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/ September 18, 2026
Efteling is a fairytale-themed amusement park in Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands, that grew out of a small nature park into one of Europe’s most-visited theme parks. It opened its storybook heart, the Fairytale Forest, in 1952, built on illustrations by Dutch artist Anton Pieck and brought to…
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/ September 18, 2026
Thorpe Park is a theme park in Thorpe village, between Chertsey and Staines-upon-Thames in Surrey, England, about 20 miles southwest of central London. It opened to the public on 24 May 1979, built on a site of former flooded gravel pits whose lakes still weave…
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/ September 18, 2026
Serial Thriller was a Vekoma Suspended Looping Coaster that opened on May 9, 1998, at Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio. Built as the manufacturer’s Standard 689m model, it was an inverted coaster with fixed, rigid trains that hung below the track, sending riders’ feet dangling…
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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 18, 2026
The Big Apple Coaster is a steel roller coaster built into the New York-New York Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, threading its track through a scaled-down replica of the Manhattan skyline. Manufactured by the Japanese firm Togo, it opened on January 3…
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/ September 18, 2026
TRON Lightcycle Power Run is a steel launched roller coaster in Tomorrowland at Shanghai Disneyland, where it opened alongside the park on June 16, 2016. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma and designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, the ride reimagines the light cycle chase from the…
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/ September 17, 2026
Flight of Fear is a steel launched roller coaster at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, known for catapulting riders into total darkness. Built by Premier Rides and designed by Ing.-Büro Stengel, it opened on June 18, 1996, as one of the first coasters in the…
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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
Top Thrill Dragster opened at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, on May 4, 2003, and instantly rewrote the record books. Built by Intamin and designed by legendary engineer Werner Stengel, it became the world’s first “strata coaster,” a classification reserved for steel coasters exceeding 400…
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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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