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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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/ August 15, 2026
When Colossus opened at Thorpe Park on 22 March 2002, it did something no roller coaster had ever done: it turned riders upside down ten times in a single circuit. The Intamin-built machine instantly claimed the world inversion record and held it for over a…
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/ August 15, 2026
Three. Two. One. Go. Few coasters anywhere compress as much violence into as little time as Stealth. Thorpe Park’s Intamin Accelerator hurls riders from a standstill to 80 mph in roughly 1.8 seconds, rockets 205 feet over a top hat, and has the train back…
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/ August 15, 2026
Red Force is the coaster you spot from the motorway long before you reach the gates of PortAventura World. Rising 367 feet above Ferrari Land in Salou, Spain, this scarlet Intamin launch coaster has been Europe’s tallest and fastest roller coaster since it opened on…
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/ August 15, 2026
Crowned by a 60-foot fire-breathing dragon, Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts is the centerpiece of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley at Universal Studios Florida. Opened July 8, 2014 on the former site of the Jaws ride, this Intamin creation…
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/ August 13, 2026
Th13teen at Alton Towers built its reputation on a single moment: a pitch-black crypt where the track itself seems to vanish beneath the train and riders genuinely freefall for a few heart-stopping metres before the ride catches them again. It’s the reason the UK’s original…
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/ August 4, 2026
Skull Mountain is the enclosed, mine-cart-style indoor coaster hidden inside a giant skull-faced mountain at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. It has been a park staple since 1996, and while it doesn’t chase the height and speed records of neighbors like…
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/ August 2, 2026
Furius Baco is one of the most unusual coasters in Europe. Instead of a lift hill and a big drop, it fires a train from a standstill to 135 km/h (83.9 mph) in about 3.5 seconds, then skims low across PortAventura Park’s Mediterrània area with…
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/ August 1, 2026
iSpeed is the ride Mirabilandia built its reputation on: a magnetic-launch sprint from a dead stop to highway speed in roughly two seconds, straight into a 180-foot top hat. Since opening in May 2009, it’s held the title of Italy’s tallest and fastest launched roller…
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/ August 1, 2026
Taiga at Linnanmäki in Helsinki is an Intamin launch coaster that opened on June 18, 2019. It is the tallest, fastest and longest roller coaster in Finland. It stands 52 metres (170.6 ft) tall, reaches 106 km/h (65.9 mph) and runs 1,104 metres (3,622 ft)…
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/ July 31, 2026
Kondaa is a steel roller coaster at Walibi Belgium in Wavre, built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin using their Mega Coaster model. It opened to the public on May 8, 2021, becoming the park’s ninth coaster and an instant record-holder in the region. Set within the…
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/ July 31, 2026
Toutatis is a steel launched roller coaster at Parc Astérix in Plailly, France, named after the Celtic deity from the Asterix comics whose catchphrase “By Toutatis!” gives the ride its theatrical flair. Built by Intamin as an LSM launch coaster, it opened to the public…
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/ July 30, 2026
If you’re trying to figure out whether Incredicoaster fits into a tight Pixar Pier itinerary, the ride time itself is the easy part — it’s the boarding, launch, and unload cycle around it that actually eats your afternoon. The coaster is a launched Intamin steel…
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/ July 18, 2026
Xcelerator is the hydraulic launch roller coaster at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, and it’s the ride that started an entire category: when it opened on June 22, 2002, it was Intamin’s very first hydraulically launched coaster, a technology later scaled up for…
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/ July 12, 2026
Cheetah Hunt doesn’t climb a lift hill to build its speed — it fires riders out of the station with magnets, three separate times, which is why its numbers read differently than most coasters at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay. Below is a complete breakdown of…
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/ July 12, 2026
Bizarro was the DC Comics-themed identity given to the towering Intamin hypercoaster at Six Flags New England, one of the most decorated roller coasters in the United States. The ride first opened on May 5, 2000 as Superman – Ride of Steel, instantly becoming the…
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/ July 5, 2026
Balder opened at Liseberg amusement park in Gothenburg, Sweden, on April 12, 2003, and quickly became one of the most celebrated wooden roller coasters in the world. Named after the Norse god of light and justice, the ride was manufactured by Intamin and designed by…
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/ July 5, 2026
SpeedMonster is a launched roller coaster at TusenFryd, a theme park near Oslo, Norway. Built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin and designed by Stengel Engineering, the ride opened on April 23, 2006, and was described at the time as the biggest single investment in the park’s…
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