Last week we wrapped up our year long series looking at 20 roller coasters that celebrated their 20th birthdays in the year 2020. We covered a lot of ground, with coasters all over the country (and some overseas). We looked...
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20 in 2020: Superman Hyper Coasters
If you’ve been to a Six Flags park, you’ve probably seen a ride themed to the legendary DC hero Superman, but a few of these coasters stand above the rest. For this entry in our 20 in 2020 series, we...
Continue reading...20 in 20: Superman: Krypton Coaster
This year we’re featuring 20 roller coasters that opened 20 years ago in 2000 (that’s a lot of 20s). The year 2000 was arguably one of the most exciting for the roller coaster community, with iconic roller coasters like Millennium...
Continue reading...20 in 2020: Stealth at California’s Great America
In the year 2000, roller coaster fans finally got to experience something that parks had touted for years but never really achieved: the true feeling of flight. On April 1, 2000, Stealth, the World’s First Flying Coaster, opened at Paramount’s Great...
Continue reading...20 in 2020: Speed: The Ride
As the slogan goes, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” Unless you’re a roller coaster that would have turned 20 this year, and then we write about it on Coaster101.com. In this volume of “20 in 2020,” we’ll be...
Continue reading...20 in 2020: Son of Beast at Kings Island
For the next stop in our 20 in 2020 series we are heading down the road to Cincy to what may be arguably one of the most infamous coasters of the last two decades. Son of Beast opened on April...
Continue reading...20 in 2020: The Four New Coasters of Six Flags Ohio
Unless we’re talking about the opening of a brand new amusement park, it’s almost unheard of for one park to open four new roller coasters in one operating season, however, 20 years ago, that’s exactly what happened at the park...
Continue reading...20 in 2020: The Jazzland Coaster Quartet
Before it met its untimely demise due to damage from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Six Flags New Orleans was home to six roller coasters. Four of those opened in 2000 with the park, which was then known as “Jazzland.” Six...
Continue reading...20 in 2020: Millennium Force at Cedar Point
The next stop in our 20 in 2020 series takes us to the Ohio peninsula of America’s Rockin’ Roller Coast. High above the shores of Lake Erie sits what might be the most popular roller coaster of the past two...
Continue reading...20 in 2020: Medusa at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom
For our next stop in our 20 in 2020 look at coasters celebrating their 20th anniversaries this year, we’re heading back to the California, and to a park that we also featured in our 19 in 99 series last year....
Continue reading...20 in 2020: Lightning Racer at Hersheypark
For the next stop in our 20 in 2020 series we are heading to the sweetest place on earth, Hershey, Pennsylvania. Lightning Racer struck at Hersheypark on May 13, 2000. When it opened it was the first wooden dueling and...
Continue reading...20 in 2020: Hurricane: Category Five at the Myrtle Beach Pavilion
While researching the 20 coasters on our list that would turn (or would have turned) 20 in 2020, I wanted to do a deep dive on several coasters in my region that were no longer with us, but that I...
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