Great Coasters International

Great Coasters International

Status	Active
Headquarters	Sunbury, Pennsylvania, USA
Founded	1994
Key people	Clair Hain, Jr. Mike Boodley Jeff Pike
Website	http://greatcoasters.com/
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Great Coasters International, or GCI for short, is a wooden roller coaster manufacturer in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, USA. It was founded in 1994 by Clair Hain, Jr. and Mike Boodley.

Trains

Millennium Flyer

Millennium Flyer trains were designed by Great Coasters International to be more flexible than other trains, allowing them to negotiate tighter turns, reduce damage to the structure of the roller coaster and provide a comfier ride. The first coaster to use Millennium Flyer trains was Roar at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom.

Mini-llennium Flyer

Mini-llennium Flyer trains are similar in design to Millennium Flyer trains, however they are smaller. The first roller coaster to receive the trains is Coastersaurus at Legoland Florida, followed by Tomahawk at PortAventura Park.

Infinity Flyer

Introduced at the 2018 IAAPA Expo, the Infinity Flyer trains are capable of even more tight transitions and flipping through inversions. They are compatible with both the wooden track and Titan Track. The Infinity Flyer trains were designed and engineered by Skyline Attractions. The first installation to use these trains was Zambezi Zinger at Worlds of Fun.

Titan Track

Titan Track is a steel roller coaster track product from Great Coasters International, Inc. that was designed by Skyline Attractions. The product has been used to retrofit existing rides or as part of ground-up projects.

Existing roller coasters

Name	Park	Country	Opened
Roar	Six Flags America	USA	1998
Lightning Racer	Hersheypark	USA	2000
Thunderhead	Dollywood	USA	2004
Kentucky Rumbler	Beech Bend	USA	2006
Thunderbird	PowerLand	Finland	2006
Troy	Toverland	Netherlands	2007
Renegade	Valleyfair	USA	2007
American Thunder	Six Flags St. Louis	USA	2008
El Toro	Freizeitpark Plohn	Germany	2009
Apocalypse	Six Flags Magic Mountain	USA	2009
Prowler	Worlds of Fun	USA	2009
Joris en de Draak	Efteling	Netherlands	2010
Wood Coaster	Knight Valley	China	2011
Wodan Timbur Coaster	Europa Park	Germany	2012
Gold Striker	California's Great America	USA	2013
White Lightning	Fun Spot America	USA	2013
Python in Bamboo Forest	Nanchang Sunac Land	China	2016
Heidi: The Ride	Plopsaland De Panne	Belgium	2017
InvadR	Busch Gardens Williamsburg	USA	2017
Mystic Timbers	Kings Island	USA	2017
Great Desert-Rally	Happy Valley (Chengdu)	China	2017
Jerome's Wooden Dragon	Happy Valley (Chongqing)	China	2017
Wicker Man	Alton Towers	UK	2018
Wilkołak	Majaland Kownaty	Poland	2019
Texas Stingray	SeaWorld San Antonio	USA	2020
Hala Madrid	Real Madrid World	UAE	2024
Roaring Timbers	Sun World Hon Thom Nature Park	Vietnam	2022
Zambezi Zinger	Worlds of Fun	USA	2023
Mad Racers	Fantasy Valley	China	Under construction
Colossus	Six Flags Qiddiya	Saudi Arabia	Under construction
Wild Buffalo	Mer de Sable	France	2025

Closed roller coasters

Name	Park	Country	Opened	Closed
Gwazi	Busch Gardens Tampa	USA	1999	2015 (demolished 2019)
Roar	Six Flags Discovery Kingdom	USA	1999	2015
Ozark Wildcat	Celebration City	USA	2003	2008 (demolished 2015)
Wildcat	Hersheypark	USA	1996	2022