A roller coaster is an amusement park ride consisting of an elevated railroad track that goes around sharp curves, down steep inclines, and/or through loops.
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| x Flight Deck | Steel | Inverted | Lift hill |
Flight Deck is a roller coaster located at California's Great America in Northern California. Built by Bolliger & Mabillard, Flight Deck made its debut March 19, 1993 as Top Gun. It is the park's most popular ride. This was Bolliger & Mabillard's...
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| x Stealth |
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| x Giant Dipper |
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Wooden | Sit-down | Lift hill |
The Giant Dipper is a historic wooden roller coaster located at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, an amusement park in Santa Cruz, California. It opened on May 17, 1924. It is the fifth-oldest roller coaster in the United States; over 55 million...
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| x The Mind Eraser |
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Steel | Inverted | Lift hill |
The Mind Eraser is a steel inverted roller coaster at 4 different Six Flags & PARC theme parks. Built by Vekoma, they are of the most common and standard Suspended Looping Coaster model (689m Standard) that is found in many theme parks; at least...
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| x Magnum XL-200 |
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Steel | Sit-down | Lift hill | |
| x Pepsi Max Big One |
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Steel | Sit-down | Lift hill |
The Big One is a steel roller coaster located at Pleasure Beach Blackpool in the United Kingdom. The ride was originally manufactured by Arrow Dynamics, a now defunct steel coaster manufacturer, and was sponsored by the soft drinks firm Pepsi, under...
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| x Batman: The Ride | Steel | Inverted | Lift hill |
Batman: The Ride is a steel inverted roller coaster at Six Flags Mexico in Mexico City. Unlike Bolliger & Mabillard's widely-cloned Batman: The Ride, this coaster was built by Vekoma.
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| x Space Mountain |
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Steel | Sit-down | ||
| x Space Mountain |
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Steel | Sit-down |
Space Mountain is a steel roller coaster attraction in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. After the success of the Magic Kingdom's Space Mountain, the Imagineers made plans to build another on the United States West Coast. The ride...
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| x Space Mountain |
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Steel | Sit-down |
Space Mountain at Tokyo Disneyland opened with the park on April 15, 1983. It was the first version of Space Mountain to open concurrently with the park. As with the other Space Mountains, this version is also highly popular with young adults and...
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| x Invertigo |
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Steel | Inverted | Lift hill | |
| x Whizzer |
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Steel | Sit-down |
Whizzer is the name of two identical roller coasters built for the Marriott Corporation for each of their “Great America” parks at their debut in 1976. One was built in Gurnee, Illinois, at Six Flags Great America and the other in Santa Clara,...
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| x Boomerang: Coast to Coaster |
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Steel | Sit-down | Lift hill |
Boomerang: Coast to Coaster is a steel roller coaster of shuttle design currently in use at five different Six Flags & PARC theme parks. The ride was designed and manufactured by Vekoma, and is considered as one of its boomerang models. Each coaster...
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| x Zonga | Steel | Sit-down | |||
| x Flying Fish |
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Steel | Sit-down | Powered |
The Flying Fish is a powered steel roller coaster located at Thorpe Park in Surrey. The ride was known as Space Station Zero when it was new in 1983 and was re-themed in 1990. It was removed in 2005 to make way for Stealth, a new roller coaster...
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| x Mission Beach Roller Coaster |
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Wooden | Sit-down | Lift hill |
The Giant Dipper, also known as the Mission Beach Roller Coaster, is a wooden roller coaster, built in 1925. The Giant Dipper is in Belmont Park, right on Mission Beach in San Diego. The coaster along with it's near twin at the Santa Cruz Beach...
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| x Déjà Vu |
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Steel | Inverted | Lift hill | |
| x Steel Dragon 2000 |
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Steel | Sit-down | Lift hill |
Steel Dragon 2000 (スチールドラゴン2000, Suchiiru Doragon Nisen) is a roller coaster at Nagashima Spa Land amusement park in Mie Prefecture, Japan. Built by Morgan Manufacturing, this gigacoaster opened, appropriately, in 2000—"The Year of the Dragon" in...
