Mighty Canadian Minebuster

Mighty Canadian Minebuster
Mighty Canadian Minebuster going up to its lift hill
Location	Canada's Wonderland
Coordinates	43°50′21″N 79°32′31″W / 43.83917°N 79.54194°W / 43.83917; -79.54194Coordinates: 43°50′21″N 79°32′31″W / 43.83917°N 79.54194°W / 43.83917; -79.54194
Status	Operating
Opened	1981
Cost	$1.2M est.
Type	Wood
Manufacturer	Philadelphia Toboggan Company
Designer	Curtis D. Summers
Track layout	Out and Back
Lift/launch system	Chain lift hill
Height	90 ft (27 m)
Drop	87 ft (27 m)
Length	3,828 ft (1,167 m)
Max speed	55.9 mph (90.0 km/h)
Duration	2:02
Height restriction	4 ft 0 in (122 cm)
Mighty Canadian Minebuster at RCDB
Pictures of Mighty Canadian Minebuster at RCDB
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The Mighty Canadian Minebuster (often shortened to just Minebuster) was one of the four roller coasters that debuted with Canada's Wonderland, an amusement park located in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, in 1981, and is still operational today. It is one of two wooden roller coasters at the park that are modelled after rides that existed at Coney Island amusement park in Cincinnati, Ohio (specifically, the Shooting Star); Wild Beast is the other. Minebuster was originally intended to be the centrepiece of the never-built Frontier Canada section of the park.^[1]

Minebuster is an out and back roller coaster, and uses two trains, with five cars holding six riders (in rows of two) each. The ride (and its trains) were built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. Canada's Wonderland's water park, Splash Works, has two sets of slides that pass over the Mighty Canadian Minebuster.^[2]

The coaster in recent years has been hampered with some roughness, along with being modified several times for incoming Water Park additions, where some of the four hills have been joined together making them much longer with less of a peak therefore significantly reducing the amount of negative G's experienced.

Ride Layout

Minebuster will be familiar to most coaster riders as a modified out and back wooden coaster, specifically with the addition of an upward spiraling helix at the end as the most obvious modification to the traditional out and back layout. The riders make an immediate U-turn to the left after leaving the station, past the storage depot and head up the chain lift hill. At the crest of the lift, the train makes a very small drop and turns right for the big drop. You then do two negative-G hills and pass under a waterslide before climbing up a larger hill and making a turnaround to the right. You then drop down and rush over three smaller hills before entering a banked turn to the left. For a finale, you roar through a helix inside a tunnel before entering the brake run which stops the train.

References

1. ^ Minebuster, CW Mainia
2. ^ http://www.pcwjunkies.com/pcw/pcwmap.htm