Canada's Wonderland · Operating · 1981

Dragon Fyre

85 ft · 50 mph

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Thrill rideCanada's Wonderland Official park siteMedieval Faire

Arrow Dynamics85 ft · 50 mph

Dragon Fyre has looped through Medieval Faire since Canada's Wonderland's grand opening in 1981, when it debuted as one of the park's five original roller coasters and one of only a handful of Arrow Dynamics coasters to feature counter-clockwise corkscrews. A chain lift carries trains to 85 feet before two vertical loops and a pair of corkscrews send riders through four total inversions across 2,300 feet of track. The ride operated under the simplified spelling Dragon Fire from 1997 to 2018 before Canada's Wonderland quietly restored the original pseudo-Elizabethan name to match Medieval Faire's period branding. More than four decades after opening, it remains one of the park's oldest continuously operating steel coasters.

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Ride profile

Scaled against Canada's Wonderland's operating coasters

Steel

Park intensity

Height

85 ft

#7 of 11 at Canada's Wonderland

Height85 ft

Speed50 mph

Length2,300 ft

Inversions4

Ride experience

Looping
Steel

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History

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1981
Dragon Fyre opens
One of five original roller coasters at Canada's Wonderland's grand opening.
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1997
Renamed Dragon Fire
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2019
Reverted to Dragon Fyre
Restores the original pseudo-Elizabethan spelling to match Medieval Faire branding.
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Background

Dragon Fyre was one of five roller coasters that debuted when Canada's Wonderland opened its gates on May 23, 1981, giving the brand-new park an immediate looping-coaster credential to match established American parks.

Arrow Dynamics built the steel coaster with two vertical loops and a pair of corkscrews rotating counter-clockwise — an unusual configuration among Arrow's catalog of the era — sending trains through four total inversions across 2,300 feet of track from an 85-foot lift hill. The ride carried its archaic pseudo-Elizabethan spelling from opening day, matching the period English branding used throughout Medieval Faire.

Paramount simplified the name to Dragon Fire for the 1997 season as part of a broader modernization of ride branding across the park, a change that lasted more than two decades before Canada's Wonderland quietly reverted to the original Dragon Fyre spelling for the 2019 season, alongside similar restorations for other Medieval Faire attractions.

More than four decades after opening, Dragon Fyre remains one of the park's oldest continuously operating steel coasters and one of only four rides still running from Canada's Wonderland's original 1981 lineup.

History primarily sourced from sixflags.com. See also our data policy.