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/ August 29, 2026
Maurer Rides traces its roots to 1876, when the Maurer family began operating a steel construction business in Munich, Germany. That steelworking expertise carried the company into bridges, industrial buildings, and eventually amusement rides, culminating in the 1993 acquisition of the roller coaster division from…
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/ August 29, 2026
S&S Worldwide is an American amusement ride manufacturer founded in 1994 by Stan and Sandy Checketts in Logan, Utah. The company built its early reputation on air-powered drop tower rides like the Space Shot and Turbo Drop, technology the Checketts adapted from their earlier work…
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/ August 29, 2026
Antonio Zamperla S.p.A. is an Italian amusement ride manufacturer based in Altavilla Vicentina, near Vicenza, founded in 1966 by Antonio Zamperla. The company’s roots trace back further to a family tradition of traveling circuses and street cinemas, with Zamperla himself starting out as a showman…
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/ August 29, 2026
Premier Rides is an American amusement ride manufacturer founded in 1995 and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Owned and led by Jim Seay since 1996, the company built its reputation by pioneering the use of linear induction motors (LIMs) to launch roller coasters, a technology that…
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/ August 29, 2026
Great Coasters International, Inc. (GCI) is a roller coaster manufacturer based in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, founded in 1994 by Mike Boodley and Clair Hain Jr. Boodley had previously worked as a designer for Custom Coasters International, while Hain had built a reputation as a master wooden…
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/ August 29, 2026
Gerstlauer Amusement Rides GmbH is a German manufacturer of roller coasters and amusement rides headquartered in Münsterhausen, Bavaria. Founded in 1982 by Hubert Gerstlauer, a former employee of the legendary Schwarzkopf Industries, the company began as an electrical and pneumatic supplier before pivoting to full…
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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 29, 2026
Vekoma Rides Manufacturing traces its roots to 1926, when Hendrik op het Veld founded a machine factory in the Netherlands originally called Veld Koning Machinefabriek, the source of the company’s abbreviated name. The business built farm equipment and later steel structures for the Dutch coal…
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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 29, 2026
Bolliger & Mabillard, widely known in the industry as B&M, is a Swiss roller coaster design and manufacturing company founded in 1988 by engineers Walter Bolliger and Claude Mabillard. Based in Monthey, Switzerland, the pair previously worked together at fellow ride manufacturer Giovanola before striking…
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/ August 29, 2026
LaVell Edwards Stadium sits on the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, at an elevation of about 4,649 feet, making it one of the highest-elevation stadiums in major college football. It has served as the home field for BYU Cougars football since it…
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/ August 29, 2026
Tipitina’s opened its doors on January 14, 1977, at the corner of Napoleon Avenue and Tchoupitoulas Street in Uptown New Orleans, taking its name from a Professor Longhair composition. The building itself dated to 1912 and had cycled through lives as a gambling house, gymnasium…
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/ August 29, 2026
Bioparc Valencia opened in 2008 as a new-generation zoo built around a concept called “Zooimersion,” where visitors step into recreated African ecosystems rather than viewing animals from behind bars or fences. Owned by the City Council of Valencia and designed and managed by the Spanish…
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/ August 29, 2026
Loro Parque opened on December 17, 1972, in Puerto de la Cruz on the Spanish island of Tenerife, starting as a modest home for 150 parrots on just over an acre of land. More than five decades later it has grown into one of the…
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/ August 29, 2026
Rapterra is a steel launched wing roller coaster at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard. It opened on March 29, 2025, in the park’s Jungle X-Pedition section, replacing the former Volcano: The Blast Coaster attraction. The ride holds the…
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/ August 9, 2026
Nationwide Arena is the downtown Columbus, Ohio home of the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets, and one of the few U.S. major-league arenas built with its own attached practice rink. Since opening in 2000, it has anchored the surrounding Arena District and hosted everything from an…
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/ August 8, 2026
Prudential Center, nicknamed “The Rock” after its naming sponsor’s corporate logo, opened in downtown Newark, New Jersey on October 25, 2007. It was the first major league sports venue built in the New York metropolitan area since 1981, and it has served as the home…
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/ August 3, 2026
Autzen Stadium is the home football venue of the Oregon Ducks, sitting along the Willamette River just north of the University of Oregon campus in Eugene. Opened in 1967, it has grown from a modest 41,000-seat bowl into a roughly 54,000-seat facility renowned as one…
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/ July 31, 2026
Dollywood confirmed on July 29, 2026 that NightFlight Expedition, its most expensive attraction ever, will officially open to the public on August 19. Season pass holders get early access during previews from August 15-18. Billed as the world’s first indoor family hybrid coaster and whitewater…
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/ July 31, 2026
Parc des Princes is the football stadium in Paris’s 16th arrondissement that Paris Saint-Germain has called home since 1974, a tight, steeply-raked bowl that has hosted everything from Tour de France finishes to the 1938 World Cup’s opening match and a European Championship final. Whether…
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