1979 in coasters

Events by year

1978	1979 in coasters	1980
1978	1979 in rides	1980
1978	1979 in water slides	1980

This page is for everything related to roller coasters, powered coasters, and alpine coasters, that occurred during the year 1979.

Opened

Class	Name	Park	Location	Type	Manufacturer	Opened
Roller	Beast	Kings Island	USA	Wooden Terrain	Charles Dinn	April 14
Roller	Big Thunder Mountain Railroad	Disneyland Park	USA	Sit-Down	Arrow Dynamics	September 2
Roller	Corkscrew	Michigan's Adventure	USA	Sit-Down	Arrow Dynamics	Unknown
Roller	Corkscrew	Toshimaen	Japan	Sit-Down	Arrow Dynamics	July 7
Roller	Hurricane	Mitsui Greenland	Japan	Sit-Down	Meisho Amusement Machines	March 8
Roller	Loop Coaster	Tojoko Toy Kingdom	Japan	Shuttle	Meisho Amusement Machines	August 9
Roller	Loop Coaster	Yomiuriland	Japan	Sit-Down	Togo	Unknown
Roller	Looping Star	Bobbejaanland	Belgium	Sit-Down	Schwarzkopf	Unknown
Roller	Marienkäferbahn	Hollywood & Safaripark Stukenbrock	Germany	Family	Zierer	Unknown
Roller	Revolution	Blackpool Pleasure Beach	UK	Launched Shuttle	Arrow Dynamics	Unknown
Roller	Revolution	Libertyland	USA	Sit-Down	Arrow Dynamics	Unknown
Roller	Rolling Thunder	Six Flags Great Adventure	USA	Wooden Twin	Don Rosser William Cobb	Unknown
Roller	Shuttle Loop	Yokohama Dreamland	Japan	Launched Shuttle	Schwarzkopf	March 10
Roller	Space Salamander	Expoland	Japan	Sit-Down	Arrow Dynamics	August 23
Roller	Super Wirbel	Holiday Park	Germany	Sit-Down	Vekoma	Unknown
Roller	Superachtbaan Looping Star	Shetland Ponypark Slagharen	Netherlands	Sit-Down	Schwarzkopf	June 26
Roller	Thunder Coaster	Nasu Highland Park	Japan	Sit-Down	Meisho Amusement Machines	Unknown
Roller	Tivoli Coaster	MarineLand	Canada	Kiddie	Zierer	Unknown
Roller	Tornado	Walibi	Belgium	Sit-Down	Vekoma	Unknown
Roller	Wild Mouse	Playland	Canada	Wild Mouse	Princeton Machine	Unknown
Roller	WildCat	Cedar Point	USA	Sit-Down	Schwarzkopf	Unknown
Roller	Wilderness Run	Cedar Point	USA	Kiddie	Intamin	Unknown

Relocations

Class	Name	Park	Location	Type	Manufacturer	Opened	Formerly
Roller	Wild Rails	Valleyfair	USA	Sit-Down	Schwarzkopf	Unknown	Wildcat at Cedar Point

Refurbished/Rethemed

Class	Name	Park	Country	Type	Manufacturer	Opened	Formerly
Roller	Silly Serpent	Worlds of Fun	USA	Kiddie	Allan Herschell Company	May 26, 1973	Funicular

Closures

Class	Name	Park	Country	Type	Manufacturer	Opened	Closed	Relocated
Roller	Big Bend	Six Flags Over Texas	USA	Sit-Down	Schwarzkopf	1971	November 25	Six Flags Over Mid-America (never set up)
Powered	Blauer Enzian	Fritz & Julius Kinzler (Travelling)	Germany	Family	Mack Rides	1977	Unknown	Peter Schütz & Co. (travelling )