He shatters all world records: speed, height, and even length. It’s the most extreme roller coaster ever built, and it opens in just a few weeks!
It has become a real competition on a global scale: every year, dozens of new roller coasters are built all over the world, each one more impressive than the last. Always higher, faster, longer, steeper, more spectacular… Amusement parks spend lavishly to offer the strongest possible sensations, and attract ever more visitors. The United States, Japan, Germany, Spain, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, or even Poland… All countries are fighting to offer the craziest roller coasters, taking turns breaking world records in this area.
But a new park has come to pulverize all the others: with the tallest, longest and fastest roller coaster ever seen, all the boxes are ticked to attract extreme enthusiasts. As high as a 60-story building, as fast as a Formula 1 car and as long as more than 40 football fields, Falcon’s Flight sets three world records in one fell swoop. Its highest point rises to 195 meters above the ground, with a drop of no less than 158 meters: it thus dethrones Kingda Ka, the 139 meter roller coaster at the Six Flags Great Adventure park, located in New Jersey, which was destroyed in March 2025. Its maximum speed is 250 km/h, surpassing the Formula Rossa, located at Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, with its 240 km/h. Its 4,325 meter course is ahead of the Steel Dragon 2000, located in Nagashima Spa Land, which measures 2,479 meters long.
With a total of three minutes of pure adrenaline, Falcon’s Flight will be the flagship adventure of Six Flags Qiddiya City: the American amusement park giant is exporting for the first time outside America with this brand new complex in Saudi Arabia, the opening of which is scheduled for December 31, 2025. But if this iron behemoth will be one of all superlatives, the Saudi park has bet big with four other attractions which also set world records. At 63 meters, Iron Rattler will be the tallest tilt coaster in the world. Spitfire will take the lead in the inverted coasters with a height of 73 meters and a top speed of 127 km/h. The park will also add Sirocco Tower, announced as the tallest free-falling tower in the world, as well as Gyrospin, set to become the tallest pendulum attraction.
Six Flags Qiddiya City will have a total of 28 attractions, spread across six different districts: Steam Town, Twilight Gardens, City of Thrills, Discovery Springs, Valley of Fortune and Grand Exposition. Attractions for children and “family walks” have been designed to appeal to a very wide audience, but the park is above all intended to be a must for nightlife, since it will be open from 4 p.m. to midnight from Sunday to Wednesday, and until 1 a.m. from Thursday to Saturday. You will have to spend at least 325 Saudi rials (around 75 euros) for daily entry.
