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/ September 25, 2026
Little Dipper is a small wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. It is a compact figure-eight ride with gentle hills, dips and turns, and it is built for young riders. It is often a child’s first roller coaster. The ride…
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/ September 19, 2026
Racer 75 is a twin-track wooden racing coaster at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, designed by legendary coaster architect John C. Allen and built by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters. It opened with the park on May 3, 1975, giving riders two mirror-image tracks that launch side…
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/ September 18, 2026
The Big Dipper is a wooden out-and-back roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach on England’s Lancashire coast. It opened on 23 August 1923, making it one of the longest-running roller coasters still standing anywhere in the world, and it remains a defining silhouette on Blackpool’s…
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/ September 18, 2026
Oakwood Theme Park was Wales’s largest theme park, set across about 80 acres of hilly woodland at Canaston Bridge near Narberth, Pembrokeshire. It opened on 14 April 1987 as a small family-run attraction under the McNamara family before growing into a major regional draw, later…
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/ September 18, 2026
Kolmården Wildlife Park sits on the shores of Bråviken bay near Norrköping, Sweden, blending Scandinavia’s largest zoo with a genuine amusement park lineup. Since opening on 27 May 1965, the park has grown from an animal park into a full day-out destination, spreading across roughly…
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/ September 18, 2026
Linnanmäki opened on 27 May 1950 in Helsinki’s Alppila district, making it the oldest amusement park in Finland. It is owned and operated by the Children’s Day Foundation, a non-profit organization that has funneled the park’s earnings into Finnish child welfare programs for more than…
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/ September 18, 2026
Indiana Beach is a lakeside amusement park in Monticello, Indiana, sitting on the shores of Lake Shafer about two hours south of Chicago. It traces its roots to 1926, when Earl W. Spackman opened a small lakeside bathing beach called Ideal Beach, which grew over…
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/ September 17, 2026
Woodstock Express is a wooden roller coaster in the Planet Snoopy section of Kings Island near Mason, Ohio. It holds a special distinction among the park’s rides: it’s one of the original attractions that opened with Kings Island on April 29, 1972, making it more…
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/ September 17, 2026
The Lost Coaster of Superstition Mountain is a wooden roller coaster at Indiana Beach in Monticello, Indiana, built inside and around a themed mine shaft mountain that has anchored the lakefront park for decades. Custom Coasters International completed the ride in 2002, reworking the aging…
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/ September 17, 2026
Twisted Twins was a wooden dueling roller coaster at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky. It opened in April 1998 under the name Twisted Sisters, sending two mirror-image wooden tracks named Stella and Lola out from a single station so that riders raced past…
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/ September 17, 2026
Woodland Run is a wooden roller coaster at Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky, originally built by the Dinn Corporation and designed by Curtis D. Summers and John Fetterman. It opened in August 1990 as Thunder Run, giving generations of Louisville-area thrill-seekers their introduction to out-and-back…
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/ September 17, 2026
Zach’s Zoomer is a wooden roller coaster at Michigan’s Adventure in Muskegon, Michigan, built specifically to bridge the gap between kiddie rides and the park’s larger wooden coasters. It opened on July 22, 1994, designed by Custom Coasters International with trains built by Philadelphia Toboggan…
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/ September 16, 2026
Viper is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, that opened to the public on April 29, 1995. Designed by Dennis Starkey and built at an estimated cost of $4 million, the ride was constructed as a near mirror image…
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/ September 15, 2026
Yankee Cannonball is a wooden roller coaster at Canobie Lake Park in Salem, New Hampshire, designed by Herbert Paul Schmeck of Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters. The ride’s history stretches back further than most guests realize: it was originally built in 1930 at Lakewood Park in Waterbury…
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/ September 15, 2026
Judge Roy Scream opened on March 1, 1980, as the first wooden roller coaster ever built at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, Texas. Designed by Don Rosser and Bill Cobb and constructed by William Cobb & Associates at a cost of about $2.1 million…
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/ September 15, 2026
Rutschebanen is a wooden roller coaster at Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark, nicknamed Bjergbanen (the Mountain Coaster) for its scenery of painted hills and tunnels. Designed by Danish ride builder Valdemar Lebech with construction help from the L.A. Thompson Scenic Railway Company, it opened on…
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/ September 15, 2026
Tonnerre de Zeus opened in April 1997 at Parc Astérix in Plailly, France, becoming the second wooden roller coaster built in the country after Anaconda at Walygator Parc. Built by Custom Coasters International and designed by Larry Bill, the coaster rose 98 feet within the…
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/ September 15, 2026
Troy is a wooden roller coaster at Toverland in Sevenum, the Netherlands, that opened on June 29, 2007. Built by American manufacturer Great Coasters International (GCI), it was only the company’s second installation in Europe, following Thunderbird at PowerPark in Finland, and it introduced GCI’s…
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/ September 15, 2026
Colossos – Kampf der Giganten is a wooden roller coaster at Heide Park in Soltau, Lower Saxony, Germany. Built by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel, it opened on April 13, 2001, and quickly became one of Europe’s tallest wooden coasters, drawing riders with its…
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/ September 15, 2026
Megafobia was a wooden roller coaster at Oakwood Theme Park in Narberth, Pembrokeshire, Wales. It opened in April 1996, built by Custom Coasters International with trains supplied by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters, and designed with input from John Wardley, Dennis McNulty, and Larry Bill. It was…
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