10 largest new theme park rides for 2023

With theme parks starting to place the COVID-19 turmoil behind them, followers throughout the county will discover much more in the best way of latest sights in 2023. 

2022 featured largely pandemic-delayed sights, and there are nonetheless a couple of of these within the 2023 record. However in a yr promising all the pieces from coasters at long-neglected parks to thoroughly new parks, Theme Park Tribune needed to increase its record this yr as a result of there’s a lot extra worthy of recognition.

So listed here are Theme Park Tribune’s picks for the ten most anticipated theme park sights opening in 2023: 

10. Zambezi Zinger 

Opening: TBA 2023 at Worlds of Enjoyable 

The primary new coaster at this Kansas Metropolis park since 2009 celebrates the park’s historical past and will sign a brand new normal for picket coasters. 

Zambezi Zinger takes the identify and the spiral elevate hill from the park’s 1973-1997 Anton Schwarzkopf creation. The brand new picket model options an all-steel Titan Monitor — the primary time coaster agency Nice Coasters Worldwide has solely used this monitor for a brand new coaster. 

Ought to this new strategy succeed, you’ll be able to anticipate extra parks to make use of Titan Monitor for each new builds and monitor replacements.

9. Catapult Falls

Opening: TBA 2023 at SeaWorld San Antonio 

One other new trip fashions that might grow to be a pattern, the world’s first launched flume trip is coming to the ever-expanding SeaWorld San Antonio.

The launch on Catapult Falls is simply 20 miles per hour, nevertheless it’s a novel addition to what’s been an amusement park staple for many years. The trip additionally incorporates a vertical elevate and a number of drops, together with one angled at 53 levels.

SeaWorld San Antonio is selling it as a “flume coaster,” however I’ll go away that to different specialists to find out. All I care about is how the launch feels and the way soaked I’ll be coming again into the station.

8. Primordial 

Opening: TBA 2023 at Lagoon

Farmington, Utah’s Lagoon is able to unveil its next in-house coaster creation after seven years of building. 

Primordial’s mysterious mountain will home what the park calls a “one-of-a-kind interactive coaster,” although such a mix has been achieved earlier than with Marvel Mountain’s Guardian at Canada’s Wonderland. Particulars are nonetheless scarce in regards to the trip expertise and the park hasn’t even launched official images of the trip to the press. 

Nonetheless, Lagoon’s penchant for offbeat, progressive sights (and the way hardly ever they open new coasters) make this a possible sleeper hit for 2023.

7. Mattel Journey Park 

Opening: TBA 2023 

It’s not every year that somebody takes the chance of opening a model new U.S. theme park, in order that alone makes Mattel Journey Park price a spot on this record.

What makes the park particularly intriguing is its location and its theme. Being inbuilt Glendale, Arizona exterior Phoenix, Mattel Adventure Park is staking its declare to an underserved market with a load of very recognizable mental properties, comparable to Barbie and Thomas the Tank Engine. 

It’s not simply aiming for teenagers, both — the headlining trip might be Scorching Wheels Twin Mill Racer, a three-inversion model of Probability Rides’ Hyper GT-X coaster mannequin. 

6. Tron Lightcycle Run

Opening: Spring 2023 at Disney World’s Magic Kingdom

A brand new curler coaster on the planet’s most-attended theme park is an enormous deal, nevertheless it’s onerous to get hyped for Tron Lightcycle Run. 

When the trip was first introduced for Disney World in 2017, the unique in Shanghai Disneyland was barely a yr outdated. Almost six years later, the Florida model runs the chance of feeling like a dated design. To not point out it might not prime more moderen coaster additions each in and near Disney World. 

That mentioned, it’s an extended launch coaster and an exciting trip by Disney requirements (the Shangahi model reaches a prime velocity of 60 miles per hour). It additionally improves Magic Kingdom as a complete, pulling friends in direction of Tomorrowland and away from the overrated Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice very first thing within the morning.

