AlpenFury

AlpenFury is a steel launched roller coaster located at Canada's Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. Manufactured by Premier Rides, 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.^[1] It is also the first new roller coaster for Canada's Wonderland since the merger between Cedar Fair and Six Flags became active under the latter's name in July 2024.

AlpenFury
A rendering of AlpenFury
Canada’s Wonderland
Location	Canada’s Wonderland
Park section	Alpenfest
Coordinates	43°50′30″N 79°32′35″W
Status	Operating
Soft opening date	11 July 2025
Opening date	12 July 2025
Replaced	Xtreme Skyflyer
General statistics
Type	Steel – Launched
Manufacturer	Premier Rides
Model	Sky Rocket
Track layout	Out and back
Lift/launch system	Linear synchronous motor
Height	50 m (164 ft)
Drop	47 m (154 ft)
Length	1,000 m (3,281 ft)
Speed	115 km/h (71 mph)
Inversions	9
Duration	1:20
Height restriction	137–205 cm (4 ft 6 in – 6 ft 9 in)
Trains	2 trains with 3 cars. Riders are arranged 2 across in 3 rows for a total of 18 riders per train.
Website	Official site
Fast Lane Plus only available
Single rider line Available
AlpenFury at RCDB

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 Wing Coaster that would be launched out of the top of Wonder Mountain.^[2] Canada's Wonderland had in actuality begun to develop the former in mid-2022, soliciting design bids from several manufacturers.^[3] By the fall of 2023, Baltimore-based Premier Rides 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.^[4]

Canada's Wonderland removed Xtreme Skyflyer, a Skycoaster, in March 2024 and began teasing a new attraction near Wonder Mountain.^[5] On 20 July 2024, Canada's Wonderland posted to its Instagram 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.^[6] Construction fences installed near the mountain during the 2024 season read "Something big is coming. Stay tuned".^[7]

AlpenFury was announced as promised on 8 August 2024, with the name, specifications, and storyline behind it released to the press.^[1][8] The first sections of steel track and supports arrived at the park on 26 August.^[9]

Characteristics

AlpenFury is the longest, tallest, and fastest launch roller coaster in Canada. It reaches a height of 50 metres (164 ft), span 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) 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 115 kilometres per hour (71 mph). It features nine inversions – the most of any launch coaster in the world.^[10]

It is the only ride in the park to feature pyrotechnics 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 Cedar Fair acquiring the park from CBS Corporation (successor of the original Viacom) in 2006 and Cedar Fair not having the license to use Paramount IPs from CBS Corporation.^[11] 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,^[12] which features an ascending helix that climbs into a zero-G stall where the ride experiences weightlessness, 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.^[10]

Ride vehicles

Front row seats of AlpenFury's "ice" train

The ride vehicle for AlpenFury, manufactured by Premier Rides, was showcased at the IAAPA Expo^[13] in Orlando, Florida.^[14] 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.^[10]

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,^[15] displaying the fire (orange) and ice (blue) aspects of the coaster.^[10]

Reception

There was controversy regarding the safety of the trains in which a mother of a ten-year-old daughter was alleged not to be secured properly before dispatch and her TikTok video rant about the incident became viral. The child is uninjured from AlpenFury.^[16]