A look at the ride experience of different coasters from around the world. Content Creators are also welcome to use these videos for their own projects. The only requirement is that credit be given to Coasting with Culture for the clip used.
Big Grizzly Mountain Runaway Mine Cars is a Vekoma designed coaster that offers a ride which feels like a mix of Big Thunder Mountain, Expedition Everest and Country Bears Jamboree. This coaster is part of Hong Kong Disneyland's Grizzly Gulch section of the park.
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Boomerang is one of many Vekoma Boomerangs that can be found in the world, where it is pulled up one spike, dropped to run its course, and then goes through it again backwards. This particular one features the new version trains offered by the Dutch coaster company.
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The Classic Coaster is a John Miller designed wooden coaster that operates for about a month a year between the Washington State Fair in September and Spring Fair in April. It opened in 1935 as a side friction coaster, and later received it's Prior & Church Trains from Happyland in Vancouver, BC in 1950.
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Corkscrew is a custom designed looping coaster from Arrow Dynamics at Valleyfair in Shakopee, Minnesota. In many ways, this coaster feels like it was inspired by it's cousin of the same name at Valleyfair's sister park, Cedar Point.
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Double Loop is a looping coaster from the French company Soquet, which previously operated in the French Fair Circuit before it went on to operate at Seabreeze in Rochester, NY, then to it's current home at Salitre Magico in Bogota, Colombia
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Drachenjagd is a Junior Coaster from Gerstlauer that is located in the Knight's Kingdom section of the park. This serves a role of being the smaller coaster for younger riders to compliment the larger Dragon coaster/dark ride combo that is featured at just about every Legoland Park, and can be a great first coaster for small thrill seekers.
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Electro is a custom made family coaster from Mack that rides along the ceiling of the indoor amusement park, Méga Parc in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The ride features some close encounters with several other attractions, including the park's ice skating trail.
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El Vigía (Spanish for "The Watchman") is a Large Tivoli coaster from Zierer, built within and around a replica mountain alongside of the convergence of the Tigre and Luján Rivers. This can be a nice first coaster for the people of the great Buenos Aires area before challenging the parks larger coasters.
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Kráter is a Gerstlauer Eurofighter that is modeled after the layout of Iron Shark at Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier. The coaster is found at Parque del Café in Montenegro, Colombia.
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Impulse is a Zierer Rides Tower Coaster at Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg, PA. It offers a compact and twisted layout that begins with a beyond-vertical drop and several inversions including those which have some really fun hangtime.
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The Incredible Hulk Coaster is Bolliger & Mabillard's first launching coaster that can be found at the Universal Orlando Resort's Islands of Adventure Park. This is the refurbished version of the ride which opened in 2016.
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Intrépide is a Miler coaster that is larger than most of their other models, and offers a ride that can be a bit surprising if your only experience on their coasters is the smaller versions. This coaster is found at Pays des Merveilles in Quebec, Canada.
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Leviathan at Canada's Wonderland is the first giga coaster ever designed by Bolliger & Mabillard, and stands as Canada's tallest coaster. It's known for the speed it gives throughout the course mixed in with some large airtime hills.
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Monster was the first Gerstlauer Infinity model coaster built in the United States, and is found at Adventureland in Altoona, Iowa. This ride offers a ride that's like a Euro Fighter but larger with great moments of airtime and hang time!
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Montaña Rusa is a Schwarzkopf Speed Racer coaster at Colombia's Parque Del Café. It previously ran at World's of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri as Zambezi Zinger before relocating to South America.
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Montaña Rusa is a unique single car coaster at Parque Luján that resembles an old wooden wild mouse coaster. It offers some fun drops through the course, but really stands out for the presence of stray dogs that chase after the coaster cars during each run.
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Montaña Rusa is a standard Arrow Dynamics Corkscrew coaster which previously operated at the Myrtle Beach Pavilion in South Carolina from 1978 to 1999. It was then relocated to Bogota, Colombia where it now operates at Salitre Magico.
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Papa Wutz' Achterbahn is a new generation Zamperla family coaster which features a launch segment halfway through the course, and inside of Peppa Pig Park, which is part of the larger Legoland Deutschland Resort in Germany.
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Pipeline is Bolliger & Mabillard's prototype Surf Coaster, a new variation of their stand-up coaster, which offers a layout sinspired by hitting the waves with with so unexpected moments of airtime. It can be found at SeaWorld Orlando in the theme park capital of the world, Central Florida.
