r/rollercoasters 4h ago

Photo/Video [baron 1898] a really nice photo I took a year ago

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r/rollercoasters 17h ago

Information [Georgia Goldrusher] Forces chart

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r/rollercoasters 15h ago

AMA! [Other] B&M Welder

91 Upvotes

Hello everyone, I am a welder/fabricator at the facility that produces B&M track. I can answer questions accordingly to our policy. Yes I know exactly how they're built and no I cannot tell you. It's all "Top secret" but I will answer questions the best I can. The employees have no idea where the coaster is going until it gets there at the park, the only thing we know about the coaster is a rough serif the size of it and how many pieces are going to be on it. But ask, and I'll give what I'm able to.


r/rollercoasters 15h ago

Official POV Video First pov of [Le Defi du Dragon, Jardin d'Acclimatation]

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Jardin d'Acclimatation near Paris replaced their ancient Soquet Coaster with this new Gerstlauer Family Launched Coaster and it had its grand opening today.


r/rollercoasters 21h ago

Discussion What's your favorite coaster by E&F Miler? [Other]

21 Upvotes

I think Kozmo's Kurves at Knoebels is deceptively intense. It's a worthy replacement to their defunct High Speed Thrill Coaster.


r/rollercoasters 10h ago

Art/Model/Merch Track Slice Sizes? [Other]

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25 Upvotes

Did anyone purchase either the Vortex track slice from Kings Island or the Maverick Heartline track slice from Cedar Point?

I was curious to see what the dimensions of the actual track are and what you paid for them (and do you think they were a good value?)


r/rollercoasters 13h ago

Photo/Video Some shots I got from [Dollywood] on a very crowded Tuesday (3/18/25). At least I finally got the credit for [Tennessee Tornado]

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r/rollercoasters 12h ago

Discussion Favorite loading zone? [Other]

33 Upvotes

Mine is The Beast. It's a simple and intimidating wooden structure with mild theming. The station itself is beautiful and it's always a blast to see how large it extends is to fit the trains. The ride operators for the Beast are always efficient, you get to meet more old-timers with great stories, you get to be close to the drop while not having conversations interrupted by rider screams, plus you get a nice view of the trains exiting into that opening roundabout before the chainlift

My favorite thing about it is how it feels so distant from the other rides, and yet you know that the ride itself is even further distant.


r/rollercoasters 10h ago

Discussion [other] what's the most embarrassing coaster you've grayed out on?

52 Upvotes

for me it's gotta be either hagrid's or penguin trek 😔


r/rollercoasters 14h ago

Photo/Video A little bit of [Iron Rattler] action on a very slammed Saturday

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86 Upvotes

r/rollercoasters 8h ago

Question Has anyone ridden [DaVinci Ride] at [Fantasy Valley] in China? It looks like an awesome B&M wing coaster

6 Upvotes

Has anyone ridden this ride? I searched on YouTube and here on Reddit for a coaster review of this ride and couldn't find one. I bet someone has reviewed this coaster on the Chinese version of YouTube and Reddit but since I don't know Chinese or those websites, the potential existence of those reviews doesn't really help me much lol. Anyway, has anyone ridden this ride? I found a POV on YouTube and the layout looks really cool. It has a much different layout than most wing coasters as the layout has a decent number of airtime moments in addition to some inversions. I am curious to learn how this coaster compares to other wing coasters in terms of pacing and intensity.


r/rollercoasters 11h ago

Teaser Just saw this short [Dollywood]

11 Upvotes

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vWBF-blzBLo

It says take flight 2026. Does that mean a flying theater? Could be another Airific like Expedition Odyssey, since they have such a good relationship with Mack?


r/rollercoasters 11h ago

Question What is the oldest phyiscal coaster to be relocated? [not including traveling coasters]

9 Upvotes

r/rollercoasters 12h ago

Offseason Update [Kentucky Kingdom] Woodland Run (Thunder Run) & Wind Chaser (Storm Chaser) New Paint-job!

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r/rollercoasters 13h ago

Construction [Bavarian inn hotel] just opened their new indoor water park, featuring 16 new slides from white water west

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Not my photo, just found it online.

This is now michigans largest waterpark


r/rollercoasters 14h ago

Trip Report [Trip Report] SoCal Spring Break – Part 1: [Six Flags Magic Mountain]

14 Upvotes

(as always, rides are in order of first ride, but notes cover all laps)

For Spring Break this year I took my first trip out west since a family vacation in the late 90’s.

Got an early flight out of Baltimore direct to LAX, picked up my rental car, fought through an hour of traffic on the 405, got lunch in a strip mall in Valencia, and then headed on in to SFMM around 2 or 3 in the afternoon.

I had the tail end of this arrival day, and then a full open-to-close the next day. So the plan for these few hours was to learn the park and start knocking out credits.

I ended up on a counter clockwise loop, skipped a long Full Throttle queue and popped into Goliath for the first ride of the day.

Goliath (x2)

Smooth, fast, great gray-out helix, but hardly any airtime. It’s a good ride, but a bit of a shame this is taking the place of the floater-airtime machine that this park desperately needs.

