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/ October 2, 2026
Kiddy Hawk is a suspended family coaster at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina, built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma. The ride first opened on March 22, 2003, as Rugrats Runaway Reptar, themed around the Nickelodeon cartoon, before the park rebranded it as Flying Ace Aerial Chase…
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/ October 1, 2026
Woodstock’s Air Rail is a suspended family coaster tucked into the Camp Snoopy section of Kings Island in Mason, Ohio. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma as a Suspended Family Coaster model and designed by Peter Clerx, the ride opened to guests on April 7, 2001…
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/ September 29, 2026
Snoopy’s Soap Box Racers is a family boomerang roller coaster that opened May 24, 2024, at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, as the marquee attraction of the park’s new Camp Snoopy area within Planet Snoopy. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma, the ride reimagines the classic…
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/ September 28, 2026
Theme park news for September 28, 2026 is topped by Vekoma and Gröna Lund unveiling a scale model of the trackless ride vehicle built for their new SCORE! dark ride, marking the first use of Vekoma’s radar-guided DRX platform ahead of a planned 2027 opening.
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/ September 28, 2026
Road Runner Express is a steel family roller coaster tucked into the Bugs Bunny World section of Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma as one of its compact Junior Coaster models, the ride carries young guests through a gentle…
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/ September 26, 2026
Sprocket Rockets is a small steel family coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. Vekoma built it, and it opened in 1998 under the name Spacely’s Sprocket Rockets. The Roller Coaster Database lists it as a Junior Coaster that stands about 28 feet…
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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
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
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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/ September 17, 2026
Whirlwind was a steel Vekoma coaster that operated at Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg, Pennsylvania, from 1993 to 2004. Before arriving in Pennsylvania, the ride had already lived a full life as Whirlwind at Playland Park in Rye, New York, where it thrilled riders from…
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/ September 17, 2026
Mind Eraser opened at Six Flags America in Bowie, Maryland on May 20, 1995, as a Vekoma Suspended Looping Coaster (SLC) — a steel inverted design that hangs trains beneath the track in a fixed, non-swinging position for a tight, disorienting ride packed into a…
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/ September 17, 2026
Chip ‘n’ Dale’s GADGETcoaster is a compact family roller coaster tucked into Mickey’s Toontown at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma, the ride first opened on January 24, 1993, as Gadget’s Go Coaster, themed to the Rescue Rangers inventor Gadget Hackwrench and…
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/ September 17, 2026
Woody Woodpecker’s Nuthouse Coaster was a family-friendly junior roller coaster at Universal Studios Florida, tucked into the Woody Woodpecker’s KidZone section of the park. Manufactured by Vekoma, it holds a special place in Universal Orlando Resort’s history as the very first roller coaster ever built…
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/ September 17, 2026
The Barnstormer is a steel junior roller coaster tucked into the Storybook Circus section of Fantasyland at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma and designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, it sends riders aboard Goofy’s homemade biplane as it careens through a…
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/ September 17, 2026
Déjà Vu was a Vekoma Giant Inverted Boomerang shuttle coaster that opened at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois on October 7, 2001. Riders sat in dangling, ski-lift-style chairs suspended below the track, launched out of the station by a catch-car vertical lift, sent…
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/ September 15, 2026
Colorado Adventure is a Vekoma mine train roller coaster that has carried riders through Phantasialand’s Wild West-themed Mexico section in Brühl, Germany, since 1996. Designed by Peter Clerx, the custom MK-900 M model sends trains styled after runaway locomotives across nearly 4,200 feet of twisting…
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/ September 15, 2026
Blue Tornado is a steel inverted roller coaster at Gardaland in Castelnuovo del Garda, Italy, near Lake Garda and the city of Verona. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma, it opened to the public in 1998 as one of the park’s marquee thrill attractions, and a…
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/ September 15, 2026
Big Grizzly Mountain Runaway Mine Cars is a family roller coaster in the Grizzly Gulch section of Hong Kong Disneyland, built by Vekoma and opened on July 14, 2012. It sends runaway mine trains through a gold rush-era mountain town, using two chain lifts plus…
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/ September 15, 2026
Vogel Rok is an enclosed steel roller coaster at Efteling, the historic amusement park in Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma, it opened on April 9, 1998, and takes its story from the Second Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor in the One Thousand and…
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/ September 15, 2026
Aftershock is a Vekoma Giant Inverted Boomerang shuttle coaster at Silverwood Theme Park in Athol, Idaho. Riders sit below the track with their legs dangling as twin 194-foot catch-car towers launch the train through a cobra roll and a vertical loop, first forward and then…
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