Lost Coaster of Superstition Mountain

Riders start by boarding the train in one of two cars, either facing forwards or backwards. The ride operator then dispatches the train, which makes a right hand turn into a Trim brake, before entering the elevator lift. the train is stopped by a brake, and the elevator starts to ascend the 35 ft (11 m) elevator shaft. While in the elevator, a skeleton animatronic gives one of three pre recorded spiels.

Once at the top, the brake releases, sending the train out of the elevator and into a sharp turnaround that sends riders flying into the side of the car. The train then briefly enters the mountain, making a left hand turn and quickly exiting again. The car goes through a couple airtime hills before flying around an inner banked turnaround that will also send riders out of their seats. The car then flies through a couple of anti-rollbacks, and up into the mountain. The car makes a sharp right-hand turn and then a sharp left-hand turn, before transitioning slowly into a turnaround that leads to the mid-course brake run.

during the midcourse, the train comes to a complete stop, and a short show scene plays in which a character dubbed 'Dynamite Willie' yells "Fire in the hole!" and pushes down a detonator, setting off fake explosions and sending the train off. Sometimes, the car will be going too slow, and will not make it far enough to trigger a proximity sensor, thus stopping the ride.

After the midcourse, the train falls into a double-down and then into a sharp right-hand turn, momentarily bringing riders outside the mountain, before going right back in. The train then rolls up into a couple show scenes of an abandoned mineshaft, and then a bear that came from the original Superstition Mountain Mine Ride. The train then rolls through a couple unbanked right and left turns, before slowly making a left-hand turn, and exiting the mountain once again, passing next to the 'Antique Autos' ride, before making another left-hand turn and plunging back into the mountain.

The car passes through a circular tunnel left from the old Mine Ride, before hitting a magnet brake that slows the train down so it can make a very sharp inner-banked turnaround. The car then passes through a scene where fake rocks are falling because of a fake earthquake. The train then makes one last turnaround into a scene where there is a fake train that the car is heading towards. The train blows its whistle and the car makes a sharp left turn just before hitting the locomotive.

The train then goes into a set of traction tires that push the train up into a left-hand turn and one more set of traction tires, that push the train up into the final brake run. The train then waits there until the next train is dispatched or the station is open. Riders then exit the train and the ride is over.

Superstition Mountain operated at Indiana Beach from 1984 to 2001. Plagued with electrical issues due to the electrical track not being able to operate in the rain, Tom Spackman Jr. (the park's previous owner) decided he wanted to turn the ride into a rollercoaster. He turned to CCI, which built both of Indiana Beach's previous Wooden Rollercoasters, to take on the task of turning the old dark ride into a coaster. During the 2001 offseason, Indiana Beach employees began disassembling the old ride, and got it ready for CCI. The coaster features some of the craziest and tightest turns a rollercoaster had ever seen, some having a radius of less than 6 feet. To accommodate these turns, CCI also had to build a proprietary new train for the ride. Originally, the cars did not have any kind of cage around them, but it was determined that cages were needed to protect guests from potential harm. On Friday, May 17, 2002, the new coaster was announced at a media event. The coaster officially opened on June 6, 2002.

In the offseason of 2002, the ride was updated to include more features and upgrades, such as new animatronics, props, and even plumbing for a waterfall. The top of the mountain was also finished, adding one more floor to increase its height.

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