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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
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 14, 2026
Leviathan at Canada’s Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario, is Canada’s tallest and fastest roller coaster — a 306-foot steel giga coaster that hits 92 mph on its first drop alone. When it opened on May 6, 2012, it made history as Bolliger & Mabillard’s first-ever coaster
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/ June 14, 2026
Twisted Colossus doesn’t just loop — it races itself. Opened on May 23, 2015, this Rocky Mountain Construction hybrid at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California transformed the park’s beloved 1978 wooden icon into a nearly-one-mile Möbius loop that sends two trains chasing each
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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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/ 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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/ August 10, 2023
Raptor at Cedar Point does not ease you in. The lift hill climbs 137 feet, your feet hang free beneath the track, and the moment the train crests that hill the ground vanishes. What follows is roughly two minutes of sustained aerial intensity: a 100-foot
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/ August 10, 2023
Standing in line for Orion, the first thing that hits you is the scale. Kings Island’s giga coaster climbs 287 feet into the Ohio sky — and from the crest of that lift hill, you can see the entire park spread out below before the
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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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