List of roller coasters at Canada's Wonderland

This is a list of roller coasters at Canada's Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. The number beside each ride's description refers to its "Intensity Rating", a rating (between 1 – 5) given by the park to each ride to describe the intensity of the riding experience:

The addition of the Level 5 rating has been in place since the 2007 operating season. Rides on this page are organized by park sub-section.

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Action Zone

Backlot Stunt Coaster

Backlot Stunt Coaster (formerly The Italian Job: Stunt Track), the fourteenth roller coaster added to the park, is unlike any other ride at Canada's Wonderland. Rather than starting with a traditional chain lift hill, this ride uses state-of-the-art linear induction motors (LIMs) to horizontally launch the train from zero to 60 km/h. The ride was themed after the MINI chase scene in the 2003 movie, The Italian Job.

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Behemoth

Behemoth is a hypercoaster built by Bolliger & Mabillard, and the park's fifteenth roller coaster, beginning operation in May 2008. It is currently the tallest and fastest roller coaster in Canada, with a maximum height of 70 metres and a 135 km/h maximum speed. Rather than the standard, four seat across setup common in most B&M roller coasters, Behemoth features a new, "prototype" seating arrangement that has four seats arranged in a "V" formation. Although this arrangement is being billed by the park as a unique prototype, open air configuration, it is not entirely unique, as Vekoma used a similar seating design on their Giant Inverted Boomerang model. Unfortunately Vekoma's seating arrangement was rather confusing due to the fact that the loading gates held 4 people for 2 rows. This configuration caused confusion as to where one would sit. B&M fixed this problem by installing a set of air gates for every single row.

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Flight Deck

Flight Deck (formerly Top Gun) is a steel roller coaster, originally based on the film Top Gun, and has various movie-themed paraphernalia along the long line-up for the ride, such as small airplane hangars for shade and recreations of the miniatures used for the film. Flight Deck is Canada's first and only inverted looping Jet coaster, and has been cloned 24 times for many parks around the world. It was the ninth roller coaster added to the park, and its opening displaced the Zoomba Flume, a Log flume. Flight Deck is one of the most popular rides at Wonderland and is consistently seen with a line that passes the two-hour mark in wait time. It was originally called Top Gun during Paramount's tenure as owner of the park, and was renamed for the 2008 Season.

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Mighty Canadian Minebuster

Mighty Canadian Minebuster is one of the four roller coasters that debuted with the park in 1981, and is one of two wooden coasters at Canada's Wonderland modelled after a ride at Coney Island amusement park in Cincinnati, Ohio (the Shooting Star). As today Minebuster is still the Longest and Largest Wooden Coaster in Canada

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SkyRider

SkyRider is the park's fifth roller coaster. It was added one year after a near-identical coaster, King Cobra, was added to Kings Island to be North America's first stand-up roller coaster. Both were temporarily shut down on August 25, 1999, after a man died at the Kings Dominion incarnation. SkyRider is still operating today, while Kings Island's King Cobra was permanently shut down in 2002.

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Time Warp

Time Warp (formerly Tomb Raider: The Ride) received its original name from the video game series Tomb Raider, and was opened to correspond with the second Tomb Raider movie, The Cradle of Life. It was the thirteenth roller coaster added to the park, and Canada's first "Flying Coaster", as riders lie flat on their stomachs in a car suspended from overhead, in order to take in the experience face-first. The ride has no vertical inversions, but contains two Heartline rolls. Time Warp has a long wait due to the nature of only 6, 4 person cars. Its capacity is 600 persons per hour (depending on the operation procedure).

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Kidzville

Silver Streak

Silver Streak, the park's twelfth roller coaster, debuted along with Rugrats Runaway Reptar now Flying Ace Aerial Chase at Kings Island as the world's first inverted roller coasters geared towards children.

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Taxi Jam

Taxi Jam opened as the tenth roller coaster, as a part of the brand-new Kidzville which opened in 1998. It provides an easier starting point for kids' roller coaster experiences, before moving on to the Ghoster Coaster. The ride consists of two circuits around the oval track.