5. Large Bear Mountain

Opening: Spring 2023 at Dollywood

In the event you’re one of many households considering Disney World is simply too costly today, it’s possible you’ll be the brand new goal for Dollywood with this $25 million household coaster. 

Big Bear Mountain is a significant addition to the Pigeon Forge, Tennessee resort, however is maybe being undersold by coaster lovers hoping for the following Lightning Rod.  That’s a mistake, as having almost 4,000 toes in monitor, onboard audio, a 48 miles per hour prime velocity and solely a 39-inch peak requirement make this a possible headliner for a park that’s all the time appealed to extra than simply the hardcore thrillseekers.

4. Pipeline: The Surf Coaster

Opening: TBA 2023 at SeaWorld Orlando

The second new coaster in as a few years at SeaWorld Orlando, Pipeline: The Surf Coaster not solely bolsters the park’s declare of being Orlando’s premiere coaster vacation spot, it additionally marks the debut of a brand new mannequin from famed Swiss coaster agency Bolliger & Mabillard.

Riders on Pipeline might be launched at 60 miles per hour by way of 5 airtime moments and one inversion — all whereas in a stand-up place. SeaWorld insists the surf coaster restraints shouldn’t be in comparison with previous B&M stand-ups as a result of they permit for extra vertical motion. 

If the brand new trains actually find yourself being extra comfy, we might very properly see comparable coasters head to different SeaWorld parks. Each time a brand new B&M mannequin is successful, it ends as much as get replicated rapidly.  

3. Wildcat’s Revenge

Opening: Summer time 2023 at Hersheypark

Nothing will get coaster followers extra excited today than a brand new Rocky Mountain Building creation. 

Wildcat’s Revenge is yet one more RMC hybrid conversion of an current picket coaster. The 140-foot-tall elevate hill will result in a 82-degree first drop, with the trip hitting 62 miles per hour over its 3,510 toes of monitor. Riders will undergo 4 inversions, together with what Hersheypark is dubbing the “world’s largest underflip,” which is described within the press launch as “an inversion that begins with an upward climb, adopted by a counterclockwise 270-degree roll and a dive down in direction of the aspect.”

RMC has hardly ever missed since its first conversion opened in 2011 and there’s little purpose to assume this gained’t be the star of Hersheypark’s stacked 14 coaster lineup.

2. ArieForce One

Opening: TBA 2023 at Enjoyable Spot Atlanta (rumored to be March 3 by Screamscape) 

What else can prime a brand new RMC as essentially the most anticipated coaster of the yr…than one other RMC!

ArieForce One brings a bit extra peak (155 toes) and velocity (64 miles per hour) than Wildcat’s Revenge. It’s additionally not as restrained by being an all-new, all-steel coaster, moderately than a hybrid conversion on an current footprint. The first POV video for the trip was launched on Christmas, displaying off its airtime-filled structure and what’s being referred to as the “largest zero-g stall in America.” 

The $13 million coaster is a daring transfer for Enjoyable Spot Atlanta, which till now targeted on smaller flat rides and go-karts. It might want to add a supporting solid of coasters quick if ArieForce One attracts in greater crowds.

1. Tremendous Nintendo World

Opening: Feb. 17, 2023 at Common Studios Hollywood (previews start Jan. 29)

It’s been 12 years since Common rocked the theme park world with the primary Wizarding World of Harry Potter. It’s time to see it will possibly do it once more, this time with everybody’s favourite plumber.  

The primary U.S. model of Super Nintendo World is No.1 on this record due to its unimaginable potential. Combining actually iconic characters that attraction to a number of generations, a vibrant setting that friends have longed to bodily expertise and a technological leap in interactivity, that positive looks like a recipe for achievement. 

That mentioned, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge taught me to not make assumptions about new theme park lands. It’s straightforward to think about that friends might be clogging up the 101 on opening day — however let’s see if that’s nonetheless the case months later.