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/ November 5, 2026
Sierra Sidewinder opened at Knott’s Berry Farm on May 26, 2007, bringing a new kind of thrill to the park’s Camp Snoopy area. Built by German manufacturer Mack Rides, it was the company’s first free-spinning coaster model, letting each four-car train rotate freely as it…
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/ November 4, 2026
Coast Rider is a steel wild mouse roller coaster in The Boardwalk section of Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. Built by Mack Rides, it opened on May 25, 2013, on the former footprint of the water ride Perilous Plunge, which had closed the…
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/ October 31, 2026
Sand Serpent was a compact Wild Mouse-style roller coaster that ran at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Florida from 2004 until its closure in 2023. Built by German manufacturer Mack Rides, the ride packed a series of tight, hairpin turns and sudden drops into a…
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/ October 9, 2026
Apple Zapple is a steel wild mouse roller coaster tucked into the Candy Apple Grove section of Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia. Built by Mack Rides, the coaster first opened on March 23, 2002 under the name Ricochet, running for over a decade and a…
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/ October 7, 2026
Wild Mouse is a steel wild mouse roller coaster that has operated in the Midway America section of Hersheypark since May 8, 1999. Built by German manufacturer Mack Rides, the coaster uses the classic wild mouse layout: a thin, winding track packed with tight, off-camber…
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/ September 25, 2026
Ricochet is a steel Wild Mouse roller coaster at Carowinds, the amusement park straddling the North Carolina and South Carolina line near Charlotte. Built by Mack Rides, it opened on March 23, 2002, in the park’s Carolina Boardwalk area. It is a compact-model Wild Mouse…
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/ September 17, 2026
Avalanche was a steel bobsled roller coaster at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, built by German manufacturer Mack Rides and opened to the public on March 26, 1988. It was one of only a handful of Mack bobsled coasters ever built and the only one…
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/ September 17, 2026
Flight of the Hippogriff is a steel family roller coaster located in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Hollywood in Universal City, California. It opened on April 7, 2016, alongside the park’s Wizarding World expansion, and holds the distinction of being the…
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/ September 17, 2026
Curse of the Werewolf is a launched spinning roller coaster in the Dark Universe land of Universal’s Epic Universe in Orlando, Florida. Built by German manufacturer Mack Rides, it opened alongside the park on May 22, 2025, and tells an original story inspired by Universal’s…
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/ September 15, 2026
Lost Gravity is a steel roller coaster at Walibi Holland in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands, built by German manufacturer Mack Rides and opened to the public on March 24, 2016. It debuted as the first installation of Mack’s then-new “BigDipper” train system, a design notable for seating…
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/ September 15, 2026
Steel Taipan is Dreamworld’s record-setting launch coaster on the Gold Coast, and it’s built to disorient you in three separate bursts of speed before you even reach the first inversion. If you’re trying to figure out how fast it goes, whether you’re tall (or short)…
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/ September 15, 2026
DC Rivals HyperCoaster at Warner Bros. Movie World on the Gold Coast is Australia’s tallest, fastest, and longest roller coaster, a 202-foot Mack Rides hypercoaster themed around DC Comics heroes and villains. Riders climb past a giant Joker face at the top of the lift…
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/ September 15, 2026
The Ride to Happiness by Tomorrowland opened on July 1, 2021, at Plopsaland Belgium in Adinkerke, Belgium, becoming Europe’s first Mack Rides Xtreme Spinning Coaster. Themed around the famous Tomorrowland electronic dance music festival, the ride pairs a pulsing soundtrack and lighting with a track…
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/ September 15, 2026
Star Trek: Operation Enterprise is a steel launched roller coaster at Movie Park Germany in Bottrop, Germany, built by Mack Rides and themed around Star Trek: The Next Generation. The ride opened to the public on May 24, 2017, with an official grand opening ceremony…
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/ September 15, 2026
Copperhead Strike is a steel launched roller coaster at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina, built by Mack Rides and opened to the public on March 23, 2019. It replaced the park’s former Whitewater Falls shoot-the-chute water ride and Sand Dune Lagoon area, bringing a modern…
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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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/ August 29, 2026
Mack Rides is a family-owned German manufacturer of roller coasters, dark rides, flat rides, and log flumes, headquartered in Waldkirch, Baden-Württemberg. The company traces its roots back to 1780, when it began as a carriage and stagecoach maker before pivoting toward the entertainment industry in…
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/ August 15, 2026
For decades, British coaster fans had to cross the Channel for a true hyper coaster. That changed on May 24, 2024, when Thorpe Park opened Hyperia, a 236-foot Mack Rides machine that became the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the United Kingdom. Hyperia isn’t…
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/ August 15, 2026
Space Fantasy – The Ride is Universal Studios Japan‘s shape-shifting indoor spinning coaster in the Hollywood Area — and depending on when you visit, you could be boarding a stardust-collecting trip across the solar system, an anime crossover, or (as of early 2026) a DJ…
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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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