The Mighty Canadian Minebuster (often shortened to Minebuster) is a wooden roller coaster located at Canada's Wonderland amusement park in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada.
History
Mighty Canadian Minebuster was one of five roller coasters to debut at the park's grand opening on May 23, 1981. It is also modelled after Shooting Star, a roller coaster that used to exist at Coney Island amusement park in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was originally intended to be the centrepiece of a themed area called Frontier Canada, but the idea for the section was abandoned – the section was later built for the 2019 season.[1]
Minebuster is an out and back roller coaster designed by Curtis D. Summers and built in-house. The roller coaster was not built by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters (PTC), despite a plaque at the operator's booth and several published reports that claim it was. PTC stopped building coasters in 1979.[2] It is likely however, that the construction crew consisted of workers who had previously built coasters for PTC. The two, 30-passenger trains were supplied PTC. Canada's Wonderland's water park, Splash Works, has four sets of slides that pass over Minebuster.