The outdated adage that “speed kills” is ringing true among the many world’s quickest curler coasters which were closing at an alarming price — however fortuitously for thrill seekers a brand new coaster king will quickly come up in 2025.
Kingda Ka at New Jersey’s Six Flags Nice Journey — the reigning champ for pace (128 mph) and peak (456 toes) — grew to become the newest of the world’s quickest coasters to fall.
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Six Flags introduced final week that Kingda Ka can be eliminated and changed by a brand new record-breaking launch coaster in 2026.
“Kingda Ka has delivered more than 12 million rides since 2005,” Six Flags mentioned in a press release. “What was cutting edge roller coaster technology 20 years ago has been surpassed by more modern advancements.”
Prime Thrill 2 curler coaster at Cedar Level in Ohio. (Courtesy of Cedar Level)
4 different coasters on Curler Coaster Database’s world’s quickest checklist are at present “standing but not operating.”
That leaves Purple Pressure (112 mph) at Spain’s Ferrari Land because the reigning world’s quickest coaster.
Fury 325 (95 mph) at North Carolina’s Carowinds at present holds the title as America’s quickest coaster.
Fury 325 at Carowinds debuted because the tallest and quickest model of the wildly standard Giga coaster mannequin from Swiss designers Bolliger & Mabillard. (Courtesy of Carowinds) Carowinds
The Superman reverse freefall launch coaster will reclaim the U.S. title it hasn’t held in additional than 20 years when the Magic Mountain experience finally returns to operation.
The Superman: Escape from Krypton coaster closed for repairs in September, in keeping with Magic Mountain officers. A reopening date has not but been introduced.
The record-setting coaster opened at Magic Mountain in 1997 as Superman: The Escape — tying Tower of Terror at Australia’s Dreamworld because the world’s quickest coaster.
The practically an identical Intamin shuttle coasters shared the throne till the 112 mph Dodonpa coaster opened in 2001 at Japan’s Fuji-Q Highland.
Cedar Level’s Prime Thrill Dragster grabbed the title of world’s quickest coaster in 2003 with a prime pace of 120 mph.
Kingda Ka grew to become the king of the world when the highest hat-style Intamin Accelerator coaster debuted in 2005.
Formulation Rossa at Ferrari World Abu Dhabi hits a prime pace of 149 mph 21 mph quicker than America’s quickest coaster, Kingda Ka at Six Flags Nice Journey in New Jersey. (Photograph courtesy of Ferrari World Abu Dhabi)
Formulation Rossa snatched the world’s quickest crown in 2010, however the coaster has been closed since January to restore the launch system — a course of that may take a 12 months or extra, in keeping with Screamscape.
Ring Racer stays an costly however nugatory white elephant — working for only some days when it opened in 2013, however nonetheless “standing but not operating” to this present day.
Ferrari World’s Formulation Rossa, Cedar Level’s Prime Thrill 2 and Magic Mountain’s Superman are all finally anticipated to reopen.
Cedar Level closed Prime Thrill Dragster for the complete 2022 and 2023 seasons after a steel piece flew off the experience and significantly injured a girl ready within the attraction queue in August 2021.
The rechristened Prime Thrill 2 changed the Intamin hydraulic launch system with a Zamperla electro-magnetic propulsion launch system in Could — however the experience solely operated for a few week earlier than the park closed the coaster once more as a consequence of mechanical points.
This element from idea artwork launched by Six Flags exhibits the record-breaking curler coaster The Falcon’s Flight within the higher proper. The experience might be among the many points of interest at Six Flags Qiddiya, scheduled to open in Saudi Arabia in 2023. (Courtesy of Six Flags)
The world’s quickest coaster checklist might be reshuffled once more in 2025 when Falcon’s Flight debuts at Six Flags Qiddiya Metropolis in Saudi Arabia.
Falcon’s Flight will change into the world’s quickest coaster at a blistering 155 mph — 6 mph quicker than Formulation Rossa’s prime pace of 149 mph.
Initially Revealed: November 22, 2024 at 6:28 AM PST
