and dark blue…
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/ September 12, 2026
Rolling Thunder was a twin-track wooden racing coaster that opened at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, on June 6, 1979, during the park’s fifth anniversary season. Designed by Don Rosser and William Cobb and built by William Cobb & Associates, it was…
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/ September 12, 2026
Shockwave was a steel stand-up roller coaster that operated at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, from March 23, 1986, until August 9, 2015. Built by the Japanese manufacturer Togo, it was only the third stand-up coaster the company ever installed, and it rose on the…
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/ September 12, 2026
Hercules was a wooden roller coaster that towered over Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pennsylvania, from 1989 to 2003. Built by the Dinn Corporation and designed by Curtis D. Summers, the ride carved its layout into the park’s natural terrain, using the hillside…
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/ September 12, 2026
Wild Maus was a compact wild mouse coaster that ran in the Oktoberfest section of Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Virginia. It first opened on April 12, 1996 as Wild Izzy, named for Izzy, the mascot of the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics, which Busch Gardens sponsored…
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/ September 12, 2026
Hurler was a wooden roller coaster that operated at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, from 1994 until its closure in 2015. Built by International Coasters, Inc., the ride was one of two identical “Hurler” coasters constructed that year, with its twin opening at sister park…
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/ September 12, 2026
Roar was a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags America in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, that opened on May 2, 1998. Built by Great Coasters International (GCI) and designed by Mike Boodley, it was a custom twister-style wooden coaster set on a sloping hillside in the…
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/ September 12, 2026
Laser was a steel looping roller coaster that operated at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pennsylvania, from 1986 until 2008. Built by German manufacturer Anton Schwarzkopf and designed by Werner Stengel, the ride was a “Double Looping” model originally engineered as a portable…
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