What are the top new roller coasters that fans can look forward to opening in 2025... outside the United States?
From a new Six Flags in Saudi Arabia to a record-setting coaster in Canada and novel designs in Europe, 2025 promises to be a big year for roller coaster fans around the world. But the biggest theme park story outside the U.S. in 2025 promises to be the opening of Six Flags Qiddiya City. Led by the record-setting Falcon's Flight, the first Six Flags-branded park in the Middle East promises several other new coasters, as well. Those include:
Of those other coasters, will one stand out and capture fans' attention?
For coaster fans in North America, Canada's Wonderland is delivering another record-setting coaster in 2025. AlpenFury will be a new Premier Rides Sky Rocket, featuring nine inversions - a record for North American roller coasters.
Over in Europe, coaster fans can look forward to several new rides this year, including the installation of the second Mack Rides Stryker Coaster. the first, Voltron Nevera at Europa-Park, won our Theme Park Insider Award for the world's best new attraction in 2024. The second installation of this new model will come with the arrival of Helios at Austria's Fantasiana.
Meanwhile, France's Parc Astérix is building a new Gerstlauer spinning coaster called Cétautomatix. This one will have a custom layout, from a park well-known for its theming and storytelling.
We would love to hear from more coaster fans from around the world. Is there another coaster opening near you this year for which you are excited? Tell us about it in the comments.
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Falcon's Flight is basically in a category by itself. Nothing even remotely like it has ever been attempted and I don't have the faintest clue how it will ride. Of the traditional options, Iron Rattler looks incredible, and Helios is a good bet to be great based on Voltron's critical acclaim.
I don't think there's any question that Falcon's Flight will be the best coaster to open in 2025 (assuming it doesn't get delayed, of course). Even if it isn't the best ride ever built, it's an extremely impressive feat of engineering that, at worst, will deliver a similar ride experience to other modern Intamin coasters, just on a massive scale. In the unlikely event the ride is a major disappointment, I would nominate Iron Rattler, which looks far superior to either of the tilt coasters coming to the US next year.
Outside of Six Flags Qiddiya City, I'd probably go with AlpenFury. While I'm not sure it will be the best coaster debuting in the Six Flags chain this year (my pick for that title is Rapterra), it looks like a pretty crazy ride that pushes the technology of Premier's Sky Rocket beyond anything we've seen before. For a European pick, I'd go with Yoy, the dueling RMC Raptors coming to Walibi Holland.
My money is on AlpenFury, which is the one non-US based coaster I may have an opportunity to experience this year.
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Fantasiana? That’s a European theme park I’ve never heard of and I already have a list of about 20 European theme parks I’d like to visit. Its impressive how many of the smaller European regional parks have at least 1 or 2 (or more for the larger parks) world class rides.