Wrath of Rakshasa

Wrath of Rakshasa traces back to an earlier, less intense Bolliger & Mabillard Dive Coaster that Six Flags Great America had originally planned to build for itself, before deciding to redirect those plans to a different park — that design ultimately opened at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in 2022 as Dr. Diabolical's Cliffhanger. Great America instead held out for a custom design pushing the dive-coaster format further than any previous installation.

Announced on August 15, 2024, and built on the site of the former Buccaneer Battle water ride in County Fair, Wrath of Rakshasa opened to the public on May 31, 2025, as the sixth B&M coaster collaboration between the manufacturer and the park. Its 180-foot lift hill leads into a 171-foot drop at a beyond-vertical 96 degrees — the steepest drop ever built on a Dive Coaster — before threading riders through five inversions including an Immelmann, a dive loop, a zero-g roll variant, a corkscrew, and a barrel roll, more than any Dive Coaster built before it.

Named for a shapeshifting, man-eating demon from Hindu mythology capable of taking animal or monster form at will, the ride gives Six Flags Great America a 16th roller coaster and, for now, the two headline superlatives in the entire Dive Coaster category worldwide — steepest drop and most inversions — dating from a format B&M first introduced with SheiKra at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay two decades earlier.