(WWLP) – Tuesday is National Roller Coaster Day, commemorating the day Edwin Prescott was awarded a patent for the first-ever loop-de-loop roller coaster in 1898. Prescott did not design the ...

Many extreme roller coaster these days have vertical loops. Have you noticed that these loops are never circular? Why is this? They all, also, seem to have the same similar ‘inverted teardrop’ ...

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The Buzzball creates the sensation of a loop-de-loop roller coaster, without all that pesky need for a track. Inside, the pilot straps into a control pod, a racing seat with five-point harness, which ...

Full Throttle is a brand new roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. But it’s not just any new thrill ride—it features the tallest vertical loop in the world. And this ...

GURNEE, Ill. (AP) — A record-breaking roller coaster set to open this spring north of Chicago now has a name: Mardi Gras Hangover. Six Flags Great America in Gurnee announced the name Tuesday. The ...

Deciding it didn’t want to build “just another ski area alpine coaster,” Aspen Skiing Co. will instead construct a one-of-a-kind attraction unique to mountain resorts: a 90-foot high, loop-de-loop ...

Indiana Beach amusement park has long told Hoosiers "there's more than corn in Indiana." We agree, and now there's something else — a triple looping roller coaster debuting in May 2024. A few lucky ...

Roller coasters always represented both the ultimate thrill and the ultimate horror of my sporadic theme park experiences. As a kid, working up the nerve to conquer rides with ominous names like "The ...

Snoopy Coaster, is a Peanuts themed roller-coaster game. Snoopy Coaster features a bunch of additions like loop-de-loop multipliers and tons of Peanuts themed collectables like classic comic strips ...