Inside Tormenta Rampaging Run: Six Flags Over Texas Just Built a Demonic Giga Dive Coaster and Broke Six World Records

August 15, 2026

Six Flags Over Texas just dropped what might be the most aggressively named roller coaster ever bolted to the earth: Tormenta Rampaging Run. It opened July 9, 2026, and it didn't just show up — it arrived swinging, breaking six world records on opening day like a heavyweight champ mugging for the cameras.

Let's get the stats out of the way because they're genuinely stupid in the best way. It's the world's first giga dive coaster — meaning it clears 300 feet of height while also being a dive coaster, which is the coaster subgenre where they dangle you over the abyss like a Looney Tunes character before letting go. Tormenta climbs 309 feet, drops 285 of them at a beyond-vertical 95 degrees, and hits 87 mph. It's the tallest, fastest, and longest dive coaster on the planet, with 4,199 feet of track. It also packs the tallest vertical loop ever built at 179 feet, and the highest Immelmann inversion in existence. B&M (Bolliger & Mabillard) built it, and they have officially stopped messing around.

The whole thing is set inside a new Spanish-themed village called Rancho de la Tormenta, which sounds like a place where you'd order a margarita and accidentally sign a waiver. Six Flags Over Texas — the original Six Flags park, opened in 1961 — now has a ride that stares Kingda Ka's legacy in the face and says "hold my beer." Kingda Ka held the height record for years and was recently dethroned by Falcon's Flight in Saudi Arabia (640 feet, 155 mph — yes, it's insane). But Tormenta carves out its own category: nobody has ever done a giga dive coaster before. It's a first.

And honestly? That's the part I love. In an era where every new coaster announcement is "the tallest, the fastest, the most ludicrous," Tormenta did something smarter — it created a new category. First-ever giga dive. That's not just a number on a Wikipedia table. That's engineering history.

Ride ops say the pre-drop hold on the brake run is the real terror — you sit at the edge of a 309-foot cliff staring at Arlington, Texas, for a few queasy seconds before the train releases and you fall past straight down. The 95-degree drop means you're leaning into the void before gravity even gets its act together. The vertical loop at 179 feet is taller than most roller coasters' entire lift hills. The Immelmann inversion — that swooping half-loop half-roll maneuver named after a World War I flying ace — happens higher up than any ride has ever attempted it.

If you're a coaster nerd, this is your ride of the summer. If you're not a coaster nerd, this is the ride that'll make you one. Six Flags Over Texas, July 2026. Bring your neck brace and your sense of wonder.