The Mindbender - WEM - Edmonton, Alberta
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N 53° 31.418 W 113° 37.262
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The Mindbender is a great indoor roller coaster with three loops located in Galaxyland in West Edmonton Mall off of 170th Street in Edmonton, Alberta
Waymark Code: WM4P9E
Location: Alberta, Canada
Date Posted: 09/14/2008
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From Wikipedia...
Mindbender was designed by Germany's Werner Stengel and built by Anton Schwarzkopf. It was inspired by this team's previous design, Dreier Looping, a portable coaster that travelled the German funfair circuit, before being sold to a succession of amusement parks in Malaysia, Great Britain, and most recently, Mexico. Mindbender is a pseudo mirror-image of Dreier Looping, and is slightly taller, with additional helices at the end of the ride. Mindbender features shorter trains, with three pilot cars, whereas Dreier Looping usually ran with five trailer cars and one pilot car, occasionally rising to seven-car trains at busy funfairs.
The ride's layout features many twisting drops, three vertical loops and a double upward helix finale. The ride twists underneath, in between and around its supports. It also goes underneath the "UFO Maze" , (which has been removed to make way for a new roller coaster - Gerstlauer's Galaxy Orbiter), during the helix.
Often in high season, the last car on one of the trains is reversed, allowing guests to ride the roller coaster without being able to see where they are going.
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