Fire, Ice, & Everything Nice: AlpenFury Review

One of the most anticipated roller coasters of 2025 has finally arrived – AlpenFury at Canada’s Wonderland! It recently opened to the public and two members of the Coaster101.com team had the chance to get on the ride and are here to give you everything you need to know about the new launch coaster! Here’s our AlpenFury review:

AlpenFury Review: Worth the hype?

AlpenFury marks the 18th roller coaster at the park, tying Cedar Point’s lineup for second most coasters in one park in the world (just behind Six Flags Magic Mountain and Energylandia with 19 each). This coaster now holds the record for the most inversions on a launched coaster in the world—with nine! Not only does it look stunning rising out of the park’s centerpiece, but is also the fourth coaster to call Wonder Mountain home.

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What were your first impressions upon seeing AlpenFury in the Canada’s Wonderland skyline?

Kyle: What I noticed first was how prominent the coaster’s layout was along International Street. It is one of the first things you see upon entering the park and gets you excited to ride right away. Seeing that first inversion coming out of the mountain is also pretty incredible. The amount of coaster track present on Wonder Mountain is just insane. Not only do you now have AlpenFury launching through and above the mountain, but Vortex climbs over it, Wonder Mountain’s Guardian is housed within it, and Thunder Run weaves in and out of it.

Erik: AlpenFury doesn’t dominate the skyline like many of the surrounding attractions, and admittedly doesn’t appear like much from outside the park. It’s only when you’ve entered the park that you fully notice the new top hat peeking out from behind Wonder Mountain, as well as the twisted web of blue track and supports sprawling along the pathways. Really the entire thing is pure eye candy and difficult to look away from. Photographers will obsess over this coaster for years to come.

What was going through your mind after your initial ride on AlpenFury?

Erik: Admittedly, I was at a loss for what to think. Canada’s Wonderland is my home park and I’ve had the pleasure of watching this coaster come together over the past 12 months. There’s been such an incredible build up in my world only for that first lap to be over so quickly. Sitting on the brakes, I knew I’d experienced something uniquely wild but wasn’t blown away at the time. I hadn’t convinced myself of any expectations or set any bars for the coaster, but I knew that I just had to ride again. It didn’t matter if it meant rejoining a two-hour single riders queue on the scorching hot opening day.

Kyle: I was truly blown away. I had high expectations and AlpenFury exceeded them. From start to finish it is a whirlwind of coaster perfection. It is very intense, but also amazingly smooth. The transitions are expertly timed and even though there are nine inversions, it doesn’t leave you feeling dizzy or disoriented. The layout’s pacing is very enjoyable.

How many times did you get to ride and did your impression of the ride change after multiple rides?

Kyle: I was able to ride eight times. This was my first trip to Canada’s Wonderland, so I had a fresh perspective on most of the other coasters right before I got to ride AlpenFury. After multiple laps, I knew that this was my favorite coaster at the park. Even with the coaster being so intense, it is also very rerideable. The only thing complaining were my shins, but more on that in a moment.

Erik: I enjoyed the coaster the more I rode it. On opening day I nabbed two laps in the third and fourth rows; during our session however I managed seven rides across the train, three of which were in the front. Once I knew what to expect, I was able to further appreciate the layout’s audacious elements as well as overlook the restraints.

Any comments on the trains? Are they comfortable?

Erik: I’ve always respected Premier Rides’ engineering tactic to fit more rows onto fewer chassises, but this also results in a cramped seating arrangement. Canada’s Wonderland had requested some modifications to keep them as open and simplistic as possible (necessitating some cool retractable station floors from ART Engineering), and while entering/exiting is generally agreeable, taller riders may still be aggravated by the shin guards. My solution was to wear long pants and hold my lap bar up during the ride, which also allowed for extra hangtime!

Kyle: I love the look of the trains—you’ve got the orange fire train and the blue ice train. They are designed to resemble alpine sleds and the minimal restraints allow for a very open-air experience. No matter if you are in the front or back you have a pretty good view of the ride. That being said, my absolute favorite seat was in the front. Like I mentioned before, the only downside are the leg restraints. It could be just because I am taller, but after eight rides, my shins were asking me to be done.

What was your favorite element on the ride?

Kyle: All of the inversions are great, but my favorite moment of the ride is the launch through the mountain. It is pure adrenaline pumping fun and it gives VelociCoaster vibes.

Erik: It’s hard to favour a specific portion of the ride when it manages the rare feat of having every single element deliver. AlpenFury really does try to keep you out of seat as much as possible, either through the occasional crazy pop of ejector airtime or the hangtime obsessed inversions that are somehow both graceful and fast paced at once. The second launch however feels like a blockbuster escape from the underworld; despite its brevity, the experience is made by a perfect sequence of darkness, lighting, and rockwork.

How do you think AlpenFury fits in to the rest of the park’s lineup of coasters?

Erik: AlpenFury is exactly the coaster that Canada’s Wonderland needed, an agile launched inversion machine that accomplishes a lot in awfully little time. Whether you prefer it to the giant-sized rush of Leviathan, the more carefree airtime of Behemoth, or the pure Dive Machine muscle of Yukon Striker will come down to personal preference but it’s clear that the park now has a dignified top four.

Kyle: As I already said, I think AlpenFury sits atop the Canada’s Wonderland list of coasters. It really helps round out the lineup as a whole too. There are plenty of other types of coasters there, but a world-class launching coaster is just what they needed. Leviathan was great, but left me wanting more, while AlpenFury is the whole package. This coaster is most-likely going to be in my personal top ten.

AlpenFury Reverse POV Video

Watch Erik and Kyle ride AlpenFury during media day below:

We hope you enjoyed our AlpenFury review. We would like to give a shout out and thank you to the team up at Canada’s Wonderland for the hospitality and invitation to preview their new coaster. You’ll definitely want to make it to Canada’s Wonderland and check out AlpenFury as soon as you can! You will not be disappointed. If you have had a chance to ride it, we’d love to hear what your thoughts are!