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| x Millennium Force |
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Steel | Sit-down | Lift hill |
Millennium Force is a steel roller coaster built by Intamin located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. It is the fourteenth roller coaster built at the park since the Blue Streak opened in 1964. Standing 310 feet (95 m) tall at its...
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| x Kingda Ka |
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Steel | Sit-down | Launched | |
| x Colossus |
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Steel | Sit-down | Lift hill |
Colossus a roller coaster at Thorpe Park in Surrey, England, UK. It was built by Swiss manufacturers Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel as an adaptation of Monte Makaya in Brazil. Tussauds designer John Wardley adapted the project to include an...
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| x Batman: The Ride |
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Steel | Inverted | Lift hill |
Batman: The Ride is a steel inverted roller coaster found in many Six Flags theme parks, as well as other parks around the world, including Six Flags Great America, Six Flags Great Adventure, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Six Flags Over Georgia, Six...
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| x Vortex | Steel | Stand-up | Lift hill | ||
| x Batman The Escape |
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Steel | Stand-up |
Batman The Escape is a steel stand-up roller coaster in storage at Darien Lake Theme Park Resort. Previously it was located at Six Flags Magic Mountain from 1986 until January 1989 (where it was known as Shockwave); Six Flags Great Adventure from...
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| x Georgia Scorcher |
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Steel | Stand-up | Lift hill |
Georgia Scorcher (or simply Scorcher) is a roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia. The second design from Bolliger & Mabillard to be built at the park, Georgia Scorcher opened in May 1999 as the last new stand-up roller coaster to have been...
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| x The Riddler's Revenge |
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Steel | Stand-up | Lift hill | |
| x Big Bad Wolf |
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Steel | Suspended Swinging |
The Big Bad Wolf was a suspended roller coaster in the Oktoberfest section of Busch Gardens Williamsburg. First opened in 1984, the ride operated for 25 years and the ride closed on September 7, 2009. However, the supports, footings, queue line, and...
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| x Roller Soaker |
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Steel | Suspended Swinging | Lift hill |
Roller Soaker is a suspended roller coaster at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania. It was manufactured by Setpoint USA, and was the first interactive ride built in the park. It is located in Midway America at Hersheypark, behind Tidal Force. It...
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| x Hydra the Revenge |
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Steel | Floorless | Lift hill | |
| x Superman: Krypton Coaster |
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Steel | Floorless |
Superman: Krypton Coaster is a roller coaster located at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio, TX. Designed by Bolliger & Mabillard, it is one of four floorless coasters to open in the year 2000 (the other three were Medusa at Six Flags Discovery...
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| x Batman: The Ride |
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Steel | Floorless |
Batman – The Dark Knight is a steel floorless roller coaster located at Six Flags New England. Opened on April 20, 2002, the ride has a purple and blue track with black supports. It was the eighth coaster built at the park, and the only roller...
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| x Invertigo |
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| x Grizzly | Wooden | Sit-down | Lift hill | ||
| x BEHEMOTH |
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Steel | Sit-down |
Behemoth is a steel roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. It is a Hyper Coaster designed and developed by Swiss manufacturer, Bolliger & Mabillard. Behemoth is currently the tallest and fastest roller coaster in Canada....
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| x Gemini |
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Wooden frame/Steel track | Sit-down | Lift hill |
Gemini is a roller coaster with a wooden structure and steel track located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. Built in 1978 by Arrow Dynamics and designed by Ron Toomer, it is a racing roller coaster. When the ride opened, it was the tallest, fastest...
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| x Hades |
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Steel frame/Wooden track | Sit-down | ||
| x Matterhorn Bobsleds |
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Steel | Sit-down | Lift hill |
The Matterhorn Bobsleds or the Matterhorn is an attraction composed of two intertwining steel roller coasters, which opened in 1959 at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. It is modeled after the Matterhorn, a mountain in the Swiss Alps. It is the...
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| x American Eagle |
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Wooden | Sit-down | Lift hill |
American Eagle is a two track racing wooden roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, United States. It was manufactured by Intamin of Switzerland (their first wooden roller coaster ) and built in 1981 by the contracting...
