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/ September 18, 2026
Alton Towers is a theme park and resort built around a ruined stately home in Alton, Staffordshire, England. Once the seat of the Earls of Shrewsbury, the estate’s gardens opened to day-trippers in the early 1900s, but it wasn’t until 1980 that the grounds were…
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/ September 18, 2026
Adventure Express is a steel mine train roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, built by Arrow Dynamics and opened to the public on April 13, 1991. Designed by Ron Toomer, the ride was conceived as a heavily themed jungle expedition, with park officials…
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/ September 18, 2026
Indiana Beach is a lakeside amusement park in Monticello, Indiana, sitting on the shores of Lake Shafer about two hours south of Chicago. It traces its roots to 1926, when Earl W. Spackman opened a small lakeside bathing beach called Ideal Beach, which grew over…
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/ September 18, 2026
Geauga Lake was an amusement park in Aurora, Ohio, that traced its roots to 1887, when a lakeside picnic ground beside the town’s namesake lake evolved into one of the Midwest’s oldest amusement destinations. Over more than a century it grew from a modest trolley-stop…
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/ September 18, 2026
El Loco is a compact but ferocious steel roller coaster inside Adventuredome, the indoor amusement park at Circus Circus Las Vegas. Opened on February 18, 2014, it replaced the aging Rim Runner log flume, reusing some of that ride’s old infrastructure, including its station, as…
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/ September 18, 2026
Adventuredome is a five-acre indoor amusement park enclosed beneath a distinctive pink-tinted glass dome at Circus Circus Las Vegas on the Strip. It opened on August 23, 1993 as Grand Slam Canyon, a fully air-conditioned park built around a canyon-themed landscape, before being renamed Adventuredome…
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/ September 18, 2026
Canyon Blaster is an indoor steel roller coaster at the Adventuredome, the glass-domed amusement park attached to Circus Circus on the Las Vegas Strip. Built by Arrow Dynamics and opened on August 23, 1993, as the anchor attraction of what was then called Grand Slam…
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/ September 17, 2026
Woodstock Express is a wooden roller coaster in the Planet Snoopy section of Kings Island near Mason, Ohio. It holds a special distinction among the park’s rides: it’s one of the original attractions that opened with Kings Island on April 29, 1972, making it more…
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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
The Lost Coaster of Superstition Mountain is a wooden roller coaster at Indiana Beach in Monticello, Indiana, built inside and around a themed mine shaft mountain that has anchored the lakefront park for decades. Custom Coasters International completed the ride in 2002, reworking the aging…
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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
Woodstock Express is a steel family roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma and opened on May 10, 1999. It anchors Camp Snoopy, the park’s Peanuts-themed area designed for younger guests and families, giving kids a first taste of…
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/ September 17, 2026
Universal Studios Singapore opened on Sentosa Island as part of the Resorts World Sentosa integrated resort, with a soft opening on March 18, 2010 and an official grand opening on May 28, 2011. Owned and operated by Genting Singapore under license from NBCUniversal and Universal…
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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
Universal Epic Universe opened on May 22, 2025, as the fourth theme park at Universal Orlando Resort and the first major new theme park built in central Florida in over two decades. Owned by NBCUniversal and operated by Universal Destinations & Experiences, the park sits…
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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
King Cobra was a steel stand-up roller coaster that operated at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, from 1984 to 2001. Manufactured by the Japanese company Togo and designed by James Rogan, it stood out in coaster history as the first stand-up roller coaster in the…
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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
Mind Eraser opened at Six Flags America in Bowie, Maryland on May 20, 1995, as a Vekoma Suspended Looping Coaster (SLC) — a steel inverted design that hangs trains beneath the track in a fixed, non-swinging position for a tight, disorienting ride packed into a…
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