Every attraction at Six Flags Over Texas

Texas SkyScreamer is the chain's giant swing model at the Arlington scale: a 400-foot tower, a carousel of swings, and a top speed that swings riders in a circle the width of a city block. It is one of the tallest swings at any American park.

The Texas Giant was a 1990 wooden coaster famous for its size. In 2011 Rocky Mountain Construction replaced its track with fabricated steel and rewrote the layout: steeper than wood allows, faster than the original, with airtime hills that throw rather than float. The conversion worked so well it spawned a decade of imitators — Twisted Colossus, Goliath at Great America, Iron Rattler in San Antonio — making this ride arguably the most influential single coaster of the century so far.

Titan is the biggest thing between the coasts at this chain: 245 feet tall, 85 miles per hour, and a course that spends its speed through enormous turns rather than hills. It is the sister design of Magic Mountain's Goliath with a Texas-scale layout bolted on.

Runaway Mine Train opened in 1966, making it one of the oldest coasters still running in the United States and the founding example of the mine-train genre that every regional park copied through the seventies. The lift, the dips and the tunnel through the Spain section's Caddo Lake setting are all original character.

Judge Roy Scream is the park's classic wooden coaster, built in 1980 across the lagoon from the Spain section. It is a traditional out-and-back: lift, drop along the lakefront, airtime hills, turnaround, repeat. The woodie community holds it in genuine affection as a well-kept traditionalist ride.

La Vibora ('the viper' in Spanish, fitting the Spain section) is an Intamin bobsled coaster: the cars are uncaptured, rolling through a half-pipe trough the way a bobsled runs ice. No two rides are identical because the line the car takes depends on its speed and load.

Mr. Freeze opened in 1998 as the park's flagship launch coaster: linear-motor catapult to 70 miles per hour, up a 218-foot vertical tower where the train balances, then the whole course again in reverse. The 'Reverse Blast' conversion flipped the trains to launch backwards, which is how it runs today.

Shock Wave is the park's resident monument: when it opened in 1978, its two consecutive vertical loops were a world first, and the ride is often credited as the machine that launched the modern coaster wars. Nearly fifty years later, both loops still deliver, and the 42-inch minimum makes it one of the lowest height bars for a genuine multi-looping coaster anywhere.