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| x Le Monstre |
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Wooden | Sit-down | Lift hill | |
| x Colossos |
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Wooden | Sit-down | Lift hill |
Colossos is a wooden roller coaster at Heide Park in Soltau, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the first wooden roller coaster to use prefabricated track. Colossos is the tallest and fastest wooden roller coaster in Europe and the tallest running wooden...
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| x Boulder Dash |
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Wooden | Sit-down | Lift hill |
Boulder Dash is a wooden roller coaster located at Lake Compounce in Bristol, Connecticut. It first opened in 2000 and was built by Custom Coasters International. The ride's structure was built with Southern Yellow Pine wood and the track is made of...
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| x Son of Beast |
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Wooden | Sit-down | Lift hill | |
| x Shivering Timbers |
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Wooden | Sit-down | Lift hill |
Shivering Timbers is a Wooden roller coaster at Michigan's Adventure in Muskegon County, Michigan. It was developed and built by Custom Coasters International. Opened in May 1998, Shivering Timbers debuted for the park's 30th year in operation and...
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| x Thunderbolt |
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Wooden | Sit-down |
The Thunderbolt is a wooden roller coaster located at Kennywood Park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. Originally built by John A. Miller in 1924, the ride's name was Pippin until 1967, when it changed to Thunderbolt beginning with the...
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| x Rebel Yell |
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Wooden | Sit-down | ||
| x GhostRider |
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Wooden | Sit-down |
GhostRider is a wooden roller coaster at Knott's Berry Farm, a theme park in Buena Park, California. It is located in the Ghost Town section of the park, south of the main entrance. It is the longest wooden coaster on the West Coast.
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| x El Toro |
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Wooden | Sit-down | Lift hill |
El Toro, meaning The Bull in Spanish, is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure. It opened to the public on June 11, 2006. It was designed by Intamin of Switzerland. It had the steepest drop of any wooden roller coaster in the world,...
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| x Runaway Mine Train |
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Steel | Sit-down | Powered | |
| x Superman: The Escape |
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Steel | Sit-down | Launched |
Superman: Escape from Krypton is a launched steel shuttle roller coaster located in the Samurai Summit area of Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California that opened in 1997. It is similar to Tower of Terror II, which opened two months prior...
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| x Superman Escape |
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Steel | Sit-down | Launched |
Superman Escape is an Intamin Accelerator Coaster at Warner Bros. Movie World in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The ride opened on Boxing Day (26 December), 2005. It is the fourth roller coaster in the theme park. It accelerates from 0 to 100...
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| x Maverick |
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| x Thunder Run | Steel | Sit-down | Powered |
Thunder Run is a unique powered roller coaster, themed after a runaway mine train, found at Canada's Wonderland, in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. Rather than having a traditional chain lift hill, the train has an electric motor onboard. The train ...
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| x Thunder Run |
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Wooden | Sit-down | Lift hill |
Thunder Run is a wooden roller coaster at former Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky. This is a custom designed roller coaster that was originally intended to be used at LeSourdsville Lake (Americana Park). It has 70 degree banked turns. Much...
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| x Rolling Thunder |
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| x Batman: The Ride | Steel | Inverted | Lift hill | ||
| x WildCat |
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Steel | Sit-down | Lift hill |
WildCat, designed by Anton Schwarzkopf, is a roller coaster located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. It is an Anton Schwarzkopf Wildcat model where small cars (each holding four passengers) take many tight turns and small hills that produce...
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| x Wildcat | Steel | Sit-down | Lift hill | ||
| x Whizzer | Steel | Sit-down | |||
| x Big Thunder Mountain Railroad |
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Steel | Sit-down | Lift hill |
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (or for short Big Thunder Mountain) is an indoor/outdoor mine train roller coaster located in Frontierland at several Disneyland-style Disney Parks worldwide. The ride exists at Disneyland Park (Anaheim) and the Magic...
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| x California Screamin' |
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Steel | Sit-down | Launched | |