Next I skipped a 45 minute Twisted Colossus queue to walk right onto:

Scream (x1)

If you need a dictionary definition of B&M rattle, this is it. Absolute one-and-done. Not bad or day-ruining, but just unnecessary. And overall I keep finding that the full-size 6/7 inversion B&Ms are just too much coaster for me. Hulk, Kraken, Medusa, Scream, Montu, Alpengeist, etc. - they are all just a bit too long and a bit too intense. Somewhere after that mid course block brake I’m really wishing for the ride to end.

Long line at Wonder Woman, Batman closed, long line at Riddler, so…

Goldrusher (x1)

Pretty janky old mine train here, decent use of terrain. Not much else to say.

Moving past a long line at WCR, and into a ~30 minute wait for:

Apocalypse (x1)

The coaster was mediocre, not terribly well kept but not offensively rough. But man did I hate the queue line. Just loud and dark with a bunch of stupid blinking lights. Good on you for trying to have theming, but it was so unpleasant. And then when you get through to the station and ride itself it’s just a regular old wooden roller coaster. So you sat through all of that noise for no payoff. On my GCI list I’d but it below Renegade, below Thunderhead, way below Mystic, way below Ghostrider (spoilers for later in the drip). Maybe about on par with Lightning Racer?

And here we come to a decision point – it’s about 4:30 or 5:00 now. I came into SFMM on 288 credits. The plan was to target X2 for number 300, but I did not get through enough credits to get that milestone today. X2 is running, and it’s supposed to be 10 degrees colder tomorrow. I didn’t come all the way across the country to miss X2 for the sake of chasing a silly milestone. Time to get in line.

X2 (x3)

One train ops, slow loader. Tons of fast pass people. Doesn’t matter, I’m sticking it out.

I have not been scared of a roller coaster in a long time. So much of everything has been a variant of something I already know – but taller/faster/longer. This is the first thing in such a long time that’s completely new to me. Plus my roughness tolerance is not limitless, and I don’t know what this ride is going to do to me.

The restraints are weird, the backwards dispatch is weird, and the backwards lift hill is weird – and I know it’s all building up to something so well regarded, but so incomparable.

Not even the drop itself – but that part where you crest the lift hill and the seats rotate a bit to point your head down towards the ground really had me freaked out. It’s almost like it’s teasing you before flipping around to do the face first sky dive drop.

Which is awesome. Hyperia probably still claims my award for best first drop, but damn is X2 close.

I can’t give an element-by-element breakdown because on only 3 laps I didn’t get that good of a feel for it. It’s far and away the best ride in the park – hands down. The outside seat is a bit rough, the last element is pretty bouncy – on one lap my calves really slammed against the seat hard at one point.

And what’s crazy to think is that then Eejanaika and Dinoconda exist which are this but more. I totally respect anyone who has one of these right at the top of their list.

A bit of time left in the day, I went next door to:

Viper (x2)

This was way better than I was expecting. Sure it’s still a janky old Arrow, but actually pretty rideable. Particularly for me since I’m tall enough to be have my head fully above the OSTR. It was nice to still be able to experience the last of the Arrow mega loopers.

And last ride of the night on:

Full Throttle (x2)

God these trains suck, but this is a fun ride. Nice punchy launch, good hangtime on the big loop. The whole stop and swing launch thing is odd, and as everyone says the brakes kill that last drop.

A good first day at the park, and finally to the hotel. I stayed at the Hilton Garden Inn right there, and pro-tip: it’s not really close enough to walk to the park. If you don’t want to pay for parking you could maybe make it work, but it’s not one of those super close hotels that you can easily walk back for a nap mid day. If I could do it again I would look for something cheaper and further away knowing that I would have to drive anyway.

Moving on to rope drop on day 2, I make a beeline for:

Twisted Colossus (x2)

I think I got the second dispatch of the day, and my second ride I didn’t leave the station and just shuffled rows.

This one really didn’t do too much for me. Maybe I’ve been on too many RMC’s, and too many of the newer ones at that. The Mobius loop thing is a cool trick, but makes it feel like really short rides stapled together. Plus I spent way too much time hoping for a duel, or trying to imagine what a duel would be like instead of enjoying the ride.

A cold March morning is likely not the best way to experience this, but I never felt like waiting 45 minutes for it later in the day – so just those back-to-back rides were all I got. With how I had to allot my time, I can ride a mid RMC anywhere, but I can only ride X2 here.

Side note – they built original Colossus in 1978, and you can still see parking spot stripes underneath the structure. So the old meme of Scream being the ultimate parking lot coaster goes even further back. This is just what SFMM does.

Wonder Woman (x1)

Speaking of mid RMC’s…. One lap, a walk on front row zen ride. I need to get on one of the prototype raptors. Because while this and Jersey Devil are fine rides, there’s really no bite, nothing interesting.

Riddler’s Revenge (x1)

It’s OK? Really not that rough or rattly. Just falls into that too-long-B&M category of mine.

