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: 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: Ultra Twister
For this week’s A-Z coaster, we’ll take a look back at Ultra Twister, a TOGO pipeline coaster formally located at Six Flags Great Adventure and Six Flags Astroworld, and now currently sitting in “storage” at Six Flags America. Ultra Twister...
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: Python
For this week’s A-Z Coaster of the Week, our “P” coaster will take us back into the “p”ast (terrible “p”un, I know…) to Python at Busch Gardens Tampa in Tampa, FL. Python was a steel corkscrew roller coaster developed and...
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: 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...
Continue reading...A-Z Coaster of the Week: Jack Rabbit
Here we are in week 10 our annual “A-Z Coaster of the Week” series! This week we will take a look at Kennywood’s Jack Rabbit. Kennywood is located in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania and is home to seven roller coasters. Jack...
Continue reading...A-Z Coaster of the Week: Idora Wildcat
Welcome back to another installment in our “A-Z Coaster of the Week” series, where each week we feature a different coaster starting with a different letter of the alphabet. This week, we head back in time for our “I” coaster – the...
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