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Sign in to suggest an update →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
Park intensity
Height
50 ft
#12 of 14 at Hersheypark
Ride experience
- Spinning
- Indoor
- Mack Rides
- Steel
Specs from hersheypark.com
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Dive coasters
A held moment on a vertical edge, then a steep release — signature B&M dive machines.
Floorless coasters
No floor panel under your feet — open views and a different sense of exposure.
Flying coasters
You start seated, then tilt face-down into a flying position for much of the circuit.
Inverted coasters
Trains hang beneath the track so your feet dangle — B&M made the style famous.
History
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Timeline
2015
Laff Trakk opens
Mack Rides indoor spinning coaster debuts with blacklight funhouse theming.
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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- Hersheypark — official sitehersheypark.com(opens in a new tab)
- Hersheypark on Coaster AtlasPark page
- Ride specifications sourcehersheypark.com(opens in a new tab)
- Mack Rides — manufacturermack-rides.com(opens in a new tab)
- Hero photo (See Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0)Image license & attribution(opens in a new tab)
- Official POV — Official park YouTubeWatch on YouTube(opens in a new tab)
- History & background sourcehersheypark.com(opens in a new tab)
