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Tatsu is a steel flying roller coaster designed by Bolliger & Mabillard at the Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park located in Valencia, California. Announced on November 17, 2005, the roller coaster opened to the public on May 13, 2006 as the park's seventeenth roller coaster. Tatsu reaches a height of and speeds up to . The ride's name comes from Japanese mythology and means Flying Beast in Japanese. The roller coaster is also the world's tallest and fastest flying coaster; is the only flying roller coaster to feature a zero-gravity roll; and has the world's highest pretzel loop. It was the world's longest flying coaster until The Flying Dinosaur surpassed it.
In the roller coaster's opening year, it was named the 40th best roller coaster in the world in Amusement Today's Golden Ticket Awards; in Mitch Hawker's Best Steel Roller Coaster Poll, the roller coaster placed at the 34 position.
Tatsu (alternative title: Hound Dogs is a 1994 Russian film directed by Vera Yakovenko and starring Margarita Pushkina, Nastia Poleva, Krematorij, Molotov Cocktail bands and others.
Tatsu is a roller-coaster in California.
Tatsu may also refer to:
- Yoshi Tatsu (born 1977), Japanese professional wrestler
- Tatsu Aoki (born 1957), jazz double bass player and record producer
- Tatsu (film), a 1994 Russian film
- Tatsu, Shredder's right-hand man in the first two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live-action movies