A coaster that fires you out of the station three times before it lets you see the top is now open on a Korean hillside, and it is the first of its kind anywhere.
What happened
Lotte World Adventure Busan opened Giant Revolution on 8 October 2026, according to Zamperla’s own news page. It is the first Double Heart, a new model from the Italian manufacturer, and it sits in the park’s Magic Forest area in Gijang, on Busan’s coast.
The ride was announced on the IAAPA Expo floor in Orlando in November 2025, with the park and Zamperla promising a 2026 opening. Enthusiast wiki Coasterpedia records the park confirming the 8 October date on 23 September, and a media preview the day before opening. RCDB, the standard coaster database, still listed the ride as under construction when we checked, so expect its entry to catch up.
The detail
The figures below are Zamperla’s own, from its announcement page and ride stats. We have left out track length, hourly capacity and inversion count: the only sources we found for them were a single trade write-up and an unsourced wiki entry, and the two do not agree on enough to publish.
| Metric | Imperial | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 50 m | 164 ft |
| Top speed | 110 km/h | 68 mph |
| Footprint | 70 × 21 m | 230 × 70 ft |
| Minimum rider height | 120 cm | 48 in |
| Launches | Three (two forward, one backward) | |
| Trains | Zamperla Lightning |
Note the speed. Zamperla’s stats sheet prints 64 mph beside 110 km/h, while its text says 68 mph. The conversion is 68 mph, so we have used that.
What it actually means
Start with the layout, because “triple launch” is doing real work. A launch coaster accelerates the train along a straight with motors or a hydraulic system rather than hauling it up a hill; we explain both in how launch coasters work. Zamperla says Giant Revolution fires the train three times, two forward and one backward, before it climbs the tall section. That pattern, back-and-forth passes building towards a big finale, belongs to the same family as Cedar Point’s Top Thrill 2, which Zamperla itself draws as the comparison. Zamperla’s pages do not name the launch system for this ride, so we will not guess; the family resemblance is a hint, not a specification.
Why do it that way? Because the footprint is tiny. A conventional launch coaster needs a long, flat run-out. Repeating the launch lets a ride cover its speed-building in the same few metres of track. At 70 × 21 m, the whole thing occupies about a fifth of a football pitch. For a park on a constrained hillside, that is the sales pitch.
Now the claims. Zamperla calls it “the world’s largest compact triple launch coaster”. That is a category built to be won: “compact” has no agreed definition, and no yardstick is offered. “World’s first Double Heart” is true, but any first example of a new model is the world’s first of that model. It is a product name, not a record. Trade-press headlines also called it Korea’s fastest launch coaster; the article body behind that headline did not support it, and we could not verify the record independently, so we make no such claim.
The manufacturer angle matters more. Zamperla built its name on flat rides and family coasters, and has been pushing into big thrill hardware; we cover where it sits among its rivals in our guide to the roller coaster manufacturers. A first-of-model ride is both a showcase and a test. Others have done the same, and Efteling’s Ravenring, Vekoma’s first WaveCatcher, is a recent European example. The first months of any new model are when teething problems surface, which is why soft openings exist.
The Dispatch verdict
Giant Revolution is a smart answer to a real problem, a park with more ambition than land, and Busan is a long way from the Florida-centric coverage that usually decides what counts as a big opening. But the proof is in the running. We will take “world’s largest compact” as marketing until RCDB publishes full element data and the ride has a few months of operation behind it. Until then, 50 m and three launches in a 70 × 21 m plot is a credible, and genuinely interesting, set of numbers.
Further reading: how launch coasters work, a guide to the roller coaster manufacturers, Efteling’s Ravenring and Vekoma’s first WaveCatcher, why parks soft-open rides, and Zamperla’s family coaster for O’Fun Park.