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Laff Trakk

Hersheypark · Operating · 2015

Laff Trakk

50 ft · 40 mph

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Family rideHersheyparkOfficial park siteMidway AmericaMack Rides50 ft · 40 mph

An indoor spinning coaster that sends riders through a completely dark, blacklight-lit funhouse filled with mirrors, quick direction changes, and disorienting scenic effects. Laff Trakk's freely spinning cars mean every ride is different, since the spin direction and speed depend on how riders are seated and how the car's weight is distributed. It was one of the first Mack spinning coasters built entirely indoors in the United States.

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Ride profile

Scaled against Hersheypark's operating coasters

Steel

Height

50 ft

#12 of 14 at Hersheypark

Height50 ft
Speed40 mph
Length1,400 ft
InversionsNone

Ride experience

  • Spinning
  • Indoor
  • Mack Rides
  • Steel

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History

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Timeline

  1. 2015

    Laff Trakk opens

    Mack Rides indoor spinning coaster debuts with blacklight funhouse theming.

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Background

Laff Trakk opened in 2015 as an indoor spinning coaster, a Mack Rides format where each car sits on a freely rotating base that spins independently of the train's direction along the track. Because the spin depends on how weight is distributed among riders and how the car interacts with each turn, no two rides play out exactly the same way, even on repeat trips through the same layout.

The entire course runs indoors, wrapped in blacklight-lit funhouse scenery — mirrors, painted murals, and quick strobe effects — that would be difficult to build convincingly for an outdoor coaster exposed to daylight and weather. That fully enclosed, themed environment gives Laff Trakk a level of atmospheric immersion that most spinning coasters, which are typically built outdoors with minimal scenery, don't attempt.

As one of the first fully indoor Mack spinning coasters built in the United States, Laff Trakk helped demonstrate that the format could support genuine dark-ride-style theming rather than functioning as a purely mechanical thrill ride, influencing how later spinning coaster installations approached scenery and atmosphere.

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