2016 in coasters

Events by year

2015	2016 in coasters	2017
2015	2016 in rides	2017

This page is for everything related to roller coasters, powered coasters, and alpine coasters, that occurred during the year 2016.

Opened

Class	Name	Park	Location	Type	Manufacturer	Opened
Roller	Bandidos	Mer de Sable	France	Spinning Kiddie	SBF Visa Group	July 23
Roller	Bisværmen	Tivoli Friheden	Denmark	Spinning Kiddie	SBF Visa Group	April 9
Roller	Cobra's Curse	Busch Gardens Tampa	USA	Spinning	Mack Rides	June 17
Roller	Dragon	Legoland Dubai	UAE	Family	Zierer	November
Roller	Dragon's Apprentice	Legoland Dubai	UAE	Family	Zierer	October 31
Roller	Family Roller Coaster	Wildlife World	USA	Family	Chance Rides	February 1
Roller	Flash	Lewa Adventure	China	Hyper	Mack Rides	January 1
Roller	Flight of the Hippogriff	Universal Studios Hollywood	USA	Family	Mack Rides	April 7
Roller	Flight of the Pterosaur	Paultons Park	UK	Suspended Family	Vekoma	May 17
Roller	Flying Aces	Ferrari World	UAE	Semi-Floorless Hyper	Intamin	February 24
Roller	Flying Dinosaur	Universal Studios Japan	Japan	Flying	Bolliger & Mabillard	March 18
Roller	Green Hornet: High Speed Chase	Motiongate	UAE	Sit-Down	Gerstlauer	December 16
Roller	Imoogi	Le Fleury	France	Sit-Down	Unknown	July 10
Roller	Incredible Spin Coaster	St. Louis's Incredible Pizza Company	USA	Spinning Family	SBF Visa Group	November 4
Roller	Joker	Six Flags Discovery Kingdom	USA	Hybrid	Rocky Mountain Construction	May 30
Roller	Joker	Six Flags Great Adventure	USA	Winged 4th Dimension	S&S Worldwide	May 28
Roller	Kung Fu Panda Master	Gardaland	Italy	Spinning Wild Mouse	Fabbri	May 14
Roller	Lightning Rod	Dollywood	USA	Wooden Launched	Rocky Mountain Construction	June 13
Roller	Lost Gravity	Walibi Holland	Netherlands	Semi-Floorless	Mack Rides	March 24
Roller	Mako	SeaWorld Orlando	USA	Hyper	Bolliger & Mabillard	June 10
Roller	Monster	Adventureland	USA	Sit-Down	Gerstlauer	June 4
Roller	Phobia Phear Coaster	Lake Compounce	USA	Launched	Premier Rides	May 7
Roller	Predator	IMG Worlds of Adventure	UAE	Indoor	Gerstlauer	August 31
Roller	Pulsar	Walibi Belgium	Belgium	Launched Water Shuttle	Mack Rides	June 4
Roller	Raik	Phantasialand	Germany	Shuttle Family	Vekoma	June 30
Roller	Rollercoaster Formula 1	Energylandia	Poland	Launched	Vekoma	June 25
Roller	Seven Dwarfs Mine Train	Shanghai Disneyland	China	Rocking Cars Family	Vekoma	June 16
Roller	Soaring with Dragon	Hefei Sunac Land	China	Launched	Intamin	September 24
Roller	Spider-Man Doc Ock's Revenge	IMG Worlds of Adventure	UAE	Spinning Indoor	Mack Rides	August 31
Roller	Spinning Coaster	Cannon Hill Park	UK	Spinning Family	SBF Visa Group	June 12
Roller	Storm Chaser	Kentucky Kingdom	USA	Sit-Down	Rocky Mountain Construction	April 30
Roller	Taron	Phantasialand	Germany	Launched	Intamin	June 30
Roller	Tron Lightcycles Power Run	Shanghai Disneyland	China	Launched Motorbike Enclosed	Vekoma	June 16
Roller	Valravn	Cedar Point	USA	Dive Floorless Hyper	Bolliger & Mabillard	May 7
Roller	Velociraptor	IMG Worlds of Adventure	UAE	Launched	Mack Rides	August 31
Roller	Whirlwind	Playland's Castaway Cove	USA	Spinning Kiddie	SBF Visa Group	May 27
Roller	Wildfire	Kolmården	Sweden	Wooden	Rocky Mountain Construction	June 28

Relocations

Class	Name	Park	Location	Type	Manufacturer	Opened	Formerly
Roller	Cyclon	Nokkakivi Park	Finland	Sit-Down	Interpark	June 11	Cyclon at Wasalandia
Roller	Galaxy 500	Hydro Adventures	USA	Sit-Down	SDC	July 7	1970 Galaxy Rip Tide Coaster at Miracle Strip Pier Park
Roller	Loop Roller Coaster	C.J. Barrymore's	USA	Sit-Down	Pinfari	May 9	Python at Playland's Castaway Cove
Roller	Mad Mouse	M&D's Scotland's Theme Park	UK	Spinning Wild Mouse	Fabbri	Unknown	Travelling
Roller	Rampage	Big Sheep	UK	Family	Zierer	March 25	New Roller Coaster at New MetroLand
Roller	Runaway Mine Train	Funland Hayling Island	UK	Wild Mouse	L&T Systems	February 28	Wild Mine Ride at Gulliver's Warrington
Roller	unknown	Central Park	Russia	Sit-Down	Pax Company	Unknown	Formula at VVC Wheel Park

