Galaxyland | Unknown | Vekoma Mindbender replacement | 202?

[CoasterEv]

My Thoughts:
Weird to see them getting rid of Six Flags St. Louis
Why are they selling Oceans of Fun when Worlds of Fun is included with it
Why are they selling the Great Escape Hotel but Not Great Escape?

Like, wtf is taking so long? I was just there two weeks ago, and the tracks are rotting outside in the winter. Get it together, WEM. I grew up at this park when it was Fantasyland (AMAZING ride collection), and this place has just gone to sh*t.

Thanks for the info. It makes sense. In the end all good things must come to an end. Mindbender was such a good, powerful, elegant coaster. It's sad to see it go. But despite it's sad beginnings with the fatal accident in 1986, it managed to thrill many people for all those years and we all have to be thankful for that.

It was literally amazing. I worked there as a ride-Op in my teens, and spent every day of my summer riding this beast. So sad it had to go. It was freaking crazy backwards! LOL

 

[TPoseOnTantrum]

Like, wtf is taking so long? I was just there two weeks ago, and the tracks are rotting outside in the winter. Get it together, WEM. I grew up at this park when it was Fantasyland (AMAZING ride collection), and this place has just gone to sh*t.

Well see in July of last year I was in attendance for the grand opening of another new Vekoma here in Canada and while speaking with the park team, Galaxyland’s project cropped up. All I got out of that was that they were hunkered up in Edmonton and prepared to be there for an extended amount of time. As in, coaster maybe not opening in 2026 amount of time. So yeah this was planned.

This is not a very large layout and it’s definitely paling in comparison to its predecessor, plus the overall design is going to split a lot of opinions. The reason it is taking so long is because it’s being constructed in an extremely tight indoor space where maneuvering room is scarce, equipment is hard to get in/out, and nothing about the building is being modified. It’s been a difficult and expensive construction project almost unlike anything Vekoma has yet done, and replacing an indoor coaster of Mindbender’s scale is unprecedented. Even when that was built they had the luxury of outdoors construction before boxing it in.

The first big task was demolition, this current phase has been groundwork which even on normal outdoors coaster project takes the longest. I think they’re close to wrapping that up and then assembly will begin, which will pose its own challenges. For Europeans you will be familiar with Phantasialsnd’s logistics in piecing together F.L.Y., no doubt Vekoma’s been presented with a simpler but very similar dilemma here.

 

[JuliOverbank]

I was just there two weeks ago, and the tracks are rotting outside in the winter.

Do you maybe have a picture of this?

 

[VonRolland]

I was just there two weeks ago, and the tracks are rotting outside in the winter.

Bit dramatic no?

 

[CoasterEv]

Bit dramatic no?

If you interpret it that way... ?? Lol. Still no progress. Tormenta (and many others), have gone up insanely faster than any shred of construction with this thing. No?