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/ September 17, 2026
WildCat was a steel roller coaster that operated at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, from 1979 until 2011. Designed by Werner Stengel and manufactured by Anton Schwarzkopf, it used the compact Wildcat/65m model, a design built around small four-passenger cars threading an overlapping, interlocking figure-eight
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/ September 17, 2026
Raging Spirits is a steel roller coaster in the Lost River Delta section of Tokyo DisneySea, themed around the ruins of an ancient ceremonial site inspired by Incan architecture in Peru. It opened on July 21, 2005, becoming the first and only coaster in the
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/ September 15, 2026
Bandit is a steel terrain roller coaster at Yomiuriland, an amusement park in Inagi, near Tokyo, Japan. Built by the Japanese manufacturer TOGO and opened on March 25, 1988, it briefly held the title of the world’s fastest roller coaster before Cedar Point’s Magnum XL-200
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/ September 15, 2026
Lech Coaster is a steel roller coaster at Legendia amusement park in Chorzów, Poland, that opened on July 1, 2017. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma, it holds the distinction of being the first installation of Vekoma’s Bermuda Blitz model, a compact but intense layout designed
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/ September 12, 2026
Tig’rr is a steel roller coaster at Indiana Beach amusement park on Lake Shafer in Monticello, Indiana. Built by German manufacturer Anton Schwarzkopf and designed by Werner Stengel, it runs the compact “Jet Star” layout, a portable model known for its tight, twisting circuit packed
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/ September 12, 2026
Laser was a steel looping roller coaster that operated at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pennsylvania, from 1986 until 2008. Built by German manufacturer Anton Schwarzkopf and designed by Werner Stengel, the ride was a “Double Looping” model originally engineered as a portable
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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 9, 2026
Lightning Run is the signature steel roller coaster at Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky. It opened on May 24, 2014, built by Chance Rides as part of a roughly $7 million investment tied to the park’s revival after Six Flags shuttered the property in February
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/ August 30, 2026
Mind Bender opened at Six Flags Over Georgia on March 31, 1978, and was marketed as the world’s first triple-loop roller coaster. Built by German manufacturer Anton Schwarzkopf and designed by engineer Werner Stengel, the steel sit-down coaster cost about $2.8 million and quickly became
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/ August 14, 2026
Sky Rocket is a launched steel roller coaster at Kennywood in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, that opened to the public on June 29, 2010. Built by Premier Rides, it marked the park’s first major coaster addition in nearly a decade and its first ride with inversions
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/ August 10, 2026
The Joker is a steel hybrid roller coaster at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California. It opened on May 29, 2016, after Rocky Mountain Construction reworked the wooden coaster Roar, welding its signature I-Box steel track onto Roar’s original support structure to create an
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/ August 7, 2026
Thunderbolt is a steel roller coaster at Luna Park in Coney Island, Brooklyn, that opened to riders on June 14, 2014. Built by Italian manufacturer Zamperla at a cost of roughly $9 million, it borrowed its name from a beloved wooden coaster that thrilled Coney
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/ July 23, 2026
Twisted Cyclone is the ride that convinced a lot of coaster fans that Six Flags Over Georgia had one of the best hybrids in the country: a wooden coaster’s bones wrapped in RMC’s steel I-Box track, delivering nonstop airtime and a genuinely unique inversion nobody
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/ July 4, 2026
Flying Aces is the biplane-themed wing coaster that anchors the aviation corner of Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin and opened to the public on February 24, 2016. As only the second wing coaster Intamin had ever produced, following Skyrush at Hersheypark,
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/ June 25, 2026
Helix is a steel multi-launch roller coaster at Liseberg amusement park in Gothenburg, Sweden. Built by Mack Rides and opened on April 26, 2014, the ride weaves through and over the rocky hillside terrain that gives Liseberg much of its distinctive character, with two linear
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/ June 16, 2026
Afterburn is the steel inverted roller coaster at Carowinds in Fort Mill, South Carolina, known for dangling riders’ feet beneath a suspended train as it races through six inversions at up to 62 mph. Designed by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard and built for roughly
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/ June 15, 2026
Expedition Everest – Legend of the Forbidden Mountain opened at Disney’s Animal Kingdom on April 7, 2006, as the most expensive roller coaster ever built, costing around $100 million. Designed by Walt Disney Imagineering and manufactured by Vekoma, the ride sends guests 118 feet up
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/ June 14, 2026
Mako is a steel hypercoaster at SeaWorld Orlando in Orlando, Florida, built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard and opened on June 10, 2016. Standing 200 feet tall and stretching 4,760 feet of track, it debuted as the tallest, fastest, and longest roller coaster in
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/ July 24, 2023
The moment Diamondback’s train hooks the chain at the base of the hill, the clock starts. For the next several seconds, a steady mechanical clatter hauls 32 riders — seated in open, stadium-style rows with nothing but a T-bar across the lap — up 230
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