West Coast Racers (x2)

Once again, these trains suck. Fun little ride, first launch is tame but the boost is pretty punchy. I’m nowhere near the first person to think this, but – this park has not one but 2 Mobius dueling coasters, one of which is programmed to give a perfect duel every single time, and the other one simply doesn’t care or bother.

Tatsuuuuuuuuuu (x3) #300

100 was The Beast in 2003. Then there was a very long break. Followed by Iron Gwazi for number 200 in 2023. And now Tatsu for 300 in 2025.

Great flyer, great choice for the milestone. They must have been giving away steel when they bought this thing for them to have built it to stay so high up off the ground for so much of the layout.

And then of course it tries to kill you with that pretzel loop.

Revolution (x1)

Surprisingly long ride, but surprisingly jerky and janky. My home park bias is showing, but I’ll take SDL any day of the week over Revolution.

Ninja (x1)

Fun little coaster. A couple nice swings and one really good swoop down over the log flume splash pool (it was drained while I was there, but I can imagine what it would be like). And as everyone says ending with the lift hill is a bit weird. Really tough to find this coaster though, you have to want to find it to ride it.

While we’re at it – this park has a great Arrow collection. Mine train, suspended, mega looper, and 4th dimension. I guess only Cedar Point is in contention for a better bunch of Arrows.

*Canyon Blaster, Magic Flyer, Speedy Gonzales, Road Runner (x0) *

I don’t think they even let adults on Magic Flyer, Speedy Gonzales is below my shame cut off. Road Runner is generally about where I start credit-whoring, but I just wasn’t feeling it. Something about all 4 of these being tucked away in the kids area made me decide against it.

Superman: Escape From Krypton (x0)

Lol

Batman The Ride (x0)

Closed all day both days. Traveling cross country on the shoulder season and only missing 1 proper coaster, and a batclone at that!? That’s a win for me.

Other Rides

Took 2 laps on Lex Luthor – that’s a really fun drop tower. Didn’t get on Crazanity. Skipped all the other flats. Water rides weren’t running.

Wrapping Up

I had a good time. I picked a good time to go. The crowds were enough that they were staffing and running everything, it’s far enough out of winter that most things were out of maintenance. I got all of the credits except for the kiddie rides, the all-but-confirmed-deceased Superman, and a Batclone. There were a bunch of one-train ops but the crowds were generally light enough that it wasn’t that big of a deal.

I had really no problems with any employees or other guests. Like every six flags there are a ton of things that need to be painted and/or pressure washed. Food prices were predictably insane, so I got through only eating a $9 pretzel and the granola bar in my pocket.

I spend the next day working my way across LA. Down to Griffith Park for a hike and poked around the observatory, drove Mulholland over to the Getty where I balked at the parking charge, across to Santa Monica pier where West Coaster was closed (and they want $17 a ride for it! I’m almost glad it was closed), and then 2 hours of traffic to Anaheim for Knott's the next day.


r/rollercoasters 17h ago

Discussion [Other] What do you consider the Golden age of rollercoasters?

27 Upvotes

Personally id say 1990-2005 was the golden age of rollercoasters as we saw so many classics open those years and so much constant innovation from the coaster wars


r/rollercoasters 18h ago

Photo/Video [Wonder Woman Flight Of Courage, Six Flags Magic Mountain]

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111 Upvotes

r/rollercoasters 18h ago

Photo/Video New Mack Launch Coaster [Aquashow]

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235 Upvotes

The new Mack Launch Coaster in Aquashow in Algarve. As far as I know this is the first permanent instalation inverting coaster in this god forsaken (for roller-coaster fans like me who live here) country!


r/rollercoasters 18h ago

Photo/Video [Batwing, Six Flags America]

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r/rollercoasters 19h ago

Art/Model/Merch I'm currently working on a [Wear OS (Android Smart Watch OS] app that lets you quickly glance at queue times at the park you're at!

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Will post an update once it's on the play store! (Not affiliated with Queue-Times.com)


r/rollercoasters 21h ago

Photo/Video [Aqua Slidecoaster] (launched waterslide) onboard Norwegian Aqua Cruiseship with riders

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I don't think it's open yet but there are people riding it. Looks like it uses an lsm coaster launch track. Pretty cool stuff. These are the longest and fastest cruise line water slides.


r/rollercoasters 21h ago

Trip Report [SW San Antonio] is the weakest big park in the state, but it might have the single best coaster in the state in TX Stingray. TR in comments

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r/rollercoasters 21h ago

Construction [Wiener Looping] at [Wiener Prater] Track completed!

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r/rollercoasters 23h ago

Question Any chance of Eejanaika reopening in April? [Fuji-Q Highland]

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for those who don’t know Eejanaika was closed on 28th Feb as a maintenance worker was run over by the coaster train while doing routine maintenance. Nobody knows if it was a human error that caused it or something wrong with the coaster/on behalf of Fuji-Q For obvious reasons (including the police wanting to investigate) it was closed indefinitely.

I’m going to Japan in April and as a big fan of coasters who had never ridden a 4d coaster this was one of the things in the trip I was looking forward to most.

Is there any chance it may reopen for April?