Roller coaster enthusiasts will all be closely watching Saudi Arabia this year as the $1 billion Six Flags Qiddiya opens with a lineup of eight new coasters — including the fastest, tallest and longest coaster in the world.
The first Six Flags park designed and built from the ground up outside North America is expected to open in late 2025 outside the capital city of Riyadh.
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The massive $350 billion Qiddiya project will also include a soccer stadium, Formula One race track, esports arena, concert venues, safari experiences, casinos, golf courses and other entertainment offerings.
Construction on the 79-acre Six Flags park started in 2021 after the project was first announced in 2016, according to Themeparx.
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Six Flags and Cedar Fair merged over the summer in an $8 billion deal that combined the two companies into an amusement park juggernaut.
The Six Flags-branded park will be built, operated and licensed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund through its Qiddiya Investment Company.
Let’s take a closer look at the eight new roller coasters coming to Six Flags Qiddiya.
1) Falcons Flight
The roller coaster record books will be completely reshuffled in 2025 when Falcons Flight debuts as the fastest (155 mph), tallest (640 feet) and longest (13,944 feet) coaster in the world.
The world’s first Intamin Exa launch coaster will shatter the height record held by the previous record holder — the retiring Kingda Ka at New Jersey’s Six Flags Great Adventure. Falcons Flight will stand on a 640-foot cliff with a 519 foot drop.
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Falcons Flight may put the coaster track length record forever out of reach with the new ride beating the mark held by Steel Dragon 2000 in Japan’s Nagashima Spa Land by more than a mile.
The new speed record will remain in reach with Falcons Flight clocking in at a mere 6 mph faster than Formula Rossa at Ferrari World in the United Arab Emirates.
2) Iron Rattler
The Iron Rattler coaster will take riders up a chain-driven lift hill to a height of 208 feet before introducing the ride’s terrifying twist: A tilt track element.
The Vekoma Tilt Coaster will reach a top speed of 73 mph over 4,000 feet of twisting and looping track, according to Roller Coaster Database.
Following the tilting drop, riders will plummet vertically into an underground mine shaft before navigating a stall loop, two Zero-G rolls and two barrel rolls.
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The world’s tallest tilt coaster will be the centerpiece of Steam Town, the frontier-themed land designed by chief engineer and inventor Professor Screemore where the past and future collide.
Six Flags America in Maryland has a similar steampunk-themed SteamTown that debuted in June.
The relatively rare tilt coaster will also show up stateside in 2025 at Ohio’s Cedar Point — now part of the Six Flags family.
Siren’s Curse will be smaller and slower than its Qiddiya cousin — but the Cedar Point ride will still be billed as the tallest, longest and fastest ride of its kind in North America.
3) Spitfire
Spitfire only has one inversion — but it comes at the highest point of the ride inside the towering Top Hat element.
The 240-foot-tall inverted Top Hat element will make Spitfire the tallest ride of its kind in the world.
The triple-launch Intamin coaster will reach a top speed of 79 mph over 1,900 feet of track.
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Spitfire will be the marquee attraction in the Valley of Fortune themed land set amid Arabian architectural ruins.
Six Flags will be opening another coaster in 2025 with an inside Top Hat element: AlpenFury at Canada’s Wonderland. The 164-foot-tall AlpenFury will be much shorter than Spitfire, but will boast six more inversions than the Qiddiya coaster.
4) Colossus
The Colossus wooden coaster coming to Qiddiya will sound familiar to Six Flags Magic Mountain fans who fondly remember the Valencia amusement park’s 1976 wooden coaster before it was transformed into Twisted Colossus.
The 95-foot-tall hybrid wooden coaster by Great Coasters International will wind throughout the Grand Exposition theme land at Six Flags Qiddiya.
The Infinity Flyer trains will reach a top speed of 50 mph over nearly 3,000 feet of track.
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5) Saw Mill Falls
The Saw Mill Falls water coaster coming to Six Flags Qiddiya will help emphasize the frontier town theme of Steam Town where the past and future collide.
Riders will embark on a whitewater adventure aboard one of Professor Screemore’s prototype “Vaporizing Vehicles” on a boat ride attached to a coaster track.
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The grand finale drops riders seven stories through a tunnel that ends in a climatic splashdown.
The 74-foot-tall Mack Rides water coaster will reach a top speed of 46 mph over a 2,600-foot-long track, according to RCDB.
6) Adrena-Line
Fans racing to ride Falcons Flight will find a second coaster in the park’s City of Thrills themed land: Adrena-Line.
The 66-foot-tall Adrena-Line will reach a top speed of 45 mph over a 1,600-foot-long track, according to RCDB.
The Vekoma suspended family coaster with seats hanging beneath the track is designed for a tween audience looking for something more thrilling than a kiddie coaster but not yet ready for inversions.
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7) Sea Stallion
The Sea Stallion coaster will take riders over rivers and behind waterfalls in the Discovery Springs land set amid an ancient oasis fed by spring water.
The interactive Maurer Rides Spike powered coaster will let riders control the speed of the two-seat motorbike-style ride over 1,700 feet of track.
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Six Flags is billing the Sea Stallion as the tallest (39 feet) and fastest (44 mph) rider-controlled coaster in the world.
Most ride enthusiasts will recognize the Maurer Spike as the Bolt coaster built on Carnival cruise ships.
8) Twilight Express
Twilight Express will be the first coaster experience for many children in the park’s Twilight Gardens kiddie land.
The Vekoma Horus family coaster will use a booster wheel to take riders to the top of the 41-foot-tall lift hill before sending them 25 mph along the 1,100-foot-long track filled with twists and dips.
The oversized landscape with colorful flowers in Twilight Gardens will be reminiscent of the former Bug’s Land at Disney California Adventure that was bulldozed to make way for Avengers Campus.
As the name implies, Twilight Gardens will transform from a hidden greenspace in the daytime to a glowing enchanted forest after dark.
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Beyond the eight coaster, the new Six Flags park will feature 20 more rides and attractions in six themed lands.
The lineup includes two dark rides (Enchanted Greenhouse and Into the Deep), the world’s tallest drop tower (475-foot-tall Sirocco Tower), pendulum swing (Gyrospin), log flume (Zoomaflooma) and a Zamperla Nedulaz (Sprockenator).
A Dragon Ball theme park and an Aquarabia water park are also planned for the massive Qiddiya City entertainment project.