Canada's Wonderland · Operating · 1981

Wilde Beast

85 ft · 50 mph

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Thrill rideCanada's Wonderland Official park siteMedieval FairePhiladelphia Toboggan Coasters85 ft · 50 mph

Wilde Beast has twisted through Medieval Faire's wooded terrain since Canada's Wonderland's grand opening in 1981, modeled after the Wildcat coaster at Cincinnati's old Coney Island amusement park. The wooden twister climbs to roughly 85 feet before a series of quick drops and tight turns carry trains through the forested Medieval Faire terrain at speeds up to 50 mph. The ride operated under the simplified name Wild Beast from 1997 to 2018 before the park quietly restored its original pseudo-Elizabethan spelling to match the archaic English branding used throughout Medieval Faire. As one of the park's five original 1981 coasters, it remains a rare surviving example of a wooden twister built at the very start of Canada's Wonderland's history.

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Ride profile

Scaled against Canada's Wonderland's operating coasters

Wood

Park intensity

Height

85 ft

#8 of 11 at Canada's Wonderland

Height85 ft

Speed50 mph

Length3,200 ft

InversionsNone

Ride experience

Ptc
Twister
Wood

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Helixes and direction changes stacked in one direction — classic wooden feel.

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History

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Timeline

1981
Wilde Beast opens
One of five original roller coasters at Canada's Wonderland's grand opening; modeled after Coney Island's Wildcat.
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1997
Renamed Wild Beast
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2019
Reverted to Wilde Beast
Restores the original pseudo-Elizabethan spelling to match Medieval Faire branding.
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Background

Wilde Beast was one of five roller coasters that opened alongside Canada's Wonderland on May 23, 1981, designed as a wooden twister modeled directly after the Wildcat coaster at Cincinnati's old Coney Island amusement park.

The ride's wooden structure climbs to roughly 85 feet before a series of quick drops and tight turns wind through the forested terrain of Medieval Faire at speeds up to 50 mph, carrying its original pseudo-Elizabethan spelling from opening day to match the archaic English branding used throughout the surrounding themed area. Paramount simplified the name to Wild Beast for the 1997 season, a change that held for more than two decades.

Canada's Wonderland quietly reverted the ride to its original Wilde Beast spelling for the 2019 season without formal announcement, part of a broader restoration of period-correct names across Medieval Faire.

As one of only four coasters still operating from the park's original 1981 lineup, Wilde Beast remains a rare surviving example of an early-1980s wooden twister layout, still threading the same wooded Medieval Faire terrain more than four decades later.

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