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SIX FLAGS OVER TEXAS
& Six Flags Hurricane Harbor
Dallas / Ft. Worth, Texas
Six Flags Theme Parks
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(1/25/2026) Take a Tormenta Rampaging Run Fly-Through
(12/20/2025) Tormenta Rampaging Run Tops Out!
(11/18/2025) Six Flags over Texas and B&M show off Tormenta Rampaging Run coaster car
(10/18/2025) Six Flags over Texas - New Attraction Guest Survey Concepts
(10/4/2025) Tormenta Rampaging Run Coming in 2026
(9/17/2025) Six Flags over Texas Has Retired Another Attraction
Park News - (9/17/2025) It’s officially the fall season now and that means it’s time for another wave of rides to be retired. According to a post by Six Flags over Texas on social media, the park has opted to quietly retire the Conquistador (swing ship) for good this week. Unfortunately, this marks another ride in the Spain area of the park that is being retired ahead of the opening of the new 2026 roller coaster project.
On a related note, another classic attraction in the area has returned however, as it was also reported online that Casa Magnetica is now open once again for self-guided tours. Flume 2 is now also open, while Flume 1 undergoes refurbishment.
 2026 - Tormenta Rampaging Run / Dive Coaster - (1/25/2026) Six Flags over Texas has posted a drone flight video running up the lift hill and down the first drop and through the inversion to give everyone a great preview of the fun to come with Tormenta Rampaging Run when it opens in a few months.
(12/20/2025) The massive new Tormenta Rampaging Run dive coaster being installed at Six Flags over Texas has now officially topped out with the installation of the highest piece of track before the trains take the plunge down the first drop. You can see a video of the installation of this piece of track in the clip below.
(11/18/2025) Six Flags over Texas and B&M revealed a first look at the official lead train car for the new Tormenta Rampaging Run coaster, opening in 2026, which you can see below.
It is interesting to note that unlike the past three dive coasters from B&M (Dr Diabolical's Cliffhanger, Iron Menace and Wrath of Rakshasa) built for Cedar Fair and Six Flags parks that featured a unique 7-across seating arrangement, Tormenta goes back to using an 8-across seating configuration which was last used on Yukon Striker in 2019. Though it is worth mentioning that Tormenta is also significantly taller than those three previous dive coasters.
(10/4/2025) Six Flags over Texas officially announced the name and details for their 2026 record breaking Dive Coaster... Tormenta Rampaging Run. According to the description this will be the “Tallest, Fastest, Longest and First-Ever Giga Dive Coaster” when it opens next year, and will certainly change the skyline of the city.
Keeping with the theme of the land at the entrance of the park, the new coaster will be themed to Spain’s tradition of the running of the bulls and feature a new Spanish village area called Rancho de la Tormenta and a new restaurant, Cocina Abuela. But I know you really want to know all about the coaster so here are the stats for this biggest of all B&M Dive Machine.
Taking the record for the Tallest Dive Coaster, it will stand 309 feet tall and hold you right on the edge for a few seconds before dropping down a heart-stopping 285 foot plunge, taken at a beyond-vertical 95º angle, which is also a new world record. By the time you hit the bottom you’ll be flying by at 87mph, making this the fastest dive coaster built, and carry that speed through 4199 feet of track, making Tormenta also the longest dive coaster on the planet. Along the way you’ll travel through a couple of world record breaking elements, such as the world’s tallest vertical loop standing 179 feet tall and the Highest Immelmann Inversion that is 218 feet tall.
Enjoy the two animations provided by Six Flags below, one showing off all the highlights and the other with a nice aerial fly-by simulation of the coaster in action.
(9/6/2025) Keep an eye for an announcement from Six Flags over Texas about the park’s 2026 record breaking dive coaster project on September 25th. An assortment of odd clues and images have thus far been teased on the park’s social media channels along with the ongoing hashtag #dropthegate, meanwhile the invitation to the media to attend the announcement features a sort of demonic looking set of bull eyes, so maybe it will have a crazy bull / matador theme perhaps.
(5/31/2025) More great news for Six Flags over Texas and several pictures showing off large beefy B&M Dive Coaster track deliveries taking place this week have been posted to instagram! Check it out below and scroll though the images to get a really good look at the new two-tone color-scheme that the track will have.
(5/18/2025) A Surprise delivery arrived at Six Flags over Texas this weekend, as the park reveals the first pictures of their new B&M Dive coaster. The track is two-tone, with a more dirt brown color on a square-ish support and around the box-beam on the track pieces, along with a more sand colored section on the top of the track and trails. Meanwhile the standard round support columns appear to be a sort of matte-black color from the angle shown.
(5/3/2025) The latest word from SFOT sources is that the park’s former Larson SuperLoop has now been packed up nice and neat in shipping containers, so it looks like Six Flags may have found an international buyer looking to make that ride their own. That, or it’s going into storage somewhere, possibly to wait for a refurbishment, before going to a new home. Either way, it’s gone from the park.
