RollerCoaster!
2012 - 2017
Issue #120, Winter 2012 (Vol. 33, No. 2)
- Wooden Warrior finally arrives in 2011
- Cheetah Hunt — Busch Gardens Tampa races a new breed of cat
- A reborn Zippin Pippin becomes a new hit
- B&M debuts a new genre
- Raptor unleashed
- Heide-Park’s new coaster: All it’s Krake up to be
- Green Lantern: First Flight opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain
- Knoebles turns gold into a diamond
- Remembering Hunt’s Pier and Golden Nugget
- Two Gerstlauer coasters dive into the states
- Industry Profile: Ron Gustafson, Quassy Amusement Park
Issue #121, Spring 2012 (Vol. 33, No. 3)
- ACE’s Scandinavian Sojourn
- Drachen Fire — 20 years later
- Big Trek for the tough credit: India
- It’s all in the cards
- Industry Profile: Peter Osbeck, Gröna Lund
Issue #122, Summer 2012 (Vol. 33, No. 4)
- Cedar Point Lighthouse Beckons for 150 years
- The Custom Coasters Revolution
- Trek for the tough credit: The Middle East
- The Racer: Historical Reflections on 40 years
- Industry Profile: Bryan Edwards, Cedar Point
Issue #123, Fall 2012 (Vol. 34, No. 1)
- The Age of Pampering — Coaster Con XXXV
- Flight of the Eagle — Wild Eagle
- Trek for the tough credit: Taiwan
- Batman the Ride Celebrates a 20th Anniversary
- Defunct but not Forgotten — Coaster Models of Worlds of Fun
Issue #124, Winter 2013 (Vol. 34, No. 2)
- Europa-Park: Is the Near-Perfect Park Now Perfect?
- Wodan Timbur Coaster
- Ridin’ the Rays at SeaWorld San Diego
- B&M Strikes the 300-foot barrier with Leviathan
- Verbolten "Drops" into Busch Gardens Williamsburg
- Superman Ultimate Flight: an insane coaster unlike any that have come before
- Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier brings an amusement pier to the Gulf
- X-Flight marks the spot
- Skyrush — A New Page in Intamin's Playbook
- Vilde Musen
Issue #125, Spring 2013 (Vol. 34, No. 3)
- Memories of 35 Coaster Cons
- The Magic of Give Kids The World
- Richard Munch: 35 years of ACE
- Coasting through time
- ACE’s online presence
- Industry Profile: Pamela Landwirth, Give Kids The World
- ACE’s Presidential Profiles
Issue #126, Summer 2013 (Vol. 34, No. 4)
- The beauty of Phantasialand
- The fiberglass wooden roller coaster car from D.H. Morgan Manufacturing
- D.H. Morgan Manufacturing — more than just coaster cars
- The Coasters of Indonesia and Malaysia
- Coasting in the U.S. — Out-of-the-way Places, Part 1
Screeching Jay
Issue #127, Fall 2013 (Vol. 35, No. 1)
- Coaster Con XXXVI
- Pre-Con in Con-necticut
- From Gallup’s Grove to Six Flags New England
- New England’s Two Children’s Park Gems
- The Coasters of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore — part 2: Malaysia and Singapore
Issue #128, Winter 2014 (Vol. 35, No. 2)
- Outlaw Run scores big for the good guys
- Iron Rattler — all new venom
- GateKeeper spreads it guardian wings
- Orlando gets a wooden Coaster
- Gold Stiker: California’s Great America Strikes it big
- Karacho — Gerstlauer’s 50th coaster
- Full Throttle — a need for speed
Issue #129, Spring 2014 (Vol. 35, No. 3)
- ACE Central Europe — Part 1
- Trek for the Tough Credit: Kuwait
- Hong King Disneyland
- Coasting in the U.S. — Out of the Way Places — part 2
- The Little Devil — A Tiny Coaster Project
Issue #130, Summer 2014 (Vol. 35, No. 4)
- The Flying Turns Story: Knoebels Triumphs
- The History of the Flying Turns
- Parque Diversions: Just What the Doctor Ordered
- ACE Central Europe, Part Two
- What is America Not Getting?
