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A moment in history: Aug. 15, 1987

Summary by taproot.news
On this day in 1987, West Edmonton Mall's infamous roller-coaster reopened roughly one year after a deadly malfunction. The Mindbender coaster opened in 1985 as part of an expansion of WEM's Fantasyland amusement park, aimed at appealing to more adult crowds. The $6-million attraction was created by Werner Stengel and Anton Schwarzkopf, two of the most influential and celebrated designers in all of coasterdom. With just shy of 1,300 metres of tr…
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taproot.news broke the news in on Friday, August 15, 2025.
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