Texas Six Flags announces record-breaking rollercoaster for anniversary year

Texas’s homegrown entertainment corporation, Six Flags, has announced a brand-new attraction for its 65^th anniversary year in its OG theme park. The ride will take the form of a rollercoaster that, on completion in 2026, will be the fastest, tallest, and longest in the world.

The Tormenta Rampaging Run will also be the first in the world to possess a so-called “giga dive,” a drop that exceeds a normal vertical – heading down at 95 degrees. “It’s not straight down, it’s on the other side of straight down,” the park says in a press release.

The list of superlatives goes on. The Tormenta will not only have the world’s fastest dive (140 km/h), be the tallest dive coaster (at 94.2 metres), and the longest (at 1.3 km), but it also boasts the world’s highest Immelmann inversion (a half-loop with a half-roll at the top).

As its name suggests, the experience is based on the concept of the “running of the bulls” in Pamplona, northeastern Spain – an annual tradition in which people run ahead of charging bulls through the town’s streets as part of July’s San Fermín Festival. A dangerous event due to the high risk of participants being trampled or gored, the running of the bulls has seen 15 fatalities since 1910.

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The Tormenta will seek to replicate the bull running’s unpredictable twists and turns and take up a place at the heart of a new section of the Spanish wing of the Six Flags Over Texas park, called Rancho de la Tormenta. Other features include a new restaurant called Cocina Abuela (Grandma’s Kitchen), which will propose a menu of Spanish and Latin American-inspired cuisine.

Described by Six Flags Over Texas Vice President and Park Manager Mark Boyer as “a true testament to our commitment to providing world-class thrills and innovation,” the Tormenta is also part of a bid by the entertainment corporation to overcome the financial woes it is currently suffering. With attendance figures falling by nine per cent year-on-year, investors have wondered why the chain cannot match the 10% growth of its Universal and Disney rivals. As a result, shares have dropped too, by a whopping 53% in 2025.

The Tormenta is not the only record-breaking rollercoaster ride the corporation is gambling on to get it out of the hole. Six Flags is in the midst of developing another attraction at Six Flags Qiddiya City in Saudi Arabia, to be entitled Falcon’s Flight. Investors will perhaps be hoping the Saudi name is a more promising augur for the firm.