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Polar Coaster is a smaller family coaster located at Story Land in Glen, New Hampshire that was designed by O.D. Hopkins, and has a layout that resembles a wild mouse coaster, but utilizes its hillside location as it zig-zags down its course. It also has a fairly loud roar that resembles the loud roar of an older B&M coaster.
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Python Panique is a compact coaster from L&T Systems that operates at the Granby Zoo in Granby, Quebec, Canada. It was previously known as Anaconda from opening until 2015 when the zoo's amusement park rides were given names inspired by the Johnny Test animated television series.
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Raptor is a Vekoma Suspended Looping Coaster (SLC) at Fantasilandia in Santiago, Chile. The ride opened in 2008 and coaster had previously operated in Japan at International Dream Exchange Fair.
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Roller Coaster was a William Cobb designed Wooden Coaster at Upper Clements Park in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia in Canada. This coaster had a unique setting as the first few drops were up higher on a hill, and it's largest drop came closer to the middle. The ride opened in 1988 as Tree Topper.
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Rollin' Thunder can be found inside of the Park at OWA near the Gulf Coast in Foley, Alabama. This was Zamperla's second Thunderbolt Model Coaster, offering a vertical lift and 4 inversions.
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Shock is a custom lunching coaster from Maurer Rides at Italy's MagicLand theme park. It is the largest coaster in the park, and offers some fun airtime and unexpected hangtime. Going through an airtime hill, a non-inverting loop, a couple helices and a finally corkscrew, it may be a surprise to those who ride it as to how good it is.
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Stunt Pilot is Silverwood's new for 2021 single-rail coaster from Rocky Mountain Construction, themed after the park's old stunt plane airshows when it first opened. It features a modified layout from the original layout of the first raptor-track coasters from the company.
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Switchback is the first ever shuttle wooden coaster created by the Gravity Group. This ride offers quite the punch for a smaller coaster as it fits a tight layout while running through old warehouse and grocery store buildings of Seguin, Texas, but what really sets this wooden coaster apart from others is that you experience most of the layout again, but backwards!
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Taiga is Linnanmäki's Blitz Coaster from Intamin. It features two launches and an incredible layout of unique elements with some great moments of hangtime and airtime throughout the course. This is a coaster that will suprise you with how good it is!
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Teddy Bear is a junior wooden coaster built by Ralph Stricker based on the blueprints of the former Teddy Bear coaster from Cincinnati's Coney Island. It operates at Stricker's Grove, which is a smaller park that operates more for private events, with about 4-10 days a year in which the park is open to the public.
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ThunderVolt is the Intamin created, Zamperla refurbished launch coaster that was introduced to Playland in Vancouver, BC for the 2024 season. Replacing the hydrolic launch with a magnetic one and adding a new train, this ride offers some fun pops of airtime and some quick transitions, and will easily be one of the park's most popular rides for years to come.
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Torbellino is a Spinning Wild Mouse from Beijing Jiuhua Amusement Rides Manufacturing Co., located at Argentina's Parque de la Costa. Unlike most of the other spinning mouse coasters it resembles, this has some rather shallow drops, but it does offer a great amount of spinning!
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Toronto Island Mine Coaster is a Miler Junior coaster with an outer helix that is found at Centreville Amusement Park, which is located on the Toronto Islands that provide a barrier to the city from Lake Ontario.
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Tremors is a Custom Coasters International creation found at Idaho's Silverwood Theme Park. It recently received some new I-Box track from Rocky Mountain Construction, and is known for it's unique layout that involves running through its own gift shop as part of one of four tunnels on the ride. This was the second coaster of the park's Roller Coaster Alley area.
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Vortex is a standard Arrow Dynamics corkscrew coaster found inside of Calgary's Calaway Park. It first opened in the year 1982 as Turn of the Century, then at one point was renamed Corkscrew before receiving its current name.
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Vortex is an Arrow Dynamics suspended coaster found at Canada's Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. It's one of the few suspended coasters made by arrow that remains in operation today.
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Wildfire is a custom looping coaster from Bolliger & Mabillard with an incredible view of the Ozark Mountains, opening at Silver Dollar City in 2001.
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Wonder Woman is one of the many S&S Freespin coasters that have become a staple of the Six Flags Chain, opening at Six Flags Mexico in 2018. This model is known for offering a unique ride each time as the seats rotate freely through the course.
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Yippe is a Gerstlauer family launched coaster that is very similar to Dollywood's FireChaser Express. The coaster can be found at Parque Del Café in Montenegro, Colombia.
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Yukon Striker is a B&M Dive Coaster that opened in 2019 as the world's tallest and fastest at Canada's Wonderland. It's the headline attraction of the new Frontier Canada section of the park.
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