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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 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 27, 2026
Tempesto is a launched steel roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Virginia, tucked into the park’s Italian-themed Festa Italia section. Built by Premier Rides as a Sky Rocket II model, it opened to the public on April 25, 2015, becoming the park’s seventh coaster.
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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 26, 2026
Powder Keg: A Blast into the Wilderness is a steel launched roller coaster at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri. Opened on April 8, 2005, it was built by S&S – Sansei Technologies at a cost of about $10 million, converting an earlier water coaster
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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 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 3, 2026
Do-Dodonpa (often searched simply as “dodonpa” or “do dodonpa”) was a compressed-air launch coaster at Fuji-Q Highland in Fujiyoshida, Japan. For most of its life it was the single fastest-accelerating roller coaster on Earth, firing riders to 180 km/h (112 mph) in about 1.56 seconds
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/ August 2, 2026
Furius Baco is a steel wing coaster at PortAventura Park in Salou, Catalonia, Spain, built by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel’s engineering firm. It opened on June 5, 2007, and made an immediate splash as the fastest roller coaster in Europe at the time,
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/ August 1, 2026
iSpeed is the launch coaster that gives Mirabilandia its Formula 1 moment: a magnetic-launch sprint from a dead stop to highway speed in about two seconds, straight into a 180-foot top hat. Since opening in 2009, it’s held the title of Italy’s tallest and fastest
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/ August 1, 2026
Taiga is a steel launch coaster at Linnanmäki amusement park in Helsinki, Finland, that opened on June 18, 2019. Built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin using its Blitz Coaster design, Taiga uses a linear synchronous motor launch to send riders into a course packed with inversions
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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 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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/ June 28, 2026
Icon is the steel launched roller coaster that reshaped Blackpool Pleasure Beach’s skyline in 2018 — the first multi-launch coaster ever built in the United Kingdom, and the resort’s first new coaster in 24 years. Built by German manufacturer Mack Rides for £16.25 million, it
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/ June 25, 2026
Helix is a steel multi-launch roller coaster at Liseberg amusement park in Gothenburg, Sweden. Built by Mack Rides and opened on April 26, 2014, the ride weaves through and over the rocky hillside terrain that gives Liseberg much of its distinctive character, with two linear
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/ June 23, 2026
Takabisha is a steel Euro-Fighter roller coaster at Fuji-Q Highland in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi, Japan, that opened on July 16, 2011. Built by Gerstlauer on their Euro-Fighter 1000 model, the ride immediately earned the Guinness World Record for the steepest roller coaster in the world, thanks
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/ June 16, 2026
Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast is the signature launch coaster at Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, Missouri – a Premier Rides LIM shuttle coaster that fires riders backwards from a dead stop to 70 mph in under four seconds. It’s been the park’s most talked-about
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/ June 15, 2026
Stardust Racers throws two full-size launch coasters at riders side by side, and no other attraction at Universal Epic Universe generates the same rope-drop stampede. The yellow Photon train and green Pulsar train blast out of Celestial Park’s central hub in perfect sync, race through
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/ June 15, 2026
Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure opened at Universal’s Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida, on June 13, 2019, as the showpiece of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Hogsmeade. Built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin at a reported cost of $300 million, the ride stretches
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/ June 15, 2026
Maverick doesn’t look like much on paper. At 105 feet, it’s dwarfed by nearly every other major coaster at Cedar Point — yet ask enthusiasts to rank the park’s best rides and Maverick almost always lands near the top, often ahead of coasters twice its
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