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.
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Texas Six Flags Roller Coaster to Break Six World Records
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.
Everything will be bigger — and faster and taller — at a Texas theme park next year.
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation has announced a rather intense-looking new roller coaster that’s set to break six world records, according to the theme park group.
The Tormenta coaster coming to Six Flags Over Texas will be the tallest, fastest, longest and first-ever “giga dive coaster” in the world when it opens in 2026 (watch the computer-animated coaster preview video below).
The broken records will include: Tallest dive coaster (309 ft), highest 95-degree beyond vertical drop (285 ft), fastest dive coaster (87 mph), highest Immelmann inversion (218 ft), tallest vertical coaster loop (179 ft) and longest dive coaster (4,199 ft). A “dive coaster is a steel roller coaster with a vertical or beyond-vertical first drop (“It’s not straight down, it’s on the other side of straight down,” as the press release puts it).
Just sayin': OK, who would want to ride this coaster?