After 26 weeks featuring 26 different roller coasters, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet, we finally wrapped up our 2016-2017 version of our A-Z Coaster of the Week series, and I thought it would be interesting to...
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A-Z Coaster of the Week: Yamaha Racing Coaster
Welcome back to our A-Z Coaster of the Week, where we highlight a roller coaster that corresponds with each letter of the alphabet. Did you know that there are only 9 roller coasters in history that begin with the letter...
Continue reading...A-Z Coaster of the Week: V2: Vertical Velocity
This week’s “A-Z Coaster of the Week” brings us to the letter V, and a ride that when it was first built wasn’t very unique at all. However, thanks to a city regulation, the ride was modified into something one of...
Continue reading...A-Z Coaster of the Week: TH13TEEN
We’re heading overseas for our A-Z Coaster of the Week for letter T, as we take a look at “TH13TEEN” at Alton Towers in England . A First of Its Kind Opened in 2010, TH13TEEN replaced the aging Corkscrew at Alton Towers,...
Continue reading...A-Z Coaster of the Week: Swamp Fox
Just a few weeks left of this season’s A-Z Coaster of the Week, where we take a look at a coaster that begins with the corresponding letter of the alphabet. It’s time for the “S” coaster, and we’re headed back...
Continue reading...A-Z Coaster of the Week – Revolution
We’re sticking on the West Coast for this weeks A-Z Coaster of the week. For the letter “R”, we’re looking at a coaster that had one of the most important “firsts” in modern coaster history, Revolution at Six Flags Magic...
Continue reading...A-Z Coaster of the Week: Quicksilver Express
This week we head back to California for our “Q” A-Z Coaster of the Week, to a unique coaster in a small amusement park just south of San Jose, Quicksilver Express at Gilroy Gardens! Gilroy Gardens opened in 2001 as...
Continue reading...A-Z Coaster of the Week: Outlaw Run
In 2009, Silver Dollar City solicited proposals from roller coaster manufacturers for the theme park’s next big coaster. A then-young Rocky Mountain Construction (RMC) submitted plans for what would become Outlaw Run, the company’s first built-from-scratch wooden coaster. Four years later...
Continue reading...A-Z Coaster of the Week: New Texas Giant
It’s time for the “N” coaster in this season’s edition of the “A-Z Coaster of the Week,” where we highlight a different coaster with the corresponding letter of the alphabet. We’re headed to the original Six Flags park, Six Flags...
Continue reading...A-Z Coaster of the Week: Maximum RPM!
Welcome back to our weekly A-Z Coaster Series, where we highlight a coaster beginning with each letter of the alphabet. This week, our “M” coaster takes us to another “M,” Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and the now-shuttered Hard Rock Park/Freestyle...
Continue reading...A-Z Coaster of the Week: Little Dipper at Six Flags Great America
For this week’s A-Z Coaster, we travel to Six Flags Great America for a little wooden roller coaster with an interesting past. Little Dipper debuted at Six Flags Great America in late May of 2010. But its story doesn’t begin...
Continue reading...A-Z Coaster of the Week: Kentucky Rumbler
In May 2006, Beech Bend, a small, unassuming park in Bowling Green, Kentucky, made the leap onto the coaster scene with the debut of Kentucky Rumbler, a twisted Great Coasters International (GCI) wooden coaster. Kentucky Rumbler stands 96 feet tall...
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