Tormenta Rampaging Run: Six Flags' Six-Record Monster Is the Most Absurd Coaster of 2026
Let's get one thing straight: I don't use the word "giga" casually. It sounds like a mid-tier phone plan. But Six Flags Over Texas just opened something that earns the prefix — and then some.
Tormenta Rampaging Run, a Bolliger & Mabillard dive coaster, opened July 9 in Arlington, Texas, and it's the kind of ride that makes you question whether the engineering team had a collective aneurysm or a stroke of genius. Possibly both. It claims six world records, which is the coaster equivalent of a fighter bragging about six belts — you don't just win one, you hoard them like a dragon.
Let's talk numbers, because they're frankly stupid:
- Tallest dive coaster in the world — the drop is over 300 feet, officially making it a "giga dive coaster," a category that didn't exist until someone at B&M said "hold my beer."
- Fastest dive coaster — hits speeds north of 90 mph. That's freeway speed, but pointed straight down.
- Longest dive coaster — the track stretches over 4,000 feet, so you have plenty of time to reconsider your life choices.
- Most inversions on a dive coaster — because apparently one stall over a 95-degree drop wasn't enough.
- First giga dive coaster ever — this is the one that matters. No dive coaster has ever crossed the 300-foot threshold. Now one has. And it cackled while doing it.
- Steepest drop on a dive coaster — 95 goddamn degrees. That's past vertical. You hang over the edge like a cartoon character who hasn't realized the ground moved.
The theming, set in a new Spain-themed section called Puerta del Sol, is solid — a stormy, conquistador-meets-torched-village vibe with fire effects, a booming soundtrack, and a station that looks like a crumbling cathedral. But let's be honest: nobody's riding Tormenta for the theming. You ride it because you want to feel what it's like to fall off a building and survive.
Is it the best coaster in America? No — that's still Steel Vengeance, and don't @ me. But it is the most ambitious coaster to open this year, and in a world where parks keep playing it safe with family boomerangs and SBF spinner clones, that counts for a hell of a lot.
Six Flags needed this win. After a rough few years of divestments, park sales, and identity crises, Tormenta is a reminder that the chain can still build something genuinely stupid and brilliant. It's the coaster equivalent of screaming "YOLO" and jumping out of a plane — except the plane is also on fire and made of steel.
Go ride it. Just don't eat lunch first.