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/ July 15, 2026
Candymonium is a steel hypercoaster at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania, built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard. It opened on July 3, 2020, as the centerpiece of the park’s Chocolatetown expansion, and immediately claimed the title of tallest, fastest, and longest coaster in Hersheypark history.
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/ July 13, 2026
Kraken is the ride that put SeaWorld Orlando on the coaster map. It’s a steel floorless roller coaster built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard and designed by Werner Stengel, opening to the public on June 1, 2000, after a soft opening in late May
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/ June 27, 2026
Hyperion is a steel hyper coaster built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin at Energylandia in Zator, Poland. It opened on 14 July 2018 and immediately became the country’s benchmark thrill ride, climbing to 77 metres (253 ft) and hitting a top speed of 142 km/h (88
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/ June 23, 2026
Shambhala is the steel hypercoaster that put PortAventura Park on the world stage — a Bolliger & Mabillard giant in the park’s China zone that still delivers one of the tallest drops and fastest launches-by-gravity anywhere in Europe. If you’re trying to pin down exactly
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/ June 16, 2026
The Incredible Hulk Coaster is the launched steel roller coaster in the Marvel Super Hero Island section of Universal’s Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida — the ride that fires you from 0 to 40 mph in two seconds flat before hurling you through seven
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/ June 16, 2026
Titan spent 25 years as the undisputed speed king of Six Flags Over Texas — a 245-foot steel hypercoaster that hits 85 mph on its opening drop and finishes with a double helix intense enough that the park won’t let you ride it twice in
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/ June 15, 2026
Wicked Cyclone is a steel hybrid roller coaster at Six Flags New England in Agawam, Massachusetts, built by Rocky Mountain Construction and designed by Alan Schilke. It opened on May 24, 2015, standing 109 feet tall, stretching 3,320 feet of track, and reaching a top
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/ June 15, 2026
ArieForce One packed more onto 3,400 feet of steel than almost any coaster in the country: a 154-foot lift, an 83-degree first drop, four inversions, and the largest Zero-G stall in the United States. Rocky Mountain Construction’s flagship at Fun Spot America Atlanta became an
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/ June 15, 2026
Wildcat’s Revenge is Hersheypark’s first hybrid coaster — and it got there by rebuilding a 1996 wooden coaster from the rails up. Rocky Mountain Construction (RMC) grafted its steel I-Box track onto the original Wildcat’s wooden structure, opening on June 2, 2023 as Hersheypark’s first
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/ June 15, 2026
Skyrush doesn’t look like it should be this intense from the midway, but the numbers back it up: 200 feet tall, a 212-foot first drop, and 75 mph reached in the first three seconds. It’s the ride most Hersheypark enthusiasts name as the park’s best,
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/ June 15, 2026
Maverick doesn’t look like much on paper. At 105 feet, it’s dwarfed by nearly every other major coaster at Cedar Point — yet ask enthusiasts to rank the park’s best rides and Maverick almost always lands near the top, often ahead of coasters twice its
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/ June 14, 2026
When Iron Gwazi opened at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay on March 11, 2022, it didn’t just become North America’s tallest hybrid roller coaster — it became one of the most talked-about rides on the planet. Built by Rocky Mountain Construction on the skeleton of the
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/ June 14, 2026
When Fury 325 opened at Carowinds in March 2015, the roller coaster world got a new benchmark. Built by Bolliger & Mabillard and rising 325 feet over the North Carolina–South Carolina border, it became the world’s tallest and fastest giga coaster — a title it
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/ August 10, 2023
GateKeeper at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio is a steel wing coaster built by Bolliger & Mabillard that opened on May 11, 2013. Positioned directly at the park’s historic front entrance, it greets every arriving guest with a signature sight: a 170-foot lift hill followed
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/ July 26, 2023
Rougarou is Cedar Point’s floorless roller coaster — a 145-foot Bolliger & Mabillard machine that sends riders through four inversions at 60 mph with nothing beneath their feet. Located in Sandusky, Ohio, it’s one of the park’s most re-rideable coasters: smooth, intense, and consistently carrying
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/ July 22, 2023
Few moments in a theme park day stop foot traffic like Diamondback’s splashdown. A 32-passenger train crests a 230-foot lift, hurtles down a 215-foot drop at 74 degrees, tears through airtime hills at 80 mph — and then, in its final seconds, skims a water
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/ July 22, 2023
Ask veteran coaster enthusiasts to name the most complete roller coaster ever built, and Cedar Point’s Steel Vengeance comes up again and again. This Rocky Mountain Construction (RMC) hybrid opened on May 5, 2018, layering steel I-Box track over the bones of the old Mean
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/ July 21, 2023
Steel Vengeance at Cedar Point is the roller coaster that rewrote the record books. Standing 205 feet tall with a perfectly vertical 90-degree first drop, four inversions, and 27.2 seconds of airtime — more than any other coaster on Earth — it has topped enthusiast
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