![]() 4 for highest G-force - short for gravitational force - on Coasterpedia, an online resource about roller-coasters and other amusement rides.Ĭunningham said that in his experience, most roller-coasters transition out of the high G-force to give riders a chance to breathe and recover. ![]() You get really pushed down into your feet throughout the entire ride." "It goes upside down three times - extremely powerful loops they're not just like little floaty things. "It has a very long ride time and it's a very aggressive ride," he said. Radio Active 6:07 The Mindbender is no more We talk to a roller coaster enthusiast from San Francisco about Edmonton's legendary indoor attraction.Ĭunningham told CBC's Radio Active on Monday the Mindbender was popular with enthusiasts because of its intensity. The ride was a favourite of roller-coaster enthusiasts like Andrew Cunningham from San Francisco, who has been on 717 roller-coasters around the world. It was featured in the majority of tourism photos he has seen of the mall, he said. "And now I'll never get to ride it again, which is very sad," he said.įrom a tourism perspective, the roller-coaster made for one of the mall's most iconic images, right after the pirate ship and indoor waterpark, Dutczak said. But after he picked up the courage to ride it as a teenager, he was hooked. "I never in a million years thought they would close it."ĭutczak recalls being too scared to ride the Mindbender when he was young. "I heard the rumours like everyone did over the last few years, and I was the biggest, most vocal opponent of it at the thought of it closing," he told CBC. Matthew Dutczak, a self-proclaimed WEM historian and creator of the Best Edmonton Mall YouTube channel, said he was shocked to learn the ride was permanently closing. The mall announced the permanent closure of the ride on Monday. The Mindbender roller-coaster in action at Galaxyland in West Edmonton Mall. ![]()
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