AlpenFury is a steel

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located at

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. Manufactured by

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, the ride opened to the public on 12 July 2025 and was marketed as the tallest, fastest, and longest launch coaster in Canada. It features nine inversions and became the park's 18th roller coaster. It is also the first new roller coaster for Canada's Wonderland since the merger between

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and

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became active under the latter's name in July 2024.

History

In July 2023, Canada's Wonderland released a survey asking guests about three future roller coaster concepts. The concepts were a "Blast Coaster", "Concert Coaster", and "Eureka Ridge Ghost Town" featuring a family wooden roller coaster. The Blast Coaster concept was described as a

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that would be launched out of the top of Wonder Mountain. Canada's Wonderland had in actuality begun to develop the former in mid-2022, soliciting design bids from several manufacturers. By the fall of 2023,

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-based

had been attached to the project; they had previously manufactured Backlot Stunt Coaster for the park in 2005, then known as Italian Job: Stunt Track. Canada's Wonderland removed Xtreme Skyflyer, a

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, in March 2024 and began teasing a new attraction near Wonder Mountain. On 20 July 2024, Canada's Wonderland posted to its

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feed with the caption "Discover the legend within.... 8/8", indicating the date that the teased ride would be announced to the public, complete with a fire and ice theme. Construction fences installed near the mountain during the 2024 season read "Something big is coming. Stay tuned". AlpenFury was announced as promised on 8 August 2024, with the name, specifications, and storyline behind it released to the press. The first sections of steel track and supports arrived at the park on 26 August.

Characteristics

AlpenFury is the longest, tallest, and fastest launch roller coaster in Canada. It reaches a height of , span around Wonder Mountain and the entrance to the Grand World Exposition of 1890 area with the station in the Alpenfest area and achieve speeds of . It features nine inversionsthe most of any launch coaster in the world. It is the only ride in the park to feature

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and is designed such that fire discharges out from the top of Wonder Mountain timed to the coaster train's exit from the summit. However, AlpenFury is not the first roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland to have featured pyrotechnics. Backlot Stunt Coaster formerly had pyrotechnics back when it was known as Italian Job: Stunt Track; it was removed upon de-theming and renaming as a result of

acquiring the park from

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(successor of the original Viacom) in 2006 and Cedar Fair not having the license to use

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IPs from CBS Corporation. Other notable elements include the Fire Serpent Roll, which offers a twisting inversion with two near-miss interactions between the train and track; the Skyflyer Loop, which features an ascending helix that climbs into a zero-G stall where the ride experiences

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, before diving into an inverted, descending roll, and named after the former Xtreme Skyflyer; and the Ice Winder Roll, which twists and untwists in two inversions as they ascend and descend through an overbanked hill.

Ride vehicles

The ride vehicle for AlpenFury, manufactured by

, was showcased at the IAAPA Expo in

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. It has a three-row, two-abreast seating arrangement with high-backed seats and blue hand grips attached to a lap bar restraint system. The seats are grey with a contoured design. The ride operates with two trains, each composed of three cars, with each car featuring three rows of two, allowing for a total capacity of 18 riders per train. The front of the train features a curved guardrail with a wooden accent and a lettering graphic that displays the name of the ride, “AlpenFury.” The flooring on AlpenFury is a checkered metal surface. The wheel assembly is visible beneath the train, a light blue-coloured assembly is visible on both trains, and the overall colour scheme includes grey, blue, and metallic elements. The second train is mostly similar, though the blue accent is swapped with orange, displaying the fire (orange) and ice (blue) aspects of the coaster.

References

External links

Official website

Trailer video
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