Canyon Blaster, Indoor roller coaster at Adventuredome in Las Vegas, United States
Canyon Blaster is an indoor steel roller coaster at Adventuredome in Winchester, Nevada. Its pinkish-purple track rises into back-to-back vertical loops, then twists through double corkscrews and ends in a helix inside the artificial mountain. Grey steel columns and two thick white cylindrical pillars support the structure beneath a domed lattice roof.
Canyon Blaster opened on 23 August 1993 at the Adventuredome inside the Circus Circus hotel in Winchester, Nevada. Arrow Dynamics built it as a Custom Looping Coaster, the second Arrow coaster designed for an indoor park after Chicago Loop. It is a clone of the Rolling X-Train at Everland in South Korea. The track was repainted in 2006 from pink rails and white supports to violet rails with black supports.
Canyon Blaster appears in the 1999 film Baby Geniuses as part of the fictional Joyworld park, where a character starts the ride with two scientists aboard and restraints still open. It also features in a 2007 episode of Criss Angel Mindfreak, where a train seems to pass through the magician's body before he ends up in the front seat.
Canyon Blaster sits inside the Adventuredome at the Circus Circus Hotel in Winchester, Nevada, so riders reach it without going outdoors. The queue and station are within the domed park, and the coaster's helix runs through the artificial mountain that fills much of the building. Riders must meet the coaster's height requirement; the park is open year-round.
Canyon Blaster is a clone of the Rolling X-Train at Everland in South Korea. It was the second Arrow Dynamics coaster built for an indoor park, after Chicago Loop at Old Chicago in Bolingbrook, Illinois, which later moved to Canobie Lake Park as Canobie Corkscrew. Its two six-car trains seat four riders per car, though seven-car trains ran at opening.
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