{"id":9227,"date":"2025-10-18T00:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/9227\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T00:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:06:07","slug":"austins-cotaland-opens-new-coaster-for-25-per-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/9227\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin\u2019s Cotaland opens new coaster \u2013 for $25 per ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                 <img width=\"750\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Circuit-Breaker-Cotaland-e1760742905217.jpeg\" class=\"cb-fi-standard wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Cotaland <\/p>\n<p>More than three years after it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themeparktribune.com\/vekoma-tilt-coaster-planned-for-2023-at-cotaland-in-austin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">first announced<\/a>, the Circuit Breaker roller coaster has opened \u2013 and charging $25 for just one ride.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new coaster is part of the long-delayed Cotaland amusement park at the Circuit of the Americas Formula 1 race track in Austin, Texas. Just in time for the United States Grand Prix race on Oct. 19, Circuit Breaker opened for previews on Friday, with a 130-foot-tall lift hill that tilts riders 90 degrees before dropping them into a layout that hits a top speed of 60 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p>Access will be limited to guests who have a race ticket this weekend and cost $25 for just one ride. Reserving a specific time to ride will cost $90 \u2013 and if you want unlimited rides, you\u2019ll have to pay $500.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Circuit breaker admission. Please note it does require a race ticket <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/30s1KFMCP1\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/30s1KFMCP1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ThrillNerds (@ThrillNerds) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThrillNerds\/status\/1979153654532702679?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Circuit Breaker was announced back in 2022, it was supposed to be the first U.S. installation of Vekoma\u2019s tilt coaster model, but its delay allowed that title to be taken by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themeparktribune.com\/review-sirens-curse-at-cedar-point-shows-tilt-coaster-isnt-just-a-gimmick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Siren\u2019s Curse<\/a> at Cedar Point, which debuted earlier this year. (Just for the sake of comparison, the $25 cost for Circuit Breaker\u2019s preview is more than half the cost of the $45 full-day ticket to all of Cedar Point.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233796\" class=\"size-full wp-image-233796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/COTALAND_615x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"800\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-233796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Concept art for the finished Cotaland, now reportedly opening in 2026 (Cotaland)<\/p>\n<p>Circuit Breaker will be operating alone on racing weekend, as the rest of Cotaland isn\u2019t set to debut until sometime in 2026, according to local TV station KXAN. That includes the park\u2019s other major coaster, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themeparktribune.com\/cotaland-in-austin-building-road-spanning-gerstlauer-shuttle-coaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Palindrome<\/a>, which was announced even before Circuit Breaker and was supposed to open in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-tags\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themeparktribune.com\/tag\/cotaland\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cotaland<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themeparktribune.com\/tag\/other-theme-parks\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Other theme parks<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themeparktribune.com\/tag\/roller-coasters\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">roller coasters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cotaland More than three years after it was first announced, the Circuit Breaker roller coaster has opened \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,8664,8665,5033],"class_list":{"0":"post-9227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-cotaland","12":"tag-other-theme-parks","13":"tag-roller-coasters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}