Indoor roller coaster
An indoor roller coaster or enclosed roller coaster is a roller coaster built inside a structure. The structure may be unrelated to the ride, or it may be intended solely or primarily for the ride. Many indoor coasters are custom made and placed in amusement parks or shopping malls. LaMarcus Adna Thompson, who pioneered the construction of the first simple roller coasters, initially built "scenic railway" rides including "indoor tableaux, panoramas, and biblical scenes illumined by car-tripped switches and flood lamps".[1] A "completely enclosed roller coaster" called the Twister was built as early as 1925.[2] Walt Disney's Space Mountain was one of the first rides considered to be an indoor roller coaster,[3] and was "the first indoor roller coaster where riders were in total darkness for the length of the ride so they couldn't tell where the drops or turns would occur".[4][5]
Notable examples[edit]
- Roller coasters inside structures unrelated to the ride
- Autosled at Galaxyland
- Avatar Airbender at Nickelodeon Universe
- Back at the Barnyard Hayride at Nickelodeon Universe
- Boomerang at Attractiepark Toverland
- Canyon Blaster at Adventuredome
- Crystal Bullet at Crystal Palace
- Dragon Wagon at Galaxyland
- Eurosat - CanCan Coaster at Europa-Park
- Fairly Odd Coaster at Nickelodeon Universe
- Galaxy Orbiter at Galaxyland
- Jungle Storm at Chakazoolu Indoor Theme Park
- Mindbender at Galaxyland
- Pepsi Orange Streak at Nickelodeon Universe
- Piratenbaan at Plopsa Indoor Coevorden
- Piratenbaan at Plopsa Indoor Hasselt
- Roller Coaster at Neverland
- Sky Train within the Dragon Centre
- SpongeBob SquarePants Rock Bottom Plunge at Nickelodeon Universe
- Supersonic Odyssey at Cosmo's World
- Winjas at Phantasialand
- Roller coasters inside structures purpose-built for the ride
- Bird Rok at Efteling
- Crush's Coaster at Walt Disney Studios Park
- The Dark Knight Coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure, Six Flags Great America and Six Flags México
- Disaster Transport at Cedar Point, removed to make way for GateKeeper
- Eurosat at Europa-Park
- Flight of Fear at Kings Dominion and Kings Island
- Mystery Mine at Dollywood
- Revenge of the Mummy at Universal Studios Florida, Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Studios Singapore
- Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith at Disney's Hollywood Studios and Walt Disney Studios Park
- Runaway Mountain at Six Flags Over Texas
- Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster at Warner Bros. Movie World
- Skull Mountain at Six Flags Great Adventure
- Space Mountain at various Disney parks
- Temple of the Night Hawk at Phantasialand
- Verbolten at Busch Gardens Williamsburg
- Volcano, The Blast Coaster at Kings Dominion
- X at Thorpe Park
- Comet Express at Lotte World
- Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts at Universal Studios Florida
- Cagliostro at Rainbow Magic Land
- Linnunrata at Linnanmäki
References[edit]
- ↑ Terence G. Young, Terence Young, Robert B. Riley, Theme Park Landscapes: Antecedents and Variations (2002), p. 246.
- ↑ Robert Cartmell, The Incredible Scream Machine: A History of the Roller Coaster (1987), p. 145.
- ↑ Life Magazine Editors, LIFE Inside the Disney Parks: The Happiest Places on Earth (2018), p. 82.
- ↑ Wade Sampson, "The Secret Origin of Space Mountain", MousePlanet.com (August 8, 2007).
- ↑ Priscilla Hobbs, Walt's Utopia: Disneyland and American Mythmaking (2015), p. 43.
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