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/ September 12, 2026
X-Flight was a Vekoma Flying Dutchman roller coaster that opened at Six Flags Worlds of Adventure (Geauga Lake) in Aurora, Ohio, on May 26, 2001. Billed as the Midwest’s first and only flying roller coaster, it stood out with neon green track and dark blue
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/ September 12, 2026
Ninja is a steel looping roller coaster in the Studio Backlot section of the park long known as Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, Missouri (rebranded Mid America Adventure in August 2026). Riders climb to just over 108 feet before diving into a course packed
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/ September 12, 2026
Batwing was a steel flying roller coaster that opened on June 16, 2001, at Six Flags America in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma as one of only three “Flying Dutchman” models ever produced, Batwing launched riders backward out of the station in
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/ September 8, 2026
T3 was an inverted steel roller coaster at Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky, built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma as a Suspended Looping Coaster (SLC). It first opened on April 7, 1995 as T2, becoming the first Vekoma SLC to operate in North America, and spent
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/ September 8, 2026
Invertigo is a Vekoma inverted shuttle coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, best known for seating riders in face-to-face rows as the train is launched backward and forward through a vertical loop and a cobra roll. It’s one of only four Invertigo-model coasters Vekoma
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/ August 29, 2026
Vekoma Rides Manufacturing traces its roots to 1926, when Hendrik op het Veld founded a machine factory in the Netherlands originally called Veld Koning Machinefabriek, the source of the company’s abbreviated name. The business built farm equipment and later steel structures for the Dutch coal
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/ August 24, 2026
Siren’s Curse opened at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, on June 28, 2025, becoming the tallest, fastest, and longest tilt coaster in North America. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma, the steel coaster replaced the former WildCat Luminosity attraction near the Cedar Point Marina in the
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/ August 8, 2026
Nighthawk was a steel flying roller coaster at Carowinds, the amusement park straddling the North Carolina-South Carolina border in Charlotte. Riders were flipped into a face-down, arms-forward flying position before soaring through a vertical loop, a double corkscrew, and a series of disorienting Lie-to-Fly and
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/ August 7, 2026
Flight Deck was a Vekoma Suspended Looping Coaster (SLC) at Canada’s Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario, best known for the years it spent flipping riders through five inversions above the park’s Grande World Expo section. It first opened in 1995 as Top Gun, themed to the
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/ July 30, 2026
Seven Dwarfs Mine Train is the most popular ride at Magic Kingdom, and also one of the most misunderstood: it looks like a kiddie ride from the queue, then surprises first-timers with real drops, banked turns, and a cart that sways side to side like
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/ July 29, 2026
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind opened on May 27, 2022, inside EPCOT’s World Discovery area at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma, it became EPCOT’s first roller coaster and Disney’s first backwards-launched roller coaster, replacing the
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/ July 29, 2026
Tron Lightcycle/Run is a launched steel roller coaster at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World, themed around the light cycles from Disney’s Tron film franchise. Riders straddle motorbike-style vehicles and lean forward to grip handlebars as they race through a partially enclosed track meant to
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/ July 28, 2026
Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster is an indoor launched roller coaster on Sunset Boulevard at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World Resort. Built by Vekoma with Walt Disney Imagineering, the ride opened on July 29, 1999 as Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith, using a
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/ July 4, 2026
Abyssus is the twin-launch centerpiece of Energylandia’s Aqualantis area in Zator, Poland, a steel Vekoma coaster that fires riders through four inversions and a twisted top hat at nearly 62 mph. Since opening in July 2021, it has become one of the park’s three most
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/ June 25, 2026
F.L.Y. is a steel flying roller coaster at Phantasialand in Brühl, Germany. Manufactured by Vekoma and opened on September 17, 2020, it stretches 1,236 meters (4,055 feet) of track — enough to claim the title of the world’s longest flying coaster, surpassing Flying Dinosaur at
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/ June 19, 2026
The Mindbender was the signature ride of Galaxyland, the indoor amusement park inside West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta — and for decades it was the tallest roller coaster ever built under one roof, hurling riders through three vertical loops entirely inside a shopping mall.
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/ June 14, 2026
Big Bear Mountain opened at Dollywood on May 12, 2023, and immediately changed what a family roller coaster could be. Built by Vekoma for a reported $25 million, it stretches 3,990 feet through the Tennessee hillside — the longest coaster in the park’s history —
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/ November 11, 2025
The Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster was one of Disney’s most technically impressive attractions — a Linear Synchronous Motor-launched steel coaster that blasted riders from a standstill to 57 mph in just 2.8 seconds, an average acceleration of about 0.93 Gs, before hurtling through three inversions
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