With the removal of that ride and the former bobsled coaster, I’m told that the entire Spain area is now essentially walled off, including the tea cups, swinging ship and the second side of the log flume, so most of these will not be running at all in 2025.
(2/9/2025) Doing a little digging myself into the FAA website regarding the proposals being filed to build something new at Six Flags over Texas, there are actually a large number of filings in the system filed as “Project Rubi” but they range from Project Rubi 1000 to up Project Rubi 4003, with structural heights anywhere from 309 feet tall down to 162 feet tall. These could be for positions for the various taller element structures on a single coaster, or I suppose they could possibly represent different layouts under consideration.
(2/7/2025) Local news reports have confirmed that paperwork was filed with the FAA in January to construct a new proposed “amusement park structure” somewhere in Arlington that would be up to 309 feet tall. While the paperwork does not specifically mentioned “Six Flags over Texas” the article confirms that the GPS coordinates in the filing come up as the location of the removed La Vibora bobsled coaster.
This matches up with the teaser from Six Flags late last year that Six Flags over Texas was planning on building a new “record-breaking dive coaster” for the 2026 season. The paperwork listed the project under the codename, “Project Rubi 1002”, with a projected construction timeline from March 1, 2025 to March 30, 2026.
Please note that while they are asking for permission to build up to 309 feet tall, this does not mean that the final ride project will actually be that tall when built. While a “dive coaster” has traditionally been in reference to a B&M Dive Machine style coaster, the company has never come near building a 300+ foot tall version before. Currently I believe the tallest Dive Coaster built to date would be Yukon Striker at Canada’s Wonderland that is 223 feet tall and features a 245 foot drop into the tunnel that goes below the waterline. Valravn at Cedar Point is also 223 feet tall, but with a shorter first drop, lacking the below grade tunnel at the bottom.
Meanwhile most of the newer Dive Coasters installed at Six Flags and Cedar Fair parks since then have been much shorter, and more focused in adding more inversions to their layouts: Thai would include the upcoming Wrath of Rakshasa (180ft / 5 inversions), Iron Menace (160 ft / 4 inversions) and Dr Diabolical’s Cliffhanger (150 ft, 2 inversions). So with that in mind, i don’t believe that the actual functional ride height of a new coaster at Six Flags over Texas would need to come anywhere near 300 feet in height. To become the tallest coaster in the park, it would only need to be taller than Titan’s 245 foot structure. I believe the only structures at the park taller than Titan are the Oil Derrick tower (300ft), Superman: Tower of Power (325ft) and the Texas SkyScreamer (400ft).
Plus, when it comes to building coasters, parks within a big chain usually have a more long term goal in mind, in selecting a series of parks to get similar creations, each one a little taller or longer than the previous model, so I’d hold off on thinking that the first Giga Dive Coaster is coming in 2026 until we know a little more.
(11/14/2024) A press release from Six Flags today confirmed that the company is planning to spend over $1 BILLION on the parks over the next two years. Some of this will come in the form of enhancements to the guest experience, such as new themed areas, dining upgrades and technology enhancements. While we’ve seen the 2025 capital projects ($500 million) already announced, they decided to post a list of teasers of what they are already confirming will come to some of the parks in 2026 as part of another $525 million capital investment plan.
Six Flags over Texas made the list for 2026 capital projects, and with a big one. Look for the original Six Flags park to add “a record-breaking dive coaster” to the park this year. I’d look to what they’ve got going in to Six Flags Great America in 2025, Wrath of Rakshasa” as a sort of guide as to what SFOT can expect in 2026… just a little bit bigger.
???? - New Attraction Guest Survey Concepts - (10/18/2025) Six Flags has begun sending out surveys to select guests to get feedback about possible future addition concepts that may be in the works. Keep in mind that not every concept they pitch for any given park may actually be intended for that particular park, as sometimes the chains will pitch ride concepts to other markets as well to gain some broader feedback on certain concepts. With that said… let’s dig into what is currently being pitched for the various parks.
The survey for Six Flags over Texas pitches a new “Western” themed dark ride with “state-of-the-art animatronics, dynamic storytelling, and interactive scenes”. Nothing was mentioned about replacing any existing park attraction with this, so I’m guessing that the Pirates of Speelunker Cave and Justice League rides are safe for now.
Another concept mentioned is interesting, as it describes adding “Multi-generational Rides”, which is essentially your classic rides from years past that are fun, but not too wild for the kids to ride with grandma, so think about things like carousels and ferris wheels. The description also mentions interactive play areas that would offer a fun experience that would ‘bring generations together.”
The final concepts mention things like adding a “Nighttime Spectacular” show as well as a “Family Water Coaster” slide, the later of which would probably be more at home at Hurricane Harbor.
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