Canyon Blaster


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Canyon Blaster
Adventuredome (Circus Circus) · US · Custom Looping Coaster, 1993
Canyon Blaster — Custom Looping Coaster, Adventuredome (Circus Circus)
UNOFFICIAL · NOT PARK-ENDORSED PHOTO · Nast89 · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
Height 28.7 m
Speed 66 km/h
Inversions 4
Throughput 1,400est. rph
Build Cost $6est. m
Vintage 1993
COMMON “Beyond the casino lamps, Arrow bent a canyon inside the dome.”
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Canyon Blaster

Adventuredome (Circus Circus) · US · Arrow Dynamics Custom Looping Coaster

“Beyond the casino lamps, Arrow bent a canyon inside the dome.”

UNOFFICIAL · NOT PARK-ENDORSED

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Fast facts

  • Canyon Blaster is an operating indoor steel roller coaster at Adventuredome in Las Vegas, Nevada. coasterpedia.net
  • The coaster opened on August 23, 1993. coasterpedia.net
  • Arrow Dynamics manufactured the ride as a Custom Looping Coaster. coasterpedia.net
  • Its listed height is 94 feet, or 28.7 metres, and its top speed is 66 kilometres per hour. en.wikipedia.org
  • The layout carries visitors through four inversions: back-to-back vertical loops and a double corkscrew. coasterpedia.net
  • Its published capacity is 1,400 riders per hour. en.wikipedia.org
  • The reported construction cost was $6 million. en.wikipedia.org

The story of Canyon Blaster

When the indoor park opened in 1993 under its original Grand Slam Canyon name, Canyon Blaster opened with it. For a visitor stepping in from Las Vegas Boulevard, the promise was unusual and rather splendid: a full Arrow looping coaster kept under glass in the Nevada desert. coasterpedia.net· ktnv.com

Arrow Dynamics supplied the steel work for the ride, and Coasterpedia records it as a Custom Looping Coaster. Its track and supports were engineered by Ride Centerline, an achievement fitted into a building rather than spread across an open hillside. coasterpedia.net

The course begins with a chain climb to ninety-four feet, then sends the train through paired loops, a double corkscrew, tunnels, and a helix within the artificial mountain. It is a compact Nevada procession, with the machinery and canyon scenery sharing the same enclosed room. coasterpedia.net

The ride remains part of Adventuredome’s present coaster line-up at Circus Circus. The park’s own page still presents Canyon Blaster as an indoor double-loop, double-corkscrew coaster beneath the dome, keeping one of the resort’s original grand gestures in service for today’s traveller. circuscircus.com· coasterpedia.net

Sources

This background is AI-drafted from public sources and human-reviewed before publishing — approved 20 August 2026.

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