Rethemed / Refurbishments

Class	Name	Park	Location	Type	Manufacturer	Opened	Formerly
Roller	Big Apple Coaster	New York, New York Hotel & Casino	USA	Hyper	TOGO	January 3, 1997	Roller Coaster
Roller	Blue Hawk	Six Flags Over Georgia	USA	Sit-Down	Vekoma	March 1, 1992	Ninja
Roller	Chura Racer	Serengeti-Park	Germany	Sit-Down	Zierer	1983	Froschflitzer
Roller	Dino Chase	Paultons Park	UK	Family	Zierer	2003	Flying Frog
Roller	Dinolino’s VR-Ride	Erlebnispark Schloss Thurn	Germany	Family	Zierer	1998	Familienachterbahn
Roller	Flashback	Great Escape	USA	Shuttle	Vekoma	May 23, 1997	Boomerang Coast to Coaster
Roller	Galactica	Alton Towers	UK	Flying	Bolliger & Mabillard	March 16, 2002	Air
Roller	GhostRider	Knott's Berry Farm	USA	Wooden	Custom Coasters International, Inc.	December 8, 1998	N/A
Roller	Gold Digger	Mirabilandia	Italy	Wild Mouse	L&T Systems	1998	Pakal
Roller	Harley Quinn Crazy Train	Six Flags Great Adventure	USA	Family	Zierer	1999	Blackbeard's Lost Treasure Train
Roller	Incredible Hulk	Universal's Islands of Adventure	USA	Launched	Bolliger & Mabillard	May 28, 1999	N/A
Roller	Legend	Holiday World	USA	Wooden Terrain	Custom Coasters International, Inc.	May 6, 2000	N/A
Roller	New Revolution	Six Flags Magic Mountain	USA	Terrain	Schwarzkopf	May 8, 1976	Revolution
Roller	SOS Numérobis	Parc Astérix	France	Family	Zierer	1990	N/A
Roller	Superman The Ride	Six Flags New England	USA	Hyper	Intamin	May 5, 2000	Bizarro

Closed

Class	Name	Park	Location	Type	Manufacturer	Opened	Closed	Relocated
Roller	Afterburner	Divo Ostrov	Russia	Sit-Down	S&S Sansei	2007	Unknown	N/A
Roller	Boomerang	Pleasure Island Family Theme Park	UK	Shuttle	Vekoma	May 27, 1993	October 29	Trans Studio Bali
Roller	Cat & Mouse	Ocean Beach Pleasure Park	UK	Sit-Down	Pinfari	2002 or earlier	Unknown	Sam's Fun City
Roller	Cobra	La Ronde	Canada	Stand-Up	Intamin	1995	Unknown	N/A
Roller	Dipsy Doodle	Joyland Amusement Park	USA	Kiddie	Miler Manufacturing	2005 or earlier	Unknown	N/A
Powered	Dragon	Riverfront Park	USA	Family	Zamperla	2003 or earlier	Unknown	N/A
Powered	Go Gator	Pleasure Island Family Theme Park	UK	Kiddie	Wisdom Rides	May 27, 1993	October 29	N/A
Roller	Holly's Wilde Autofahrt	Holiday Park	Germany	Wild Mouse	Maurer AG	August 10, 2010	November 1	Eifelpark
Roller	Jet Coaster	Himeji Tegarayama Amusement Park	Japan	Sit-Down	Ikeda Works	1998 or earlier	January 11	N/A
Roller	Mean Streak	Cedar Point	USA	Wooden	Dinn Corporation	May 11, 1991	September 16	N/A
Roller	Mini Mine Train	Pleasure Island Family Theme Park	UK	Family	Vekoma	May 27, 1993	October 29	Trans Studio Mini Pekalogan
Roller	Sideshow Spin	Dollywood	USA	Kiddie	L&T Systems	2005	Unknown	Kentucky Shores Family Fun Center
Roller	Spinning Coaster	Chuanlord Holiday Manor	China	Spinning Wild Mouse	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	N/A
Roller	Thunder Loop	Attractiepark Slagharen	Netherlands	Sit-Down	Schwarzkopf	June 26, 1979	October 2	Parko Paliatso Luna Park
Roller	Toboggan	Lakemont Park	USA	Sit-Down	Chance Rides	1991	Unknown	N/A
Roller	Tsunami	M&D's Scotland's Theme Park	UK	Inverted	Pinfari	March 27, 2004	June 26	N/A
Roller	Wild Mouse	Aussie World	Australia	Wooden Wild Mouse	Hopkins & Pearce	2000	Unknown	N/A

Short operations

Class	Name	Park	Location	Type	Manufacturer	Opened	Formerly	Closed	Relocated
Roller	Happy Caterpiller	Dreamland Margate	UK	Family	Pinfari	April	Happy Caterpiller at Funder Park	Unknown	Happy Caterpiller at Blackpool South Pier

Incidents

• June 26 - An entire train derailed on Tsunami at M&D's Scotland's Theme Park with nine people on board, struck a support and landed on the ground in front of the ride. Ten people were injured in the derailment.