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/ September 25, 2026
Flash: Vertical Velocity is an Intamin Impulse coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. It opened on May 18, 2001, as Vertical Velocity (nicknamed “V2”), and it has no inversions. It is a shuttle coaster, so the train runs back and forth along…
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/ September 22, 2026
Goliath opened at Walibi Holland in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands, on March 29, 2002, and instantly became the park’s signature thrill ride. Built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin with track design from German engineer Werner Stengel, it was classified as one of mainland Europe’s first Intamin “Mega Coaster”…
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/ September 21, 2026
Disaster Transport was an enclosed steel bobsled roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. It began life as Avalanche Run, an outdoor Intamin bobsled coaster announced in October 1984. Cedar Point had originally targeted Avalanche Run to debut with the park’s May 11, 1985…
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/ September 21, 2026
Demon Drop was a pioneering freefall tower that stood at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, from 1983 to 2009. Built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin as one of its first-generation Freefall models, the ride sent four-rider cabs climbing 131 feet into the air before releasing them…
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/ September 17, 2026
Wilderness Run is a steel kiddie roller coaster tucked into the Camp Snoopy area of Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. Though modest in size, the ride carries an outsized claim to fame: it was the first roller coaster ever manufactured by Intamin, the Liechtenstein-based company…
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/ September 17, 2026
Top Thrill Dragster opened at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, on May 4, 2003, and instantly rewrote the record books. Built by Intamin and designed by legendary engineer Werner Stengel, it became the world’s first “strata coaster,” a classification reserved for steel coasters exceeding 400…
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/ September 17, 2026
Raging Spirits is a steel roller coaster in the Lost River Delta section of Tokyo DisneySea, themed around the ruins of an ancient ceremonial site inspired by Incan architecture in Peru. It opened on July 21, 2005, becoming the first and only coaster in the…
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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 15, 2026
Colossos – Kampf der Giganten is a wooden roller coaster at Heide Park in Soltau, Lower Saxony, Germany. Built by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel, it opened on April 13, 2001, and quickly became one of Europe’s tallest wooden coasters, drawing riders with its…
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/ September 15, 2026
Rita is a launched roller coaster at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England, known for its brutal hydraulic launch that hurls riders from 0 to 61.1 mph (98.3 km/h) in just 2.5 seconds. Built by Intamin as an Accelerator Coaster and designed by Werner Stengel, it…
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/ September 12, 2026
Vertical Velocity opened at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, on May 18, 2001, introducing park guests to Intamin’s Impulse Coaster concept: a shuttle-style ride that uses linear induction motors instead of a chain lift to fire trains along a U-shaped track. Riders are…
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/ September 8, 2026
Superman: Ride of Steel was a steel hypercoaster that towered over Six Flags America in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, from its opening on May 13, 2000. Built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin and designed by engineer Werner Stengel, it was a mirror-image twin of the Ride of…
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/ September 8, 2026
Millennium Force opened at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, on May 13, 2000, and immediately redefined what a roller coaster could be. Built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin, it stood 310 feet tall, a height that earned it the distinction of being the world’s first “giga…
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/ September 7, 2026
Steel Venom was a steel shuttle coaster that operated at Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio, opening on May 5, 2000, as Superman: Ultimate Escape under the park’s original Six Flags ownership. Manufactured by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel, it was one of the earliest…
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/ September 7, 2026
Wicked Twister was a launched steel coaster that towered over the shoreline at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, from 2002 to 2021. Built by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel, it used linear induction motors to fire a single train back and forth between two…
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/ September 3, 2026
If B&M is coaster engineering’s craftsman, Intamin is its daredevil. The Swiss-Liechtenstein manufacturer owns virtually every speed record that matters, and this list ranks its 25 fastest operating coasters from ThrillZing’s database. The podium is the world podium: Falcons Flight (155.3 mph), the fastest coaster…
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/ September 3, 2026
Pantheon is Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s Intamin multi-launch coaster, themed to five Roman gods and engineered like all five showed up angry: four launches, two inversions, a backward spike, and a 95-degree beyond-vertical drop. Opened in 2022, it tops out at 73 mph — among the…
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/ August 29, 2026
Intamin is a Swiss-founded, Liechtenstein-headquartered ride manufacturer that has spent nearly six decades pushing roller coasters to new physical extremes. Founded in 1967 in Bern, Switzerland by Robert Spieldiener, Reinhold Spieldiener, and Alfons Saiko, the company’s name is a syllabic abbreviation of “international amusement installations.”…
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/ August 22, 2026
Jurassic World VelociCoaster is a launched steel roller coaster at Universal’s Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida, built on the site of the former Triceratops Encounter attraction. Manufactured by Intamin and opened to the public on June 10, 2021, it was designed to put riders…
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/ August 17, 2026
Volcano: The Blast Coaster was an inverted launched roller coaster at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, that thrilled riders from 1998 until its abrupt closure in 2018. Built by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel, it made history as the world’s first inverted launched coaster…
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