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/ September 12, 2026
Backlot Stunt Coaster was a steel launched roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, built by Premier Rides and designed by Werner Stengel. It first opened on May 20, 2005 as Italian Job: Stunt Track, themed to the climactic chase scene from the 2003…
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/ September 12, 2026
Batwing was a steel flying roller coaster that opened on June 16, 2001, at Six Flags America in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma as one of only three “Flying Dutchman” models ever produced, Batwing sent riders backward out of the station in…
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/ September 12, 2026
Vertical Velocity opened at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, on May 18, 2001, introducing park guests to Intamin’s Impulse Coaster concept: a shuttle-style ride that uses linear induction motors instead of a chain lift to fire trains along a U-shaped track. Riders are…
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/ September 12, 2026
The Joker’s Jinx was a steel launched roller coaster in the Gotham City section of Six Flags America in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Built by Premier Rides and designed by Werner Stengel, it opened on May 8, 1999, using linear induction motor (LIM) technology to…
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/ September 12, 2026
Head Spin was a steel shuttle boomerang roller coaster that operated at Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio, one of several thrill rides that defined the park’s later years before its 2007 closure. Built by the Dutch manufacturer Vekoma, the ride launched riders backward and forward…
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/ September 12, 2026
The Dragon Coaster is a wooden roller coaster at Playland amusement park in Rye, New York, that has been sending riders through the open mouth of a dragon since it opened in 1929. Designed and built by amusement ride pioneer Frederick Church, co-inventor of the…
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/ September 12, 2026
Monster is a steel roller coaster at Adventureland in Altoona, Iowa, that opened on June 4, 2016, as the first Gerstlauer Infinity Coaster to operate in the United States. Built to replace the park’s aging River Rapids Log Flume, the $9 million ride quickly became…
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/ September 11, 2026
Cape Town Stadium rose in the Green Point district between Signal Hill and the Atlantic Ocean, opening on December 14, 2009, just months before it welcomed the world for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Built by Murray & Roberts and WBHO over roughly 33 months…
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/ September 11, 2026
The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium is a historic 8,500-capacity concert hall at 99 Grove Street in San Francisco’s Civic Center neighborhood. Built in 1915 as the San Francisco Exposition Auditorium for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the building has spent over a century adapting to the…
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/ September 11, 2026
Royal Burgers’ Zoo is a 45-hectare (110-acre) zoo in Arnhem, Netherlands, founded in 1913 by Johan Burgers. It’s one of the largest zoos in the country, home to more than 10,000 animals representing over 500 species, and draws roughly 1.4 million visitors a year from…
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/ September 11, 2026
Fota Wildlife Park sits on Fota Island near Carrigtwohill in County Cork, Ireland, where it has welcomed visitors since opening in June 1983. Run as an independently funded, not-for-profit charity through a joint project between the Zoological Society of Ireland and University College Cork, the…
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/ September 11, 2026
Paignton Zoo sits on 80 acres of parkland in Paignton, Devon, and has been caring for animals on the site since 1923, when it began as Primley Zoological Gardens, the private collection of naturalist Herbert Whitley. After his death in 1955, the collection passed to…
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/ September 11, 2026
Defiance is a steel Eurofighter roller coaster at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, built into the side of Iron Mountain roughly 7,132 feet above sea level. Opened on July 9, 2022 after a soft opening on July 1, riders climb a 75-foot…
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/ September 11, 2026
Tremors is a roller coaster at Silverwood Theme Park in Athol, Idaho, that opened on May 15, 1999. Built by Custom Coasters International as a wooden twister, it became famous for a first drop that plunges into an underground tunnel running beneath the ride’s gift…
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/ September 10, 2026
The Villain was a wooden roller coaster at Geauga Lake & Wildwater Kingdom in Aurora, Ohio, opening on May 5, 2000 as part of a four-coaster expansion Six Flags rolled out at the park between 1999 and 2000. Designed by Custom Coasters International and built…
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/ September 10, 2026
Big Dipper was a classic wooden roller coaster that towered over Geauga Lake amusement park in Bainbridge Township, Ohio, for more than nine decades. It opened in 1925 under the name Sky Rocket, one of many wooden out-and-back coasters built during the golden age of…
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/ September 9, 2026
The Mineirão, officially named Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto, opened on September 5, 1965, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, becoming one of Brazil’s largest and most important football venues. Built with a distinctive pseudo-ellipse bowl inspired by studies of Rio de Janeiro’s Maracanã, the stadium quickly…
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/ September 9, 2026
Yorkshire Wildlife Park opened in 2009 on the site of Brockholes Farm, a former riding school and petting zoo near Branton, southeast of Doncaster in South Yorkshire. What began as a modest attraction with just 66,000 visitors in its first year has grown into one…
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/ September 9, 2026
Marwell Zoo sits on 140 acres of Hampshire parkland in Colden Common, just outside Winchester, England. Founded in 1972 by Dr John Knowles, it was established as a registered charity with conservation as its founding purpose rather than simple animal display, making it one of…
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/ September 9, 2026
Renegade is a wooden roller coaster at Valleyfair in Shakopee, Minnesota, that opened to riders on May 12, 2007. Built by Great Coasters International, it blends an out-and-back layout with twisting turns through the park’s tree line, giving it a different rhythm than a typical…
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