- A Brief History of Stockholm’s Wooden Coasters
Issue #131, Fall 2014 (Vol. 36, No. 1)
- Coaster Con XXXVII: ACE NorCal’s Dream Come True
- S&S Celebrates its 20th Anniversary
- Small Park Japan, Part 3: Tohoku and Tokyo
- The State of Preservation
Issue #132, Winter 2015 (Vol. 36, No. 2)
- Lightning Strike Awakens Kentucky Kingdom from Dormancy
- Banshee Howls at Kings Island
- Firechaser Express blasts onto the scene at Dollywood
- Helix
- Number Seven: Goliath
- Roar-O-Saurus: Story Land Acquires a wooden coaster
- Thunderbolt brings extreme looping steel coaster to Coney Island
- Medusa Steel Coaster — Fantastico!
Issue #133, Spring 2015 (Vol. 36, No. 3)
- Coasters built on determination
- Geauga Lake: A look back
- A Flying Turns mystery
- Small Park Japan, Part 4: Honsho, South and West of Tokyo
- Art and Sculpture in the amusement industry — a good fit
Issue #134, Summer 2015 (Vol. 36, No. 4)
- Saving a Coaster: Belmont Park Giant Dipper
- Bolliger & Mabillard: A quarter century of coaster excellence
- Coasting in the Southern Hemisphere
- Rock Springs Park: A panhandle playground
Issue #135, Fall 2015 (Vol. 37, No. 1)
- Coaster Con XXXVIII: B&Ms, Bubbles and Boardwalks
- Seabreeze’s Bobsleds: The original hybrid coaster
- From Enthusiasts to Engineers
- Thunder Road — 40 years of straddling states
- Happy Valley — China’s chain of theme parks
- The Arrow Corkscrew celebrates its 40th anniversary
Issue #136, Winter 2016 (Vol. 37, No. 2) The Coasters of 2015:
- Cannibal energes from Lagoon at Last
- Twisted Colossus — A California Star Reimagined
- Thunderbird — A Family Journey or the Agony of Defeat
- Switchback: America’s Newest — and Creatively Innovative — Wooden Coaster
- Something Wicked this way Comes
- Batman The Ride — A Second Generation
- B&M Builds its tallest yet: Fury 325
- Tempesto and Turbolance
- Euro Coasters of 2015
Issue #137, Spring 2016 (Vol. 37, No. 3)
- ACE UK!
- Arnold’s Park
- Coastin’ in Italy: Rainbow Magicland
- Mine Train Roller Coasters: 50 Years Old and Young as Ever
Issue #138, Summer 2016 (Vol. 37, No. 4)
- 20 Years of Great Coasters
- Kings Island by the Numbers
- ACE UK! (part 2)
- Will Canada Ever Welcome Another Woodie?
Issue #139, Fall 2016 (Vol. 38, No. 1)
- Coaster Con XXXIX — A Mid America Treat
- Bolliger & Mabillard: The First 100
- The Dive Coaster: It’s so Unusual
- Building a Model of Rye Beach Playland’s Infamous Airplane Coaster
- Funday at the Park with Astérix
Issue #140, Winter 2017 (Vol. 38, No. 2)
- Phantasialand Unveils Klugheim — and with it two new coasters
- Origins of a Monster
- Valravn — Cedar Point takes the Dive
- Mako Rises! SeaWorld designers craft their perfect hypercoaster
- Ed Hart talks about Kentucky Kingdom’s new Storm Chaser
- Industry Profile: Ed Hart
- Out of the garage: Lightning Rod soars to life — and the top of the polls
- Cobra’s Curse: Face to Fang
- Wildfire — A Swedish surprise
- The Joker continues coaster history at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom
- Other rides for 2016: Phobia Phear, The Joker
- Virtual reality on roller coasters
Issue #141, Spring 2017 (Vol. 38, No. 3)
- Intamin turns 50
- Coastin’ in North America: Small Parks
- An Unlikely Career
- Pinfari: Zyklons, Big Apples and other coasters
- Sign Me Up
- Industry Profle: Chris Baynum, Baynum Painting
Issue #142, Summer 2017 (Vol. 38, No. 4)
- ACE South of the Border (Mexico)
- A Half Century of Southern Hospitality (Six Flags Over Georgia)
- Lost Gravity brings new coaster excitement to Walibi Holland
- Ultimate Airtime (specially modified Boeing 727)
Issue #143, Fall 2017 (Vol. 39, No. 1)
- Coaster Con: Extra Large
- Wave Breaker: The Rescue Coaster opens with a message
- Coney Island Cyclone turns 50
- Japan Update
- Industry Profile: Jeff Filicko, Six Flags Fiesta Texas
- Industry Profile: Danny Donhauser, co-owner ZDT’s Amusement Park
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