Six Flags Magic Mountain’s long reign as the Coaster Capital of the World will soon come to a shocking and swift end as the once proud and mighty Coaster King abdicates the throne to a relatively unknown European amusement park.
Six Flags Magic Mountain will close two roller coasters in early January as work begins to transform Bugs Bunny World into Looney Tunes Land in celebration of the Valencia amusement park’s 55th anniversary.
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The closure of the 2014 Speedy Gonzales Hot Rod Racers and 1947 Magic Flyer during the massive makeover of the kiddie land along with the permanent closure of the 1997 Superman: Escape from Krypton earlier in the year has opened the throne to a new Coaster King.
Poland’s Energylandia will soon unseat the world champ and take over the coveted title of Coaster Capital of the World with a total of 19 coasters — the most of any single amusement park in the world.
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Magic Mountain set a world record in 2022 for the most roller coasters in a single theme park with the debut of Wonder Woman Flight of Courage — the park’s 20th coaster.
Flight of Courage kept Magic Mountain just ahead of upstart Energylandia, which added two coasters in 2019 and two more in 2024.
Magic Mountain moved into a tie with Energylandia in March with 19 coasters when Superman: Escape from Krypton permanently closed.
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The closure of Speedy Gonzales Hot Rod Racers and Magic Flyer will bring Magic Mountain’s coaster count to 17 — dropping behind sister parks Cedar Point and Canada’s Wonderland that both have 18.
Magic Mountain plans to open a new first-of-its-kind coaster in 2027 that will push the park into a three-way tie for second place with Cedar Point and Canada’s Wonderland.
Support beams have begun arriving at a staging area for Magic Mountain’s 2027 coaster.
Energylandia has been vocal about coming after the Coaster Capital crown — and now has the title to itself.
Energylandia has been on a building spree since opening about an hour outside Krakow with three coasters in 2014. The park added three coasters a year in 2015, 2017 and 2019 and two coasters a year in 2018, 2021 and 2024, according to Roller Coaster Database.
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Magic Mountain has hung onto the coaster crown largely by adding without subtracting, retiring only the star-crossed Green Lantern: First Flight (2011-17) during the past decade.
The coaster counts at Cedar Point and Canada’s Wonderland have largely remained static as the parks replaced old rides with new ones.
Cedar Point closed Wicked Twister in 2021 and opened Siren’s Curse in 2025. Canada’s Wonderland closed Time Warp in 2024 and opened AlpenFury in 2025.
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Magic Mountain and Cedar Point have been engaged in a decades-long battle for coaster supremacy that has now come to an end.
“Even though we’re bringing the coaster count down, we’re doing a lot at Magic Mountain to really make it a better experience,” Six Flags Director of Construction Dave Evans said. “It’s not going to be about the quantity of coasters. It’s going to be about the whole experience that we’re bringing into the park.”
Magic Mountain’s fall from the coaster throne follows the merger of Six Flags and Cedar Fair in 2024 that brought Cedar Point and Canada’s Wonderland under the newly unified banner.
“As one united company now, it’s not about the coaster number anymore,” Evans said during a phone interview. “We’re not as concerned about chasing that record anymore. We’d rather enhance the guest experience.”