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This is a family ride for young children and their parents and siblings. Deno’s Wonder Wheel Amusement Park
will also open a second coaster, Skyflyer. It’s an SBF Visa Micro Coaster.
Mountainside Ride Adventureland in Altoona, Iowa, will introduce Dragon Slayer. This new coaster will be an S&S 4D Free Spin coaster and will be positioned next to Tornado right by the lake that runs through the park. Dragon Slayer’s single-car trains will sit alongside the tracks on its “wings.” The cars will be able to spin independently on a vertical axis, tossing and flipping passengers as they navigate the ride’s ribbon of track. The coaster will climb 112 feet and reach a maximum speed of 35 mph. The cleverly named Dragon Slayer will replace The Dragon, a Hopkins steel coaster that was built in 1990. The Dragon was the first looping roller coaster in Iowa. Barreling Rapids will debut this year
indoors at Austin’s Park, Pflugerville, Texas. It is an SBF/Visa Spinning Coaster MX612 v.5.0. A new stand-alone Wiegand Alpine
Coaster will thrill guests in Estes Park, Colorado. Dubbed the Mustang Mountain Coaster, it measures 3,000 feet in length including 1,000 feet of uphill track and 2,000 feet down. Rowdy Bear Ridge Adventure Park,
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, has added CoasterKart, the world’s first installation developed by Josef Wiegand GmbH. The 620 meter (2,034 foot) long track system of the CoasterKart is similar to that of Wiegand’s AlpineCoaster. The difference lies in the electromagnet mounted underneath the CoasterKart’s two-seater vehicles. Speed can be interactively controlled by riders via a joystick and can reach a top speed of 25 mph (40 kph) as
guests rush along the track passing through two tunnels. After being closed in 2020 for
refurbishment, the Mind Bender at Six Flags Over Georgia, Austell, Georgia, reopens this year as the Riddler Mind Bender. Built by Anton Schwarzkopf, it first opened in 1978. Cotaland, located at the Circuit of the
Americas in Austin, Texas, will introduce Skyflyer, a 12-seat Micro Coaster from SBF/Visa. A second kiddie coaster, a Wacky Worm, will also be installed. The park has also acquired a Schwarzkopf 45 meter Wildcat that last operated as Raptor Attack from Lightwater Valley in Ripon, UK
Relocated Steel Indiana Beach, Monticello, Indiana, will add a Triple Loop coaster designed and manufactured by Anton Schwarzkopf. The park’s sixth coaster is 110 feet (34 m) tall, 3,444 feet (1.050 m) long, and carries riders to a top speed of 53 mph (85 kph). It will be completely reconditioned and installed in time for the summer of 2021. The coaster first operated as Triple Loop Coaster from 1997 through 1999 at Sunway Lagoon. It was then moved to Flamingo Land, Malton, UK and operated as Magnum Force from 2000 through 2005. It was then transported to La Feria Chapultepec Magico in Mixico City where it rolled as Quimera from 2007 through 2019 before finding its latest home. Idaville Family Theme Park, Edaville,
Massachusetts, has relocated an E&F Miller Water Coaster that previously operated from 1995 to 2012 at Washington State Fair, Puyallup, Washington. It will be called Kersplash. Similarly, Wonderland Amusement Park,
Amarillo, Texas, has moved a SBF Visa figure 8 Spinning Coaster MX608. It operated from 2015 to 2017 at Wild
Willy’s Adventure Zone, Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Wonderland will call it Spin-o-Saurus. The 14 foot tall coaster includes 190 feet of track. Michigan’s Adventure, Muskegon,
Michigan, has relocated its Woodstock Express within the park. It is a 16 foot tall Big Dipper from Chance Rides. The Rides at Long Beach, Long Beach,
Washington, plans to open a Big Apple Wacky Worm. Washington State Fair, Puyallup,
Washington, has relocated their Schwarzkopf Wildcat. Atlantic Splash Adventure, Hammonds
Plain, Nova Scotia is re-erecting an L&T Systems compact coaster it will call Runaway Mine Train. It measures 945 feet long, is 43 feet tall, and will reach a top speed of 31 mph. It previously operated from 2006 to 2018 at Gillian’s Wonderland Pier, Ocean City, New Jersey. Six Flags has relocated their Intamin Zac
Spin to La Ronde, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Now called Vipère, it is 810 feet long and 105 feet tall, reaching a top speed of 34 mph. It had operated from 2011 to 2017 at Six Flags Magic Mountain, Valencia, California. There are a number of new coasters yet
to be named. Lakeside Amusement Park, Denver, Colorado, will open a relocated Pinfari Zyklon/Galaxi Z64 that had operated since the ‘70s at Hamel’s Park, Celebration City, Saginaw County Fairgronds, and Funplex. Luna Park, Brooklyn, New York, will add
two coasters including a new Zamperla Junior Coaster J2SK Custom that measures 1,312 feet long and 50 feet high. They will also add a relocated Zamperla Mini Mouse that operated from 2003 to 2019 at New York City’s Victorian Gardens. Cedar Valley’s Wild Frontier Fun Park, Comins, Michigan, has relocated an
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