ORLANDO, Fla. — Thrill-seekers searching for the new biggest, tallest or fastest roller coaster rush may be slightly disappointed.

The 2007 class of coasters at amusement parks across America isn’t a record-breaker. In fact, one park is dumping two of its old coasters and another is re-engineering a wooden coaster to make it a little less thrilling.

That means a lot of new shows, water park additions and cartoon-themed features for small children. But there are still some offerings for the boardwalk adrenaline junkie, from new coasters that drop five degrees steeper than straight down to a seven-story swing in Missouri that takes riders 75 feet in the air.

“This year the parks are really kind of trying to capture the family market, as opposed to the teen market,” said Steven Smith, operations manager for the theme-park consulting Baker Leisure Group.

A look at what’s new this summer:

New water park features are abundant, from water coasters to wave pools.

• Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom opens Deluge, a new hydromagnetic water coaster that takes patrons in four-person rafts through a series of tunnels and turns. The park is also expanding its Splashwater Kingdom with a Buccaneer Beach play area for young children.

• Blue Bayou Waterpark and Dixie Landin’ in Baton Rouge, La., is also adding a bowl ride called Voodoo, which is 80 feet tall and enclosed.

• Guests in cloverleaf rafts will wind through tunnels and into a giant funnel on the Tornado at Six Flags Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom in Queensbury, N.Y.

• SeaWorld San Antonio adds “Journey to Atlantis,” part coaster and part water ride. Boats hit the water for the finale at 49 mph.

• WaterWorks at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Va., expands with a second wave pool, a 65-foot Tornado water ride and new log flume.

• Hersheypark in Pennsylvania celebrates its 100th anniversary with a new boardwalk. It will include four slides, a kid’s play area and wave pool that simulates body surfing.

Go Fast: The new coaster class may be small, but it’s diverse.

• Mystery Mine at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., isn’t the fastest, but may be the most highly themed new coaster. The ride simulates a spooky, abandoned coal mine and drops 85 feet at 95 degrees. Top speed on the 2-minute, 30-second ride is 60 mph.

• Griffon at Busch Gardens Europe in Williamsburg, Va., is set in a French village, with a 90-degree drop and no floor. The park bills it as the tallest and first floorless dive coaster.

• Busch Gardens Africa in Tampa is giving similar treatment to SheiKra, a 2-year-old coaster. The park will close the ride for three weeks to remove its floor this year, providing “an unobstructed view of the 70 mph rush.

• Wicked at Lagoon near Salt Lake City is 110 feet high and goes up to 55 mph.

Just Go Ride It: Some new attractions fit more than one category, or don’t fit any at all.

• NASA makes its foray into the entertainment business with the new Shuttle Launch Experience at the Kennedy Space Center’s visitor area. The $60 million ride simulates, as its name suggests, a shuttle blastoff and ascent into obit. Astronauts were consulted to make the ride as realistic as possible.

• Walt Disney World in Orlando opens its new comedy show featuring characters from the popular movie “Monsters Inc.” Instead of collecting screams, like in the movie, the characters try to elicit laughs, or to power Monstropolis. Guests are invited to text their own jokes, and anyone in the audience is fair game. to tease.

-Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., re-launches its popular Submarine Voyage ride with “Finding Nemo” movie themes. Patrons take a trip to an active undersea volcano with the cartoon characters in Tomorrowland.

-The Xtreme Frisbee ride opens at Canobie Lake Park in Salem, N.H. Riders sit around an enormous Frisbee (26 feet wide) that spins and swings 63 feet high. There are even moments of weightlessness.

-Silver Dollar City in Branson, Mo., launches its Giant Swing. The ride sends riders up 75 feet in opposite directions and nearly 230 degrees. The park says it produces “back-to-back G-force kicks” and sensations of weightlessness.

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GIDDY UP

Two Western-themed parks are opening up this year.

-Ghost Town in the Sky at Maggie Valley, N.C., reopens after being shuttered since 2002. The park is making over and renaming the Red Devil coaster as the Cliff Hanger. It goes 56 mph.

-Wild West World calls itself Kansas’ first theme park. Located outside Wichita, the 35-acre park has six thrill rides, nine family rides and nine kids’ rides. Attractions are split into sections called “Texas,” “Oklahoma” and “Kansas.”

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WHAT’S IN A NAME?

-Denver’s theme park is changing its name back to Elitch Gardens after it was sold by Six Flags.

-Six Flags Marine World in Vallejo, Calif., will now go by “Six Flags Discovery Kingdom.” The park is being split into themed areas “Land,” “Sea” and “Sky.”

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FOR THE KIDS

The cutest new rides are here.

-SeaWorld Orlando is doubling “Shamu’s Happy Harbor” and adding three new rides. The Ocean Commotion is a swinging boat ride, the Flying Fiddler lifts riders 20 feet in the air and jostles them and a new carousel features 65 sea creatures.

-Holiday World is adding a new tilt-a-whirl in its Thanksgiving area.

-New “Wiggles World” areas are coming to Six Flags parks in Jackson, N.J., Gurnee, Ill. and Agawam, Mass. The area features rides themed after the popular children’s act and supporting characters from the cable show “The Wiggles.”

-Wild Safari Exploration Station also debuts at Six Flags in New Jersey near the Wiggles attraction, featuring hands-on activities about animals on six continents.

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STAGE AND SCREEN

New shows are all over the place.

-The Blue Man Group debuts at Universal Orlando in a new theater. The bald, blue characters will perform a new show built for the expansion.

—Six Flags Great America in Illinois adds a new “Operation SpyGirl” stunt show from the creator of the television show “24.” A heroine battles the clock to save the world and defeat villain Max Condor.

—Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio, opens a 3D family movie called “Lego Racers” and a live magic and comedy show.

—A new outdoor evening show debuts at Six Flags over Texas in Arlington called “Cirque Dreams Coobrila.” It will feature an international cast, strange costumes and original music. The show is part of the park’s ad push to stay open until 11 p.m. from June 16 to Aug. 19.