Mekado Murphy, the assistant film editor for The New York Times, moonlights as the newspaper’s unofficial roller coaster ...

Two theme parkgoers were trapped more than 100 feet in the air for more than 30 minutes this week after a roller coaster in Texas malfunctioned. The Circuit Breaker roller coaster at the Circuit of ...

After a quarter century of Aerosmith delivering some pretaped thrills at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando, the band’s branded Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster is no more. Walt Disney World announced ...

If, like me, you spent hours on RollerCoaster Tycoon building steel death traps vaguely disguised as theme park attractions, Build A Roller Coaster is the Roblox experience for you. This rollercoaster ...

When Old Chicago opened in Bolingbrook, Illinois back in 1975, it was billed as the country’s first indoor amusement park. Thousands of visitors showed up on opening day to see what the 345,000 square ...

The upcoming Tormenta coaster coming to Six Flags Over Texas marks the latest in the race to create extreme theme park thrills amid the company's slumping attendance. By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large ...

UPDATE: The man who died following a roller coaster ride at Universal’s Epic Universe amusement park in Orlando had suffered multiple blunt impact injuries, according to Orlando medical examiner ...

A thrillseeker broke the world record for riding the most roller coasters in one week — reaching an adrenaline-pumping 55. Dean Stokes, 36, had set himself the summer challenge of riding every single ...

Of the estimated 6,600 roller coasters in the world, several stand tall among the rest by offering thrills that go beyond the standard coaster and take excitement to new heights. Nothing quite matches ...

National Roller Coaster Day 2025 — created to mark the day in 1898 when Edwin Prescott patented the first vertical loop roller coaster, according to nationaldaycalendar.com — is Saturday, Aug. 16.

If you’re going to celebrate roller coasters, you’re probably in the right state. National Roller Coaster Day has been observed Aug. 16 for about 40 years, commemorating the date of the 1898 patent on ...

Rhode Island currently has no roller coasters but historically it had several, mostly wooden ones. Many Rhode Island roller coasters were destroyed by the Great Hurricane of 1938. Other notable Rhode ...