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Ghoster Coaster

Ghoster Coaster (formally Scooby's Gasping Ghoster Coaster) is one of the four roller coasters that debuted with the park in 1981. Ghoster Coaster was awarded "ACE Coaster Classic" status.[1] and also made a big-screen appearance in David Cronenberg's 1983 film The Dead Zone.

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The Fly

The Fly is a custom designed wild mouse roller coaster added as the eleventh roller coaster in the park. Its layout has since been cloned for several other parks. Unlike normal wild mouse coasters, the ride begins with a 50 ft (15 m) drop, then returns up to maximum height, followed by a quick series of hairpin turns, drops, and brakes.

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Thunder Run

Thunder Run, which was originally called Blauer Enzian, opened in its current incarnation in 1986, as the sixth roller coaster at the park. The ride uses a drive motor with a rubber wheel in the front of the train to drive it around the track, rather than a traditional lift. Thunder Run makes two passes through Wonder Mountain at the centre of the park.

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Vortex

Vortex, which was Canada's first suspended roller coaster when opened, was the eighth roller coaster added to Canada's Wonderland. It shares Wonder Mountain with Thunder Run for its lift and first drop, but the majority of the ride takes place over the open water behind the mountain. One section of the ride even passes above one of the main park thoroughfares; the only ride to do so in the park. Vortex reaches speeds of almost 90 km/h, and provides for a large range of sensation to the rider (including feeling like they are going to hit the water – the distance is actually much larger than it appears), due to the ability for trains, which are suspended from the track above, to swing freely through the curves.

In 2005, Vortex operated with one less car per train. All cars are back to full operation.

Medieval Faire

The Bat

The Bat was the seventh roller coaster added to the park. Being a Boomerang Roller Coaster, the trains run through the track, ending with a brief pause at the top of a steep incline, and then running backwards through the track back to the station.

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Dragon Fire

Dragon Fire, (originally named Dragon Fyre) is one of the four roller coasters that debuted with the park in 1981. Uniquely, unlike the other roller coasters produced by Arrow that contain corkscrews, Dragon Fire's corkscrew runs counter-clockwise. While the ride came with 3 trains, only two are used for this ride, with the third being used for The Bat.

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Leviathan

Leviathan, will be the parks sixteenth roller coaster. This coaster is notably known as Bolliger & Mabillards, first Giga Coaster. When it opens, it will be the Tallest and Fastest roller coaster in Canada and the seventh tallest and eighth fastest coaster in the world.

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Wild Beast

Wild Beast is one of the four roller coasters that debuted with the park in 1981, and is one of two wooden coasters at Canada's Wonderland modelled after a ride at Coney Island amusement park in Cincinnati, Ohio (Wildcat). The fan curve was rebuilt in 1998.

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All roller coasters, by opening date

Name Year Type of Roller Coaster Intensity
1 Dragon Fire 1981 Steel sit down 5
2 Mighty Canadian Minebuster 1981 Wooden out & back 5
3 Ghoster Coaster 1981 Wooden junior sit down 4
4 Wild Beast 1981 Wooden double out & back 5
5 SkyRider 1985 Steel stand up 5
6 Thunder Run 1986 Steel sit down 4
7 The Bat 1987 Steel shuttle/boomerang 5
8 Vortex 1991 Steel suspended 5
9 Flight Deck 1995 Steel inverted 5
10 Taxi Jam 1998 Steel junior sit down 2
11 The Fly 1999 Steel wild mouse 4
12 Silver Streak 2001 Steel junior inverted 4
13 Time Warp 2004 Steel flying 5
14 Back Lot Stunt Coaster 2005 Steel sit down 5
15 Behemoth 2008 Steel sit down 5
16 Leviathan 2012 (Yet to open) Steel sit down 5

References

  1. ^ ACE Coaster Classic Awards
Roller Coasters
Future coasters
Leviathan (2012)
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Former attractions